Coal Township

Citations

• 16 Pa. Super. 260
• 1901 Pa. Super. LEXIS 55

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional law — Townships — Classification of townships — Act of April 28, 1899, P. L. 104.</p> <p>The act of April 28, 1899, entitled “An act to provide for the classification of townships of the commonwealth, with respect to their population, into two classes, and to prescribe a form of government of townships of each class,” is constitutional.</p> <p>Statutes — Repeal—Townships—Contract as to roads — Acts of June 12, 1893, P. L. 451, and April 28, 1899, P. L. 104.</p> <p>The act of April 12,1899, classifying townships, repeals the act of June 12, 1893, entitled “ An act enabling the taxpayers of townships and road districts to contract for making at their own expense the roads, and paying salaries of township or road district officers, and thereby preventing the levy and collection of road tax therein,” so far as townships of the first class are concerned.</p>