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Show H PROPOSED AMENDSIENT TO THE CON8TI 1 TUTION-HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION H NUMBER EIGHT. H tl, rrA?1 Pr,"ipo9ini!L an amendment to Sec lJ? 'ttV0 13, .f Constitution of th H Stat of Utah, rdatlns to uniform tuo uid exemptions. H fBTeifc"?0lv&b7 5 LWlure of the Stat. H of UUh. two-thirds of all tho meroberi elected M u men house concurring therein: H Section 1. That it Is proposed to amend H Section a of Article XIU of tho Con.UtattoS of the Stato of Utah so that tho same 1 H follows : H Section 3. The Legislature shall provide by H law a uniform and wjual rate of asseumcnt 1 and. taxation on all property In the atate, ac M cordlne to Its value in money, and shall pre. LiLiH scribe by cencral law such reflations as shall H sccuro a Just valuation for taxation of all iH property, so that evecy rerson and corpora- H Uon shall pay a tax lb. proportion to tin H ylue or his. her or itj property: Provided. that a deduction of deWW from credits may be 1 authorized: Provided further. That the prop. ijiiH j erty of the United States, of the Stnte, eoun. M ties, cities, towns, school districts, municipal H I corporations and public libraries, lota -with the H buildings thereon ued exclusively for either re- iH . lfglous worship or charitable purposes, and IH places of burial not held or used for private HssssssssssssH or corporate benefit, ehall be exempt from tax. HbbbH atlnn. Ditches, canals, reservoirs, pipe and IIIIH Humes owned and used by individuals or cor. IH poratlons for irrigating lands owned by such IbbbH individual!! or corporations, or the individual isbbbH members thereof, shall not be separately taxed IH bj long as they shall he owned and used x- bbbH cluslvely for such suiuoso: Provided further, MbbbbI That mortgages upon 2xth real and personal bbbbbI property shall be cxeJCfit from taxation: Pro. IH vlded further. That the taxes of the indigent ll poor may be remitted or abated at such time IH and in such manner as may be provided by IH law: Provided, farther. That the Legislators IH may provide for the exemption from taxation ll of homes, homesteads, and personal property, ll t not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars IH In value for homes and homesteads and one ll hundred dollars of personal property. Section 2. The Secrttary of State Is directed IH to cnuso this proposed amendment to be pub- bbbbbI llshed as required by the Constitution and to IH bo submitted to tho electors of the State at tH tho next general elction In the manner pro- IH vided by law. ffH Section 3. If approved by the elector el the State, this proposed amendment shall take ll I effect on the first day of January, 1919. iH Approved March 12, 1917. iH I I. HARDEN BENNION, Secretary of Stat. IH of the State of Utah, do hereby certify that iB the above is a full, true and correct copy ol IH a resolution proposing -an amendment to Sec H tion 3, Article 13, of tho Constitution of th H , State of Utah, relating, to uniform taxes and H I exemptions. H In witness -whereof, I have hereunto lit mj . hand nnd afOxcd the Great Seal of the StaU H of Utah, this 23rd day of August, 1918. 'H (Seal) HARDEN BENNION, H H Secretary of State. |