The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-10-25
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
NO. Is.
BY Judiciary Committee

TO AMEND SECTION I OF
ARTICLE 8 OF THE CONSTITU-
TON OF THE STATE Or
IDAHO AND TO SUBMIT TO
THE ELECTORS OF THE STATE
OF IDAHO, FOR THEIR REJEC-
TON OR APPROVAL, AN
AMENDMENT TO SECTION L,
ARTICLE 8. OF THE CONSTITU-
TION OF THE STATE OF IDA
HO, LIMITING THE INDEBTED
NESS THAT MIGHT BE INCUR
RED TO TWO MILLION DOL
LARS.
Be it resolved by the Legislature of
the State of Idaho:
Section I. That Section of Article
8 of the Constitution of the State of
Idaho be amended to read as follows:
Sec. l. 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 liabilities
incurred subsequent to January /,
1911, for the purpose of completing
the construction and furnishing of the
state capitol at Boise, Idaho, and ex-
elusive of debt or debts, liability or
liabilities incurred by the Eleventh
Session of the Legislature of the
State Of Idaho, exceed in the aggre-
gate the sum of Two Million Dollars,
except in case Of war, to repel an in
vasion, or SUPPRESS an instruction,
unless the same shall be authorized
by law, for some single object or
work, to be distinctly specified there
in, which law shall provide ways and
means, exclusive of loans, for the pay
ment of the interest on 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 years of the time of the con-
tracing thereof, and shall be ire
pealable until the principal and in
terest thereon shall be paid and dis
charged. But no such law shall take
effect until at a general election it
shall have been submitted to the peo-
pie, and shall have received majority
OF all the votes cast for or against it
at such election, and all moneys
raised by the authority of such laws
shall be applied only to specified
| objects therein stated or to the pay
ment of the debt thereby created, and
such law shall be Published in at least
one newspaper in each county or city,
and county, if one be published there
in, throughout the state for three
months next preceding the election at
which it is submitted to the people.
The Legislature may at any time after
the approval of such law, by the peo-
pie, if no debts shall have been con-
tracted in pursuance thereof, repeal
| the same.
Sec. 2. The question to be sub
mltted to the electors of the State of
Idaho at the next general election
shall be as follows, to-wit:
Shall Section l, Article 8 of the
Constitution of the State of Idaho be
amended so as to limit the bonded
Indebtedness of the State, exclusi
of the debt of the Territory at the
date of its admission as a State, and
exclusive of debts and liabilities in
Cured subsequent to January lst, 1911,
for the purpose of the construction
and furnishing of the State Capitol
at Boise, Idaho, and exclusive of debt
or debts. liability or liabilities, incur
red by the Eleventh Session of the
Legislature of the State of Idaho, to
be limited to the sum of Two Million
Dollars' :
Section s. The Secretary of
State is hereby authorized to make
publication of this constitutional
amendment in each county of the
state for at least six (6) consecutive
weeks prior to the next general cleo
ton in not less than one O) newspa-
per OF general circulation published in
each county"