State v. Mayor of Newark

The act entitled “An act providing for the formation and establishment of wards in cities of the first class” (Pamph. L. 1894, p. 387), seems to me to be unconstitutional upon both of the grounds urged against it.

First, because it is special. The act applies, to cities of the first class only, and in such cities its effect is to place a legislative question affecting election precincts in the hands of the executive, through his appointees, to be administered once for all without any of those provisions for readjustment to increase of voting population that obtain in the case of less populous…