Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-09-22
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 3.
BY SHATTUCK
AN ACT
A JOINT RESOLUTION

PROPOSING AMENDMENT OF SECTION 8.
ARTICLE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
STATE Of IDAHo; SUBMITTING TO THE
JECTIGN OR APPROVAL THE. QUESTION
OF WHETHER SAID SECTION SHOULD BE
SALE oF 6ER AZ To o ESE GH
OF SCHOOL LANDS INSTEAD OF TWENTY
FIVE go SECTIONS AS NOW PROVIDED
THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY Goo
ACRES OF LAND TO ANY ONE INDIvID-
UAI, COMPANY OR CORPORATION.
BE 1T RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF
THE STATE OF IDAHO:
Section !. That Section Eight ts) of Article
Nine 49, of the Constitution OF the State of Idaho
be amended to read as follows:
Section s. 1t shall be the duty of the State
Board OF Land Commissioners to provide for the
location, protection, sale rental OF all the
lands hereto ore, 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 max
mum possible amount therefor: Provided. That
no school lands shall be sold for less 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 such pub
lie lands, subsequent to the survey thereof by
the general government by which the amount
TO be derived by the sale, or other disposition of
such lands, shall be diminished, directly or in
directly. The Legislature shall at the earliest
practicable period, provid by law that the gen.
eral grants OF land made by Congress to the State
shall be judiciously located and carefully pre-
served and held in trust, subject 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 81; of timber all state lands and for the
faithful application OF the proceeds thereof in
accordance with the terms of said grants: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed One Hundred 400
sections OF school lands shall be sold in any one
year. and to be sold in subdivisions of not to ex
| coed Three Hundred and Twenty 600 acres of
land to any one individual, company or corpor-
| alton.
Section 2. The question TO be submitted to
the electors of the State of Idaho at the next gem
eral election shall be as follows. to-wit: That
Section Eight lSl of Article Nine 90 of the Con-
stiiution of Idaho be amended so as to permit
the sale of One Hundred 400 sections of school
land in place of Twenty-Five [25 sections. to be
sold in subdivisions of not to exceed Three Hum
dred and Twenty 500 acres of land to any one
individual company or corporation.
Section }. The Secretary of State is hereby
authorized TO make publication of this Constitu-
tional Amendmet in each county for at least six
l6l consecutive weeks prior to the next general
election in not less than one newspaper of gem
eral circulation published in each county.
This Joint Resolution passed the House of Rep
resentatives on the twenty ninth day OF January,
1915.
A. H. CONNER.
Speaker of tn House of Representatives
This Jolnl r>esoiuuon passed the Senate on the
18th day of February, 1915.
HERMAN H. TAYLOR,
President of the Senate.
First Publication Sept. 81, 1916.
Last Publication Nov 1916.