Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 17Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, William Jennison, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, John Adams Brooks, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, James M. Reasoner, Henry Allen Chaney, Richard W. Cooper, William Dudley Fuller, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell Phelphs & Stevens, printers, 1869 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 77 - All specific State taxes, except those received from the mining companies of the Upper Peninsula, shall be applied in paying the interest upon the primary school, university, and other educational funds, and the interest and principal of the State debt, in the order herein recited, until the extinguishment of the State debt, other than the amounts due to educational funds, when such specific taxes shall be added to, and constitute a part of the primary school interest fund.
Page 74 - Every law which imposes, continues or revives a tax, shall distinctly state the tax and the object to which it is to be applied ; and it shall not be sufficient to refer to any other law to fix such tax or object.
Page 178 - The board of regents shall have the general supervision of the University, and the direction and control of all expenditures from the University interest fund.
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Page 87 - The taxing power of a state is one of its attributes of sovereignty. And where there has been no compact with WALCOTT v. TRE PEOFLE. the federal government, or cession of jurisdiction, for the purposes specified in the constitution, this power reaches all the property and business within the state, which are not properly denominated the means of the general government, and.
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Page 80 - SEC. 10. The State may continue to collect all specific taxes accruing to the treasury under existing laws. The Legislature may provide for the collection of specific taxes, from banking, railroad, plank-road, and other corporations hereafter created.
Page 123 - ... conclusions has been drawn by the jury. The inferences to be drawn from the evidence must either be certain and incontrovertible, or they cannot be decided upon by the court. Negligence cannot be conclusively established by a state of facts upon which fair-minded men may well differ.
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| Title | Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 17 |
| Authors | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, William Jennison, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, John Adams Brooks, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, James M. Reasoner, Henry Allen Chaney, Richard W. Cooper, William Dudley Fuller, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell |
| Publisher | Phelphs & Stevens, printers, 1869 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 May 2008 |
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