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  1. Overview: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
  2. Full Record: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
  3. Committee:Committee on Taxation, Revenue and Public Debts
  4. Session: 1889-09-25 00:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE_FROM

Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889

The Wyoming Constitution Convention began September 2, 1889 without the authorization from an enabling act. The articles were individually voted on, creating the final Constitution of Wyoming on September 30, 1889. It was later ratified on November 5, 1889.

Committee on Taxation, Revenue and Public Debts

Also referred to as Committee No. 11

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Session 8598: 1889-09-25 00:00:00

The committee was referred a substitution for the article on Taxation, Revenue and Public Debt which was amended and referred back to the Convention for consideration.

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Motion to Refer Substitute for Files No. 7, 26, 27, 41, 54, and 55: Sections 13 and 14 to the Committee on Taxation, Revenue and Public Debt

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Section 1. All lands and improvements thereon in the state shall be listed for assessment, valued for taxation and assessed separately.

Section 2. All coal lands, in the state, from which coal is not being mined, shall be listed for assessment, valued for taxation and assessed according to value.

Section 3. All mines and mining claims from which gold, silver and other precious metals, soda, saline, coal, mineral oil, or other valuable deposits, as are or may be produced, shall be faxed in addition to the surface improvements, and in lieu of taxes on the lands, on the gross product thereof as may be prescribed by law; provided, that the product of all mines shall be taxed in proportion to the value thereof.

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Section 6. For state revenue, there shall be levied annually not to exceed four mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of the property in the state except for the support of state educational and charitable institutions, the payment of the state debt and the interest thereon.

Section 7. For country revenue there shall be levied annually not to exceed twelve mills on the dollar for all purposes, including general school tax, exclusive of state revenue, except for the payment of its public debt and the interest thereon. An additional tax of two dollars for each person between the ages of twenty-one years and fifty years, inclusive, shall be annually levied for county school purposes.

Section 8. No incorporated city or town shall levy a tax to exceed eight mills on the dollar, in any one year, except for the payment of its public debt and the interest thereon.

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Section 10. All money belonging to the state, or to any county, city, town, village or other subdivision therein, shall, whenever practicable, be deposited in a National bank or a bank incorporated under the laws of this state; provided that the bank in which such money is deposited shall furnish security to be approved as provided by law, and shall also pay a reasonable rate of interest thereon. Such interest shall accrue to the fund from which it is derived.

Section 11. The making of profit, directly or indirectly, out of state, county, city, town or school district money or other public fund, or using the same for any purpose not authorized by law, by any public officer, shall be deemed a felony, and shall be punished as provided by law.

Section 12. There shall be a state board composed of the state auditor, treasurer and secretary of state.

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