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... assessor and shift his just burden to the shoulders of the weak and defenceless ; that many a one who figures in the lists of donors to charitable and philanthropic institutions , gives , after all , only a part of what he has withheld ...
... assessor and shift his just burden to the shoulders of the weak and defenceless ; that many a one who figures in the lists of donors to charitable and philanthropic institutions , gives , after all , only a part of what he has withheld ...
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... assessors and collectors PAGE 109 109 112 II2 113 • 113 114 116 • 117 119 · I 20 123 · 124 128 130 CHAPTER III.- The Transition Period . General remarks • 131 Connecticut 133 Ohio 134 Other states 137 Reason for the taxation of all ...
... assessors and collectors PAGE 109 109 112 II2 113 • 113 114 116 • 117 119 · I 20 123 · 124 128 130 CHAPTER III.- The Transition Period . General remarks • 131 Connecticut 133 Ohio 134 Other states 137 Reason for the taxation of all ...
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... assessors Valuation of real and leasehold property in Baltimore City Appeals Conclusion • • 340 344 345 350 352 353 · 354 360 · 365 367 369 · 371 PART IV . CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS , STATISTICAL INFORMATION , AND xviii TABLE OF CONTENTS .
... assessors Valuation of real and leasehold property in Baltimore City Appeals Conclusion • • 340 344 345 350 352 353 · 354 360 · 365 367 369 · 371 PART IV . CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS , STATISTICAL INFORMATION , AND xviii TABLE OF CONTENTS .
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... assessors . One owner might be largely in debt for the land , while others owned their land free from obligations ; but this likewise was not a question involved . Business taxes are also regarded as real taxes , as they are taxes on ...
... assessors . One owner might be largely in debt for the land , while others owned their land free from obligations ; but this likewise was not a question involved . Business taxes are also regarded as real taxes , as they are taxes on ...
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... assessors in the townships receive $ 2.50 per day . The average cost for assessing is about $ 125.00 per township of $ 450,000 valuation . The following statement of the cost of collection in Illinois is found in Dr. Patten's essay on ...
... assessors in the townships receive $ 2.50 per day . The average cost for assessing is about $ 125.00 per township of $ 450,000 valuation . The following statement of the cost of collection in Illinois is found in Dr. Patten's essay on ...
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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.