The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-10-21
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS.
To be voted upon at the next General
Election. published in pursuance
OfChapter 157, General Laws
of 1897

WHEREAS, it is made the duty by
law OF the Attorney General to pre-
pare synopsis of all amendments
proposed to the constitution, notice
is hereby given that the following
amendments are submitted to the
voters of the State of Minnesota, to be
voted upon at the general election to
to be held in the year 1892.
FIRsT-An act proposing to- amend
section 80 of article four az of the
Constitution of the State of Mime
sofa, prohibiting special legislation.
The following amendment to
Section 33 Of Article of the Constitu-
tion of the State of Minnesota is here
by proposed, which section when so
amended shall read as follows:
Sec. 33. In all cases when general
law can be made applicable no special
law shall be enacted; and whether
general law could have been made
applicable in any case is hereby declar-
ed judicial question, and as such
shall be judically determined without
regard to any legislative assertion
on that subject. The legislature
shall pass no local or special law
regulating the affairs Of, or incorpoIat-
ing, erecting or changing the lines of
any county, city, village, township
ward or school district, or creating
the offices or prescribing the powers
and the duties of the officers of, or
fixing or relating to the compensation,
salary or fees of the same, or the
mode of election or appointment
thereto; authorizing the laying out,
opening, altering, vacating or
maintaining roads, highways, streets
or alleys; remitting fines, penalties
or forfeitures; regulating the powers,
duties and practice of justices of the
peace, magistrates and cOnstables;
changing the names of persons,
places, lakes or rivers: for opening
and conducting of elections, or fixing
or changing the places of voting;
authorizing the adoption or legitima-
tion of children: changing the law
of descent or succession; comforting
rights upon minors, declaring any
named person of age, giving effect to
informal or invalid wills or deeds, or
affecting the estates of minors or
or persons under disability; locating
or changing county seats; regulating
the management of public schools,
the building or repairing of school
houses, and the raising of money for
such purposes; eXempting property
from taxation, or regulating the rate
of interest on money; creating corpO-
ratiOnS, or amending, renewing, eX-
tending or explaining the charters
thereof; granting to any corporation,
association or individual any special
or exclusive privilege, immunity or
franchise whatever, or authorizing
public taxation for private purpose.
Provided, hoaCever, That the inhibi-
tions of local or special laws in this
section shall not be construed to
prevent the passage of general laws
on any of the subjects enumerated.
The legislature may repeal any
existing special or local law, but
shall not amend, extend or modify
any of the same.
The ballots to be used in voting
upon said amendment shall have
printed thereon:
"Amendment to Article 11o -
-Four a. of the Constitution Els
to prohibit special legisla- No \
tiOn." "
And each voter shall vote upon by
placing cross(X) opposite eyes," if
he desires to vote in the affirmative,
and opposite the word mo-" if he
desires to vote in the negative.
SECoND-The following amend
ment to Section 81 of Article nine (9)
of the Constitution of the State of
Minnesota is hereby proposed to the
people of said State for their approval
or rejection, that is to say, to add at
the end of said section the following
words:
'EAnd there may be levied and
collected annually a tax upon the
gross earnings in this State of all
railroads, sleeping, parlor and drawing
room car companies, or owners whose
cars run in or into this State; on all
telegraph and telephone companies,
or owners, whose lines are in or ex-
tend into this State; on all express
companies, or owners, doing business
in this State; on all foreign Insurance
companies doing business in this
State; on all domestic insurance COM
panies of this State, or on either or
any of such companies. Or in lieu of
such tax on the gross earnings of such
companies, or either or any of them,
an annual license fee or tax imposed
on them, or either or any of them;
but no tax upon the gross earnings of
any corporation shall be construed
to prevent the taxation, bylaw, of any
real estate owned by said corporation
not used in the business of the same.
And there may be levid and collected
in lieu of other taxation on mining
property, a specific tax upon the
product Of all mines in the State, and
no such tax shall be construed to
prevent the taxation by law of any
real estate belonging to the owners of
such mine not used in the business of
mining or in connection Herewith.
Section three (3) of Article nine (9)
of the State Constitution which it is
proposed to amend as above, now
reads as follows:
Sec. 3. Laws shall be passed tax
ing all moneys, credits, investments
in bonds, stocks, joint stock compa-
MES or otherwise, and also all real and
personal property, according to it's
true value in money; but public bury
ing grounds, public school houses,
public hospitals, academies, colleges,
universities, and all seminaries of
learning, all churches, church proper
ty used for religious purposes, and
houses of worship, Institutions of
purely public charity, public property
used eXclusi vely for any public
purpose, and personal property to an
amount not pYcpo6inU in, uo1,,o +xuo