Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-10-24
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 10
BY PETTIBONE AND RANDALL

/ BY PETT1BONE AND RANDALL
A JOINT RESOLUTION TO AMEND
/ SECTION / OF ARTICLE s OF THE
! CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF
I IDAHO AND TO SUBMIT TO THE
ELECTORS OF THE STATE OF
/ IDAHO, FOR THEIR REJECTION OR
! APPROVAL, AN AMENDMENT TO
/ SECTION l, ARTICLE s, 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 1. That Section l of Article
s of the Constitution of the State of
Idaho be amended to read as follows:
See. /. 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 state. and exelu-
sive of debts OF liabilities incurred sub
L.
rose of completing the construction and
furnishing of the State Capitol Build /
ing at Boise, Idaho exceed the sum Of
one per eentum upon the assessed value /
of the taxable property in the State ex-
eept 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
-inctly 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
If the principal of such debt, OF liability,
within twenty (20) years of the time of
thereof. and shall be ire
'ealable until the principal and inter
st thereon shall be paid and discharg-
d. But no such law shall take effect,
Until at a general election it shall
rave been submitted to the people. !.
nd shall have received a majority of
II the votes east for and against it at :
uch election; and all moneys raised by
he authority of such laws, shall be ap-
lied only to specified objects therein !
tated, or TO the payment of the debt
hereby created, and such law shall be !
ublished in at least one newspaper in =
ach county, or city, ard county, if one =
e published therein, throughout the !.
tate for three months next preceding :
ne election at which it is submitted to !.
lie people. The Legislature may at any :
me after the approval of such law, by :
lie people, if no debts shall have been >
ontracted in the pursuance thereof, :
peal the same. 9
Section 2. The question to be submit
d to the electors of the State of Idaho ]
the next general election shall be as
flows, to-wit: p
''Shall Section l, Article of the
institution of the State of Idaho be N
nended so as to limit the bonded in
'htedness of the State, exclusive of I.
e debt of the territory at the date of II
J admission as a State, and exclusive
debts and liabilities incurred subse- f
ent to January l, 1911, for the pur- D
sc of the construction and furnishing l,
the State Capitol at Boise, Idaho, to a m
m not greater than one per eentum l.
on the assessed value of the taxable n
operty in the State7' hs
Section 3. The Secretary of State is tn
reby authorized to make publication IN
this constitutional amendment in to
Oh equity of the State for at least six CT
consecutive weeks prior to the next N
neral election in not less than one ~
wspaper of the general circulation 4
blished in such county. Pa
Passed by Senate March 3, 1917. Of
Passed the House March 7. 1917 %