State National Bank v. Board of Councilmen

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming.

Whether the appellant is subject to a sixty -cent tax rate or a $2.35 tax rate by appellee depends on whether or not chapter 117 of the Acts of 1924 took effect on June 18th or July 18th of that year, and this question in turn depends on the interpretation to be put on the referendum clause of section 171 of the state Constitution as amended in 1915. So far as pertinent that section reads as follows:

“Any law passed or enacted by the General Assembly pursuant to the provisions of or under this *544amendment or amended section of the Constitution,…