...line of Section 28, be inserted the words " but the Legislature may," so that the section shall read : All property, real, personal or mixed, shall be taxed, but the Legislature may except, etc. Mr. THOMPSON, of Maury, offered the following as an amendment to Mr. Thompson's of Davidson :...

...line of Section 28, be inserted the words " but the Legislature may," so that the section shall read : All property, real, personal or mixed, shall be taxed, but the Legislature may except, etc. Mr. THOMPSON, of Maury, offered the following as an amendment to Mr. Thompson's of Davidson :...

...that only certain property held by the State, or cities, or towns, and used exclusively for public purposes, and such as may be held and used for purposes...religious, charitable, scientific, literary or educational, may be exempt, and that by the terms of the Constitution, only one thousand dollars' worth of personalty...

...charters." Art. 2, sect 28, of the Constitution of Tennessee, which took effect in 1870, is as follows : — "All property, real, personal, or mixed, shall be...scientific, literary, or educational; and shall except 11,000 worth of personal property in the hands of each taxpayer, and the direct products of the soil...

...is empowered to except from taxation property held by the state, counties, cities, or towns that is used exclusively for public or corporation purposes, and such as may be held and used for religious, charitable, scientific, or educational purposes. Accordingly, for many years full advantage...

...exempting without limit as to time, " such property as may be held, by State ex rd. Gaines r. Whitworth. the State, by counties, cities or towns, and used...charitable, scientific, literary or educational." The question is not whether the Legislature of North Carolina in 1785, when it incorporated Davidson...

...understand, to test the question. By the Constitution of 1870, art. 2, sec. 28, all property, real, j>ersonal or mixed, shall be taxed; but the legislature may...cities or towns, and used exclusively for public or private corporation purposes, and such -as may be held for purely religous, charitable, scientific,...

...question. The constitution of Tennessee provides (Sec. 28) that : " All property, real, personal and mixed, shall be taxed, but the legislature may except such as may be held by the State, counties, cities or towns, and used exclusively for public or corporate purposes, and such as may be...

...provides that "all property shall be taxed," with power in the Legislature to except only such property "as may be held by the State, by counties, cities...charitable, scientific, literary or educational." Property bought by the United States at its own tax sale, and held merely to secure the tax, would...

...follows : "All property, real, personal, and mixed, shall be taxed, but the Legislature may exempt such as may be held by the State, by counties, cities,...charitable, scientific, literary, or educational." The Act under which the assessment in this case was made is to be found in Acts 1883, Chapter 105....