The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-09-16

IL any there be, the Legislature shall
provide for levying a tax annually.
sufficient to pay the annual interest
and principal OF such debt, within
twenty years from the final passage
of the law creating the debt.
3. There shall be exempt from tax
alton property of the United States,
Of the State, counties, cities, towns,
school districts, municipal corpora
lions and public libraries lots with
the buildings thereon used exclusive
| ly for either religious worship or
charitable purposes, and places of
burial not held or used for private
or corporate benefit.
bitches, canals, reservoirs, pipes
and fumes owned and used by indi-
viduals or corporations for irrigat
ing lands owned by such individuals
or corporations, or the individual
members thereof, shall not be separ-
ately taxed so long as they shall be
owned and used exclusively for such
purpose; provided, that mortgages
upon real and personal property shall
be exempt from taxation; and that
The taxes Of the INDECENT poor may
be RENTED or abated at such time
and in such manner as may be pro.
vided by law.
| 4. The Legislature shall not i'm
pose taxes for the purpose of any
county, city, town or other municip-
al corporation, but may, by law, vest
In the corporate authorities thereof,
respectively, the power to assess and
collect taxes for all purposes of such
corporation.
5. The surface ground of all mines
and mining claims, both placer and
rock in place, containing or bearing
gold, silver, copper, lead, iron or 9TH
er valuable metals after purchase
thereof from the United States. shall
be taxed at value not greater than
the price paid the United States
therefor, unless the surface ground
or some part thereof, of such mine
or claim, Is used for other than min
ing purposes, and has separate and
independent value for such other
purposes; in which case said surface
ground, or any part thereof, so used
for other than mining purposes, shall
be taxed at its value for such other
purposes as provided by law; and all
machinery used in mining and all
property and surface improvements
upon or appurtenant to mines and
mining claims, which have a value
separate and independent of such
mines or mining claims, shall be
taxed as provided by law. All lands
containing coal, granite, stone, mar
BILE, onyx, gas oil hydro carbons. gyp-
sum Or other valuable mineral de-
posits other than those enumerated
above in this section, after purchase
; thereof frcm the Omitted States and
all property and surface improve.
ments upon or appurtenant to such
lands which have a value separate
and independent of all such lands
shall be taxed as provided by law
In addition to the assessment of the
srrface grounds, improvements and
machinery of mines and mining
claims, all mines and mining claims
4 producing net proceeds shall be taxed
I at a value not to exceed three tines
$ such net proceeds.
i G. An accurate statement OF the re
!, ceipts and expenditures Of the public
f; moneys shall be published annual,
in such manner as the Legislature
may provide.
: Z. The rate of taxation on property
j. for State purposes shall never exceed
v eight mills on each dollar of valua
:, ton to be apportioned as follows
Not to exceed four and one half mills
;. on each dollar Of valuation for gen
u eral State purposes; not to exceed
} three mills on each dollar OF yalua
J. ton for district school purposes; no
= to exceed che half mill on each dol
!, lGr of valuation for high school pur
g poses; that part of the State tax ap
9 portioned to high school purposes
). shall constitute fund to be callet
!, the "high school fund" and shall b.
apportioned to the cities and schoo
: districts maintaining high schools II
the manner the Legislature may pro
+ vide. And whenever the taxable
:. property within the State shall
1. amount to Four Hundred Million Dol
l. lars, the rate shall not exceed tiv
4. mills on each dollar of valuation; un
A less a proposition to increase sucl
=. rate, specifying the rate proposed an
the time during which the same shal
be levied, be first submitted to a vot
Of such Of the qualified electors G
the State as, in the year next pre-
:. ceeding suoh election. shall have pal
II a property tax assessed to them viii
: in the State, and the majority Q