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Exemption from taxation

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From 210 U.S. 266 - City of St. Louis v. United Railways Co. · 1908Most cited · 111 citing opinions

Exemption from taxation is never to be presumed. The legislature itself cannot be held to have intended to surrender the taxing power, unless its intention to do so has been declared in clear and unmistakable words.