Title

POLL TAXES

Proposition Summary

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 47. Amends Section 12 of Article XIII of Constitution, Declares Legislature shall provide for levy and collection of an annual educational poll tax of not less than five dollars on every male inhabitant of this state over twenty-one and under fifty years of age, except those holding honorable discharge or discharged under honorable circumstances from United States army, navy or marine corps, those paying real or personal property tax amounting to at least five dollars per annum, paupers, idiots, insane persons and imbeciles; such poll tax to be paid into state school fund.

Proposition Number

13

Year

1924

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Pass

Popular Vote Results

Y: 501551; A: 50.8; N: 486134; B: 49.2

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Assembly Constitutional Amendment

Code Sections Affected

Amended Cal. Const. art. XIII, section 12.

For Author

Frank Johnson, Assemblyman Fifty-fourth District; George C. Cleveland, Assemblyman Forty-third District

Against Author

Homer R. Spence, Assemblyman Thirty-fifth District

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