State v. Tolman

Citations

• 124 La. 630
• 50 So. 607
• 1909 La. LEXIS 515

Syllabus

<p>1. Statutes (§ 114*) — Title of Act — Sufficiency.</p> <p>Act No. 209, p. 312, of 1908, purporting to amend and re-enact section 5 of Act No. 171, p. 392, oil 1898, imposing a license tax on pawnbrokers, is unconstitutional, null, and void, to the extent that it provides for a license tax on money lenders generally.</p> <p>2. Statutes (§ 109*) — Title of Act — Sufficiency.</p> <p>An ac,t purporting to amend a certain section of a general law is limited in its scope to the subject-matter of the section proposed to be amended, under a constitutional provision that “every law shall embrace but one object, and that shall be expressed in the title.”</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>