The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-09-28
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO.
BY SHATTUCk.
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A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING
AMENDMENT OF SECTION s, AR
TICLE 9 OF THE CONSTITUTION
or THE STATE OF IDAHO SUB
MITTING TO THE ELECTORS OF
SAID STATE FOR THEIR REJEC-
TON OR APPROVAL THE CUES
TON OF WHETHER SAID SEC
TION SHOULD BE SO AMENDED
AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE SALE
OF ONE HUNDRED Q00) SEC
TIONS OF SCHOOL LANDS IN
STEAD OF INVENTIVE tz5)
SECTIONS AS NOW PROVIDED
FOR, TO BE SOLD IN SUBDIVI-
SIONS OF THREE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY (S20) ACRES OF LAND
TO ANY ONE INDIVIDUAL, COM
PANY OR CORPORATION.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGIS-
LATURE OF THE STATE OF
IDAHO:
Section l. That Section Eight (S)
of Article Nine CD of the Constitu-
ton of the State of Idaho be amended
to read as follows
Section 8. 1t shall be the duty of
he State Board of Land Commission
ers to provide for the location, pro-
lection, sale or rental of all the lands
heretofore, or which may hereafter be
granted to the State by the general
government, under such regulations as
may be prescribed by law, and in such
manner as will secure the maximum
possible amount therefor: Provided,
That no school lands shall be sold for
ess than ten ($10) dollars per acre.
Ne law shall ever be passed by the
legislature granting any privileges to
persons who may have settled upon any
such public lands, subsequent to the
survey thereof by the general govern
ment, by which the amount to be de-
rived by the sale, or other disposition
of such lands, shall be diminished, dir
ectly or indirectly. The Legislature
shall, at the earliest practicable period,
provide by law that abe general grants
of land made by Congress to the State
shall be judiciously located and care
fully preserved and held in trust, sub
ject to disposal at public auction for
the use and benefit of the respective
objects for which said grants of lands
were made, and the Legislature shall
provide for the sale of said lands from
time to time and for the sale of tim
Der on all State lands and for the
faithful application of the proceeds
thereof in accordance with the terms
of said grants: Provided, That not to
exceed One Hundred (100) sections of
| school lands shall be sold in any one
year. and to be sold in subdivisions
of not to exceed Three Hundred and
| Twenty (320) acres of land to any one
individual, company or corporation.
| Section 2. The question to be
submitted to the electors of the State
of Idaho at the next general election
shall be as follows, to-wit That
Section Eight (S) of Article Nine 90,
of the Constitution of Idaho be amend
| ed so as to permit the sale OF one
Hundred C0O) sections of school land
in place of Twenty-Five (25) sections,
to be sold in subdivisions of not to
exceed Three Hundred and Twenty
(320) acres of land to any one individ-
ual, company or corporation.
Section 8. The Secretary of State
is hereby authorized to make publ =
cation of this Constitutional Amend
ment in each county for at least SIX
(6) consecutive weeks prior to the
next general election in not less than
one. newspaper of general circulation
published in each county.
THIS JOINT RESOLUTION PASS
ED THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES ON THE TWENTY-NINTH
DAY OF JANUARY, 1915.
A. H. CONNER.
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives. -.
THIS JOINT RESOLUTION PASS
ED THE SENATE ON THE 18th
IDAY OF FEBRUARY, 1915.
HERMAN H. TAYLOR
| S21- NIT President of the Senate