The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-10-12
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 8
BY SHATTUCk.
IAN Act.

An Act.)
A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING
AMENDMENT OF SECTION 8, AR
TlCLE OF THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, SUB
MlTTING TO THE ELECTORS OF
SAID STATE FOR THEIR REJEC-
TON OR APPROVAL THE CUES
TON OF WHETHER SAID SEC
TON SHOULD BE SO AMENDED
AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE SALE
OF ONE HUNDRED Q00) SEC
TIONS OF SCHOOL LANDS IN
STEAD OF TWENTY FIVE (25)
SECTIONS AS NOW PROVIDED
FOR, TO BE SOLD IN SUBDlVI-
SlONS OF THREE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY (320) ACRES OF LAND
TO ANY ONE INDIVIDUAL, COM
PANY OR CORPORATION,
BE 1T RESOLVED BY THE LEGIS-
LATURE OF THE STATE OF
IDAHO.
Section l. That Section Eight (S)
of Article Nine CO.. of the Constitu-
ton of the State of Idaho be amended
to read as follows:
Section s. 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
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 T 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 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
exceed One Hundred (10O) 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 t320) 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 Co.,
of the Constitution of Idaho be amend
ed so as to permit the sale of One
Hundred 000) 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 3, 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. II. CONNER,
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives.
THIS JOINT RESOLUTION PASS
ED THE SENATE ON THE 18TH
DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1915.
HERMAN II. TAYLOR,
S21-N2-7t President of the Senate.