State v. Mayor of Hoboken

*185The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The object of this certiorari is to set aside a resolution of the Hoboken common council passed December 22d, 1897, so far as it orders the payment of certain bills for printing presented by “ The Evening Hews ” and “ The Observer,” two newspapers published in the city of Hoboken.

The bills are made out upon the theory that the price is fixed at “ ten cents- per line for the first insertion and five cents per line for each subsequent insertion ” by the “Act to regulate the price of legal advertising,” approved April 14th, 1891 (Gen. Stat., p.…