...from taxation." But, as usual, there was also a clause which provided a way around this injuncture : "the General Assembly may by general laws exempt from...taxation public property used for public purposes. . . ." It could easily be argued that forest lands fit into this category (p. 129). A greater difficulty...

...Plaintiff claimed the property as exempt from taxation under Const, art. 9, § 1, which provides that the general assembly may by general laws exempt from...taxation public property used for public purposes, actuul places of religious worship, placee of burial not used or held for private or corporate proHt,...

...the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under the general laws, but the general assembly may, by general laws, exempt from taxation public property held for public purposes, actual places of religious worship and institutions of purely public charity....

...Appendix.) Bills and Resolutions. By Senator Hornsby: SB No. 65, A bill to be entitled "An Act exempting from taxation public property used for public purposes; actual places of religious worship, also any property owned by a church or by a strictly religious society for the exclusive use as a dwelling...

...Which was agreed to. Mr. Gaus having filed with the Chief Clerk House bill No. 91G, entitled "Au act to exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, actual places of religious worships, place of burial not used or held for private or corporate profit and institutions of purely...