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PROPOSALS INTRODUCED BY DELEGATES FOR CHANGES IN THE CONSTITUTION OF NEW JERSEY

PROPOSAL No. 14

    the instruction of all the children in the State between the ages of five and eighteen years.

  • 2. The fund for the support of free schools, and all money, stock, and other property, which may hereafter be appropriated for that purpose, or received into the treasury under the provision of any law heretofore passed to augment the said fund, shall be securely invested, and remain a perpetual fund; and the income thereof, except so much as it may be judged expedient to apply to an increase of the capital, shall be annually appropriated to the support of public free schools, for the equal benefit of all the people of the State; and it shall not be competent for the Legislature to borrow, appropriate, or use the said fund or any part thereof, for any other purpose, under any pretense whatever.

STATEMENT

Although this proposal makes no change in the meaning of the paragraph appearing in the present State Constitution, it would clarify, make more logical, and improve the composition of that paragraph. No change should be made in the actual wording of the paragraph in question because (1) the responsibility of the Legislature for education should be clear; and (2) the State School Fund should have the same guarantees as those provided by the present State Constitution.

PROPOSAL No. 15

Introduced July 7, 1947

By Mr. Clyde W. Struble&nbspDelegate, Cape May County

Referred to Committee on Taxation and Finance

A Proposal that Article IV, Section VII, Paragraph 12, of the present State Constitution be amended.

Resolved, that the following be agreed upon as part of the proposed new State Constitution:

  • 1. Property shall be assessed according to classifications and standards of value to be established by law.

STATEMENT

There is some doubt at the present time concerning the right of the Legislature to tax some resources in the State which should pay their fair share of the cost of State government.

The actual forms of wealth in New Jersey have varied considerably over the generations in their quantity and ability to support State government financially. The Legislature and the people of the State should be free to tax the wealth in the State in a flexible manner throughout the years. No form of wealth and no group of New Jersey citizens should be permitted constitutional protec-

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