The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-10-25
FIRST PROPOSED AMEND,
MENT.
MENT.

The first proposed amendment Is Con-
e;,ined in Chapter 500 of the Laws or
Ft.nnexOta for the year 1909.
PURPOSE. By this amendment it Is
G"'..ht to authorize the payment by the
a.. from the State Road and Bridge
nd of One-haIf of the cost of con-
s.@uctlng or improving any road or
hIGdEe therein, and is an amendment
81 Section 10 of Article of the Con-
..;u:!cn, which now reads as fOllOwsi
Section 16. For the purpose of lend
lrG aid in the construction and i'm
I,rrven.ent of public highways and
b ,dges. there is hereby created fund
t. he known as the state road and
t-!G%e fund said fund shall include
al moneys accrujng from the income
4 rived from investments in the in
t~cn6l Improvement land fund, or that
n ay hereafter accrue to said fund, and
shaiJ also include all funds accruing to
any state road and bridge fund, how
e 81 provided.
The Legislature is authorized to add
T. such fund, for the purpose Of con-
strurting or improving roads and
bridges of this state, by providing in
Is discretion, for an annual tax levy
Iron the property of this state of not
- exceed in any year one-fourth (A)
7r one mill on all the taxable property
Ua;hin the state.
PROVIDED, that no county shall re-
roive in any year more than three iS)
..,r cent or less than one-half (1sl of one
per cent of the total fund thus
provided and expended during such
year: and provided further, that in no
Use shall more than one-third Gs) Of
the cost of constructing or improving
any road or bridge be paid by the state
..Jm such fund" and to substitute
therefor the following:
Section 16. For the purpose of lend
Ing aid in the construction and i'm
lroygment of public highways and
prtdgcs, there is hereby created fund,
g. he known as the state road and
nr,dge fund said fund shall include
49, moneys accruing from the income
derived from investments in the in
urn2l Improvement land fund, or that
ray hereafter accrue to said fund, and
saaH also include all funds accruing
10 any state road and bridge fund,
r-waver provided.
THE legislature is authorized to add
Yen - tiGh luIlu, ltE lIlC pun ppSS u SOAi-
sr....t:ng or improving roads and
..u-4s of this state by providing, in
Ills discretion, for an annual tax levy
..,R,r me property Of this state of not
n xleed in any year one-fourth (A)
of one mil on all the taxable property
~..iaiu the state.
PROVIDED, that no county shall re-
caive in any year more than three (3)
Der cent or less than one-half (1a) of
enc Cd per cent of the total fund thus
provided and expended during such
yesr; and provided, further, that in no
case shall more than one-half Oh of
the cost of constructing or improving
any road or bridge be paid by the state
from such fund"
EFFECT. The present Constitution
authorizes the payment by the State.
out of such fund so created of ONE
THIRD G-3) of the cost of constructing
or improving any road or bridge here
ia. If this amendment Is adopted the
state could then pay ONE-HALF (1z) of
the cost of constructing any such road
or bridge, and the effect of the amend
nlent is thus to increase the amount
which the State may lawfully pay to-
ward such purpose.