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acres administration American amount annual appointed assessed valuation assessors Baltimore bonds burden canals capital cent CHAPTER city assessors classes collected companies Connecticut constitution corporations county treasurer court debt derived direct taxes districts dollars erty exemption existing expenditures expenses fact favor federal finance franchises Georgia gross revenues Illinois improvements income tax increased indirect inheritances institutions interest invested land legislature less levied license tax liquor Maryland ment municipal natural monopolies Ohio one-half owner paid payment Pennsylvania poll tax practical present profits proportion purposes railroad rate of taxation real and personal real estate reason received regressive taxation rent returns Rhode Island savings banks school fund September 30 sinking fund sources South Carolina street-car system of taxation Tax Commission tax-payers tion total receipts town treasury Virginia wealth West Virginia York
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Page 346 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 393 - Assembly from taking the property and franchises of incorporated companies, and subjecting them to public use, the same as the property of individuals...
Page 521 - After the passage of this act, all property which shall pass by will or by the intestate laws of this state from any person who may die seized or possessed of the same while a resident of this state; or, if the decedent was not a resident of this state at the time of his death...
Page 228 - That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
Page 523 - Whenever a decedent appoints or names one or more executors or trustees, and makes a bequest or devise of property to them in lieu...
Page 527 - ... shall be fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars...
Page 240 - If a person or class of persons receive so small a share of the benefit as makes it necessary to raise the question, there is something else than taxation which is amiss, and the thing to be done is to remedy the defect, instead of recognizing it and making it a ground for demanding less taxes.
Page 346 - ... admitted that a serious danger is encountered by sending abroad among other political systems those, who have not well learned the value of their own. ' ' The time is therefore come, when a plan of universal education ought to be adopted in the United States.
Page 147 - ... houses used exclusively for public worship, institutions of purely public charity, public property used exclusively for any public purpose ; and personal property, to an amount not exceeding in value two hundred dollars, for each individual, may, by general laws, be exempted from taxation : but, all such laws shall be subject to alteration or repeal ; and the value of all property, so exempted, shall, from time to time, be ascertained and published, as may be directed by law.
Page 242 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.