State ex rel. Van Riper v. Parsons
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On demurrer. By the charter of Jersey City, passed in 1871, provision was made for the appointment by the senate and general assembly, in joint meeting, of a fire board, and certain other municipal boards.
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On demurrer. By the charter of Jersey City, passed in 1871, provision was made for the appointment by the senate and general assembly, in joint meeting, of a fire board, and certain other municipal boards. On March 6th, 1877, (Laws, 1877, p. 54,) an act was passed, entitled “ An act concerning commissioners to regulate municipal affairs,” which provided for abolishing all laws in reference to legislative commissioners, and terminating the offices of the legislative commissioners then in existence, and for substituting therefor new boards, to be elected by the people. Under this latter act an…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Beasley, Chief Justice.
The purpose of this proceeding is to test the constitutionality of the act of the legislature *3passed on the 6th day of March, in the year 1877, entitled “An act concerning commissioners to regulate municipal affairs.”
The law thus brought under our cognizance is composed of two sections, the 'first of which decláres “ that such parts •of all public, special and local laws as provide for the appointment of commissions or commissioners, by the senate and general assembly of the legislature, in joint meeting, to regulate municipal…
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