Germond v. City of Tacoma

Citations

• 6 Wash. 365
• 33 P. 961
• 1893 Wash. LEXIS 300

Syllabus

<p>MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ■— BONDS FOR INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS — CONSTITUTIONAL LAW — CITIES OF FIRST CLASS.</p> <p>The act of March 9, 1893, entitled “An act relating to internal improvements in cities, authorizing the issuance and collection of bonds upon the property benefited by local improvements, and declaring an emergency,” is constitutional, and is applicable to cities ofnthe first class, as well as to all other cities.</p> <p>Where an act, general in terms, contains such reference to special acts as to show an intent on the part of the legislature thereby to repeal or change them, the rule that general acts have no effect upon special ones, though covering the same subject matter, must yield to the manifest intention of the legislature.</p>