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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Army and the Contraband — what will the Yankees do with the "Elephant?" (search)
The railroads and taxation.
--Railroad bonds are now commanding a premium, to that the cost of construction may be regarded as the value of the road for taxation.
In 1856 the Legislature commuted the taxation on the value of railroad property to the tax on passengers and freight.--It becomes a curious matter of inquiry how this commutation effects the general subjects of taxation as property.
The cost of the construction of the Virginia Railroads other than the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Northwestern Virginia Railroad, amounts to thirty six million twenty-five thousand six hundred and forty three dollars and eighty nine cents. That portion of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad within the limits of Virginia cost about twenty millions, and the Northwestern Virginia Railroad about five millions, which, together with the other railroads, amounts to sixty one millions twenty-five thousand six hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty nine cents. For the six years which have trans