The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-07-30
PROCLAMATION BY THE
GOVERNOR


Whereas, petitions signed by the
requisite number of voters and pray
ing for the initiation of three certain
measures to be hereinafter more par
ticularly described have been duly and
regularly filed in the office of the Sec
rotary Of State within the time re-
CURED by the Constitution of the
State of Montana; and
Whereas, the Governor of the state
is required by law to issue his proc
lamation announcing the filing of such
petitions;
Now. THEREFORE, I, S. v.
Stewart, as governor of the state Of
Montana, do hereby proclaim the fill
ing of such petitions for the submits
sion to the qualified voters of the
state of Montana for their approval
or rejection, at the regular election
to be held on the second day of No
vember, A. d. 1920, of
ga bill to enact by the Initiative
law to increase the rate of taxation
on real and personal property for
state purposes n and one-half az
a period of ten years, beginning with
the year 1921, and to authorize and
empower the Legislative Assembly to
levy a tax for each year during such
period of not exceeding three and
one-half (3h) mills on each dollar of
valuation, and to appropriate the mon
ey derived from one and one-half
az mills of such levy for each year
during such period for the support,
maintenance and improvement of the
institutions now comprised in the In
iversity of Montana"
Also:
"a bill to enact by the Initiative
a law to authorize the state Of Mon
tana to become indebted in the sum
Of Five Million Dollars ($5,000, 000)
in excess of the constitutional limita-
ton of Indebtedness and owe and
above any bonded Indebtedness here
tofore incurred or created and for
which the State of Montana is now OBJ
ligated for the construction, repair
and equipment of necessary build
ings at the several educational insti-
~tutions of the State of Montana now
under the control of the State Board
of Education, and consisting of the
State University at Missoula, the
chanic Arts at Bozeman, the Montana
School of Mines at Butte, and the
Montana State Normal College at
Dillon, comprised in the University of
Montana, and the State Orphans
Home at Twin Bridges, the Montana
School for the Deaf and Blind at
Boulder, the Montana State Industrial
School at Miles City, and the State
Vocational School for Girls at Helena;
providing for the issuance of bonds
in the name of the State of Montana
as evidence of such Indebtedness and
for the sale thereof; prescribing the
form of such bonds; and providing
for the levying of an annual tax suf-
ficient to pay the principal thereof
and the interest accruing thereon"
Also:
"a Bill to propose by Initiative Pc
tition a law providing that the State
of Montana shall have control over the
financing of irrigation districts, and
the construction and acquisition of ir-
rigation systems within such districts;
authorizing the State of Montana to
become indebted in the sum of Twen-
ty Million Dollars 1000. O0O) over
and above any existing indebtedness;
providing for the issuance and sale of
such bonds in the name of the State
of Montana in the sum of Twenty Mil
lion Dollars $50, 600, 000) as State
obligations; to acquire funds for the
urpos OF creating a State fund to
be known as the Montana Irrigation
Development Fund.- with which to
purchase bonds of irrigation districts
organized under the laws of Montana.
prescribing the authority and duty of
the State Board of Examiners rela-
tive to the issuance of such bonds and
the sale of irrigation district bonds
and the investment of the proceeds
derived therefrom, as we'll as other
money in the Montana Irrigation De-