Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-08-08
LEGAL ADVERTISING
PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOH

PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOH
Whereas. Petitions signed by the red
ulsite number Of voters and praying ZOE
the initiation Of three certain measures
10 % hereinafter more particularly &C.
scrfbed have been duly and regularly
filed In the office of the secretary o.
stitutfon Of the state OF Montana; and
whereas, The governor OF the state II
required by law to issue his proclamation
announcing mou the filing OF such petitions:
governor Of the state of Montana, 40
hereby proclaim the filing of such .peu-
tons for the submission to the qualified
voters OF the state of Montana for their
approval or rejection, at the regular elec-
tion to be held on the second day OF NO
vember, A. d. 1890 OF
"A bill to enact by the initiative a law
to increase the rate Of taxation on real
and personal property for state purposes
one and one-half Qh) mills on each doll
lar Of valuation for period Of ten years.
thorize and empower the legislative as
sembiy to levy a tax for each year dur
ing such period Of not exceeding three
and one-haf (3h). mills on each dollar
money derived from one and one-ha1f
Q1a mills of such levy for each year
during such period for the support, main
tenance and Improvement of the institu.
ttons now comprised In the University OF
Montana"
Also:
"A bill to enact by the initiative law
to authorize the state of Montana to be-
come indebted in the sum Of five million
dollars (s5,0oo,00o in excess of the con-
stitutonal limitation of Indebtedness and
over and above any bonded Indebtedness
heretofore incurred or created and Tor
which the state of Montana Is now oblt-
gated, for the construction, repair and
equipment of necessary buildings at the
several educational institutions of the
state OF Montana now under the control
of the state board of education, and con-
sisting OF the state university at Mis-
souia. the state college of agriculture
and mechanic arts at Bozeman. the Mon
tana state school Of mines at Butte, and
the Montana state normal college at Dn-
lon. comprised in the University Of Mon
lana, and the state orphans homo at
Twin Bridges, the Montana school for
the deaf and blind at Boulder, the Mon
tana state industrial school at Miles
girls at Helena; providing for the issu-
ance of bonds in the name Of the state OF
montana as evidence of such Indebted
ness and for the sale thereof; prescribing
the form of such bonds; and providing
for the levying of an annual tax suff-
cient to pay the principal thereof and the
interest accruing thereon"
"a bill to propose by initiative petition
law providing that the state Of Mon
tana shall have control over the ffnanc-
struction and acquisition of irrigation
systems within such districts: authoriz-
ing the state of Montana to become in
debted in the sum of twenty million dol
lars (s2o, ,0o00oo) over and above any ex-
listing Indebtedness; providing for the is
suance and sale of such bonds in the
name Of the state of Montana in the sum
of twenty million dollars (s20, 900, ,ooO as
state obligations; to acquire funds for
the purpose of creating state fund to
be known as the Montana Irrigation
Development Fund with which to pur-
chase bonds of irrigation districts organ
lied under the laws Of Montana; pre-
scribing the authority and duty Of the
state board of examiners relative to the
issuance OF such bonds and the sale of
irrigation district bonds and the invest
ment of the proceeds derived therefrom,
as well as other money in the Montana
Irrigation Development Fund; prescrib-
ing the duties of state boards and off,
GERS in the administration of this act,
and providing for the submission of this
act to the qualified electors"
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the Great Seal of
the state to be affixed.
Done In the city of Helena, the capital,
this the tenth day Of July, in the year OF
our Lord one thousand nine hundred
twenty.
(SeaD S. v. STEWART.
c. T. STEWART, Secretary of State.