The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1910-10-06
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 3.
BY MCKINNEY, McCRACkEN, Nc
FADDEN, STOREY AND SHAW.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
TO AMEND SECTION ONE OF ARTI-
Gle EIGHT OF THE CONSTlTU-
TION OF THE STATE OF IDAHO;
AND TO SUBMIT TO THE ELEC-
TORS OF THE STATE OF IDAHO
FOR THEIR REJECTION OF APP
PROVAL AN AMENDMENT TO
SECTION ONE OF ARTICLE EIGHT
OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
STATE OF IDAHO TO PERMIT
THE LEGISLATURE TO AUTHOR
IZE A BOND ISSUE SUFFICIENT
TO COMPLETE THE CONSTITUTE
TION AND FURNISHING OF THE
/. STATE CAPITOL BUILDING AT
BOISE, IDAHO.
BE 1T RESOLVED BY THE LEGIS-
LATURE OF THE STATE OF
IDAHO:
SECTION 1. That Section / of Ar
ticle eight of the Constitution of the
State of Idaho be amended to read as
follows:
Section 1. The Legislature shall in
any manner create any debt or debts,
liability or liabilities, which shall sing
ly or in the aggregate, exclusive of the
debt of the Territory at the date of its
admission as a State, and exclusive of
debts or liabilities incurred subse-
quent to January 1st, 1911, for the pur-
pose of completing the construction
and furnishing of the State Capitol
Building at Boise, Idaho, exceed the
sum of one and one-half per centum
upon the assessed value of the taxable
property in the State, except in case of
war to repel an invasion or suppress
insurrection, unless the same shall be
authorized by law for some single OBJ
ject of word to be distinctly specified
therein, which law shall provide ways
and means, exclusive of loans, for pay
ment of the interest of such debt or
liability as it falls due and also for the
payment and discharge of the princi-
pal of such debt or liability, within
twenty coo years of the time of the
contracting thereof, and shall be ire
pealable until the principal and inter-
est thereon shall be paid and dis
charged; but no such law shall take
effect until at general election ii
shall have been submitted to the peo-
| pie, and shall have received majority
of all the votes cast for and against il
/ at such election; and all moneys raised
| by the authority of such laws shall be
applied only to specified objects there
in statedor to the payment of the deb
thereby created, and such law shall be
published in at least one newspaper II
each county or city and county If one
! - Published therein, throughout the
state for three months next proceed
| ing the election at which it is submit
| ted to the people. The Legislature ma,
at any time after the approval of sucl
law, by the people, if no debts shall
/ have been contracted in the pursuance
thereof, repeal the same.
Section 2. The question to be sub
mitted to the electors of the State o
Idaho at the next general election shall
be as follows to-wit: "Shall Sector
one of article eight of the Constitution
of the State of Idaho be amended s,
as to permit the Legislature to author
ize sufficient bond issue or make
sufficient appropriation to complet
the construction and furnishing O
State Capitol Building at Boise"
Section 3. The Secretary of State
hereby authorized to make publication
of this Constitutional Amendment i
each county for at least six CO. conse
cutive weeks prior to the next genera
election in not less than one CD news
paper of general circulation publishe
. in each county.