Puntureri v. Pittsburgh School District

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

The Act of June 20, 1947, P. L. 745, section 2, provides as follows: “For the year one thousand nine hundred forty-eight and annually thereafter, every school district of the first class shall issue mercantile licenses and levy and collect an annual mercantile license tax in the manner and at the rates hereinafter set forth. . . . The license fees, taxes and penalties collected under the provisions of this act, shall be used by every such school district for general public school purposes.”

Section 3 provides: “Beginning in the year one thousand nine hundred…