Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-09-23
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 8
(By Shattuck)
AN ACT.

AN All.
A JOINT. RESOLUTION PROPOS.
ING AMENDMENT OF SECTION
s, ARTICLE OF THE CONSTI-
TUITION OF THE STATE OF IDA
no; SUBMITTING TO THE ELEC-
TORS OF SAID STATE FOR THEIR
REJECTION OR APPROVAL THE
QUESTION OF WHETHER SAID
SECTION SHOULD BE SO AMEND.
ED AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE
SALE OF ONE HUNDRED 600
SECTIONS Or SCHOOL LANDS
INSTEAD OF TWENTY FIVE (25)
SECTIONS AS NOW PROVIDED
FOR, TO BE SOLD IN SUBDIVI.
SlONS OF THREE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY 1920 ACRES OF LAND
TO ANY ONE INDIVIDUAL COM
PANY OR CORPORATION.
BE IF 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 8. 1t shall be the duty of
the State Board of Land Commits
sloners 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 prescribed 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
(lO) dollars per acre No law shall
ever be passed by the legislature
granting any privileges to persons
VINO may have settled upon any such
public lands subsequent to the sur
Vey thereof by the general govern
nent, by which the amount to be de-
lived by the sale, or other DISPOSE
ion of such lands, shall be diminish
ed directly or indirectly. The Legis- .
allure shall, at the earliest practica-
1le period, provide by law that the
general grants Of land made by Con-
sress to the State shall be judiciously y
ed and carefully preserved and {
leld in trust subject to disposal at
lublic auction for the use and bene-
1t OF the respective objects for which
aid grants of lands were made and (
he Legislature shall provide for the
ale OF said lands from time to timeII
nd for the sale OF timber on all
'tate lands and for the faithful appH-
atom of the proceeds thereof in &C.
ordance with the terms of said
rants; Provided, That not to ex--
e one Hundred (l00) sections of
cho0l lands Shall be sold in any one
ear, and to be sold in subdivisions
| not to exceed Three Hundred and
'Wenty (320) acres OF land to any
ne individual, company or corpora
on.
Section 2. The question to be sub
IUCed TO the electors of the State
Idaho at the next general election
laIl be as follows, to-Wit: That Sec
on Eight (S) of Article Nine 90
the Constitution of Idaho be amend
so as to permit the sale of One
undred (l00) sections of school land |
place of twenty-five (25) sections,
be sold in subdivisions of not to
coed Three Hundred and TwentyII
~ acres OF land to any one ind-
dual, company or corporation.
Section 3. The Secretary of State %-
hereby authorized to make publ =u.
ton of this Constitutional Amend
ant in each county for at least six
consecutive weeks prior to the !
KIT general election in not less
an one newspaper of general circu- l
ion published in each county. III
THIS JOINT RESOLUTION PASS
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-. !
YES ON THE TWENTY NINTH
y OF JANUARY, 1915 III
A. II. CONNER,
eaker of the House of Repres nta-
ives.
THIS JOINT RESOLUTION PASS
THE SENATE ON THE 18th
Y OF FEBRUARY, 1915. nj
HERMAN II. TAYLOR, I