The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1868-04-16

ton for a taxation of all property,
real, personal and possessory, except
mines and mining claims, the proceeds
alone shall be taxed; and also except
ing such property as may be exempt
cd by law for municipal, educational,
literary, scientific, religious or chari-
table purposes. .....
Sec. 2. The General Assembly
may provide annually for a poll tax
not to exceed one dollar on each poll,
which shall be applied exclusively to
the public school fund. And no ad-
ditional poll tax shall be levied by
any municipal corporation.
Sec. 3. The General Assembly
shall provide for an annual tax suf-
ficient to defray the estimated ex-
penses of the State for each year;
and whenever it shall happen that
such ordinary expenses Of the State
for any year shall exceed the ircome
of the State for such year, the Gen
eral Assembly shall provide for levy.
ing a tax for the ensuing year, sufh-
cient, with other sources of income,
to pay the deficiency of thepreceding
year, together with the estimated ex-.
penses of the ensuing year.
Sec. 4. No tax shall be levied ex-
cept in pursuance of law which
shall distinctly state the object of the
same; to which such tax shall be ap-
piled.
Sec. 5. 1t shall be the duty of the
General Assembly to enact laws for
the exemption from taxation of all
public schools, colleges and institu-
tions of learning, all charitable insti-
tutions in the nature of asylums for
the infrm, deaf and dumb, blind,
idiotic and INDECENT persons, all pub
lie libraries, churches and burying
grounds; but property of associations
and societies, although not connected
with charitable objects; shall not be
exempt from State, County or NUM-
cipal taxation: Prorided, That this
exemption shall not extend beyond
the buildings and premises actually
occupied by such schools, colleges,
institutions of learning, asylums.
churches. burial grounds. although
connected with charitable objects.
Sec. 8. The General Assembly
shall provide for the valuation and
assessment Of all lands and tile im-
provements thereon prior to the as.
sembling of the General Assembly of
1870, and thereafter on every fifth
year.
Sec. 7. For the purpose of defray-
ing extraordinary expenditures, the
State may contract public debts; but
such debts shall be authorized by law
for some single object, to be distinct
ly specified therein; and no such law
shall take effect until it shall have
been passed by the vote of two-thirds
of the members of each branch of the
General Assembly, to be recorded by
yeas and nays, on the journals of
each House respectively; and every
such law shall levy a tax annually to
pay the annual interest on such debt.
Sec. s. The corporate authorities
of Counties, townships, school dis
tricts, cities, towns, and villages may be
vested with power to assess and COL
lect taxes for corporate purposes;
such taxes to be uniform in respect to
persons and property within the ju-
risdiction of the body imposing the
same. And the General Assembly
shall require that all the property,
except that heretofore exempted with
in the limits of municipal corpora
tions, shall be taxed for the payment
of debts contracted under authority
Of law.
Sec. g. The General Assembly
shall provide for the Incorporation
and organization of cities and towns,
and shall restrict their powers of tax
alton, borrowing money, contracting
deDts, and of loaning their credit.
Seer 10. No script, certificate, or
other evidence of State Indebtedness
shall be issued, except for the re-
demption of stock, bonds, or other
evidences of Indebtedness previously
issued, or for such debts, as are ex-
pressly authorized in this Constitu-
ticn.
Sec. II. An accurate statement of
the receipts and expenditures Of the
public money shall be published with
the laws of each regular session of the
General Assembly, in such manner
as may, by law. be directed.
Sec. -. No money shall be drawn
from the Treasury. but in pursuance