TOWNS AND CITIES.
Mr. Scott's bill [H. R. 353] to prohibit township trustees from levying a road tax in incorporated towns and cities, and the real and personal property within such corporate limits, was taken up on the third reading.
Mr. Scott submitted clerical amendments to first section, so as to make the exemption from taxation extend to property belonging not only to persons living in the cities and towns, but to property in cities and towns belonging to anybody, and it was adopted by unanimous consent. The bill was then finally passed the House of Representatives - yeas, 55; nays, 28 - with an amendment of title so as to read: "a bill to prohibit township trustees from levying a road tax upon the real and personal property in any town or city.
