 | 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 - 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 in proportion to the value of his, her or its property" — is so just and benignant, and every departure from that principle is so unjust... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 916 pages
...to forbid exemptions. Thus the Constitution of Illinois provided that " the General Assembly shall provide for levying a tax by valuation, so that every...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 in a city from... | |
 | Illinois - Law - 1874 - 1270 pages
...a capitation tax of not less than 50 cents nor more than $1 each. § 2. The general assembly shall oilier property ; such value to be ascertained by some person or persons to be elected or appointed... | |
 | Law - 1897 - 1116 pages
...provides as follows : "Sec. 1. The general assembly shall provide such revenue as may be needful by levying a tax, by valuation, so that every person...shall pay a 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... | |
 | 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, towns and villages,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 728 pages
...constitution of 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... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 774 pages
...required that " all taxes should be levied by valuation, so that every person and corporation should pay a tax in proportion to the value of his or her property, to be ascertained by some person or persons, to be elected or appointed in such manner as the General... | |
 | Citizens' Association of Chicago - Chicago (Ill.) - 1876 - 920 pages
...arriving at a just assessment. The constitution of Illinois provides that revenue shall be raised "by levying a tax, by valuation, so that every person...shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his, her or its property." Nothing can be fairer than this appears on its face, and for a few years after... | |
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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... 
