All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws; but the General Assembly may, by general laws, exempt from taxation public... Journal - Page 1865by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate - 1916Full view - About this book
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1212 pages
...general assembly may by general laws exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, actual places of religious worship, places of burial...profit, and institutions of purely public charity." They meant nothing else should be exempt from taxation. By no judicial rule of construction can these... | |
| United States. Congress. Internal Revenue Taxation Joint Committee - 1938 - 198 pages
...horticultural societies, for educational purposes, places of actual religious worship, hospitals and places of burial not used or held for private or corporate...profit, and institutions of purely public charity may be exempt from taxation (art. XII, sec. 2). 2. INCOME TAXES An income tax is authorized for the... | |
| United States. National Resources Committee. Industrial Committee - Housing - 1939 - 232 pages
...(ieneral Assembly may, by general laws, exempt from taxation public properly used for public purposes, actual places of religious worship, places of burial...not used or held for private or corporate profit, institutions of purely public charity, and real and personal profterty owned, occupied, and used by... | |
| 1914 - 364 pages
...general assembly may, by general laws, exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, actual places of religious worship, places of burial...profit, and institutions of purely public charity." The legislature by general law in 1874 exempted church property from taxation. Section I of the act... | |
| Pennsylvania. Commission on Constitutional Revision - Constitutional amendments - 1959 - 238 pages
...General Assembly may, by general laws, exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, actual places of religious worship, places of burial...profit, and institutions of purely public charity and real and personal property owned, occupied and used by any branch, post or camp of honorably discharged... | |
| National Tax Association - Municipal finance - 1927 - 420 pages
...General Assembly may, by general laws exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, actual places of religious worship, places of burial...profit, and institutions of purely public charity." classification but does not permit the principle of progression to be applied to any given class or... | |
| Pennsylvania. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 928 pages
...general assembly may, by general laws, exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, actual places of religious worship, places of burial...private or corporate profit, and institutions of purely publie charity," enacted considerable legislation relating to property within the contemplation of... | |
| Allentown, Pa. (City) - 1902 - 634 pages
...used for public purposes shall not be subject to .tax claims or municipal claims ; and actual placesof religious worship, places of burial not used or held...be subject to tax or municipal claims, except for the removal of nuisances, for sewer claims and sewer connections, or for the recurbing, paving, repaving... | |
| Pennsylvania - 1900 - 1298 pages
...General Assembly may, by general laws, exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, hall refuse to strike, the congress shall proceed...and the secretary of congress shall strike in beha Lihlgh Iron Co. v. Lower Macungle, 81 PS, 482: Rush's Appeal. 10 WNC, 498; Bank of Scranton v. Walsh,... | |
| Law - 1889 - 508 pages
...General Assembly may by general laws exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, actual places of religious worship, places of burial...profit, and institutions of purely public charity." Section 2 of same article declares, "All laws exempting property from taxation other than the property... | |
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