Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-04-02
THE CONSTITUTIONAL coNVEN-
TON.
Reuenue and Taxation-General Meas
ures Adopted for Regulating Taxa
fion

SEC. 3. Laws shall be passed tax
ing by 4 uniform rate all real and
personal property, according to its
value in money, to be ascertained by
such rules of appraisement as may
be prescribed by the General As
sembly, so that all property shall
bear an equal proportion of the bur-
dens Of taxation. Provided, that the
deduction of debts from credits may
be authorized.
SEC. 4. The General Assembly
may provide bylaws, for exemption
from taxation, Of all burial grounds
public school houses, houses used
exclusively for public worship, in
stitutions of purely public charity,
public libraries, public property u.s.
ed exclusively for any public pur
pose; and personal property to an
amount not exceeding two hundred
dollars for each individual, may, by
general laws, be exempted from tax
alton; but all such laws shall be
subject to alteration or repeal, and
the value of all property SO exempt
ed shall, from time to time, be as
certained and published as may be
directed by law.
Sec. 5. The General Assembly
may impose taxes by license, excise,
or otherwise, also provide, by equl
table rules, for taxing franchises
and all income deprived from in
vestments, when the principal from
which such income is derived can
not be taxed.
Sec. 6. Banks now existing or
hereafter created, and all Bankers
shall be taxed by such equitable
rules based upon capital employed
and amount of business done by
them, as will require them to share
equally with other business inter-
ests and property in the burden of
taxation. Provided, that nothing
in this section shall be construed
to forbid the taxation of shares of
stock in any bank.
"SEc. Z. No tax shall be levied
except in pursuance of law; and
every law imposing tax shall state
distinctly the object of the same, to
which only it shall be applied.
Sec. s. The state shall never con-
tract any debt for purposes of in
ternal Improvement.
Sec. 9. The General Assembly
may provide by law to regulate, re-
strain or prohibit, by special tax,
assessment, or otherwise, the keep
ing, harboring or running at large
of dogs.
The proposition made by Mr..
Heron, of Hamilton county, pro-
hibiting the liquor traffic within the
limit OF any lands held by the state
for educational purposes, was de-
feated by a vote of % to As.
The Legislative Democrats are
happy. The stupendous blunder
of the adjournment resolution has
been rectified, and they can now
remain to do the pre-ar ranged
dirty work at their leisure. The
more sensible Democrats out of
the Legislature are not SO comfor-
table. They do not know what
foolishness may be committed
any day, but they fear the worst.
They have man in Marion who
could easily discount any Modoc
in the way of heartless cruelty,
When the ladies visited his saloon
he shut the doors and windows,
and after half suffocating them
with smoke he sprinkled cayenne
pepper over the floor.
The Shah of Persia wants Mrs.
Colt, widow of the great fire arm
turer, to come over to
his delightful kingdom, and make
horse pistols for the Mohomme-|
dams. 1t isn't likely she will go
off, however.
The editor of the Hinesville
(Ga.) Gazette, is one of the heirs
of Donald Frazer, the London
who died, leaving $780,
He ought to lay down
the pencil and the paste-cup new,
and give some poor fellow a |
chance. !
The Constitutional Convention
has decided to adjourn from the
third of April, 1874, to the sew
enth of April, 1875.
The severe illness of Admiral
Porter although temporarily
relieved at last ac-
counts, is officially stated to be
the result of tumor in the stom-
ach, and must, his physicians
think, prove fatal in a few days.
Death reaps vigorously among
men in high places this spring.
1t has reached Nova Scotia,
where they have petitioned the
Dominion Parliament to prevent
the importation of liquors into or
their manufacture in Canada.
Ralph Church has brought
suit for ten thousand dollars, in
Nashville, against the Louisville,
and Great Southern
R. R., because the conductor re-
used to take a "punched'' ticket,
and put Mr.. Church off the train.
Saloon-keepers in Warren say
heir receipts have fallen off FULLY
fifty per cent, within two weeks.
At one of the temperance meet
ngs held there in the Catholic
'hurch, sixty five signatures were
obtained to. the pledge in less
han an hours time.
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