Somerset Township Supervisors v. Somerset County Commissioners

Citations

• 251 Pa. 164
• 96 A. 121
• 1915 Pa. LEXIS 650

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional law — Constitution of Pennsylvania, Article III, Section S — Titles of acts — Subject-matter of acts — Municipalities —Abandoned turnpihes.</p> <p>The subject-matter of the Act of April 25,1907, P. L. 104, which is entitled “An act to amend the first section of an act entitled ‘An act to provide for the repair and maintenance or improvement by the proper county, city or borough, of turnpikes heretofore or hereafter appropriated or condemned, or any part thereof, for'public use free of tolls,’ ” and which provides in effect that when any turnpike has been condemned for public use free of tolls under any existing laws and the assessment of damages therefor shall have been paid by the proper county, or when any turnpike company has or may abandon its turnpikes, or has been or may be dissolved by proceedings under existing laws, such turnpike shall be properly repaired and maintained at the expense of the county, city or borough in which the' turnpike lies, is germane to its title and to the title of the Act of April 20, 1905, P. L. 237, which the Act of 1907 purports to amend, and said Act of 1907 is not, therefore, violative of Article III, Section 3, of the Constitution.</p>