State v. Inhabitants of Trenton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The question in this case is whether a supplemental ordinance, passed July 18th, 1893, by the common council of the city of Trenton over the veto of the mayor, requiring all subsequent municipal ordinances and notices to ‘be published in a German newspaper, is v.alid.

In Stahl v. Trenton, 25 Vroom 444, this court held that the supplement to “An act concerning official newspapers in cities of this state,” approved April 11th, 1889, was special and therefore unconstitutional, because confined to cities in which the German newspaper to be…