Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-09-19
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 10

BY PETTIBONE AND RANDALL
A JOINT RESOLUTION TO AMENI
SECTION OF ARTICLE s OF THE
J CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF
IDAHO AND TO SUBMIT TO THE
/ ELECTORS OF THE STATE OF
/ IDAHO, FOR THEIR REJECTION OR
! APPROVAL, AN AMENDMENT TO
| SECTION /, ARTICLE s, OF THE
/ CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF
/ IDAHO. LIMITING THE INDEBTED
/ NESS THAT NIGHT 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 LEGIS-
LATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO:
Section l. That Section ! 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, OF 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-
rose of completing the construction and
furnishing of the State Capitol Build
ing at Boise, Idaho exceed the sum IL
one per centum upon the assessed value
of the taxable property in the State, eX
cept in case of war to repel an invasion
or suppress an insurrectiOn. unless the
same shall be authorized by law for /
some single object or work to be dis I
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
and also for the payment and discharge 1
Of the principal of such debt, or liability,
within twenty (2O) years of the time of
contracting thereof, and shall be ire
pealable until the principal and inter
est thereon shall be paid and discharg
ed. But no such law shall take effect,
until at general election it shall
have been submitted to the people,
and shall have received a majority of
all the votes cast for and against it at
such election; aud all moneys raised by
The authority of such laws, shall be APP
Piled 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
'ach county. or city, ard county. if one
,e 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
inc after the approval of such law, by
he people, if no debts shall have been
ontracted in the pursuance thereof,
apeal the same
Section ,. The question to be submit
I'd to the electors of the State of Idaho
the next general election shall be as ]
blows. to-wit: b.
''Shall Section I. Article of the I
constitution of the State of IDAHO be q
mended SO rs to limit the bonded in a
ebtedness of the State. exclusive of +
ne debt of the territory at the date of t
$ admission as a State, and exclusive h
debts and liabilities incurred subse- +
lent to January l. 1911. for the pur- ?
Dse Of the construction and furnishing |
the State Capitol at Boise, Idaho, to 0
I'm not greater than one per centum a
BON the assessed value of the taxable a
operty in the State2'' A
Section 3. The Secretary of State is s
,reby authorized to make publication
this constitutional amendment in
ch equity of the State for at least six
> consecutive weeks prior to the next
neral election in not less than one "a
'wspaper of the general circulation
iblished in such county.
Passed by Senate March 8, 1917
Passed the House March Z. 1917