Hammond v. City of Charlotte

The power of the board of aldermen of the city of Charlotte to levy an annual tax for the maintenance of public schools in the city as well as that of the board of school commissioners to employ teachers and fix their salaries is derived from a private act of the Gen eral Assembly. Private Laws, 1907, chap. 342, secs. 197, 199, and 206 as amended. Tbe appellants seem to concede that the judgment must be affirmed unless the act conferring this power is repealed by chapter 430 of the Public Laws of 1931. The latter act provides (see. 31) that all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with it, to…