Melick v. Williamsport

Citations

• 162 Pa. 408
• 29 A. 917
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 994

Syllabus

<p>Statutes — Municipalities—Public officers — Act of May 13, 1889.</p> <p>Under the act of May 13, 1889, P. L. 196, validating the ordinances and resolutions of councils of municipalities organized under the unconstitutional act of May 24, 1887, P. L, 204, the salary of a city assessor, authorized by ordinance, may be paid, although the office of city assessor existed al the lime only under the unconstitutional act, and was not legally created until the passage of the act of May 23, 1889, P. L. 277.</p> <p>The intent of the act of May 13,1889, was to ratify all municipal action based on the act of 1887, and to declare that if it would have been valid under that act it shall be treated as valid now.</p> <p>Therefore for the purposes and to the extent of what had been done under the ordinance, the office of city assessor must be treated as having had a legal existence.</p>