Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-10-23
FIRST PROPOSED AMENDMENT.


The first proposed amendment 10 con.
talned In Chapter AT Of the Laws Of
1907. By this amendment It 10 sought to
(3), four ~ and seventeen an Of Article
nine (e) OF the Constitution (the latter
section being the amendment to said Ar.
tieIe nine (s), adopted In 1886, which
sections now read as follows:
"Section 1. All taxes to be raised in
this state shall be as nearly equal as may
be, and all property on which taxes are
to be levied shall have a cash valuation
and be eQualized and uniform throughout
the state: Provided, that the legislature
may; by general law or special act, au-
thorize municipal corporations to levy
assessments for local improvements upon
the property fronting upon such improve
ments or upon the property to be bene-
fited by such improvements, or both
without regard to cash valuation, and in
such manner as the legislature may pre-
purpose Of defraying the expenses of lay
Ing water pipes and supplying any city or
municipality with water, the legislature
may, by general or special law, authorize
any such city or municipality, having a
population. 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 cor
porate limits Of said city for supplying
water to the citizens thereof without
regard to the cash value OF such prop
erty, and to empower such city to collect
any such tax, assessments or hnes. OF
penalties for failure to pay the same, or
any fne or penalty for any violation Of
the rules of such city or municipality in
regard to the use Of water, or for any
water rate due for the same: and pro-
vided further, that there may be by law
levied and collected tax upon all inner
itances, devises, requests, legacies and
gifts of every kind and description above
/ fixed and specified sum, of any and all
natural persons and corporations. Such
tax above such exempted sum may be
uniform or it may be graded or progress
iva. but shall not exceed a maximum tai
Of five per cent.
'Section 2. The legislature shall pro-
vide for an annual tax sufficient to de-.
fray the estimated ordinary expenses OF
the state for each year, and whenever 1t
shall happen :tat sCch ordinary expenses
Of the state for any year shall exceed the
income Of the state for such year the
legislature shall provide for levying tau
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.
But no law levy!ng tax or making other
provisions 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
people of the state, and adopted by q
majority OF the electors Of the state vot-
ing upon the same.
Section 3. Laws shall be passed tax
Ing all moneys, credits, investments In
bonds stocks, joint stock companies, OF
otherwise. also oil real and personal
property, according to its true value in
money; but public burying grounds, pub
lilo school houses. public hospitals.
"seminaries Of learning, all churches
church property used for religious pur-
poses, and houses of worship, institu-
lions of purely public charity, public
property used exclusively for any public
purpose, and personal property to an
amount not exceeding in value two hun.
dred dollars for each individual, shall, by
general laws. be exempt from taxation.
"Section 1. Laws shall be passed fol
taxing the notes and bills discounted OF
purchased, moneys loaned, and all othe,
property, effects, or dues Of every de.
scription, of all banks and of all bank.
ers, so that all property employed in
banking shall always be subject to a tax
alton equal to that imposed on the prop.
erty of individuals.
''Section II. The legislature may i'm.
pose, or provide for the imposition of, up.
on the property within this state Of any
and all owners or operators, whether cor.
porate or individual, or otherwise, of any
and all sleeping, parlor and drawing room
cars, or any or either of the same. which
run in, into or through this state; also
upon the property within this state o.
any and all telegraph and telephone com
panies. or owners, whose lines are in, o.
extend in, into or through this state; als{
upon the property within this state O.
all express companies, or owners or AM
or either Of the same, doing business &
this state; also upon the property withiz
this state of all domestic insurance com.
panies Of this state Of any kind; als(
upon the property within this state Of IN,
and all foreign insurance companies doinl
business In this state Of any kind: an
upon the property within this state g q