The Appeal., 1910-10-08
sought to add an entirely new section
10 Article TX of the Constitution, to be
known as Section 1S, and which shall

sOu&ht to add an entirely new section
TO Article TX of the Constitution, to be
known as Section 1S, and which shall
read as follows:
Section 1S. To secure a sustained
yield of timber for the use of the peo-
PIE OF this state, the proper officials
OF one-fifteenth of one mill on each
dollar of taxable property within this
state, the proceeds of which shall be
USED for the purchase of land better
adapted for forestry purposes than Tor
agriculture for the state at not over
$o.Oo per acre, and for the production
ana maintenance thereon Of forest &C
cordlng to forestry principles.
Unexpended balances shall not lapse
out constitute a fund for forestry pur-
poses.
The timber produced thereon shall
pe sold at fair valuation and the rev.
enue therefrom or from other source
shall be paid into the state treasury
except that one-quarter of the net rev.
enue shall be paid to the towns, or IL
unorganized, to the county, in which
the land is situated, in aid%of, pupl1c
schools and roads.
Should any tract acquired be found
better adapted for any other purpose
oe sold and the proceeds used for ac-
curing or developing forestry land.
Until otherwise directed Ly the leg
lslature, which may supplement- these
provisions with necessary enactments,
the state forestry board shall draw anu
alsourse the money hereby proyylqaeea aea
ana purchase, manage and control the
lands and forests.
NO money shall be paid for any
tract until the attorney general shaAl
certify to the validity of the title
1T shall be competent for two sue
wa 1o~ :-1~ 1Vy q n.
thlrds vote of each house, to repeal any
OF these provisions.''
EFFECT. This proposed amend
ment, and the proposed amendment
hereafter mentioned should be read to-
Eether. They constitute the founda-
tlon for plan of State refOrestration.
As the constitution stands today, while
the legislature might pass laws pro-
viqng FUNDS to be used for the pur.
chase of lands, and the cultivation OF
the same for refOrestratiOn purposes,
yet 1t Is not directed to do so. The
erect then of this amendment Is TO
COMPEL the taxing officers Of the state
10 annually levy and collect tax OF
one-hfteenth of one mill on each dollar
OF taxable property in the state, to be
used as the legislature shall direct, for
the purchase for the state of land
adapted to forestry purposes, but mt a
nr1ce not to exceed SO per acre. All
unexp1red balances in the fund at the
emu OF each fiscal year shall not lapse,
but shall be carried over into the fund
thus raised for the succeeding year and
shall be an addition thereto. L. also
directs the sale, at a fair valuation, of
tne TIMBER produced on such land so
purchased, the payment of three
fOurths of the money received there
from into the state treasury, and the
payment of the remaining One-fOurth
to the town, If organized, or otherwise
ft,n >ArvS
uated, and that the same shall there
be credited to the public school funds.
IL after the land is purchased 1T Is
found better adapted for any other pur-
pose than the production of timber,
authority is contained in this amend
ment to sell it, but the proceeds must
be used for acquiring or developing
forestry land. Until the legislature
provides otherwise, all purchases shall
be under the direction ofstise State For
estry Board. The title to all lands
purchased must be approved by the
Attorney General before purchase is
made. 1t is further provided that two
successive regular legislatures shall
have power by twO-thirds vote of
each house to repeal any of the FORE
going provisions. That is to say, if
after n trial, such plan for any reason
is found to be impracticable or unde-
sirable, and it so appears to two Sue
ceSSAsc AcSAsAaauTcS, AHy OF HI OF the
foregoing provisions of the amendment
may be repealed. The legislature does
not now possess such power and the
same is a distinct change in the meth
DDS heretofore in vogue in Minnesota,
In the making and revising of the Con-
stitution. Heretofore an amendment
might only be made to the Constitution
Or n provision of that instrument elim-
mated by direct vote of the electors.
Under this amendment, if it be adODt-
ed, that power Is not taken away and
also exists. But a new power, that of
repeal by the legislature, as to this
amendment, is created. Such power,
however, would extend to no other pro.
vision of the Constitution and affords
an easy method of change in case of
necessity or advisability.