Browne v. Town of Providence

Citations

• 114 La. 631
• 38 So. 478
• 1905 La. LEXIS 518

Syllabus

<p>MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS — CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.</p> <p>1.When the object of a statute is to cover and dispose of the whole of the subject-matter of municipalities, the fact that, in consideration of that subject, different classes of municipalities may have to be dealt with, does not break the force of the singleness of the object of the law.</p> <p>2. The title of a statute, which is sufficient to cover all the matters and things enacted in the body of the law, is not made defective if some one or more of those matters are unnecessarily mentioned therein.</p> <p>3. The power and authority conferred upon municipalities extending their limits in manner and form as provided for in Act No. 136, p. 224,. of 1898, was granted to municipalities existing at the date of the enactment of that statute, as well as to those which might be created thereafter. Such authority was an absolute right or power, conferred at once, without the necessity of such existing corporations being forced, as a condition precedent to availing themselves of the same, to have placed themselves under the 'provisions of the law. Section 43, p. 243, No. 136, Acts 1898.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>