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. The legislature shall provide forEach section of coal land, according to United States such revenue as mayy, in the state, from which coal is being mineedful by levying a tax by valuation, so that every person for more than three months in each calendar year, together with the machinery and cother properaty used ion the mining of said coal, shall paybe exempt from assessment and tax in propation except as follows, viz.
For each tion to itsof coal mined therefrom, ther or his propertye shall be paid to the state, for state revenue, not less than one nor more than one and one-half cents, and for eanchises, ton of coal mined the valurefrom there shall be paid to be ascertained in suchthe county within which such land is located, for county revenue, not less than one-half nor more than oner cent, and such tax shall be legislaturepaid whether or not the title to the land, from which such coall direct. was mined, has been procured.
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