State ex rel. Whatcom County v. Purdy

Citations

• 14 Wash. 343

Syllabus

<p>SPECIAL ACT — REPEAL BY GENERAL LAW— PUBLICATION OP DELINQUENT TAX LISTS — POWER OP TREASURER TO SELECT NEWSPAPER.</p> <p>A special law may be repealed by implication by the provisions of a general act, if by the terms of the general law it becomes evident that the intention of the legislature was to repeal the special law. • -i :</p> <p>Sec. 96, Laws 1893, p. 366, specially confers authority upon the county treasurer to select the newspaper in which to publish the delinquent tax list of the county, and such section necessarily, to that extent, repeals the provisions of Gen. Stat., §2936, authorizing the county commissioners to contract for the official publication of all notices.</p>