The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-11
AMENDMENT
Text Of the Change Proposed
by the State Tax Com
mission.
It Harmonizes the Constitu-
ton With Tax Laws
as Revised.

Following its report, the state tax COM
mission to-day transmitted to the COVER
nor constitutional amendment calculated
to harmonize the constitution with the
laws as shaped by the report. The
amendment reads as follows:
. A bill for an act proposing amendments to
ss GtriGns +, and Of Article Of the Con-
to taxation, to be enacted by the legislature Of
the State Of Minnesota
Section l. The following amendments to
sectlons l, 2, and A. OF article 8, Of the
constitution Of the state Of Minnesota, are
nerepy proposed to the people of the state
1or tnelr approval or rejection; that is to
say, mat section l of said article 8 be so
AMENDED that the same shall read as follows:
Section L. The power of taxation shall
never be surrendered or suspended
mat th section OF said article be SO amend
ed that the same shall read as follows: "All
or objects with the territorial limits of the
authority levying the taxes, and shall be
levied and collected under general laws for
public purposes;
That section 9 Of said article be so
amended that the same shall read as follows:
section 3-The legislature may by general
laws provide for the apportionment to coun-
ties OF the amount of revenue to be raised
thereln Tor state purposes, and may in any
law providing for such apportionment author
lie counties to select the subjects on which
county purposes and to apportion such reve-
nues among the cities, villages and town.
ships of The county,
That section of said article 8 be so amend
cd mat the same shall read as follows: Sec.
4.-The legislature may, by a general law or
special act, authorize municipal corporation
to levy an assessment for local improvement
upon the property fronting such improvement,
or upon the property benefited by such i'm
provement, Or both, without regard 70 au
legislature may provide. ....
-Sec 2. Each amendment proposed in Sec
ton 1 of this act shall be submitted to the
year 1902 and the qualified voters of the state
in their respective districts may at such cleo
ton vote fer or against such amendments by
ballot, and the returns to each thereof
shall be made and certified within the time
the said vote is canvassed and declared in
the manner provided by law. with refer
ence to the election of said off,
GERS, and If it shall appear thereupon
that the majority of all the voters voting at
such election for or against any one of the
said proposed amendments of the constitution,
as provided in the next section, have voted
in favor Of the same then the governor shall
make proclamation thereof, and such amend
ments shall take effect and be enforced as
part of the constitution. ...
Sec. 3. The ballots used at such election
on the first OF said proposed amendments
shall have printed thereon: The amendment
to section l, article of the constitution.
Yes. No."
The ballots used at said election on the Sec
ond of said proposed amendments shall have
printed thereon: The amendment to sec
ton 2, OF article 8 of the constitution, Yes.
No. ..-
The ballots used at said election on the
third proposed amendment shall have printed
thereon: 1.-THE amendment to Section 3, of
Article of the constitution. Yes No -
The ballots used on the fourth proposed
amendment shall have printed thereon: 1.-The
amendment to section Of article 9 of the
constitution. Yes, No.
And each elector voting on any one of said
proposed amendments shall place a cross
mark in a space to@'be left blank after the
words Yes No. and shall be counted Tor
or against the proposition in accordance with
the expressed will Of the elector and provided
by. the election laws of this state.
Sec. 4. This act shall. take effect and be
enforced from and after its passage.