The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-10-14
FIRST PROPOSED AMENDMENT.

FIRST PROPOSED AMENDMENT.
The first proposed amendment is con-
tained in Chapter AT Of the Laws OF
1907. BY this amendment it is sought to
repeal Sections one %, two ~, three
(3), four (4) and seventeen d0 OF Article
nine (9) OF the Constitution the latter
section beina the amendment to said Ar
tlcle nine 10y, adopted in 1880, which
sections now read as follows:
"section 1. All taxes to be raised in
thfs 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 pene-
flied by such improvements, or potn'
without regard to cash valuation, ana IN
such manner as the leglslature may pre-
scribe: and provided further that for the
nurpose of defraying the expenses or lay
ing water pipes and supplying any city or
municipality with water, the legislature
NAV. by general or special law authorize
anv such city or municipality, having
population of five thousano OF Illtre' ~
levy an annual tax or assessment upon
The lineal foot of all lands fronting on
anv water main or water pipe laid BY
auch 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.
ertv. and to empower such city to collect
any such tax, assessments or fines, or
nenalties for failure to pay the same, or
any fine or penalty for any violation OF
| the rules of such city or municipality IN
regard to the use Of water or Tor any
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vided further, that there may be by law
| levied and collected a tax upon all inner
itances devises, requests, legacles and
| gifts of every kind and description above
| A. fixed and specified sum, OF any and all
natural persons and corporations. Such
! tax above such exempted sum may De
uniform or it may be graded or progress
! i've hut shall not exceed a maximum tax
| of five per cent
"sectfon 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 II
| shall happen that such ordinary expenses
! ~ the state for any year shall exceed the
| INCOME of the state for such year the
| legislature shall provide for levying tax
| for the ensuing year sufficient, with other
| sources Of income, to pay the dehclency
of the preceding year togetner ,i WIN a .,,e
| estimated expenses of such ensuing year.
| ant no law levyng tax or making other
! nrovisions for the payment OF interest or
principal of bonds denominated Mime
sofa State Railroad Bonds shall take
| erect or be in force until such law shall
| have been submitted to a vote of the
| neople of the state, and adopted by a
| majority of the electors of the state vot-
| ing upon the same
"section 8. Laws shall be passed tax
ing all moneys, credits, Investments in
bonds, stocks, joint stock companies, OF
oil oil
| property, according to it's true value in
money; but public burying grounds, pub"
lie school houses, public hospitals
academies, colleges universities, and all
seminares Of learning, all churches
church property used for religious pur-
poses, and houses of worship, institu-
tions Of purely public charity, public
nroperty used exclusively for any public
purpose, and personal property to ar
amount not exceeding in value two hun
dred dollars for each individual. shall, by
general laws, be exempt from taxation.
"section a. Laws shall be passed FOL
+axing the notes and bills discounted o.
nurcha sed, moneys loaned, and all Other
! nronerty. effects, or dues of every de.
scription, of all banks and of all bank
ers, so that all property employed II
banking shall always be subject to tax
alton equal to that imposed on the prop
erty of individuals.
"section IT, The legislature may I'M
nose. or provide for the imposition of, up
on the property within this state of an
| and all owners or operators, whether cor
norate or individual, or otherwise, of an!
and all sleeping, parlor and drawing room
cars, or any or either Of the same. which
run in, into or through this state; als'
upon the property within this state 0
| 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 an!
or either of the same, doing business II
this state; also upon the property within
this state Of all domestic insurance com
panies Of this state OF any kind; ais
upon the property within this state Of an,
and all foreign insurance companies doinl
business in this state Of any kind; ais
upon the property within this state Of q