Rosenstock v. Board of Sup'rs

Citations

• 123 Miss. 175
• 85 So. 91

Syllabus

<p>1. Counties. Statute providing for bond issue held prospective in operation.</p> <p>Chapter 207, Laws 1920, 'provides for the issuance of bonds for county purposes, and in section 3 provides that bonds authorized by a vote of the people may be issued either in whole or in part with-in one year after the election at which the bond issue was authorized. Held, that the statute would be construed so as to give it prospective operation, and that bonds authorized before its enactment may be issued within one year after the passage of the act.</p> <p>2. Counties. Statute providing for issuance of road bonds held modified by later act on same subject.</p> <p>Laws 1914, chapter 176, provides a scheme for issuance of bonds for road purposes and for working roads, and under this act a bond issue was authorized, but bonds not actually issued when chapter 207, Laws 1920, was passed must be issued within one year from, the passage of the act. The two acts are in. conflict with respect to the method of ordering elections, and the latter prevails over the former as to method, but does not avoid an election under the former, but only limits the time to one year after the passage of the later act.</p>