Lackawanna Township

Citations

• 160 Pa. 494
• 28 A. 927
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 836

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Annexation of territory — Act of May 23, 1889 — Titles of acts — Constitutional law — Art. 3, § 3, Const.</p> <p>An ordinance admitting adjoining territory into a city is not such an extraordinary exercise of municipal power as requires that notice should be taken thereof in the title of an act for incorporating and governing cities.</p> <p>The act of May 23, 1889, P. L. 277, entitled “ An act providing for the incorporation and government of cities of the third class,” and providing a method for changing and enlarging the limits of a city, does not violate article 3, § 3, of the constitution of 1874, which requires that the subject of a bill shall be clearly expressed in its title.</p> <p>Municipalities — Classification of cities — Constitutional law — Act of May 23, 1889 — Local legislation — Art. 3, § 7, Const.</p> <p>The act of May 23, 1889, P. L. 277, is not local or special legislation within the meaning of art. 3, § 7, of the constitution of 1874, as it is applicable to all cities of the third class.</p> <p>For purposes of classification all cities not belonging to the first or second class belong to the third. For purposes of municipal government, only so many of these belong to the third class, in the legislative sense of the words, as have taken on the municipal uniform which the legislature has provided for the class. Per Mr. Justice Williams.</p>