The South in the Building of the Nation: Economic history, 1865-1909, ed. by J. C. BallaghJulian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Franklin Lafayette Riley, James Curtis Ballagh, John Bell Henneman, Edwin Mims, Thomas Edward Watson, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Walter Lynwood Fleming, Joseph Walker McSpadden Southern historical publication society, 1909 |
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Page 535 - All property, not exempted from taxation by this Constitution, shall be assessed for taxation at its fair cash value, estimated at the price it would bring at a fair voluntary sale...
Page 631 - Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole. The NORTH, in an unrestrained intercourse with the SOUTH, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter, great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise, and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The SOUTH, in the same intercourse benefiting by the agency of the NORTH, sees its agriculture grow, and...
Page 499 - Government ; but every person in the State, or person holding property therein, ought to contribute his proportion of public taxes for the support of the Government, according to his actual worth in real or personal property...
Page 522 - State except to meet casual deficits in the revenue, to redeem a previous liability of the State, to .suppress insurrection, repel invasion, or defend the State in time of war.
Page 484 - Sec. 8. The General Assembly shall not have power to levy State taxes for any one year to exceed in the aggregate one per cent of the assessed valuation of the property of the State for that year.
Page 188 - This they finally succeeded in doing, finding the rock at 16 to 17 feet from the surface. As the bottom of the gum was square and the surface of the rock uneven, the rush of outside water into the gum was very troublesome. By dint of cutting and trimming from one side and the other, however, they were, at last, gotten nearly to a joint, after which they resorted to thin wedges, which were driven here and there as they would "do the most good.
Page 611 - Cory, Jan. 7, 1919.] The southern district consists of all the States south of the Mason and Dixon line and the Ohio River and east of the ninety-eighth meridian, in a general way. It includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, and the eastern part of Texas.
Page 189 - Having now sufficient salt water to justify it, they decided and commenced, to build a salt furnace ; but while building, continued the boring, and on the 15th of January, 1808, at 40 feet in the rock, and 58 feet from the top of the gum, were rewarded by an .ample flow of strong brine for their furnace, and ceased boring. Now was presented another difficulty : how to get the stronger brine from the bottom of the well, undiluted by the weaker brines and...
Page 188 - In order to reach, if possible, the bottom of the mire and oozy quick-sand through which the salt water flowed, they provided a straight, well-formed, hollow sycamore tree, with four feet internal diameter, sawed off square at each end. This is technically called a "gum.