...institutions of purely public charity. SECTION 1. lie it enacted, <fc., That all churches, meeting houses, or other regular places of stated worship, with the grounds thereto annexed necessary for the occupany and enjoyment of the same ; all burial grounds not used or held for private or corporate profit;...

...of TH i>:ious worship," etc. The At of May 14th, 1874, provides: "That all churches, meeting houses, or other regular places of stated worship, with the grounds thereto annexed necessary for the occupation and enjoyment of the same ... be and the same are hereby exempted frnra all and every oounty,...

...the corner stone of said cathedral was laid." The act of May 14th, 1874, Pamph. L. 158, provides that "all churches, meeting-houses or other regular places...with the grounds thereto annexed necessary for the occupation and enjoyment of the same * * * be and the same are hereby exempted from all and every county,...

...Constitution, the Legislature, on the 14th of May, 1874, (PL p. 158,) enacted the following law: " That all churches, meeting-houses, or other regular places...for the occupancy and enjoyment of the same ; all burial grounds not used or held for private or corporate profit ; all hospitals, universities, colleges,...

...taxation " actual places of religious worship." The Act of May 14, 1874, Sect. I (PL 158), enacted that " all churches, meeting-houses, or other regular places...necessary for the occupancy and enjoyment of the same, etc. ."should he exempt : Held, That a parsonage, although erected on the church lot, was not exempt...

...for the plaintiff in error. By the Act of Assembly of May 14, 1874 (PL 158), all regular places for stated worship, with the grounds thereto annexed,...necessary for the occupancy and enjoyment of the same, are exempt from taxation. Plaintiff's property clearly contained a place of stated worship. Mullen...

...of the first section of the act of May 14, 1874, which is as follows, so far as concerns this case : "All churches, meeting-houses, or other regular places of stated worship, with the ground thereto annexed necessary for the occupancy of the same .... be and the same are hereby exempted...

...the exemption of this kind of property from every variety of city tax. The statute reads as follows: "All churches, meeting-houses, or other regular places of stated worship with the grounds thereunto annexed necessary for the occupancy and enjoyment of the same ; . . . . and all school-houses...

...however, not known to the law. By the Act of May 14, 1874, churches, burial grounds not held for profit, hospitals, universities, colleges, seminaries, academies,...institutions of learning, benevolence or charity, school-houses, etc., were exempted from all local taxation upon all real and personal property actually...

...May 1874 $1. ^17. All churches,(A) meeting-houses or other regular places of stated worship, PL 159. with the grounds thereto annexed, necessary for the occupancy and enjoyment of (z) Under this act, meadow lands in the twentyfourth ward are subject to one-half the city rate. Serrill...