The Budget in the American Commonwealths ...

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Columbia university., 1907 - 215 páginas

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Página 113 - Except as otherwise provided by law, sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the public service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made, and for no others.
Página 154 - ... as compared with the operating expenses, and particularly by consideration of the value placed upon the whole property by the public (the value of the physical property being deducted), as evidenced by the market value of all capital stock, certificates of indebtedness, bonds, or any other securities, the value of which is based upon the earning capacity of the property.
Página 15 - The power of taxation is an incident of sovereignty, and is possessed by the Government without being expressly conferred by the people. It is a legislative power ; and when the people, by their Constitufion, create a department of government, upon which they confer the power to make laws, the power of taxation is conferred as part of the more general power.
Página 5 - No money shall be drawn from the Treasury except in pursuance of an appropriation made by law, and on the presentation of a warrant issued by the Auditor thereon; and no money shall be diverted from any appropriation made for any purpose, or taken from any fund whatever, either by joint or separate resolution.
Página 74 - ... consideration, and shall thereupon, without motion, be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means; and said committee shall consider and report thereon the amount of appropriation required, but such bill shall retain its place on file pending its consideration by said Committee on Ways and Means. The Committee on Ways and Means shall, from time to time, at least once in two weeks, report to the House the exact condition of legislation involving appropriations, and the aggregate amount of all...
Página 153 - The total number of engines, and passenger, chair, dining, official, express, mail, baggage, freight, and other cars, including handcars and boarding cars used in constructing and repairing such railway, in use on its whole line, and the sleeping cars owned by it, and the number of each class on...
Página 107 - ... of a mill on each dollar of the assessed valuation of property in the town according to the assessment-roll last preceding the date of submission of the proposition. A proposition adopted as aforesaid shall continue in force until rescinded by a proposition submitted and adopted in like manner, but not more than one such proposition either directing the appropriation...
Página 114 - When any moneys shall have been collected or received by any officer for any distinct and specified object, no portion of them shall Be paid or applied to any other object or purpose without due authority, but shall be kept a separate fund for such specified object...
Página 187 - March in each year, and such treasurer shall notify the state commissioner of education of such payment. If there are not sufficient funds in the county treasury standing to the credit of any town to pay the state tax chargeable thereto, the treasurer shall borrow sufficient money upon the credit of the county and charge the same against such town, with interest thereon until the same is paid. If any county treasurer shall not pay over the state tax...
Página 164 - In regard to the rate, the assessors follow the practice sanctioned by local usage or decide by mere caprice. The official reports abound with complaints or open confessions that property is assessed all the way from par to one twenty-fifth of the actual value.

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