Beulah-Witts Consol. School Dist. v. Johnson

Citations

• 126 Miss. 848
• 89 So. 668

Syllabus

<p>1. Schools and School Disteicts. Statute requiring elections at schoolhouse held not repealed by statute providing for issuance of bonds.</p> <p>Chapter 194, Laws of 1916 (section 4004, Hemingway’s Code), which provides that an election affecting any question to be submitted to the qualified electors in any consolidated school district shall be held at the schoolhouse of said district, if there be one, is not repdaled by chapter 207, Laws of 1920, page 282, providing generally for the issuance of county, separate and consolidated school, and road, bonds.</p> <p>2. Schools and-School Districts. Law providing bond election to be held as far as practicable under general election law not in conflict with and not a repeal of law fixing place, but to require conformity only in other matters.</p> <p>Section 2 (chapter 207, Laws of 1920), which provides that “such election shall be held as far as practicable in accordance with the law regulating general elections in this State,” is not in conflict with and does not repeal section 4004, Hemingway’s Code, which designates the schoolhouse as the' place of holding the election. The place of election being designated in the, specific act, chapter 207'only requires a conformity to the general election law as far as practicable in other respects.</p>