The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-03-18
Legal Notices

thereof for the use of the State
Highway Fund for the purpose
of assuring the ability of the
State of Montana to secure any
moneys made available by the
Act of Congress in reference to
highways, and for other high
way purposes, and for carrying
on a postwar highway program
such as will bring the highway
system of the State up to the
established standards of the
Federal Highway Act and the
payment of State Highway
Treasury Anticipation Deben-
lures of the State of Montana
now outstanding; providing for
a tax on gasoline or motor fuels
and anticipating the revenues
therefrom and providing for
supplemental and additional IL
cense or excise taxes on gaso-
line or motor fuels during the
period from July l, 1943, to June
80, 1915; prescribing the form
and terms and conditions of said
debentures and interest thereon
and the date of their matur-
tiles; calling a General Election
for the submission of this Act
to the people and providing the
method for referring the ques-
ton of the issuance and sale
Of said debentures to the people
at a General Election and pre-
scribing the registration for
such election and prescribing
the method for holding such
General Election and the quail
~fications of electors and appro-
priating moneys from the State
Highway Fund to pay the cost
thereof; providing a method by
which the State Treasurer may
purchase said debentures and
providing that said debentureS
may be accepted as security for
the repayment of public moneys;
prescribing the conditions I'M
der which the sale of such de-
bentures may be made and the
use of the funds to be derived
from the sale of such deben-
lures; prescribing the amounts
and years respectively in which
said debentures shall be due
and payable; providing for the
repayment of both principal
and interest of such debentures
and for the pledging and set
ting aside of a sufficient amount
of said excise or license tax on
gasoline or motor fuels to pay
the same from the State High-
Way Treasury Debenture Re-
demption Fund herein created;
providing for the cost of such
General Election and for the
cost of advertising the sale of
said debentures; providing for
the creation of a liability bind
ing the State of Montana not
to reduce the license tax on
gasoline or motor fuels until af-
ter accrual of sufficient mon
eys to pay the said debentureS
and interest; defining the du-
ties of election officials here
under and providing penalties
for violation of the election pro-
visions of this Act; and
Whereas, Said House Bill No.
256 was approved by the Gov
ernor on the eighth day OF
March, A. D. 1913:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sam C.
Ford, Governor of the State of
Montana, under and by virtue
of the authority in me vested
by the Constitution and Statutes
and by said House Bill No. 256,
do hereby declare and proclaim
that on Tuesday, the eighth
day of June, A. D. 1913, there
will be held in the State Of
Montana a General Statewide
Election by the qualified voters
of said State for the purpose of
expressing their approval or dis
approval of said House Bill No.
256 and of the proposition of
the issuance of the proposed
State Highway Treasury Antici-
patton Debentures; said election
date having been fixed in said
House Bill No. 256.
Said election shall be held at
the usual precinct polling places
in every county of the State of
Montana on the date aforesaid.
liz LII Ill VI Vic Od11oC uSCo
at said General Statewide Elec-
tiol shall include the title of
said House Bill No. 256 as here
inabovc given, and below said
title there shall be printed on
the ballot:
For the above entitled Act.
Against the above entitled
u Act.
Registration for said General
Statewide Election shall close.
as provided in Section of said
House Bill No. 256, on Friday,
the twenty-eighth day of May,
A. D. 1913; and all voters ELI
gible to vote at any General
Election and are tax payers
whose names appear on the
last preceding completed assess
ment roll shall be qualified, if
already registered, or upon
proper registration as provided
in said House Bill No. 256, to
vote at said General Statewide
election.
And in order that such cleo
ton may be conducted in a
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