Sipe v. People ex rel. Milliken

Trinidad is a city of the second class. Prior to the year 1897, the statute provided that at the regular municipal election for cities of the second class, held on the first Tuesday in April of each year, there should be elected, among other officers, a city treasurer, who shall hold his office for the term of one year. Mills’ Ann. Stats, sec. 4504. The eleventh general assembly passed, with an emergency clause, the following act, which was approved by the governor on April 17, 1897:

“'Sec. 1. The qualified electors of all cities of the second class shall on the first Tuesday in April in the…