Havemeyer v. Iowa County
Supreme Court of the United States
The constitution of Wisconsin, adopted in 1848, provides that “no general law shall be in force until published;” and an act of 1852 makes it the duty of the secretary of state and the attorney-general to divide all the laws passed by the legislature into two classes, and directs that each class shall be published in a separate volume; that the first class shall include laws of a general nature; the second class all laws which are not included in the first class; and that “…
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The constitution of Wisconsin, adopted in 1848, provides that “no general law shall be in force until published;” and an act of 1852 makes it the duty of the secretary of state and the attorney-general to divide all the laws passed by the legislature into two classes, and directs that each class shall be published in a separate volume; that the first class shall include laws of a general nature; the second class all laws which are not included in the first class; and that “ the title-pages of the respective volumes shall express whether they contain acts of a general nature or the prívate and…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice S"WAYNE
delivered the opinion of the court.
In the view which we have taken of the first two questions which are presented by the certificate of division for our consideration in this case, they may be properly considered together. They are:
1. Whether the act in question is a general law within the meaning of the constitution of Wisconsin.
2. Whether the act not being published as a general act, and having been first published after its passage in the volume of local and private acts, and after the issuing of the bonds, is not such an exercise of power by the State government or…
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