Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-10-17
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 10
BY PETTIBONE AND RANDALL

BY PETTIBONE AND RANDALL
A JOINT RESOLUTION TO AMENI
SECTION l OF ARTICLE s OF THU
IDAHO AND TO SUBMIT TO THE
ELECTORS OF THE STATE OF
| IDAHO, FOR THEIR REJECTION OR
APPROVAL, AN AMENDMENT TIC
SECTION l, ARTICLE 8, OF THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF
IDAHO, LIMITING THE INDEBTED
NESS THAT MIGHT BE INCURRED
TO THE SUM OF ONE PER CENTUM
UPON THE ASSESSED VALUATION
OF THE TAXABLE PROPERTY IN
THE STATE.
BE 1T RESOLVED BY THE LEGIS-
LATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO:
Section l. That Section l of Article
s of the Constitution of the State of
Idaho be amended to read as follows:
Sec. l. The Legislature shall not in
any manner create any debt or debts,
liability or liabilities, which shall
singly, or in the aggregate, exclusive
of the debt of the Territory at the date
of its admission as a state, and exclu-
sive of debts or liabilities incurred sub
sequent to January l, 1911, for the pur-
pose of completing the construction and
furnishing of the State Capitol Build
ing at Boise, Idaho exceed the sum IF
one per centum upon the assessed vahie
of the taxable property in the State, ex-
cept in case of war to repel an invasion
or suppress an instruction, unless the
same shall be authorized by law for
some single object or work to be dis
tinctly specified therein, which law shall
provide ways and means, exclusive of
loans for payment of the interest of
such debt, or liability, as it falls due !
md also for the payment and discharge
Of the principal of such debt, or liability, |
within twenty (20) years of the time of
contracting thereof, and shall be ire
pealable until the principal and inter
sst thereon shall be paid and discharg-
I'd. But no such law shall take effect,
until at a general election it shall
have been submitted to the people,
md shall have received a majority of
all the votes cast for and against it at
'uch elections and all moneys raised by
he authority of such laws, shall be APP
,lied only to specified objects therein
stated, or to the payment of the debt
hereby created, and such law shall be
published in at least one newspaper in
Zach county, or city, ard county, if one
De published therein, throughout the
State for three months next preceding
he election at which it is submitted to
he people. The Legislature may at any
ime after the approval of such law, by
he people, if no debts shall have been
contracted in the pursuance thereof,
epeal the same.
Section 2. The question to be submit {
ed to the electors of the State of Idaho {
t the next general election shall be as s
ollows, to-wit:
"Shall Section l, Article 8 of the ]
constitution of the State of Idaho be
mended so as to limit the bonded in z
ebtedness of the State, exclusive of
lie debt of the territory at the date of \
S admission as a State, and exclusive
debts and liabilities incurred subse- T
lent to January 1, 1911, for the pur- :,
use of the construction and furnishing
the State Capitol at Boise, Idaho, to a "
m not greater than one per centum r.
ION the assessed value of the taxable 81
operty in the State2'' e.
Section 3. The Secretary of State is n
reby authorized to make publication h.
this constitutional amendment in a.
ch equity of the State for at least six 81,
consecutive weeks prior to the next ~
neral election in not less than one "a w
wspaper of the general circulation n,
blished in such county.
Passed by Senate March 3, 1917
Passed the House March 7. 1917. IN