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Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina
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New Hampshire's 12th state constitutional convention meets in Concord on May 11 to consider constitutional amendments allowing a sales tax, reducing the House of Representatives' membership from 440-460, and banning diversion of gasoline tax funds to non-highway uses. Sponsored by Gov. Francis P. Murphy, approved changes will go to a fall referendum.
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CONCORD, N. H., May 11.-- (UP).-New Hampshire's 12th state constitutional convention meets here today to consider changes in its 152-year-old constitution, which would permit a sales tax levy and reduce the membership of its house largest in the nation.
Sponsored by Republican Gov. Francis P. Murphy, the sales tax was the storm point of the 1937 biennial legislative session, longest on record. Though real gasoline, liquor and race-track levies still were climbing, the sales tax proposal was defeated but many legislators favored the graduated income tax proposal of former U. S. Representative Raymond B. Stevens of Lancaster, recently chairman of the federal trade commission.
The 477 convention delegates, elected in a special election last March, also will consider a proposal to reduce the size of the house of representatives, now averaging from 440 to 460 members, one of the largest bodies in the world. They also will discuss a recommended ban on diversion of gasoline tax funds to other purposes than highways.
Any amendments approved by the convention must go to a referendum this fall.
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Concord, N. H.
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May 11
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any amendments approved by the convention must go to a referendum this fall.
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New Hampshire's 12th state constitutional convention meets to consider changes in its 152-year-old constitution, which would permit a sales tax levy and reduce the membership of its house largest in the nation. Sponsored by Republican Gov. Francis P. Murphy, the sales tax was the storm point of the 1937 biennial legislative session, longest on record. Though real gasoline, liquor and race-track levies still were climbing, the sales tax proposal was defeated but many legislators favored the graduated income tax proposal of former U. S. Representative Raymond B. Stevens of Lancaster, recently chairman of the federal trade commission. The 477 convention delegates, elected in a special election last March, also will consider a proposal to reduce the size of the house of representatives, now averaging from 440 to 460 members, one of the largest bodies in the world. They also will discuss a recommended ban on diversion of gasoline tax funds to other purposes than highways.