The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-10-11
| Proposed
/ Amendments
to the
! Constitution
of the
State Of Minnesota
Submitted by the Legislature
at its General Session, 1927,
to the People of Minnesota
at the General 1923 Elec-
ton Together with State
ments of
Purpose and Effect
of each
Prepared by
G. A. YOUNGQUlST
Acknowledgement of Mime
sofa.
Addressed to
MIKE HOLM
Secretary of State.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
LEGAL DEPARTMENT,
G. A. YoUNGoUIST,
Attorney General.
Attorney-General of Minne-
sofa.
Addressed to
MIKE HOLM
Secretary of State.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
LEGAL DEPARTMENT,
G. A. YOuNGQUIST,
Attorney General

st. Paul. Minnesota. April 80, 1924.
HONORABLE MIKE HOLM,
Secretary Of State:
In compliance with the provisions
Of section 46, General Statutes 1928.
/ furnish you herewith statement OF
amendments to the Constitution OF
the State of Minnesota which are ia
be submitted to the electors OF the
state at the general election In 1928,
In accordance with certain acts
adopted by the legislature at the 1927
session thereof.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. I.
BY the adoption of chapter AS.
Laws 1927, the legislature has pro-
ticle 3 of the constitution. This Sec
tion now reads as follows:
For the purpose of defraying
extraordinary expenditures, the
state may contract public debts.
but such debts shall never, in the
aggregate, exceed two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars; every
such debt shall be authorized by
law, for some single object, to be
distinctly specified therein; and
= no such law shall take effect until
It shall have been passed by the
vote of two-thirds Of the MEM
:. bers Of each branch of the legis-
iature, to be recorded by yeas and
nays on the journals of each house
respectively; and every such law
/ shall levy a tax annually suffi-
! Gent to pay the annual interest
!. ficient to pay the principal of such
; debt within ten years from the
! final passage of such law, and
! shall specially appropriate the
: proceeds Of such taxes to the
payment Of such principal and in
terest; and such appropriation and
taxes shall not be repealed. post
poned, or diminished, until tho
principal and interest Of such debt
: shall have been wholly paid. The
debts for works of internal im-
provements, or be party in car
rying on such works, except as
authorized by section 16 Of Ar
ficie .. and by Article 16 Of this
J Constitution; but it may levy an
! material. fluid force or other
! means or fundamentally, or the
business of dealing in, selling or
producing any or all thereof, used
or useful. in producing or gener-
ating power for propelling motor
lie highways OF this state, and
j shall place the proceeds of such
/ tax in the Trunk Highway Fund
provided for in section 2 Of said
Article 16, and further except ia
c.ses where grants Of lassaaror
rSther properly email nave been
made to- the at.ts, ESPECIALLY DIS asS
...cated by the grant t9 specific
purposes, and In such tases the
state shall devote thereto ,, the
pledge or appropriate the reve-
nues derived from such works in
aid of their completion" '--77,s'"
II amended as proposed this section
8iu read as follows: ~x....-
ssetl9n B. Fof the purpose Of
defraying extraordinary sxpsQdl.
tyres s hs s b msX co ae5Ss bSs
never, in the aggregate, exceed
two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars; every such debt shall be
authorized by law, for some single
object, to be distinctly specified
take effect until it shall have been
passed by the vote of two-thirds
of the members of each branch
of the legislature, to be recorded
by yeas and nays on the journals
of each~-house respectively; and
every such law shall levy tax
annually sufficient to pay the an
nual interest of such debt, and
also a tax sufficient to pay the
principal of such debt within ten
| years from the final passage of
such law, and shall specially ap-
propriate the proceeds of such
principal and interest; and such
appropriation and taxes shall not
be repealed, postponed, or dimin-
i ished, until the principal and in.
terest of such debt shall have been
wholly paid. The state shall
never contract any debts for
works of internal improvements.
or be a party in carrying on such
works, except as authorized by
section 16 of article 9, and by Ar
ticle 16 of this Constitution, but
1T may levy an excise tax upon
any substance, material, fluid,
mentality, or the business of DEAL
ing I'M, SELLING or producing any
or all thereof, used or useful, in
producing or generating power for
propelling motor or other vehicles
used on the public highways of
thirds of the proceeds of such tax
I'm the Trunk Highway Fund pro-
vided for in section 2 of said Ar
ficle 16, and one third thereof In
the state road and bridge fund,
and further except in cases where
shall have been made to the state,
especially dedicated by the grant
to specific purposes, and in such
1 cases the state shall devote there
to the avails of such grants, and
may pledge or appropriate the
revenues derived from such works
I'm aid of their completion"
The Purpose Of the Proposed Amen
!, ment:
The entire proceeds OF the gas
1Ine tax are now placed In the tru
highway fund for use on the. tru