So, similarly, the counties apportion among the cities and townships within their areas, in proportion to the value of their taxable property, not only what they have to pay to the State, but also the sums they have to raise for county purposes.
"Government and Administration of the United States"
Westel W. Willoughby and William F. Willoughby
And the long and short of it was that they weren't taxable for a single thing!
"The Old Gray Homestead"
Frances Parkinson Keyes
The sum is greater than the entire net public debt of Chicago; it equals the assessed valuation of all the taxable property in Poughkeepsie, New York.
"The War After the War"
Isaac Frederick Marcosson