The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-10-19
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 8
BY SHATTUCk.

An Act
A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING
AMENDMENT OF SECTION s, AR
TlCLE 8 OF THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE STATE OF IDAHO; SUB
MITTING TO THE ELECTORS OF
SAID STATE FOR THEIR REJEC-
TON OR APPROVAL THE CUES
TION OF WHETHER SAID SEC
TON SHOULD BE SO AMENDED
AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE SALE
OF ONE HUNDRED (1OO) SEC
TIONS OF SCHOOL LANDS IN
STEAD OF TWENTY FIVE (25)
SECTIONS AS NOW PROVIDED
FOR, TO BE SOLD IN SUBDlVI-
SIONS OF THREE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY (320) 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 90 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
nay 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
No 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 the 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 fol
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 t.
exceed One Hundred (100) sections o
school lands shall be sold in any one
year, and to be sold in subdivisions
of not to exceed Three HundI ed an,
| Twenty (320) acres of land to any on'
individual, company or corporation.
SecttRn 2. The question to bt
submitted to the electors of the Stat,
of Idaho at the next general election
shall be as follows, towit: Thai
Section Eight (S) of Article Nine 90
of the Constitution of Idaho be amend
ed so as to permit the sale of one
Hundred (100) sections of school lano
in place of Twenty-Five (25) sections
to be sold in subdivisions of not tc
exceed Three Hundred and Twenty
(32O) acres of land to any one indivld-
ual company or corporation.
Section 3. The Secretary of State
is hereby authorized to make publ
cation of this Constitutional Amend
ment in each county for at least six
CO. 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-
THIS This; JOINT RESOLUTION PASS.
ED THE SENATE ON THE 18TH
DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1915.
HERMAN H. TAYLOR,
SCI N2-7t President of the Senate