State ex rel. Swan v. Taylor

Citations

• 21 Wash. 672
• 59 P. 489
• 1899 Wash. LEXIS 348

Syllabus

<p>CITY MARSHAL-TERM OF OFFICE-STATUTES — REPEAL BY IMPLICATION.</p> <p>Laws 1895, p. 351, which provides that in all cities of the third and fourth classes the marshal shall be elected by the city council, and shall hold office for one year, does not, in view of the scope shown by its title, “An act providing for the election of city marshal in cities of the third and fourth classes,” work a repeal or an amendment of Laws 1893, p. 103, in any particular beyond the manner of election of the city marshal; that portion of the act of 1893 prescribing the term of office of city officers continuing in force, and making the term of the marshal, as well as that of the other officers, begin the first Tuesday in January next succeeding the day of his election.</p>