Rassau v. Campbell

Citations

• 47 Pa. Super. 488
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 187

Syllabus

<p>Election law — Liquor law — Local option — Special Act of April 8,1872, P. L. 804 — Constitutional law — Constitutional amendments.</p> <p>1. The constitutional amendment of 1909, which provides that municipal elections shall be held in every odd numbered year, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, thereby abolishing the municipal elections of February, does not repeal the special Act of April 3, 1872, P. L. 804, relating to certain townships in Allegheny county, and providing that at the annual municipal election every third year, voters of the said townships shall have the right to vote for or against the granting of licenses to sell liquor in the respective townships. ■ Such elections are to be held as before on the third Tuesday of February in every third year.</p> <p>2. The incorporation of a borough out of a portion of the territory of one of the townships, subsequent to the passage of the act of 1872, did not take out of the operation of the act the territory formed into the borough.</p>