Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-10-18
PROPOSED
Amendments
70 the
Constitution
''F MINNESOTA
Hon. Peter F.. Hanson,
Secretary of State.

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As required by Section 20 Of the
REVISED Laws. haze the honor to
advise you as to the purpose ana
erect of these amendments which
are to be voted ON by the people ut
the coming election.
! FIRST PROPOSED AMENDMENT.
s. The first proposed amendment is
contained in Chapter 1853 of the
Laws of 1905. BY this amendment 1t
is sOught to repeal Sections one a.,
two CO, three (3), four az and sew
enteen 90 of Article nine (9) OF
the Constitution (the latter section
De1ng the amendment to said Article
nine CO. adopted In 1866 which
sections now read as follows:
Section 1. All taxes to be raised in
Inls state snail be as nearly equal as
are to be levied shall have cash valua-
tion and be equalized and uniform
{hrie9ghout the state: Provided. that the
clal act, authorize municipal corpora
lions to levy assessments for local i'm
provements upon the property fronting
property to be benefited by such i'm
provements, or both without regard to
cash valuation, and in such manner as
vded furber may PRESCRIBE fha and pro-
defraying, the expenses of laying water
pipes and supplying any city or munic-
lpallty with water. the legislature may,
by general or special law, authorize any
such city or municipality, having pop
ulatlon OF five thousand or more, to levy
an annual tax or assessment upon the
lineal foot Of all lands fronting on any
water main or water pipe, laid by such
city Or municipality within corporate
limits of said city for supplying water
to the citizens thereof without regard
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to empower such city to collect any
such tax, assessments or fines, or penal
ties for failure to pay the same, or any
fine or penalty for any violation of the
rules of such city. or municipality in re-
S trd to the use of water, or for any wa
ter rate due for the same: and provided
and collected a tax upon all inheritances,
devises, requests, legaces and gifts OF
every kind and description above a
fixed and specified sum, of any and all
tax above such exempted sum may be
uniform, or it may be graded or progress
sive, but shall not exceed a maximum
tax of five per cent
Section 3 The legislature shall pro-
vide for an annual tax sufficient to de-
Tray the estimated ordinary expenses of
sail happen that such ordinary en-
penses of the state for any
year shall exceed the income of the
state for, such year, the legislature shall
ing year sufficient, with other sources of
income, to pay the deficiency of the pre-
ceding year, together with the estimated
expenses. of such ensuing year. But no
law levying tax or making other pro-
visions for the payment of interest or
principal of bonds denominated Mime
sofa State Railroad Bonds shall take
effect or be in force until such law shall
have been submitted to a vote of the
people of the state, and adopted by
majority of the electors Of the state vot-
Section 3. Laws shall be passed tax
ing all moneys, credits, investments in
bonds, stocks, joint stock companies, or
otherwise also all real and personal
money; but public burying grounds, pub
lie school houses, public hospitals, acad-
emies, colleges, universities, and all sem
inaries of learning, all churches, church
property used for religious purposes, and
houses of worship, institutions of purely
public charity, public property used ex-
clusiyely for any public purpose, and
ceeding in value two hundred dollars for
each Individual. shall by general laws.
be exempt from taxation:
taxing the notes and bills discounted or
purchased, moneys loaned, and all other
property, effects, or dues of every de-
scription, of all banks and of all bank
banking shall always be subject to a
taxation equal to that imposed on the
property or individuals
Section II. The legislature may inn
pose, or provide for the imposition of,
upon the. property within this state Of
any and all owners or opera tors, whether
corporate or Individual, or otherwise, Of
any and all sleeping. parlor and draw
ing room cars, or any or either of the
SINE, which run in, into or through this
state; also upon the property within this
phone companies, or owners, whose lines
are in, or extend in. into or through
this state; also upon the property within
this state of all express companies, or
owners, or any or either of the same,
doing business in this state: also upon
the property within this state Of all do,
nestle insurance companies of this state
OF any kind; also upon the properly perry " Win IN
surance companies doing business in
this state of any kind: also upon the
property within this state Of all owners
mineral ores situated in this state; also
upon the property within this state Of all
boom companies or owners, and OF all
ship builders or owners doing business
in this state or having a port therein
provided, that this act shall not apply to
property owned by railroad companies,
their lands and other. property; and
such companies or owners, tax as uni
form as reasonably may be with the
taxes imposed upon similar property in
within this state. but may be graded or
progressive, or both, and in providing
for such tax. or in providing for ascer-
tanning the Just and true value Of such
propertySiit shall be competent for the
legislature, IN either or all Of such cases,
to impose such tax. upon any or all
properly thereof within this state. and
IN either case py taxing Is tme pas hs IS
ness. earnings, mileage or quantity OF
production or property now Or hereafter
existing OF any sucn companies, persons this