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  1. Overview: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
  2. Full Record: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
  3. Committee:Committee of the Whole
  4. Session: 1889-09-24 00:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

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.

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Session 5986: 1889-09-24 00:00:00

The Committee further considered the article on Corporations other than Municipal. The article on Taxation and Revenue was taken up.

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Taxation and Revenue [Substitute for Files No. 7, 26, 27, 41, 54 and 55, Committee of the Whole]

Shown with amendment 'Taxation and Revenue [Substitute for Files No. 7, 26, 27, 41, 54 and 55, Committee of the Whole]: Section 1: Mr. Harvey's Substitute' (e679189)

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Section 1. The legislature shaAll provide by law for a uniformnds and equal rate of assessimprovement and taxation, ands thereon in the state shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a justlisted for assessment, valuationed for the taxation of all property, real and personal and possessory, excepting mines and mining claims, the output of which alone shall be taxedseparately.

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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