Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-09-28
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
NO. 16.
By Judiciary Comittee
.IOINT RESOIJTTrON


TO AMEND SECTION l OF AR.
TlCLE OF THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE STATE OF IDAHO AND TO
SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS OF
THE STATE OF IDAHO, FOR THEIR
REJECTION OR APPROVAL, AN
AMENDMENT TO SECTION |, AR
TlCLE 5, OF THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, LIMIT
ING THE INDEBTEDNESS THAT
MIGHT BE INCURRED TO TWO
MILLION DOLLARS.
BE 1T RESOLVED BY THE LEG
STATURE OF THESTATE OF IDA
HO:
Section L. That Section of Ar
ticle s of the Constitution of the
State of Idaho be amended to read
as follows:
Section l. The Legislature shall
not In any manner create any debt
or debts, liability, or liabilities, which
snail singly or in the aggregate, ex-
elusive of the debt of the territory
at the date of its admission as a
State, and exclusive of debts or II.
abilities incurred subsequent to Jan
uary l, 1911 for the purpose of com.
pletlng the construction and furnish
Ing OF the State Capitol at Boise, Id.
aho, and exclusive of debt Or debts,
liability or liabilities incurred by the
Eleventh Session of the Legislature
of the State of Idaho, exceed in the
aggregate the sum of Two Million Dol
lars, except in case of war, to repel
an invasion or suppress an insur.
rectlon, unless the same shall be All
thorlzed by law, for some single OBJ.
lect or work, to be distinctly speci-
lied therein, which law shall provide
ways and means, exclusive of loans.
Tor the payment of the interest on
such debt or liability as 1t falls due,
and also for the payment and dis
charge OF the principal of such debt
Or liability within twenty years of
The time of the contracting thereof.
an be ire ealalle unit the or T.
,ipal and interest thereon shall be
paid and discharged. But no such law
shall take effect until at general ele !
Ion 1t shall have been submitted to
he people, and shall have received
majority of all the votes cast fer
Dr. against 1t at such election, and all
moneys raised by the authority of SUCH
avs shall be applied only to specified
'oJeats therein stated or to the pay
hent of the debt thereby created,
md such law shall be published in |
1t least one newspaper in each county
" city, and county, IL one be publish
"a therein, throughout the state for
hr2e months next proceeding the cleo
Ion at which 1t is submitted to the
'eople. The Legislature may at any
me after approval of such law, by the
eople, If no debts shall have been
in pursuance thereof, re-
cal the same.
Section 2. The q es ion to be sub
lifted to the electors of the state
Idaho at the next general election
hall be as follows, to-wit:
Shall Section /, Article 8 of the
constitution of the State of Idaho be
mended so as to limit the banded
ldebtedness of the State, exclusive
the debt of the territory at the
ate OF its admission as a state, and
scluslve of debts and liabilities in
Tired subsequent to January first,
81. for the purpose of the construc-
on and furnishing of the State Cap
OF at Boise, Idaho, and exclusive '
debt or debts, liability Or liabili.
es incurred by the Eleventh SEES. J
on OF the Legislature of the State @
Idaho, to be limited to the sum of Q
wo Million Dollars?
Section 3. The Secretary of State t
hereby authorized to make publ. q
ltion OF this constitutional amend. t
ent In each county of the state for {
least six (6) consecutive weeks =
ior to the next general election in 8
It less than one CD newspaper of I
neral circulation published in such c