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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]

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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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Section 15. The property of the United States, the state, counties, cities, towns, school-districts, municipal corporations and public libraries shall be exempt from taxation; and other property as may be used exclusively for agricultural fairs or educational institutions, places for actual religions worship, church parsonages, hospitals and public cemeteries, and institutions of purely public charity may be exempt from taxation, except as otherwise provided in this constitution.

Section 16. No tax shall be levied except in pursuance of law, and every law imposing a tax shall state distinctly the object of the same, to which only it shall be applied.

Section 17. The Legislative Assembly shall pass all laws necessary to carry out the provisions of this article.

Section 18. The power of taxation shall never be surrendered or suspended by any grant or contract to which the state or any county or other municipal corporation shall be a party.

PUBLIC INDEBTEDNESS

Section 1. The State of Wyoming shall not in any manner, create any indebtedness exceeding on per centum on the assessed value of the taxable property in the state as shown by the last general assessment for taxation preceeding; except to suppress insurrection or to provide for the public defense.

Section 2. No debt in excess of the taxes for the current year shall, in any manner, be created in the state of Wyoming unless the proposition to create such debt shall have been submitted to a vote of the people, and by them approved: except to suppress insurrection, or to provide for the public defense.

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