The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-08-23
Aug. 2Nov. 1.
Proposed Amendment to tho
Constitution of the State of
South Dakota

To the people of the State of South Dakota.
The Ninth Legislature OF the State Of SouthDa.
kota at the session thereof begun and held al
Pierre, the capital, on the third day of January
AID. 1906 and concluded on the third day of March
A. d. 1905, proposed the following Amendment
TO the constitution of the state, viz
"A JOINT REVOLUTION proposing and
Agreeing to an Amendment to Section l. Article
ii of the Constitution of the State OF Soptb
Dakota, Entitled, Revenue and Finance" and
Submitting same to Vote of the People
Be il Resolved by the Senate of South Dakota
the House of Repre- sentatives Concurriug:
/. That at the next general election in
this state the following amendment to section
of Article II of the Constitution of the State
South Dakota, which is hereby agreed 10
shall be submitted to the electors of this state
That section of Article IL of the Constitp.
tion be amended so as to read as follows
Section The legislature shall provide 70,
AN annual tax sufficient to defray the estimated
ordinary expenses OF the state for each ear,
not to exceed in any one year two mills on each
dollar of the assessed valuation of all taxable
property in the state, to be ascertained by the
la Il al sessment made for state and county Dur.
poses. And whenever il shall appear that such
ordinary expenses shall exceed the income Of
the state for such year, the legislature shall
provide for leyying tax for the ensuing year
sufficient with other sources of income, TO pay
the deficiency of the preceding year, together
with the estimated expenses OF such ensuing
year. And for the purpose of paying the public
debt the legislature shall provide for lcvyInga
tay Annually, sufficient TO pay the annual inter
est and the principal of such debt within ten
wears from the final passage of the law creating
the debt; provided. that the annual tax for
the payment of the interest and principal OF the
public debt shall not exceed il any one year
two mills on each dollar of the assessed valua
tion of all taxable property IN the state, As as
certaned by the last assessment made for the
state and county purposes.
Provided, that for the purpose OF establish
ing, installing, maintaining ard operating a
ial NJ
penitentiary at Sioux Falls, Sonth Dakota, the
iegi stature shall provide for tax for the year
1907 of not 10 exceed one and One-half mills on
each dollar of the assessed valuation Of all tax.
able property in the state, as ascertaIned by
the last assessment made for state and county
purposes.
Tie above proposed amendment will be voted
upon by the = ,ople at the general election to be
held in this state on Tuesday, the 9th day q
November, ~ d. 1906.
The proposed amendment will be printed
upon the ballot followed by the words,
Shall the above amendment to the COn>ttu.
tiOn in relation to revenue and finance and the
establishment of hard fiber Irvine and Cordage
plant at the state penitentiary at Sioux Falls
! South Dakota, be approved and ratified:
Immediately to the left Of which shall be
printed the words, yes and "No.' each pre-
ceded by a square in which the elector can
place cross TO indicate his vote. ElcCtur, de-
string 10 vote Yes will place cross u.toH
the word YES" and those desiring to vuta No.
will place a cross before the word mo.
Dated at Pierre, the capital this 1T aaE d
August, \. d, 1906.
D. D. WIPE.
Secretary of tate.