In re Borough of Pottstown

Citations

• 117 Pa. 538
• 12 A. 573
• 1888 Pa. LEXIS 441

Syllabus

<p>1. Where the title of an original act fully expresses the subject of the enactment, and an act entitled a supplement thereto has a title sufficiently expressing any subject within the purview, and contains provisions properly germane to the subject, of the original, the supplementary act is hot unconstitutional.</p> <p>2. The act of June 11, 1879, P. L 150, (amended by the act of May 17, 1883, P. L. 36,) entitled “ a supplement to an act for the regulation of boroughs, approved April 3, 1851,” providing a method for changing the limits of boroughs, is not unconstitutional, as violative of § 3, article III., the subject being sufficiently expressed in the title; nor is it violative of par. 2, § 7, article III., as containing matter of local or special legislation.</p> <p>3. WTiere upon certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions, error is assigned to the overruling of challenges of grand jurors, and the facts upon which the challenges were made do not appear by bill of exception, the assignment will not be sustained.</p> <p>4. Though upon such certiorari the record does not show that the court caused the application for the annexation of adjacent territory to a borough, to be laid before the grand jury when in session, the court will be presumed to have discharged the duty.</p>