...counties, cities or towns and used exclusively for public or corporation purposes, and such as may be held and used for purposes purely religious, charitable,...the hands of the producer and his immediate vendee. All property shall be taxed according to its value, that value to be ascertained in such manner as...

...counties, cities, or towns, and used exclusively for public or corporation purposes, and such as may be held and used for purposes purely religious, charitable,...product of the soil in the hands of the producer and his immédiat« vendee. "Sec. 30. No article manufactured of the produce of this state shall be taxed otherwise...

...levied upon the business of selling the water. It will be observed that the exemption from taxation of "the direct product of the soil in the hands of the producer," in section 28, is no more distinct and unequivocal than the exemption from taxation of an "article...

...1870 required the taxation of personal property with certain exceptions including the exception of "the direct product of the soil in the hands of the producer and his immediate vendee." Section 30 of the same article provided, "No article manufactured of the produce of this state shall...

...property, real, personal, or mixed, shall be taxed; but the legislature may except .... such as may be held and used for purposes purely religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational." (Constitution, Art. II, Sec. 28.) Compulsory Attendance. "Every parent, guardian, or other person,...

...all-inclusiveness naturally led to certain specific exemptions, permissive save in the case of products of the soil in the hands of the producer and his immediate vendee and one thousand dollars' worth of personality to each taxpayer. The latter provisions and the homestead...

...1870 required the taxation of personal property with certain exceptions including the exception of "the direct product of the soil in the hands of the producer and his immediate vendee." Section 30 of the same article provided, "No article manufactured of the produce of this state shall...

...71. Sec. 2. The Tennessee Court has declared that statutes which exempt property from taxation when "held and used for purposes purely religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational," are less strictly construed than like statutes exempting property held and used for private gain or...

...and depend upon a single question. The Constitution of Tennessee provides (sec. 28) that: such as may be held and used for purposes purely religious, charitable, scientific, literary or educational, and except one thousand dollars worth of personal property in the hands of each tax-payer, and the direct...

...for purposes purely religious, charitable, scifiititic, literary or educational, and shall except cue thousand dollars' worth of personal property in the...direct product of the soil in the hands of the producer or his immediate vendee. All property shall be taxed according to its value, that value to be ascertained...