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Excerpt from The Law of Collateral Inheritance, Legacy and Succession Taxes: Embracing the American and Many English Decisions, With Forms for New York State, and an Appendix Giving the Statutes of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Connecticut The subject of general taxation, for State and Governmental purposes, forms, undoubtedly, one of the leading questions of the day. What property, what persons or corporations, shall be taxed; when, where and how taxes shall be levied and collected, are problems which have already consumed much of the time, and perplexed the thoughts of many leading lawyers, statesmen and economists in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.