The Beatrice Daily Express

TEXT OF ALLEN EXEMPTION ACT

Relieves a Man From Taxation Where His Property Is Only $200--To Help Poor Man.

The constitutional amendment proposed by Rep. Allen, of Gage county, to exempt $200 of personal property from taxation, is a comprehensive one. The amendment features read as follows:

Sec. 2. That Section 1 of Article 9 of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 1. The Legislature shall provide such revenue as may be needful by a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation and it shall have power to tax peddlers, auctioneers, brokers, hawkers, commission merchants, showman, jugglers, innkeepers, liquor dealers, toll bridges, ferries, showman, telegraph, telephone, express interests or business, and vendors of patents, in such manner as it shall direct, by general laws.

Section 2. That Section 2 of Article 9 of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska be amended to read as follows:

Section 2. The property of the State, County and municipal corporations both real and personal shall be exempt from taxation, and such other property as may be used exclusively for agricultural and Horticultural societies, for schools, religion, cemeteries, and charitable purposes, and personal property to the amount of at least two hundred dollars for each family, may be exempt from taxation, but such exemption shall be only by general law. In the assessment of real estate incumbered by a public easement, any depreciation occasioned by such easement, may be deducted in the valuation of such property.

A vote upon the amendment, if it prevails, is required on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November, 1914.