Show IN FBAXCE they are agitating the I question of taxing church property An influential member of the Chamber Cham-ber of Deputies recently proposed that all religious associations be made amenable to the common law in the matter of taxation He called special attention to the real propeity belonging belong-ing to the departments to congregations congrega-tions and to other corporate bodies Those lands and buildings never pass from one hand to another and are seldom sel-dom if ever sold and as a COnEe quence they pay no mutation or legacy duty Their proprietors in the legal sense never die Private property on the other hand changeo owners on an average every twenty years and is a constant source of revenue to the community It is only a question ques-tion of time when all states will tax all property public and private ecclesiastical lay |