Biggs v. Beeler

The constitutionality of Chapters 37 and 38, Public Acts of 1943, is challenged on various grounds. Chapter 37 repeals Code Sections 1082, as amended, 1558 and 1559, which levy an annual poll tax of one dollar for school purposes on every inhabitant between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, with certain exceptions based on incapacity, and provide for collection thereof by the County Trustee.

The second Act, Chapter 38> prescribes certain qualifications for voters, provides for state-wide ¡registration of voters and removal of requirements of payment of a poll tax as a prerequisite to…