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Página 222 - Laws shall be passed, taxing by a uniform rule, all moneys, credits, investments in bonds, stocks, joint stock companies, or otherwise; and also all real and personal property, according to its true value in money...
Página 308 - ... rights, authority or permission to construct, maintain or operate, in, under, above, upon, or through any streets, highways, or public places, any mains, pipes, tanks, conduits, or wires, with their appurtenances, for conducting water, steam, heat, light, power, gas, oil. or other substance, or electricity for telegraphic, telephonic or other purposes...
Página 388 - I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Página 222 - The power of taxation shall never be surrendered, suspended or contracted away. Taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of subjects, and shall be levied and collected for public purposes...
Página 193 - Disengage yourself from parties. They have been useful, and to some extent remain so; but the floating, uncommitted electors, farmers, clerks, mechanics, the masters of parties— watching aloof, inclining victory this side or that side— such are the ones most needed, present and future.
Página 134 - commission" as used in this act shall mean the railroad commission of Wisconsin. Railroad commission's powers. SECTION 1797m — 2. The railroad commission of Wisconsin is vested with power and jurisdiction to supervise and regulate every public utility in this state and to do all things necessary and convenient in the exercise of such power and jurisdiction.
Página 172 - January 1, 1908, all the powers over the police shall be vested in the mayor, by and with the consent of the board of aldermen...
Página 221 - ... have precisely the same history or law or conditions. All that can properly be attempted is such an outline as may readily be adaptable to the conditions in any state. In the following outline every state will find something already in force, and the elastic character of the system proposed allows easy modification and change, as conditions and habits of thought may change. It is beyond the bounds of possibility that the wisdom of the present shall suffice for succeeding generations. One of the...
Página 259 - Fully one-half of the property of a modern state exists in intangible forms. Of this, all but a mere bagatelle escapes taxation entirely when the attempt is made to reach it in the form of property.
Página 134 - The commission shall value all the property of every public utility actually used and useful for the convenience of the public. In making such valuation the commission may avail itself of any information in possession of the state board of assessment.