The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-08-06

Attest: Chairman.
C. W. Kampfer, Clerk.
At 2 o'clock p. m. board of county
commissioners resumed:
Present: Chairman Peter A. West,
Commissioners Carl j. Anderson and
C. w. Kampfer, Clerk.
On motion, bid of w. L. Slayton &
Co., of Toledo, Ohio, is hereby re-
jected.
On motion, negotiations were en-
tered into with Wells ickey Com
pany for disposal of bonds at par, by
time, contract for highway project is
let. I'VE"
The following Proclamation was or
dered spread Of the minutes:
PROCLAMATION BY 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-
quired by the Constitution of the state
of Montana; and
WHEREAS, The Governor Of the
state is required by law to issue his
proclamation announcing the filing Of
such petitions:
NOW, THEREFORE, l, S. v. Stew
art, as governor of the state of Mon
tana, do hereby proclaim the filing
of such petitions for the submission
to the qualified voters of the state of
Montana for their approval or rejec-
ton, at the regular election to be held
on the second day of November, A.
D. 1920, of
"a bill to enact by the initiative
on real and personal property for
state purposes one and one-half az
mills on each dollar of valuation for
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 (3R) mills on each dollar
of valuation, and to appropriate the
money derived from one and one-half
GR) mills of such levy for each
year during such period for the sup
port, maintenance and improvement
of the institutions now comprised in
the University of Montana"
Also:
ga 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,OOo, 00O)
in excess of the constitutional limi-
tation of Indebtedness and over and
above any bonded Indebtedness here
tofore incurred or created and for
which the State of Montana is now
obligated, for the construction, re-
pair 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
State College of Agriculture and Me-
chanic Arts at Bozeman, The Mon
tana State School of Mines at Butte,
and the Montana State Normal Col
lege at Dillon, comprised in the Uni
versity of Montana, and the State Or
phans' Home at Twin Bridges, the
Montana School for the Deaf and Blind
at Boulder, the Montana State Indus
trial 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 indebted
ness and for the sale thereof; pre-
scribing the form of such bonds; and
providing for the levying of an an
nual tax sufficient to pay the prin-
cipal thereof and the interest accru-
ing thereon"
"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 irrigation systems within such dis
tracts; authorizing the state of Mon
tana to become indebted in the sum
Of Twenty Million Dollars ($20, 000,-
OOO) over and above any existing in
%debtedness; providing for the issu-
ance and sale of such bonds in the
name of the State of Montana in the
sum of Twenty Million Dollars $780,
0O0,0O0) as state obligations; to &C.