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

BY PEIIIBONE AND RANDALL
A JOINT RESOLUTION TO AALENI
} ! SECTION / OF ARTICLE OF TIKI
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF
IDAHO AND TO SUBMIT TO TIKI
ELECTORS OF THE STATE OF
IDAHO, FOR THEIR REJECTION Or
/ APPROVAL, AN AMENDMENT TIC
SECTION l, 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 1T RESOLVED BY THE LEGIS-
LATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO:
Section l. That Section l of Article
8 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
of the State Capitol Build |
ing at Boise, Idaho exceed the sum Of /
one per centum 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
0ans for payment of the interest of
Iuch debt, or liability, as it falls due
md also for the payment and discharge
# the principal of such debt, or liability,
within twenty coy years of the time of
Ontracting 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
ave been submitted to the people,
nd shall have received a majority of
II the votes cast for and against it at
UGH election; and all moneys raised by I
he authority of such laws, shall be APP I
lied only to specified objects therein
tated, or to the payment of the debt
hereby created, and such law shall be Q
in at least one newspaper in ]
ach county, or city, ard county, if one $
e published therein, throughout the d
tate for three months next preceding {
he election at which it is submitted to S
he people. The Legislature may at any t
me after the approval of such law, by a
lie people, if no debts shall have been t
in the pursuance thereof, 81
peal the same. 81
Section 2. The question to be submit G.
d to the electors of the State of Idaho O
the next general election shall be as ;
llows, towit:
Shall Section /, Article of the -
institution of the State of Idaho be Or
nended so as to limit the bonded in
btedness of the State, exclusive of
e debt of the territory at the date of N
admission as a State, and exclusive
debts and liabilities incurred subse- l.;
ent to January l, 1911, for the pur- tie
Sc of the construction and furnishing
the State Capitol at Boise, Idaho, to a ia
N not greater than one per centum NJ
on the assessed value of the taxable N
)perty in the State?' NJ
Section 3. The Secretary of State is NJ
'eby authorized to make publication Sc
this constitutional amendment in Ea
h equity of the State for at least six of
consecutive weeks prior to the next est
leral election in not less than one "a cri
vspaper of the general circulation Co,
)lished in such county. the
'assed by Senate March 3, 1917.
'assed the House March 7, 1917.