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FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1904 EXEMPTIONS 0N PERSONAL INCOME, Discussion in Legislature on Municipal Taxation Bill. THE PRIVATE HOSPITALS. A Necessity in the Northern Districts of Ontario. Should They be Taxed When Making o a Profit ?--Question of Free Dis-- pensaries--Several Bills Receive . _ _a Third Reading. i' The Legislature spent nearly the whole of its session yesterday aiter-- noon in Committee of the Whole on the municipal taxation bill. Good < progress was made on the least con-- tentious clauses of the measure. The question of exemption on per-- sonal income was the subject of some discussion. The Attorney--Gen-- eral said that he had received some |complaim;' from the smallest towns and villages that while an exemption of $1000 in the larger cities, where the expenses of living and salaries were high, might work out all right, it was too much for the lesser mu-- nicipalities. It was too liberal an exemption, and would deprive the towns and villages of taxes from men well able to pay. _ J _ "Even in the cities $1,000 for men in responsible posttions is consider-- ed a very good salary," said Mr. Crawford (West Toronto). Ther were going to leave out a very la_rge number oi those who had heretoiore been taxable. The exemption was too high. Attorney--General's View. The Attorney--General said where a man with a family was paying taxcs on his house an exemption ol $1,000 on income was not too large in the cities. On the other hand. a s}nglc man engaged in some factory and liv-- ing in a township might be in receipt of a salary of $900 or $1.000. which was probably more per annum than the incomes of nine out of ten farmers in the township. "My opinion is that _it should be graded, leaving the citics