| United States. Supreme Court - 1892 - 768 pages
...reasonable assessments, rates and taxes, upon all the inhabitants of, and persons resident, and estates lying within, the said Commonwealth ; and also to...'duties and excises upon any produce, goods, wares, merchanOpinion of the Court. dise and commodities whatsoever, brought into, producedmanufactured or... | |
| Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1892 - 1022 pages
...taxes upon all the inhabitants of and persons resident and estates lying within the said Common wealth, and also to impose and levy reasonable duties and...goods, wares, merchandise, and commodities whatsoever bronyht into, produced, manufactured, or being tvithin the same." (Constitution of Mass., Part Second,... | |
| Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1892 - 1280 pages
...estates lying within the said Commonwealth ;"but it is further provided that the Legislature may also " impose and levy reasonable duties and excises upon...produce, goods, wares, merchandise, and commodities," etc. It is to lie observed that these duties and excises are not required to be "proportional upon... | |
| William Law Murfree - 1893 - 436 pages
...State, was held to be a legitimate exercise of the power granted by the Massachusetts constitution "to impose and levy reasonable duties and excises...brought into, produced, manufactured or being within the State," 1 on the ground that such tax was "reasonable," and that insurance policies or risks were "commodities,"... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Dos Passos - 1895 - 738 pages
..."Commodity" in Massachusetts. In Massachusetts the constitution provides 34 that the state may levy duties and excises "upon any produce, goods, wares,...into, produced, manufactured, or being within the commonwealth." Under this provision it has been held that the privilege of transmitting and receiving,... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1895 - 732 pages
...our Constitution to the General Court is not to levy duties and excises generally, but only to levy duties and excises " upon any produce, goods, wares,...into, produced, manufactured, or being within the" Commonwealth. The excises to which the inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts Bay were accustomed... | |
| Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1896 - 1228 pages
...In Massachusetts. — The Constitution of Massachusetts confers upon the General Court the power " to impose and levy reasonable duties and excises upon any produce, goods, wares, and merchandise, and comlaws the foreign company is organ- sation for valuation of such policies, ized,... | |
| David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield - 1898 - 1206 pages
...to impose taxes upon all the inhabitants and residents within the commonwealth, and also to impose reasonable duties and excises upon any produce, goods, wares, merchandise, and commodities brought into or produced within the commonwealth. Under this provision it was held that bank stock... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1900 - 674 pages
...with a view to equality, but there was no such qualification expressed as to the authority conferred " to impose and levy reasonable duties and excises upon any produce, goods, wares, merchandise Opinion of the Court. and commodities whatsoever, brought into, produced, manufactured or being within... | |
| Massachusetts - 1900 - 920 pages
...,,, ji , • 8 Alien, 247, 253. within the said commonwealth ; and also to impose and 11 AiiIS.'Ma.' levy reasonable duties and excises upon any produce,...goods, wares, merchandise, and commodities, whatsoever, sis' loo' ei2' brought into, produced, manufactured, or being within »s Mass. i»/ the same ; to be... | |
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