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Show Proposed Constitutional Amend- If' ment No. 2. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO 8.' ;R A resolution proposing an amendment to Rf? ' Section 7, Article II, of the Constitution f of the State of Utah, relating to tax K rates for State purposes. jBt- Be It resolved by the Legislature of th W State of Utah, two-thirds of all the Wg members elected to each House concur K ' ring therein: W Section 1 That It Is proposed to amend B I Section 7. of Article XIII. of the Const!- Br- tutlon of the State of Utah so that the JE . same will read as lollows: mt' Sec. 7, The rate of taxation on proper !f ty for State purposes shall never exceed B , 8 mills on each dollar of valuation to b ,W apportioned as follows-. Jot to exceed r 4' mills on each dollar of valuation for .general Statr- purposes, not to exceed A V&' mills on each dollar of valuation for dls. trict school purposes, not to exceed V mill on each dollar of valuation for high K school purposes, that part of the State Wz tax apportioned to hlijh school purposes BV.' I shall constitute a fund to b called thfl K,' High School Fund and shall he appor K- tloned to the cities ar. i achool districts H? niHinfalning high schools in the manner Mf the Legislature may piovlde And when- over the taxable property wltMn the State fc shall amount to 400J00,ooa 00. the rati w. r-hall not exi eed op each dolieV af valvia itlon two and four tenth mills for general ' Stata purposes, two-tenths of one mill for Sr- i hlh echo-jl purposes, and s'.ieh levy for- Jfc-- dlstrlct school purposen ,g will ral.se an fev nvially an amcant which, adc'od to an rc I other State fvinds available for district H I school purposes, equals $26 CO for each ; person of school -go In the Sta te showfl m , by th'j last pr . - 11'. tohOOl census; un ' I less a proposition to increase such rat-: mWM I or rates, specifying tho rato or rates pre B" 'posed and the time during which the same R shall be levied, he first submitted to i jr ' voto of such of the qualified edectors of t j the State, as In the year next preced W ln(- such election, shall hav paid a prop-' K. 'erty tax assessed to (hem within the Htatf. . R 'and the majority o! those yolmg thereon fa. shall vote in favor thereof, In such man- & ni i-.Miy be provided by 'w uuu i Sec. 2 The Secretary of State Is dl- MUm rected to thi proposed amendment jK , to be: tiublfshed as romilrcd by the Con ,atltutlon end to be submitted to tqe elsa- . MUM i tors of the State at the next general elec- UMM tlon in the manner provided by law. uuM 1 Sec. 3. If uppro-.-ii b) the electors of the WWM ; State, this proposed imendment aha'- km ke effect on thi lei dsy of January, Mum 1 9 1 if'' Approved March Is. mi, |