In re Senate Resolution No. 7
Supreme Court of Colorado
Original Proceeding. Question from Senate. The opinion of the court is in response to a resolution and interrogatory of the senate.
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Original Proceeding. Question from Senate. The opinion of the court is in response to a resolution and interrogatory of the senate. It appears from the resolution of the honorable senate of the thirteenth general sssembly, convened in special session by the governor, that there has been introduced a bill in that body providing for the repeal of an act of the previous regular session whereby there was submitted to the qualified electors of the state amendments to article 10 of the constitution, which act appears at pages 95 and 96 of the Session Laws of 1901. The repeal bill is now pending…
1Per curiam
A copy of the repeal bill is not attached to the resolution, but we presume that it purports merely to repeal the act which provided for the submission of the amendments in question. Under the established practice in this court, as shown in many reported decisions, we are precluded from answering questions propounded by either house of the general assembly as to the validity of a pending measure, or any part thereof, unless, among other things, it i? shown that the same has at least passed the committee of the whole. This bill has not even been printed, much less considered by the honorable…
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- In re Bill for an Act to Abolish the Use of Scrip in Payment for LaborSupreme Court of Colorado · 1897
- In re House Bill No. 107Supreme Court of Colorado · 1895
- In re House Bill No. 495Supreme Court of Colorado · 1899
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