Copland v. Pirie

Citations

• 26 Wash. 481
• 67 P. 227
• 1901 Wash. LEXIS 671

Syllabus

<p>STATUTES-AMENDMENT-CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.</p> <p>Under art. 2, § 37, of tbe state constitution, which provides that “no act shall ever be revised or amended by mere reference to its title, but the act revised or the section amended shall be set forth at full length,” § 1 of the act of March 11, 1897 (Laws 1897, p. 93), which provides that “there shall be exempt from execution and attachment to every householder in the state of Washington personal property to the amount and value of one thousand dollars, in addition to the property exempt under § 486 ■of volume 2 of Hill’s Statutes and Codes of the State of Washington,” is unconstitutional on the ground that it amends an existing statute by ingrafting into it an additional provision which ¡alters its scope and effect, and fails to set forth the statute in full as amended.</p>