Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-10-31
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CON
STITUTION OF OHIO.
CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY FOR PURPOSES
OF TAXATION

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of tn.
State Of Ohio, three -ffths of the mem
bers elected to each house concurrini
therein:
That there shall be submitted to the electori
OF the state for their approval or rejection, a.
the regular election to be held the frs
Tuesday after the first Monday in November
1872 proposal to amend Article XII, Sc
ton 2, of the constitution of the State of Ohio
to read as follows:
SECTION 2. All property shall be taxed BY
such rules and methods and in such classes
may be provided by law. The rules and
methods shall be uniform within the casse.
so established But all bonds outstanding on
the first day of January, 1913, of the state OF
ship in this state, or which have been issued
IN behalf OF the public schools in Ohio and the
means OF instruction in connection Herewith
shall be exempt from taxation; and burying
grounds public school houses, houses used
exclusively Tor public worship, institutions used
exclusively for charitable purposes public prop.
erty used exclusively for any public purpose.
and personal property to amount not ex,
ceeding in value FIVE hundred dollars, for each
Individual may, by general laws, be exempted
from taxation; and laws may be passed to pro-
vide aga'nst the double taxation that results
from the taxing of both the real estate and
the mortgage or the debt secured thereby Ii
other lien upon it; but all such laws shall be
subject to alteration or repeal and the value
OF all property SO exempted shall, from time
to time, be ascertaned and published as may
be directed by law.
Be it further resolved, That the required
publication of the said proposed amendment
shall be made ard the form of the ballots to
be used at said election for the submission
thereof shall be prepared by the secretary of
state. Returns of the votes cast at said election
shall be made by the proper election officials
to the secretary of state, who, with the COVER
nor and the attorney general, shall open and
canvass the same. If majority of the cleo
tors voting on the said amendment shall be
ascertained to have voted in favor thereof, the
governor shall make proclamation thereof
without delay.
CLARENCE J. BRowN,
President Of the Senate.
CARL X. KIMBALL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Adopted April 3, 1919.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
STATE OF OHIO,
Office of the Secretary of State.
I, HARVEY c. SMITH, Secretary of State
of the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the
foregoing is exemplihed copy, carefully
compared by me with the original now on file
in this office and in my official custody as
Secretary of State and found to be true and
correct, of joint resolution adopted by the
S3rd General Assembly of the State of Ohio, on
the 3rd day of April, A. d. 1919, and filed in
this Office on the 9th day of May, A. D. 1919.
entitled Joint Resolution proposing to
amend Article XII, Section 2, of the consti-
tuition of the State of Ohio, relative to the
classification of property for the purposes of
taxation"
In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, / have hereunto
subscribed my name, and affixed my official
seal at Columbus, Ohio, this 18th day of
September, A. D. 1919.
HARVEY C. SMITH.
Secretary of State.