Article VI.
An Ordinance in Relation to Taxation

Section 1.

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Be it ordained, That the third section of the fourth article of the amendments of the Constitution be and the same if hereby annulled.

1. Capitation tax shall be equal throughout the State upon all individuals subject to the same.
2. All free males over the age of twenty-one years, and under the age of forty-five years, and all slaves over the age of twelve years, and under the age of fifty years, shall be subject to Capitation tax, and no other person shall be subject to such tax; provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent exemptions of taxable polls as heretofore prescribed by law in cases of bodily infirmity.

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