In Re the Petition Filed by the Freeholders of Hudson County

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kalisch, J.

The petition filed by the petitioner in the present proceeding asks this court, by virtue of sections 11 and 13 of the Declaratory Judgment act (Pamph. L. 1924, pp. 313, 314), to declare unconstitutional an act entitled “A supplement to an act entitled ‘An act to regulate elections’ (Eevision of 1920), passed May 5th, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and the amendments thereof and supplements thereto,” which supplement was passed October 9th, 1928, and was to take effect immediately.

There is grave doubt as to the applicability of the…