Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-10-13

the amounts which would have been
realized by such governmental Hubdi.
visions from the assessments against
owned"
II will be noted that the present Sec.
ton 10 OF Article 8 remains unchanged
as the first paragraph Of the proposed
amendment but that second paragraph
Is added to said section.
The Purpose and Effect OF the Proposed
Amendment
The purpose OF the proposed amend.
ment Is to Give the legislature the power
lacks the constitutional power to do,
namely; first, to authorize the taxing OF
any land, and the assessment OF bene-
fits for improvements against any land,
which the state has acquired and owns
or may acquire and own through the
operation of the system of rurA credits
and to provide for the payment of such
taxes and assessments out OF the funds
Of the Rural Credit Department; or, Sec
ond, to appropriate to the counties,
towns, cchoci districts, cities, villages and
borousha in which are located lands ac-
CURED and owned by the state under
the rural credit acts sums of money not
exces5in1 the amounts which would be
realized by said governmental subdvl.
sions from the taxation OF such lands
and from the assessment of benefits
against such Lands II owned by private
persons.
SUGcT IHS STCGIi t1Sb INC ohdAS
has become the owner Of thousands OF
farms located In various counties of the
state AS our state Constitution now
stands, such lane, being owned by the
state, cannot be taxed. IL naturally fol-
lows that other land within the same tax
ing district must pay higher taxes.
Likewise, the legislature does not now
have the power to appropriate to the
counties. tcwnc, schoo! districts, cities,
Tiianss and boFouchc any funds of the
Rural Credit Department to reimburse
them fer Iosscs s;ifIere5 by them be-
enuee large areas Of land acquired by the
stat. uncer the rural credit law thereby
have bcen removed from the tax rolls.
rnent, II tho power thereby given is
acted u2er by the legislature, will be to
make good to these local subdivisions,
in @h-:e or In Part, the loss they now
suffer o7eause they cannot tax rural
credit land.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 8.
By the adoption of Chapter 442 of the
Laws Of 1888. the legislature has pro-
posed an amendment to Section | of Ar
tir!e Of the state Constitution
This section now reads as follows:
THE power OF taxation shall never
be surrendered, suspended or con-
tracted away. Taxes shall be uni
form upon the same class of subjects,
and shall be levied and collected for
public purposes. but public burying
HOSPITALS, academies. colleges, uni
versities. and all sen1inaries of learn
ing. all churches, church property
and houses of worship, institutions
of purely public charity, and public
property used exclusively for any
public purpose, shall be exempt from
taxation, and there may be exempted
from taxation personal property not
exceeding TN value 5000, for each
household individual or head of
family. as the legislature may deter
mine: Provided, that the legislature
may authorize municipal corporations
to levy and collect assessments for
local improvements upon property
bercfted thereby without regard to
4 ccs.r valuation, and provided fur
thc:. that rctlinG herein contained
"HGll BE- construed to affect, rnodify
or rc7eal any existing law providing
for the taxation Of the gross earn
irTs of railroads"
II amended as proposed by the legisla-
tuIe, this section will read as follows:
1.-THE power OF taxation shall never
be surrendered suspended or con-
tracted away. Taxes shall be uni
form upon the same class of subjects,
and shall be levied and collected for
public purposes, but public burying
grounds. public school houses, public
hospitals academies, colleges, uni
versities, and all seminaries of learn
in;, all churches. church property
and houses of worship, institutions
of purely public charity. public prop
erty used exclusively for any public
nurpose. shall be exempt from taxa
ton, and there may be exempted
from taxation personal property not
exceeding in value 5000. for each
household, individual or head of
family. and household goods and farm
machinery. as the legislature may
Provided, that the legislature may
authorize municipal corporations to
levy and collect assessments for local
improvements upon property benefit
ed thereby without regard to cash
valuation. and provided further, that
nothing herein contained shall be
construed to affect, modify or repeal
any existing law providing for the
taxation Of the gross earnings of
railroads"
The Purpose and Effect Of the Proposed
Amendment
The purpose and effect Vt this amend
ment Is to grant to the legislature, In ad-
diticn to the power now granted by said
section to exempt personal property, the
authority to exempt from taxation, such
household goods of eac!, household, and
such farm machinery Of each farm, as
1t may see fit. BY the present Section
of Article 9 the legislature Is granted
the authority to exempt from taxation
unsaecifed personal property not exceed
Ing In value 5000 for each household. In
diT.iuaI, or head OF family.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. a.
By the adoption OF Chapter 443 of the
Laws of 1883 the legislature has proposed
an amendment to Article of the State
Constitution. This amendment will not
add to or alter any existing section of
the Constitution. but viii add new sec
tion to be known as Section of Article
8. The proposed amendment reads as
follows:
Amy Of the public lands of the
state. including lands held in trust
for any purpose may, with the APP
prevail of commission consisting of
the governor, the attorney general
and the state auditor, be exchanged
for lands of the United States and
other privately owned lands as the
legislature may provide, and the
lands so acquired shall be subject
to the trust, if any, to which the
lands exchanged therefor were sub
ject, and the state shall reserve all
mineral and water and water power
rights in lands so transferred by the
state"
The Purpose and Effect of the Proposed
Amendment
/ The purpose and effect Of this amend
ment Is to authorize the legislature 70
provide for exchanging any of the public
LANES Of the state for lands of the Uni
ted States and land privately owned, such
exchanges to be made with the approval
of commission consisting of the COVER
nor, the attorney general and the state
auditor. Such exchanges of land can
stitution does not permit the legislature
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