Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-10-24
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO.
10.
BY Pettibone and Randall
A JOINT RESOLUTION

n JOINI hEoOLOIION
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 1, 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 IT RESOLVED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
IDAHO:
Section /. That Section / of Ar
ticle of the Constitution of the
State of Idaho be amended to read
as follows:
Sec. /. 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 it's admission as a
State. and exclusive of debts OF liza
bilities incurred subsequent to jan
uary l, 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
yasion or suppress an Instruction,
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 coo 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 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 to
specified objects therein stated, or
to the payment of the debt thereby
} created, and such law shall be pub
lished in at least one newspaper in
E each county, or city, and county, II
: one be published therein, through
p out the State for three months next
preceding the election at which it is
submitted to the people. The Legis-
= lature may at any time after the ap-
proval of such law, by the people
l il no debts shall have been contract
r ed I'm the pursuance thereof, repea
the same.
e. 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. to-wit:
Shall Section /, Article s of tn,
- Constitution of the State of Idaho b.
) amended so as to limit the bonded
indebtedness of the State, exclusive
of the debt of the yerritory at thu
date of its admission as State, an'
n exclusive of debts and liabilities in
: Cured subsequent to January ]
c 1911, for the purpose of the con
! struction and furnishing of the Stat
Capitol at Boise, Idaho, to a sum no
. greater than one per centum upoi
: the assessed value of the taxabl
property in the State?"
c Section 3. The Secretary of Stat
e is hereby authorized to make publ
! cation of this constitutional amend
ment in each county of the State 70
Il at least six co consecutive week
l. prior to the next general election l
:, not less than one Cd newspaper
d gneral circulation published in sue
II county.
l. Passed the Senate March 3. 1917.
y Passed the House March Z. 1917.
/ LIST pub. Sept. 10. Last pub Oct. 2
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