The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1916-10-12
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 3
By Shattuck.
AN ACT.
A JOINT RESOLUTION

PROPOSING AMENDMENT OF SEC
TON 8, ARTICLE 9 OF THE CONsTI-
TUITION OF THE STATE OF IDAHO:
s sHn sTATn FOR To- T THnR On
OR APPROVAL THE QUESTION OF
WHETHER SAID SECTION SHOULD
BE SO AMENDED AS TO PROVIDE
c1oei sEcTfoNs OF School LANDS
INSTEAD OF TWENTY-FIVE (25)
SECTIONS AS NOW PROVIDED FOR,
THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
l32ol ACRES OF LAND TO ANY ONE
I pHp .TT%N COMPANY OR COR
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGIs-
LATURE OF THE STATE OF IDA
HO:
Section l. That said Section Eight
go. of Article Nine 90 Of the Consti-
tuition of the State of Idaho be amend
ed to read as follows:
Section 8. 1t shall be the duty Of
to provide for the location. protection.
sale or rental Of all the lands hereto
fore, or which may hereafter be grant
ed to the State by the general govern
ment. under such regulations as may
be prescribed by law, and in such man.
ner as will secure the maximum posi-
BILE amount therefor; Provided. That
than ten 10) dollars per acre. No law
shall ever be passed by the legislature
granting any privileges to persons who
| may nave Sclllcu upon SuCn pubic
| lands. subsequent to the survey there
! of 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 indi-
rectly. 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 judciously located and carefully
preserved 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 pro-
vide for the sale of said lands from
time to time and for the sale of timber
on all State lands and for the faithful
application of the proceeds thereof in
accordance with the terms of said
grants: Provided That not to exceed
One Hundred 400 sections of school
lands shall be sold in any one yea'
and to be sold in subdivisions of no
to exceed Three Hundred and Twenty
! t32O) acres of land to any one individ-
ual, company or corporation.
Section 2. The question to be sub
mitted to the electors of the State Of
Idaho at the next general election shall
be as follows, towit: That Section
Eight go of Article Nine 90 of the
Constitution 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
Hundred and Twenty (32O) acres Of
land to any one individual, company
or corporation.
Section 3. The Secretary of State Is
hereby authorized to make publication
of this Constitutional Amendment In
each county for at least six 60 con-
secutive weeks prior to the next gener-
al election in not less than one news
paper of general circulation publiShred
in each county.
THIS JOINT RESOLUTION PASSED
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
ON THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF
JANUARY, 1915.
A. H. CONNER.
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives.
THIS JOINT RESOLUTION PASSED
THE SENATE ON THE 18TH DAY OF
FEBRUARY. 1915.
HERMAN H. TAYLOR,
President of the Senate
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