Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-10-06
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 3
BY SHATTUCK
AN ACT
A JOINT RESOLUTION


JOINT RESOLUTION
PROPOSING AMENDMENT OF SECTION s.
ARTICLE 9 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
STATE OF IDAHO; SUBMITTING TO THE
JECTICN OR APPROVAL THE QUESTION
OF WHETHER SAID SECTION SHOULD BE
SO AM d4S PED As AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE
OF SCHOOL LANDS INSTEAD OF TWENTY
FIVE 90 SECTIONS AS NOW PROVIDED
THREE HUNDRED AND twenty $50
ACRES OF LAND TO ANY ONE INDIVID-
UAL, COMPANY OR CORPORATION.
THE STATE OF IDAHO:
Section |. That Section Eight (s) of Article
Nine 80 of the Constitution of the State of Idaho
be amended to read as follows:
Section <. II shall be the duty of the State
Board of Land Commissioners to provide for the
location, protection, sale or rental Of all the
lands heretofore, 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
imum possible amount therefor: Provided That
no school lands shall be sold for less than ten
QOl 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. al the earliest
| practicable period, provid by law that the gen
eral grants OF land made by Congress to the State
snail be JudlclouSly 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 sale 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 900
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 (520) acres of
| land to any one individual, company or corpor-
alton.
Section ,. The question TO be submitted to
the electors of the State of Idaho al the next gen
eral election shall be follows. to-wit: That
Section Eight lSl OF Article Nine 90 of the Con-
| sttution of Idaho be amended so as to permit
the sale of One Hundred 600 sections of school
land in place of Twenty-Five Isl sections, to be
sold in subdivisions OF not to exceed Three Hun
dred and Twenty 800 acres of land to any one
individual, company or corporation.
Section 3 The Secretary OF State is hereby
authorized to make publication of this Constitu
10 consecutive weeks prior to the next general
election in not less than one newspaper of gen
erai circulation publish 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 the House OF Representatives
This Joint Resolution passed the Senate on the
18th day of February. 1915.
} HERMAN H. TAYLOR,
President of the Senate.
} First Publication Sept. %, 1916.
Last Publication Nov. g. 1916