Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship Co. v. Board of Health
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Monroe, J. Leovy & Kruttsclmitt for Plaintiff and Appellee. 1. The statute of 1882, (No. 69) entitled “an act to fix and regulate quarantine charges at the Mississippi Hver station,” etc., is a local and special law, and is null and void, because prohibited by Article 48 of the Louisiana Constitution As to local and special laws see 19 Iowa, 43; 4 Kansas, 124; 23 Md. 503. 2. It is null and void because it…
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APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Monroe, J. Leovy & Kruttsclmitt for Plaintiff and Appellee. 1. The statute of 1882, (No. 69) entitled “an act to fix and regulate quarantine charges at the Mississippi Hver station,” etc., is a local and special law, and is null and void, because prohibited by Article 48 of the Louisiana Constitution As to local and special laws see 19 Iowa, 43; 4 Kansas, 124; 23 Md. 503. 2. It is null and void because it contravenes Article 30 of the Louisiana Constitution, being an amendment of the last paragraph of section 3042 of the Revised…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
FENNER,, J.
The Act No. 69 of 1882, of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, provides that “ The resident physician at the quarantine station on the Mississippi river shall require for every inspection and granting certificate, the following fees and charges: for every ship, thirty (30) dollars; for every bark, twenty (20) dollars; for every brig, ten (10) dollars; for every schooner, seven dollars and fifty cents (7 50); for every steamboat (towboats excepted), five (5) dollars; for every steamship, thirty (30) dollars.”
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