Board of Levee Commissioners of Yazoo-Mississippi Delta v. Royal Insurance

Citations

• 96 Miss. 832
• 51 So. 2

Syllabus

<p>1. Constitutional Law. Constitution 1890, seo. 71. Legislative act. Title. Amendment of Code section not mentioned in title.</p> <p>Under Constitution 1890, sec. 71, providing that every bill introduced into the legislature shall have a title which ought to indicate clearly the subject matter or matters of the proposed legislation, an act purporting in its title to amend a number of sections of Code 1906, is unconstitutional in so far as it attempts to amend a Code section not mentioned in its title.</p> <p>2. Same. Same. Privilege taxes. Insurance companies. Laws 1908, ch. 73, p. 59, sec. 7. Code 1906, § 3832.</p> <p>Laws 1908, ch. 73, p. 59, sec. 7, purporting to amend Code 1906, § 3832, relating to privilege taxes on insurance companies, is unconstitutional because the Code section is not mentioned or referred to in any way in the title to the act.</p>