State v. Atlantic City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

This certiorari brings up two ordinances of Atlantic City, passed in January, 1891, dividing the First and Second wards of the city each into two wards. The reason assigned for questioning the validity of these ordinances is that “An act amendatory of an act entitled ‘An act concerning divisions of wards in cities of this state,’ ” approved May 10th, 1889 (Pamph. L., p. 443), under which authority to enact the ordinances is said to be claimed, is unconstitutional, because its object is not sufficiently expressed in its *233title, and it is a…