Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-10-17
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO
10.
BY Pettibone and Randall
A JOINT RESOLUTION

n JOlNl hEoOLOllON
To Amend Section 1 of Article OF
the Constitution of the State of
Idaho and to Submit to the Elec-
tors of the State of Idaho, for
Their Rejection or Approval, an
Amendment to Section 4, Article
3, 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
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
IDAHO:
Section /. That Section 1 of Ar
ticle 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, ex-
elusive of the debt of the Territory
at the date of its admission as a
State, and exclusive of debts or La
bilities incurred subsequent to Jan
uary /, 1911, for the purpose of com
pleting the construction and furnish
ing of the State Capitol Building at
Boise, Idaho, exceed the sum of one
per centum upon the assessed value
of the taxable property in the State,
except in case of war to repel an in
vasion or suppress an insurrection
unless the same shall be authorized
by law for some single object or
work to be distinctly specified there
in. which law shall provide ways and
means, exclusive of loans, for pay
ment of the interest of such debt, or
liability, as it falls que and also for
the payment and discharge of the
principal of such debt, or liability,
within twenty (20) years of the time
of the contracting thereof, and shall
be irrepealable until the principal
and interest thereon shall be paid and
discharged. But no such law shall
take effect, until at a general cleo
ton II shall have been submitted to
the people. and shall have received
majority of all the votes cast for
and against it at such election; and
all moneys raised by the authority OF
such laws, shall be applied only &c
, specified objects therein stated, OF
: to the payment of the debt thereby
created, and such law shall be pub
lished in at least one newspaper IN
each county, or city, and county, Il
one be published therein, through
} out the State for three months mex
: preceding the election at which it /.
submitted to the people. The Legis
: lature may at any time after the ap
2 proval of such law, by the people
= If no debts shall have been contract
ed in the pursuance thereof, repea
. the same.
: Section 2. The question to be sub
r mitted to the electors of the Stat
: of Idaho at the next general election
V shall be as follows, to-wit:
$ shall Section l, Article of tn
V Constitution OF the State of Idaho b
r amended so as to limit the bonde
i Indebtedness of the State. eXclusiv
y OF the debt of the verritory at tn
v date of its admission as State, an
/ exclusive of debts and liabilities in
r Cured subsequent to January !
" 1911. for the purpC Sc of the COZ
Is struction and furnishing of the Stat
10 Capitol at Boise. Idaho, to a sum NJ
,e greater than one per centum upo
n the assessed value of the taxab
nj property in the State?"
Section 3. The Secretary of Stat
he is hereby authorized to make publ
te cation of this constitutional amen'
N ment in each county of the State ft
at least six co consecutive weel
he prior to the next general election
so not less than one Cd newspaper
nd gneral circulation published in su,
d. county.
,ir Passed the Senate March 8, 1917.
N Passed the House March I, 1917.
LIST pub. Sept. 10. Last pub. Oct. 2