Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...university property. It is not clearly seen by many what legal grounds the assessors have to make Yale pay taxes for every dormitory yielding a revenue of over six thousand dollars, and for gymnasiums and other buildings yielding a like revenue. The university has always been exempt from taxation, and the intention of the town counsel to make an innovation in this line will doubtless meet with serious opposition from the university...
Members of the University are invited to be present and to speak. The principal disputants are criticised in detail, but speakers from the house are exempt from comment...
...country's honor on any extreme point can not have read the newspapers or talked with many men. In spite of our familiarity with the name of the Monroe Doctrine the question of our present foreign policy comes as a new one, so long have we happily been exempt from any serious complication, and we are now totally unprepared with any definite policy respecting South America which can command general public support. Discussion is above all what is wanted, and discussion the most radical and searching, for the importance of the decision can not be overestimated...
...year 1824 saw the lowest tide in the history of the public schools of the towns. Of the one hundred and seventy-two towns required by law to maintain schools, scarcely one hundred were complying with the law. In this year the legislature determined to exempt all towns of less than 5,000 inhabitants from the educational law, and this released 162 of the 172 towns from their obligation. The academies now became all important and the grammar school was all but extinguished...
...additional tax of two per cent on this same property, and this is what the income tax does, there will follow injustice and evasion and the state law must be repealed. The income tax law contains three points of unjust discrimination. First, savings banks. It exempts six hundred and taxes three hundred. One class divides its profits-in a particular way and is exempt. Second, between insurance companies. Of two insurance companies, one is a regular stock company and is taxed two per cent on net income; the other, a mutual company, goes free-Third, between kinds of income. This...