Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-10-26
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
NO, f6.
By Judiciary Comittee
InJNYyTy nY1nNT ryrr~ry


TO AMEND SECTION / OF AR
TlCLE s OF THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE STATE OF IDAHO AND TIC
SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS OF
THE STATE OF IDAHO. FOR THEIR
REJECTION OR APPROVAL, AN
AMENDMENT TO SECTION /, AR.
TlCLE 8, OF THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, LIMIT
ING THE INDEBTEDNESS THAT
NIGHT BE INCURRED TO TWO
MILLION DOLLARS.
BE 1T RESOLVED BY THE LEG
ISLATURE OF THElSTATE OF IDA
HO:
Section l. That Section l of Ar
ticle Of the Constitution of the
State Of Idaho be amended to read
as follows:
Section |. The Legislature shall
not in any manner create any debt
or debts, liability, or liabilities, which
shall 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 H.
abilities incurred subsequent to Jan
uary l, 1911 for the purpose of COM
pleting 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-
rection, unless the same shall be au-
thorized by law, for some single OBJ
1ect or work, to be distinctly speci-
fled therein, which law shall provide
ways and means, exclusive OF loans,
for 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,
and shall be IRE sealable until the prin
cipal and interest thereon shall be
paid and discharged, But no such law
shall take effect until at general cleo
lion it shall have been submitted to
! majority of all the votes cast for
Or against 1t at such election, and all
moneys raised by the authority of such
avs shall be applied only to specified
objects therein stated or to the pay
nent OF the debt thereby created
md such law shall be published in
Vt least one newspaper in each county
NJ city, and county, If one be publish
ID therein, throughout the state for
hree 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, IL no debts shall have been
ontracted In pursuance thereof, re-
zeal the same.
Section 2. The question to be sub
litted to the electors of the state
t Idaho at the next general election
hall be as follows, to-Wt:
Shall Section |, Article of the
constitution of the State of Idaho be
mended so as to limit the bonded
ldebtedness of the State, exclusive
the debt of the territory at the I
ate of its admission as a state. and
xclusive of debts and liabilities in !
urred subsequent to January first,
l91, for the purpose of the construc-
on and furnishing of the State Cap
ol at Boise, Idaho, and exclusive
debt or debts, liability or liabili- '
es incurred by the Eleventh SEES
on of the Legislature of the State ]
Idaho, to be limited to the sum of {
wo Million Dollars?
Section 3. The Secretary of State
y hereby authorized to make publ [
ation of this constitutional amend q
tent In each county of the state for {
least six (6) consecutive weeks |
fior to the next general election In /
OF less than one % newspaper of s
eneral circulation published in such {
)unty." {