South Carolina Amendment on Bonded Indebtedness in Aiken County, Amendment 5 (1968)
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The South Carolina Amendment on Bonded Indebtedness in Aiken County, Amendment 5 was on the ballot in South Carolina on November 5, 1968, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. This amendment permitted the City of Aiken to incur bonded indebtedness "to the extent of not exceeding twenty-five per cent of the assessed value of all taxable property."[1]
Election results
South Carolina Amendment 5 (1968) | ||||
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Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
![]() | 118,885 | 66.27% | ||
No | 60,512 | 33.73% |
Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
"Shall the limitation now imposed by Section 7 of Article VIII and Section 5, Article X of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, be further relaxed so as to permit the City of Aiken to incur bonded indebtedness for the purpose of building, erecting, purchasing, developing, improving, establishing, repairing, extending or maintaining of sidewalks, streets, waterworks, lighting plants, sewerage system, fire department, city hall, police station, city jail, city parks, playgrounds, airports, real estate or municipal building to the extent of not exceeding twenty-five per cent of the assessed value of all taxable property thereon?"[1][2] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. REFERENDA AND PRIMARY ELECTION MATERIALS [Computer file]. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1995. doi:10.3886/ICPSR00006.v1
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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