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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The Committee further considered the article on Corporations other than Municipal. The article on Taxation and Revenue was taken up.
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 claimsEach section of coal land, according to United States survey, in the state, from which gold, silver ancoal is being mined for more ther precious metals, soda, saline, coal,an three months in each calendar year, together with the machineral oil, or other valuably and other property used in the mining of said coal, shall be dexempt from assessment and taxation excepts, as are or may be producfollows, viz.
For each ton of coal mined therefrom, there shall be faxed in additionpaid to the surface improvements, and in lieu of taxes on the lands, ontate, for state revenue, not less than one nor more than one and one-half cents, and for each ton of coal mined the gross productrefrom thereof as may shall be prescribed by law; provided, thaaid to the county within which such land is located, for county revenue, not less the product of all mian one-half nor more than one cent, and such tax shall be taxed in proportionpaid whether or not the title to the valand, from which such coal was mined, thas been procureof.d.
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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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