Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-28

s. ARTICLE OF THE CONSTI-
TUITION OF THE STATE OF IDA
HO; 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 OF SCHOOL LANDS
INSTEAD OF TWENTY-F 800
SECTIONS AS NOW PROVIDED
FOR. TO BE SOLD IN SUBDIVl-
SIONS OF THREE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY 1920 ACRES OF LAND
TO ANY ONE INDIVIDUAL. COM
PANY OR CORPORATION.
BE TT RESOLVED BY THE LEG
STATURE OF THE STATE OF
IDAHO:
Seton /. That Section Eight go
OF Article Nine 90 Of the Constitu-
ton OF the State of Idaho be amend
ed to read as follows:
Section s. 1t shall be the duty OF
the State Board OF Land Commits
soners to provide for the location,
IL,
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
U0) 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 sur
yey thereof by the general govern
ment, by which the amount TO be de-
rived by the sale, or other DISPOSE
ton of such lands, shall be diminish
cd, directly or indirectly. The Legis-
lature shall, at the earliest practical
BILE period, provide by law that the
general grants Of land made by Con
gress to the State shall be judiciously
located and carefully preserved and
held in trust, subject to disposal at
public auction for the use and bene-
fit 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 on all
State lands and for the faithful appli-
cation OF the proceeds thereof in ac-
cordance with the terms Of said
grants: Provided, That not to eX--
ce d One Hundred (100) 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 1920 acres of land to any
one individual, company or corpora
ton.
Section q The question to be sub
mitted to the electors of the State
Of Idaho at the next general el ction
shall be as follows, to-Wit: That Sec
ton Eight (S) of Article Nine go
Of the Constitution of Idaho be amend
ed so as to permit the sale of One
Hundred (100) sections of school land
in place of Twenty five (25) sections,
10 be sold in subdiv 'ons Ct rct t.
exceed Three Hundred and Invent
1920 acres of land to any one indi-
vidual, company or corporation.
Section 3. The Secretary of State
is hereby authorized to make publ
cation of this Constitutional Amend
nent in each county for at least six
60 consecutive weeks prior to the
n xt general election in not less
than one newspaper Of general circu-
ation published in each county
THIS JOINT RESOLUTION PASS.
ED THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TfVES ON THE TWENTY-NINTH
DAY OF JANUARY. 1915.
A. H. CONNER
speaker OF the House of Repres nta-
tives.
THIS JOINT RESOLUTION PASS
ED THE SENATE ON THE 18TH
DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1915.
HERMAN Fl. TAYLOR,
President of the Senate.