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]

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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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