 | Illinois - 1869 - 1084 pages
...Assembly, by the second section of the ninth article of the constitution, is authorized to 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. The principle of taxation fixed by the constitution is that all taxes shall be uniform... | |
 | Illinois. General Assembly. Senate - Illinois - 1869 - 1020 pages
...Assembly, by the second section of the ninth article of the constitution, is authorized to 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. The principle of taxation fixed by the constitution is that all taxes shall be uniform... | |
 | Illinois, Illinois. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1870 - 64 pages
...term of office, shall be prescribed by law. ARTICLE IX. REVENUE. \/ SECTION 1. The General Assembly shall provide such revenue as may be needful, by levying...tax in proportion to the value of his, her or its property—such value to be ascertained by some person or persons, to be elected or appointed in such... | |
 | Illinois. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1870 - 1074 pages
...thereof, as provided in the charter of said company. § 2. The General Assembly shall provide such further revenue as may be needful, by levying a tax, by valuation, so that every person and corporation strill p"î a tax in proportion to the value of his or her property — such value to be ascertained... | |
 | Illinois. General Assembly. Senate - Illinois - 1871 - 644 pages
...provisions designed to establish and enforce them. It is provided in the 11th 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. Governor - 1871 - 44 pages
...pursued is to repeal the law at once. EE VENUE. It is provided in the 11th 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 - 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... | |
 | Abraham Lansing - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 634 pages
...In the Matter of the Petition of Nathaniel Ford. pay a tax iu proportion to the value of his or her property; such value to be ascertained by some person...general assembly shall direct, and not otherwise." The charter of the city oi Peoria provided that, when a public street was opened or improved, commissioners... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
