Great Falls tribune., 1889-09-28

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The said board shall consist of
eleven members, the governor,
State superintendent of public in
struction, and Encouragement, being
members ex-otficio, and other eight mem
bcrs thereof shall be appointed by the
governor subject to the confirmation of
the senate, under the regulations and re-
strictions TO be provided by law.
SEC. IL. The funds of the State uni
vcrsity and of all other State institutions
of learning, from whatever source accru-
ing, shall forever remain inviolate and
sacred to the purpose for which they
were dedicated. The various funds
shall be respectively invested under such
regulations as shall be prescribed by law
and shall be guaranteed by the State
against loss or diversion. The interest
of said invested funds, together with the
rents from leased lands or properties
shall be devoted to the maintenance and
perpetuation of these respective institu-
tions.
| ARTICLE XII.
REVENUE AND TAXATION.
SECTION 1. The necessary revenue
for the support and maintenance of the
State shall be provided by the Legisla-
tive Assembly, which shall levy uni
form rate of assessment and taxation,
and shall prescribe such regulations as
shall secure a just valuation for taxation
Of all property, except that especially
provided for in this article. The Legis-
lative Assembly may also impose a
license tax, both upon persons and upon
corportions doing business in the State.
SEC, 2. The property of the United
States, the State, counties, cities, towns,
school distsicts, municipal corporations
and public libraries shall be exempt
from taxation; and such other property
as may be used exclusively for agricul-
tural and horticultural societies, for ed
ucatonal purposes, places for actual re-
/, lgious worship, hospitals and places of
burial not used or held for private or
corporate profit, and institutions of
purely public charity may be exempt
from taxation.
SEC. 5. All mines and mining claims,
both placer and rock in place. containing
or bearing gold, silver, copper, lead, coal,
Or other valuable mineral deposits, after.
purchase thereof from the United States,
shall be taxed at the price paid the United
States therefor, unless the surface ground,
or some part thereof, of such mine or
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poses, and has a separate and independent
value, for such other purposes, in which
case said surface ground, or any part
thereof, so used for other than mining
purposes, shall be taxed at its value for
such other purposes, as provided by law;
and all machinery used in mining and
all property and surface timproveme nts
upon or appurtenant to mines and min
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and independent of such mines or min
of all mines and mining claims, shall be
taxed as provided by law.
SEC, A., The Legislative Assembly
shall not levy taxes upon the inhabitants
or property in any county, city, town, or
municipal corporation for county, town,
Or municipal purposes, but it may by
law invest in the corporate authorities
thereof powers to assess and collect
taxes for such purposes.
SEC. S. Taxes for city, town and
school purposes may be levied upon all
subjects and objects Of taxation, but the
assessed valuation of any property shall
not exceed the valuation of the same
property for State and county purposes.
SEC. 6. No county, city, town or
other municipal corporation, the inhab-
itants thereof nor the property therein,
shall be released or discharged from
their or its proportionate share of State
taxes.
SEC. I. The power to tax corporations
OF corporate property shall never be re-
linquished or suspended, and all corpor-
ations i'll this State, or doing business
| therein, shall be subject to taxation for
State, county, school, municipal and
other purposes on real and personal
property owned or used by them and
not by this constitution exempted from
taxation.
SEC. s. Private property shall not be
taken or sold for the corporate debts OF
public corporations, but the Legislative
Assembly may provide by law for the
funding thereof, and shall provide by
law for the payment thereof, including
all funded debts and obligations, by as
sessment and taxation of all private prop
erty not exempt from taxation withir
the limits of the territory over which
such corporations respectively have au
thority.
Sec. 9. The rate of taxation of rea
and personal property for State purposes
in any one year shall never exceed three
(3) mills on each dollar of valuation; anc
whenever the taxable property in the
State shall amount to one hundred mil
lion dollars (SIoo,ooo,ooo), the rate shall
not exceed two and one-half (215) mills
on each dollar of valuations; and when
ever the taxable property in the State
shall amount to three hundred millior
dollars (P3oo,ooo,ooo), the rate shall never
thereafter exceed one and one-half III
mills on each dollar of valuations; unless
a proposition to increase such rate, spec
lying the rate proposed and the time
during which the same shall be levied
shall have been submitted to the people
at general election, and shall have re
ccived a majority of all the votes cas-
for and against it at such election.
SEC, TO- All taxes levied for State
purposes shall be paid into the State
treasury and no money shall be drawn
| from the treasury but in pursuance o
4 specific appropriations made by law,
U SEC. II. Taxes 5shalA],eL LleVied an
/ collected by general laws and for publ
/ purposes only. They shall be uniform
| upon the same class of subjects within
| the territorial limits of the authorit,
levying the tax. ......-4.
SEC. II. No appropriation shall b
madesnor any expenditures authorlze
by the Legislative Assembly whereby tn
expenditures of the State during an
fiscal year shall exceed the total tax the
provided for by law, and applicable
such appropriation or expenditure, un
lless the Legislative Assembly maxim
such appropriation shall provide to
levying sufficient tax, not eAceedln!
the rate allowed in section OF thi
article, to pay such appropriations or r., es
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