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Show i fKOrOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CnvT TUTION HOUSE JOINT RESOLimm? NUMBER EIGHT. 1 A resolution proposing an amendments, tlon 3. Article 13 of the Constitution R State of Utah, relating to uniform tixe. exemptions. d Be it resolved by the Legislature of tk. n. of Utah, two-thirds cX all the meraberTri 31 to each house concurring therein: Section 1. That it is proposed b . Section 3 of Article XIII of the ConJS of the Stale of ULah so that the suj. read as follows: ( r- Section 3. The Legislature shall pmii.L law a uniform and equal rate of isseLS and taxation on all prooerty in the 8ut cording to ita value in money, bjkJ snaff 4 scribe by general law such regulations u iW secure a just valuation for taxation of i property, so that every person and eL? tion shall pay a tax in proportion 7? value of his, her or its property: pWij that a deduction of dibits from credit authorized: Proved further, Tha th erty of the United States, of the SUt ties, cities, towns, Bchool districts, irnntrfc corporations and public libraries, lota irSS 1 buildings thereon used exclusively for ftk ligious worship or charitable pnjpoatL ' j places of. burial not htld or used forwU or corporate benefit, shall be exempt fB? a tion. Ditches, canals, reservoirs. pS5 flumes owned and used by individual! porations for irrigating lands owned hiZ I individuals or corporations, or the mdhfa i members thereof, shall not be separiWiiS i a long & they shall be owned anaJ i elusively for such purpose: Proriled nmk That mortgages upon both real and rw property shall be exempt from tatttioV-j? vided further. That the taxes of tha ifrl poor may be remitted or abated at iwkfc, : and in su-h manner as may be prorkUl law: Prcrided. further. That the Lcrbaw. mw.7 provide for 1b exemption fromtart of homes, homesteads, and personal nmn not to exceed two hundred an-' Lfty Z5 In "ralne for homes and homes js aim hnndred dollars of personal property. Section 2. The Secretary of State 4Wj to caue this proposed amendment to biai lished as required by the Constitution qT be submitted to the electors of te gfr I the nex. general elction In tha mu Tided by law. Section 3. If approved by the electa i the Stx.te. tht3 proposed amendiLent dag u effect on the first day of January, un Approved March 12. 1917. I. HARDEN BENNION. Secretary of fa pf the State of Utah, do hereby eertif ft the above is a full, true and correct ami a resolution proposing an amendment to k tion 8, Article 13. of the Coostitutiw oil S:ate of Utah, relating to uniform baa exemptions. In witr.es whereof. I have hereunto a hand and ni fixed the Great Seal of tat aa of Utah, th;3 ZZrd day of August, 1911 lSaU) HARDEN BENNO Secretary of So |