State ex rel. Lowman & Hanford Stationery & Printing Co. v. Riplinger

Citations

• 30 Wash. 281
• 70 P. 748
• 1902 Wash. LEXIS 684

Syllabus

<p>MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS-AMENDMENT OE CHARTER-SUBMISSION TO VOTE.</p> <p>The fact that a charter amendment consisting of seven sections was submited to a vote of the people as one proposition instead of as seven would not invalidate the submission, under a charter regulation providing “that if more than one amendment be submitted at the same general election the same shall be submitted at such election in such manner that each proposed amendment may be voted on separately without prejudice to the others,” where it was plainly the intention that the new provisions should be substituted as a whole for the old provisions, all the sections being part of one article devoted to but one special subject.</p> <p>SAME-EEEECT OE AMENDMENT-REPEAL BY IMPLICATION-EXPENDITURE OE LIBRARY FUND-POWERS VESTED IN LIBRARY BOARD.</p> <p>The adoption of an amendment to the Seattle city charter providing that the library board shall alone have authority to expend the library fund, and shall certify every such expenditure to the city comptroller, who shall issue his warrants therefor to the city treasurer and the same shall be paid out of any money in the library fund not otherwise appropriated is a repeal, so far as the expenditure of the library fund is concerned, of art. 9, § 7, of the charter, which provides that warrants can be drawn only in pursuance of an order of the city council, and of § 12, of art. 9, which declares that all claims against the city of whatsoever nature shall he examined and allowed or disallowed hy the auditing committee.</p>