Weaver v. Schuylkill County

Citations

• 17 Pa. Super. 327
• 1901 Pa. Super. LEXIS 312

Syllabus

<p>Statutes — Repeal of statutes — General and special laws.</p> <p>Statutes of a general nature do not repeal by implication charters and special acts passed for the benefit of particular municipalities; but they. do. so, when it appears to have been the purpose of the legislature. If both the general and the special acts can stand, they will be construed accordingly. If one must give way, it will depend upon the supposed intention of the lawmaker, to be collected from the entire course of legislation, whether the charter is superseded by the general statute, or whether the special charter provisions apply to the municipality,, in exclusion of the .general enactments.</p> <p>Statutes — Repeal — Policemen — Constable — Compensation — Acts of April 4, 1831, P. L. 439, sec. 25, and July 14,1897, P. L. 266.</p> <p>The Act of July 14, 1897, T. L. 266, which forbids any policeman to charge or accept any fee or other compensation in addition to his salary, repeals the 25th section of the Act of April 4, 1831, P. L. 439, which provides that policemen in the borough of Pottsville shall receive the same fees as the constables of the said borough are entitled to by law.</p> <p>Constitutional law — Local legislation — Act of July 14, 1897.</p> <p>The Act of July 14, 1897, P. L. 266, relating to the compensation of policemen does not offend against the constitutional prohibition providing that the general assembly shall not pass any local or special law regulating the fees or extending the powers and duties of constables.</p>