State v. Mancke

Citations

• 18 S.C. 81
• 1882 S.C. LEXIS 110

Syllabus

<p>1. A city license, dated in July, to retail liquors to December 31st, gave no license to sell in the January preceding, although the tax had then been in part paid, and it was customary to pay in two installments.</p> <p>2. This case distinguished from Oity Council v. Corléis, 2 Bailey 186.</p> <p>3. A grant of license by a city council without' the payment of the county license required by the act of 1880 (17 Stat. 459), would be void.</p> <p>4. Semble. An act commencing “ on and after the passage of this act,” &c., but which no otherwise names a special day for the act to take effect, goes into operation on the day of its approval by the governor.</p> <p>5. An act approved December 24th, 1880, if governed by the terms of the act of 1879 (17 Stat. 69), and, therefore, not of force “until the twentieth day after its approval by the executive,” became of force immediately after-twelve o’clock midnight of January 12th) 1881.</p> <p>6. The act of 1880 (17 Stat. 459) is not unconstitutional.</p>