The age-herald., 1898-07-21
A PROCLAMATION.
By the Governor !:

By the GOVernor:
 Whereas. The Governor is required by
 Section of an act of the General Assem-
 ply of Alabama, approved February 16, lS9i,
 ITO submit to the people of the state at
 Monday in August, 1898. for representatives for their consideration an amendment 10 Section ', Article Il of the Constitution, providing special tax of one-half Of one
 per centum for the city of Birmingham, to be applied to the payment of interest on the bonds of said city. and for sinking fund to pay off said bonds at the maturity there- of,' to make publication by proclamation at least three months before the next gen. eral election for representatives of the amendment proposed by sad act, to be
 submitted for the consideration of the peo- pie, and to cause said proclamation to be published for three months by weekly in sertions in at least four newspapers puo- lished in the state.@
 Now, therefore, I, Joseph F. Johnston, Governor of Alabama. in obedience to said ton that the following amendment of sec- ton T. article II of the Constitution has been proposed by tine General Assembly of Alabama to be submitted to the people of Alabama for consideration at the gen. eral election to be held in this state on the first Monday in August 1S9S Said amend
 ment is as follows
 ".Amend said section 2. article Il by adding
 thereto the following: And provided fur
 ther that this section shall not apply to the and collect a tax not exceeding one-half of per cent. in addition to the tax of one-
 half of per centun herein above allowed
 to be levied and collected. such special tax to be applied exclusively to the payment
 of interest on the bonds of the said city of
 Birmingham heretofore issued by said city
 in pursuance of law and for a sinking fund
 to pay off said bonds at the maturity there
 of, so that said section ', article II, when
 amended will be read as follows: Section
 2. No city, town or other municipal cor
 poration, other than provided for in this
 article shall levy or collect larger rate
 of taxation in any one year on the property | thereof ona-ha1f of 1 Centum Of
 the value of such property as assessed for
 the state taxation during the preceding
 debts existing existing at the time of the the ratihca-
 ton of this constitution and the interest
 thereon an additional rate of per .centum
 may be collected to be applied exclusively
 to such indebtedness, and provided this sec-
 tion shall not apply to the city of Mobile,
 which city may until the first day of Jan uary, one thousand eight hundred and sew enty-nine levy tax not to exceed the rate of per centum, from and after that time
 not to exceed the rate of three-fourths of l per centum to pay the existing indebted
 ness of said city and the inter- est thereon, and provided further that
 this section shall not apply to- the city of
 lect tax not to exceed one-half of 1 per
 centum in addition to the tax of one-half
 of per centum hereinabove allowed to be
 applied exclusively to the payment of in-
 terest on the bonds of said city of Birming-
 bn nd n n % ssa b Son
 at the maturity thereof"
 In further obedience of said statute. I have directed this proclamation to be pub lished for three months by weekly inser-
 tions in The Age-Heraid of Birmingham. the Daily News of Mobile, the Journal of Montgomery, and the Times of Selma. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the state to be affixed at the Capitol on this, the 26th day of April, A. D., 1898
 JOS. F. JOHNSTON, Governor of Alabama.
 By the Governor:
 J. K. JACKSON, Secretary of State.