The Financial History of Wisconsin, Volume 2, Issue 2University of Wisconsin, 1905 - 475 pages |
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... opinion of the writer there is grave doubt as to her moral right to them . On the whole the boundaries of 1787 were rather artificial and not altogether sensible . Ohio certainly has more natural right than Michigan to the Toledo strip ...
... opinion of the writer there is grave doubt as to her moral right to them . On the whole the boundaries of 1787 were rather artificial and not altogether sensible . Ohio certainly has more natural right than Michigan to the Toledo strip ...
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... opinion that the provisions for war debt would provide for all necessary debt in excess of $ 100,000 . He intimated that the larger sum was proposed in order to enable the state to engage in internal improvements or that the proposal ...
... opinion that the provisions for war debt would provide for all necessary debt in excess of $ 100,000 . He intimated that the larger sum was proposed in order to enable the state to engage in internal improvements or that the proposal ...
Page 18
... opinion a large school fund was not al- 12 Journal of the Constitutional Convention , 211 . * Vide footnote p . 202 . ways the best means of advancing that cause . Connecticut [ 18 ] 200 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.
... opinion a large school fund was not al- 12 Journal of the Constitutional Convention , 211 . * Vide footnote p . 202 . ways the best means of advancing that cause . Connecticut [ 18 ] 200 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.
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... opinion that in such an event his own county of Racine for ex- ample would receive one dollar per inhabitant , one - half of which sum would be wasted . Mr. Lovell's plan of devoting these funds to internal improve- ments had the merit ...
... opinion that in such an event his own county of Racine for ex- ample would receive one dollar per inhabitant , one - half of which sum would be wasted . Mr. Lovell's plan of devoting these funds to internal improve- ments had the merit ...
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... therefore that railroads and plank roads might be exempted wholly or partly . In the opinion of the Court they were exempted wholly ; their annual payment to the state was not a tax , [ 25 ] PHELAN - THE FINANCIAL HISTORY OF WISCONSIN 207.
... therefore that railroads and plank roads might be exempted wholly or partly . In the opinion of the Court they were exempted wholly ; their annual payment to the state was not a tax , [ 25 ] PHELAN - THE FINANCIAL HISTORY OF WISCONSIN 207.
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Page 21 - Except the debts specified in the tenth and eleventh sections of this article, no debt shall be hereafter contracted by or on behalf of this State, unless such debt shall be authorized by a law, for some single work or object, to be distinctly specified therein ; and such, law shall impose and provide for the collection of a direct annual tax to pay, and sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt within eighteen years from...
Page 254 - The rule of taxation shall be uniform, and taxes shall be levied upon such property as the legislature shall prescribe.
Page 22 - ... the five hundred thousand acres of land to which the state is entitled by the provisions of an act of congress, entitled "An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands and to grant pre-emption rights...
Page 36 - It shall be the duty of the legislature, and they are hereby empowered, to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and taxation, and in contracting debts by such municipal corporations.
Page 131 - The personal property of all literary, benevolent, charitable and scientific institutions, incorporated within this State, and such real estate belonging to such institutions as shall be actually occupied for the purposes for which they were incorporated; 4.
Page 22 - The proceeds of all lands that have been or hereafter may be granted by the United States to this State, for educational purposes, (except the lands heretofore granted for the purposes of a University,) and all moneys, and the clear proceeds of all property, that may accrue to the State by forfeiture or escheat...
Page 259 - That the mode of levying a tax shall be by valuation, so that every person shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of the property he or she has in his or her possession.
Page 130 - ... such securities shall be held; debts due by inhabitants of this state to persons not residing within the United States for the purchase of any real estate ; public stocks, stocks in moneyed corporations, and such portion of the capital of incorporated companies, liable to taxation on their capital, as shall not be invested in real estate.
Page 22 - To the support and maintenance of common schools in each school district, and the purchase of suitable libraries and apparatus therefor.
Page 39 - The right of every man to worship Almighty God, according to the dictates of his own conscience, shall never be infringed; nor shall any man be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent...