 | Frederick Gerhard - History - 1857 - 480 pages
...than one dollar each. 2. The general assembly shall provide for levying a tax by valuation, so thai every person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his or her property ; such value to be ascertained by some person or persons to be elected or appointed... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...law."* Illinois. — " The General Assembly shall provide for levying a tax by valuation, so that any person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his or her property ; such value to be ascertained by some person or persons to be elected or appointed... | |
 | Illinois. Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction - Education - 1917 - 1004 pages
...apportioned to the county. Section 1 of article 9 of the Constitution requires the General Assembly to provide such revenue as may be needful by levying...proportion to the value of his, her or its property. In making the provisions for raising such revenue as might be needful by taxation the framers of the... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 714 pages
...all other taxes. Section 1 of article 9 of the constitution of 1870 provides : "The General Assembly shall provide such revenue as may be needful by levying...General Assembly shall direct, and not otherwise." * * * Section 9 of the same article, after providing that the General Assembly may confer power to... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 716 pages
...constitution requires taxation of property in proportion to value and authorizes the General Assembly to provide such revenue as may be needful by levying...the value of his, her or its property. Such value is to be ascertained by some person or persons to be elected or appointed in such manner as the General... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 632 pages
...valuation, so that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his or her property ; such value to be ascertained by some person...general assembly shall direct, and not otherwise. Section 5 of the same article provides, that the corporate authorities of counties, townships, school... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 720 pages
...violation of section 1 of article 9 "of the constitution, which provides that the General Assembly shall provide such revenue as may be needful by levying...person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to his, her or its property. The basis of the contention is, that because of the provisions of section... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 660 pages
...establish a convenient mode of exercising the power of taxation, as limited, the section further provides : "Such value to be ascertained by some person or persons,...general assembly shall direct, and not otherwise." If they had intended that the question of "just compensation," when private property should be taken... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 726 pages
...While the constitution declares the rule of equality, it also provides that the value of property shall be ascertained by some person or persons to be elected...General Assembly shall direct, and not otherwise. No system has ever been devised which has produced perfect equality and uniformity of taxation as between... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 712 pages
...1 of article 9 of the constitution of 1870, which requires that taxes shall be levied according to valuation, "so that every person and corporation shall...proportion to the value of his, her or its property." This court has heretofore held in a number of cases that a statute authorizing a local improvement... | |
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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... 
