 | Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban - History - 1902 - 990 pages
...clearly forbidden by section 7 of Article III of the Constitution, which provides, amongst other things, that "the General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law * * * * regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs or school districts.''... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 648 pages
...of art. 4 of the constitution. The legislature has no authority, under the constitution, to enact a local or special law, when a general law can be made applicable. The removal of county seats can be made the subject of a general law. It is competent for the Courts... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 666 pages
...was needed in that instrument to produce such a system. But it does contain another provision, viz., that the general assembly shall not pass any local or special law providing for the support of common schools. § 22, art. 4. And the questions arise, why was that prohibitory... | |
 | Henry Edward Wallace - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 696 pages
...State. This view is in entire accord with section 7, Article III., of the constitution, which declares that: The general assembly shall not pass any local or special law regulating the affairs of counties and cities, and prescribing the powers and duties of officers therein.... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 526 pages
...language, is, the decision that the legislature has no authority under the constitution to enact a local or special • law, when a general law can be made applicable ; and that it is competent for the courts to inquire whether a general law can be made applicable to... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...amendment is to harmonize the section with the provision in the seventh section of the third article, that the General -Assembly shall not pass any local or special law " creating corporations, or amending, renewing or extending the charters thereof." According to the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 632 pages
...binding upon the lecislative branch of the government . '• Uy Section 7, AKT. III., it is provided that ' the General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law . . . for the opening and conducting of elections, or fixing or changing the place of voting.' This... | |
 | Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1889 - 690 pages
...ground that it was in conflict with section seven of Article III of the Constitution, which provides that the General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law regulating the affairs of counties, etc. — Frost v. Cherry, 46 Leg. Int. 47. A bill is pending in... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 1112 pages
...term. ( H'cbsier vs. County Commissioners, etc., 29 Md. 516. The Constitution of Pennsylvania provides that : ' ' The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law * * * regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts;... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1066 pages
...null, and void, in that — First, it violated that provision of the state constitution which declares that "the general assembly shall not pass any local or special law creating corporations, or amending, renewing, extending, or explaining the charter thereof;" second,... | |
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Pennsylvania, which constitutional provision provides that 'the general assembly shall not pass any local or special law . . . regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts... 
