PURPOSE AND EFFECT OF
AMENDMENT.
The purpose of the proposed amend
ment is to establish and provide for ths
construction and maintenance of a sys
tem of roads and hiflhways in the state
of Minnesota to be known as "Ths
Trunk Highway System." The effect of
the proposed amendment, if adopted, will
be to establish and authorize the enact
ment of laws, providing for the con
struction, improvement and mainte
nance by the state of the high
ways described in a general way
An the amendment, which highways are
to be more specifically and definitely lo
cated In a manner to be prescribed by
law, but any suchi Jaw must provtde that
in fixing a definite location of the vari
ous routes there shall not be any de
viation from the starting point or ter
mini described in the routes set forth In
the amendment, nor shall there be a de
viation In the fixing of the routes from
the various villages and cities named in
the amendment, and through which the
routes are to pass.
If the amendment Is adopted, the leg
islature will be thereby authorized to
provide by law for the Issuance and sale
of the bonds of the state to raise money
for the creation of a "Trunk Highway
Fund" to be expended for the construc
tion of the roads embraced In the trunk
highway system. The legislature cannot,
however, issue bonds In any one year ex
ceeding in amount of the par value there
of the sum of $10,000,000, nor can the ag
gregate of all outstanding unpaid bonds
ever v-xceed $75,000,000. Bonds cannot
be sold for less than par or bear Inter
est at a greater rate than five per cent
per annum.
