Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1915 — MAY TAX CHURCH PROPERTY [ARTICLE]

MAY TAX CHURCH PROPERTY

Bill Before New York Legislature Affects Real Estate Valued at More Than a Billion Dollars. Albany, N. Y„ April 2.—Action Is looked for shortly on the SullivanSpring bill, now before, tire legislature, which would subject all church, educational, charitable and kindred property to taxation where the value Is in excess of SIOO,OOO. Friends of the measure, which includes an influential element in the legislature, are planning to bring the measure up for a vote 4n the course of the next few weeks. If passed the bill would affect property worth considerably more than a billion dollars. The fight will be bitterly waged on the floor of the lower house