Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-14
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO.


(By Shattuck)
AN ACT.
A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOS-
ING AMENDMENT Or SECTION
8, ARTICLE 8 OF THE CONSTR
TUITION OF THE STATE OF IDA
HO; SUBMITTING TO The ELEC
TORS OF SAID STATE FOR THEIR
REJECTION OR APPROVAL THE
QUESTION OF WHETHER SAID
SECTION SHOULD BE 50 AMENU>
ED AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE
SALE OF ONE HUNDRED 200
SECTIONS OF SCHOOL LANDS
INSTEAD OF TWEEN FIVE go
SECTIONS AS NOW PROVIDED
FOR. TO BE SOLD IN SUBDIVI-
SIONS OF THREE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY 1920 ACRES OF LAND
TO ANY ONE INDIVIDUAL, COM
PANY OR CORPORATION.
BE TT RESOLVED BY THE LEG
STATURE OF THE STATE OF
IDAHO:
Seton l. That Section Eight 60
of Article Nine go OF the Constitu-
ton of the State of Idaho be amend
ed to read as follows
Section s. 1t shall be the duty of
the STATE Board Of Land Commits
S oners to provide for the location,
protection, sale or rental of all the
lands heretofore, or which may here
after be granted to the State by the
general government, under such reg
ulationS as may be pr scribed by
law, and in such manner as will Sc
cure the maximum possible amount
therefor: Provided, That no school
lands shall be sold for lesss than ten
Q0) dollars per acre No law shall
ever be passed by the legrislat ure
granting any privileges to persons
VINO may have settled upon any such
public lands, subsequent to the sur
yey thereof by the general govern
nent, by which the amount 10 be de
rived by the sale. or other DISPOSE
lion of such lands, shall be diminish
ed, directly or indirectly. The Legis-
ature shall, at the earliest practica
Die period, provide by law that the
general grants of land made by Con-
5ress to the State shall be judici0usly
oca ed and carefully preserved and
acid in trust, subject to disposal at
public auction for the use and Dene
1T of the respective objects for which
,aid grants of lands were made, and
he Legislature shall provide for the
tale Of said lands from time to time
md for the sale of timber on all
State lands and for the faithful appli !
alton of the proceeds thereof in &C
'ordance with the terms of said
,rauts: Provided, That not to eX-
e d One Hundred (lO0) sections Of |
chool lands shall be sold in any one
ear and to b. sold in subdivisions |
# not to exceed Three Hundred and |
twenty (320) acres of land to any
me individual, company or corpora
ion
Section 2. The question to be sub
nitted to the electors of the State |
# Idaho at the next general ell elton |
hail be as follows, to-wit That Sec
ion Eight 60 of Article Nine ~ |
If the Constitution of Idaho be amend
ID so as to permit the sale of One
hundred QO0) sections of school land
n place OF twenty-five (25) sections, !
% be sold in subdiv ems Ct rUt to |
exceed Three Hundred and Invent
5000 acres of land to any one indi-
,idual, company or corporation.
Section 8. The Secretary of State
S hereby authorized to make publ
.ation of this Constitutional Amend |
nent in each county for at least six
81 consecutive weeks prior to the |
| xt general election in not less
han one newspaper of general circu
alton published in each county.
THIS JOINT RESOLUTION PASS
cd THE HOUSE OF REPRES ENTA-
rrVES ON THE TWENlY-NINTH
DAY OF JANUARY. 1916.
A. II. CONNER,
Speaker of the House of Repres nta-
tives.
THIS JOINT RESOLUTION PASS |
ed THE SENATE ON THE 18TH |
DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1915.
HERMAN II. TAYLOR,
President of the Senate. |