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PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION
OF OHIO.

Proposing an amendment to section 2, article
XII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio,
as adopted Sept 3. 1912. relative to the taxa
tion of property.
BE 1T RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL AS
SEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO. three
fifths of the members elected to both houses con-
curing therein:
That there shall be submitted to the electors of
the state. in the manner provided by law. on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem-
Der. 1918 proposal to- amend section 2. of article
XII of the constitution of the state of Ohio, to
" ~ ARTICLE XII.
Section 2. Laws shall be passed, taxing by
uniform rule, all moneys, credits, investments in
bonds, stocks, Joint stock companies, otherwise.
and also all real and personal property according
to its true value in money, excepting all bonds out
standing on the first day of January, 1913 of the
state OF Ohio or of city, village hamlet, coun
ty. or township in this state or which have been
issued in behalf of the public schools in Ohio and
by the means of instruction in connection there
with, which bonds outstanding on the first day of
January, 1913. shall be exempt from taxation but
burying grounds. public school houses, houses used
exclusively for public worship; intttutions used
exclusively for charitable purposes, public proper
ty used exclusively for any public purpose, and
personal property, to an amount not exceeding in
value five hundred dollars, for each individual,
may, by general laws, be exempted from taxation;
and laws may be passed to provide against the
double taxation that results from the taxation of
both the real estate and the mortgage or the debt
secured thereby, other lien upon it, but all such
Sndil De subject 10 AlIcIdLlOn OF IcpealI anu the
value of all property, so exempted, shall, from
time to time, be ascertained and published as may
be directed by law
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED, That at such
election herein provided for the submission of this
amendment to the electors of the state, this propo
siton shall be placed the official ballot in the
manner prescribed by law.
If the votes for the proposal shall exceed those
against it, the amendment shall take effect on the
first day of January 1919 and said original section
of article XII of the Constitution of the state of
Ohio shall be repealed and annulled.
E. J. HOPPLE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
EARL d. BLOOM,
President of the Senate.
Adopted March 81, 1917.
United States of America
State of Ohio
Office of the Secretary of State.
l, WILLIAM D. FULTON, Secretary of State
of the State of Ohio. do hereby certify that the
foregoing is an exemplified copy. carefully COM
this office and In my official custody Secretary
of State and found to be true and correct of joint
resolution, adopted by the General Assembly of
the State of Ohio. on the 2lSt day of March, AID.
1917 and filed in this office the 30th day of
March, AID. 1917, entitled Joint Resolution pro-
posing amendment to section 2, article XII of
the Constitution of the State Of Ohio, as adopted
September 3, l9l2,Srelative to the taxation of
IN Testimony WHEREOF. l have here
unto subscribed my name, and affixed my official
seal at the City of Columbus, Ohio, this 10th day
of September, AID. 1918.
WILLIAM D. FULTON.
lSEAL Secretary of State.