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

Be st resoived BY the General Assembly of tn,
State of Ohio, three ffths of the mem
bers elected to each house concurrinl
therein:
That there shall be submitted to the elector,
OF the state for their approval or rejection,
the regular election to be held on the first
tuesday after the first Monday in November
1917, a proposal to amend Article XII, Sec
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 as
may be provided by. law. The rules, and
so established. But all bonds outstanding on
the first day of January, 1913, of the state OF
Ono or OF any city, village county, or town
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 for public worship, institutions used
exclusively for charitable purposes, public prop
erty used exclusively for any public purpose,
and personal property, to an amount not eX-
individual, may, by general laws, be exempted
from taxation; and laws may be passed to pro
vide ag2inst the double taxation that results
from the taxing of both the real estate and
the mortgage the debt secured the~ehX 81
other lien upon it; but all such laws shall be
subject to alteration repeal; and the value
of all property so exempted shall, from time
to time, be ascertained and published as may
be directed by law.
Be it further yeSolved, That the required
publication of the said proposed amendment
shall be made and 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 a 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 ONO
Office of the Secretary of State.
l, HARVEY c. SMITH, Secretary of State
of the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the
foregoing is an exemplihed copy, carefully
compared Dy with the original now on hle
in this Office and in my official custody as
Secretary of State and found to be true and
correct, of a joint resolution adopted by the
S3rd General Assembly of the State OF Ohio, on
this Office on the 9th day of May, A. d. 1919,
entitled Joint Resolution proposing to
amend Article MI, Section 2, of the const-
tuition of the State Of Ohio, relative to the
classification of property for the purposes of
taxation"
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.
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