 | Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Illinois - 1871 - 926 pages
...provisions designed to establish and enforce them. It is provided in the llth article of the constitution, that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to his, her or its property, which is, in substance, but the assertion of the just rule of equality of... | |
 | Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Illinois - 1872 - 1286 pages
...cannot be reconciled with the constitution, for the principles of equality of taxation — that ip, that "every person and corporation shall pay a tax...proportion to the value of his, her or its property" — is so just and benignant, and every departure from that principle is so unjust and impolitic, that... | |
 | Law - 1897 - 1116 pages
...court that the levy of the succession tax, which, under the above provisions, is required to be made by valuation, so that every person and corporation...proportion to the value of his, her or its property, and that such law shall be uniform as to the class upon which it operates, is defeated by the provisions... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 914 pages
...exemptions. Thus the Constitution of Illinois provided that " the General Assembly shall provide for levying a tax by valuation, so that every person and...shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his or her property." 1 Under this it has been held that exemption by the legislature of persons residing... | |
 | Illinois - Law - 1874 - 1270 pages
...capitation tax of not less than 50 cents nor more than $1 each. § 2. The general assembly shall provide for levying a tax by valuation, so that every person and...shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his oilier property ; such value to be ascertained by some person or persons to be elected or appointed... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), Josiah Hooker Bissell - District courts - 1874 - 590 pages
...Bank vs. City of Chicago. " 2. The General Assembly shall provide for levying a tax by valuation, BO that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his or her property." * * * * "5. The corporate authorities of counties, townships, school districts, cities,... | |
 | Illinois. General Assembly. Senate - Illinois - 1874 - 648 pages
...which it operates. And the General Assembly shall also have power to provide мs-h further revenne as may be needful, by levying a tax by valuation, so that every person ami corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the valne of his, her or its property, such valne... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 728 pages
...Illinois (adopted AD 1848) ordains — "ARTICLE IX. "SECTION 2. The General Assembly shall provide for levying a tax by valuation, so that every person and corporation shall pa}* a lux in proportion to the value of his or her property, such value to be ascertained by some... | |
 | Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Illinois - 1875 - 740 pages
...it operates. And the General Assembly shall also have power to provide such further revenue as mar be needful, by levying a tax by valuation, so that every person and corporation «hall pay a tax in proportion to tbe value of his, her, or its property — such value to I** :w*ix*rtained... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 668 pages
...proposition, are sections one and ten ot article nine, •which are as follows : § 1. The general assemby shall provide such revenue as may be needful by levying...and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the va.ue of his, her, or its property ; such value to be ascertained by some person or persons, to be... | |
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The General Assembly shall provide such revenue as may be needful, by levying a tax, by valuation, so that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his, her or its property... 
