Miller v. City of Camden
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari. The town of Stockton, in the county of Camden, having sheen annexed to the city of Camden, in that county, by a ■special act approved March 24th, 1899 (Pamph.
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On certiorari. The town of Stockton, in the county of Camden, having sheen annexed to the city of Camden, in that county, by a ■special act approved March 24th, 1899 (Pamph. L., p. 355), five qualified electors, resident within the annexed territory, presented on March 27th, 1899, to the justice of the Supreme Court assigned to the judicial district in which the city of ■Camden is situate, a petition for the division of such annexed territory into wards, pursuant to the seventh section of “An act concerning consolidated cities and annexed municipalities and townships and portions thereof,”…
1Opinion of the Court
*202The opinion of the court was delivered by
Collins, J.
With one exception the questions involved in this cause have been decided in one argued with it by the same counsel. Miller v. Greenwalt, ante p. 197. The remaining question is the constitutionality, with respect to the subject of the order under review, of the combined legislation on which that order depends. The act of 1888 is, beyond question, general. The act of 1899, though both local and special, is nevertheless constitutional. But it is argued that taken together they regulate the internal affairs of the city of Camden otherwise than…
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