State Ex Rel. Blieden v. Gleason

The question involved in this ease depends on the constitutionality of an Act of 1909, ch. 188, p. 454, which is entitled “An Act concerning municipal corporations and to amend sections 42, 43, 45, 54, 82, 87, 91, 92 and 93 of an act entitled ‘An Act concerning municipal corporations,’ approved March 6, 1905.” The Act of 1905, ch. 129, p. 219, which was so amended in 1909, contains 272 sections which relate exclusively to the operation of the various functions of municipal governments. Section 45 of this act concerns vacancies in elective offices. It empowers the mayor to fill any vacancy…