The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Volume 19State Historical Society of Iowa, 1921 |
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Page 68 - ... to raise or lower the valuation of the property, real or personal, in any township or city, and to order and direct any county board of equalization to raise or lower the valuation...
Page 501 - Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution, and amend the same?"* shall be decided by the electors qualified to vote for members of the...
Page 31 - Before proceeding, the members shall take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the State of Illinois, and to faithfully discharge their duties as members of the convention. The qualification of members shall be the same as that of members of the Senate, and vacancies occurring shall be filled in the manner provided for filling vacancies in the General Assembly.
Page 54 - Illinois legislation provides with equal clarity that "the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the payment of salaries and other expenses properly incident to the constitutional convention.
Page 52 - The whole number of ballots to be printed shall be divided by the number of series and the quotient so obtained shall be the number of ballots in each series.
Page 82 - III the reader can see at a glance the increase of enrollment in the public schools and higher State institutions of learning, and the State support of public schools and higher State institutions of learning for the years 1911-1920 — except that official reports omit certain tax data for 1912. It should be noted that the State institutions of higher learning in Iowa are the State University of Iowa at Iowa City, the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at Ames, and the State Teachers...
Page 75 - The property of all corporations for pecuniary profit, shall be subject to taxation, the same as that of individuals.
Page 43 - It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to attend said convention at the opening thereof, to call the roll thereof according to the returns on file in his office, which shall be certified to the convention by him, to administer the constitutional oath of office to the members, and to preside at all meetings thereof until a president has been elected and has taken his seat ; but the Secretary of State shall have no vote therein. All public officers, civil and military, and all boards...
Page 415 - More detailed statistics are given in the annual report on Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States, and similar statistics in monthly form appear in the Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance of the United States.
Page 75 - BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA: SECTION 1. That the following amendment to the Constitution of the State of Indiana is hereby proposed and agreed to by this, the...