Mayor of Boonville v. Trigg
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to First District Court. I. The act of the general assembly entitled cc an act amend-atory of an act to incorporate the city of Boonville,” approved March 23, 1868, is not in conflict with section 25 of article 4 of the constitution of the State of Missouri.
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Error to First District Court. I. The act of the general assembly entitled cc an act amend-atory of an act to incorporate the city of Boonville,” approved March 23, 1868, is not in conflict with section 25 of article 4 of the constitution of the State of Missouri. (See Constitution.) This section does not require that the act or part of act amended shall be set forth and published as it stood before, but that the act or part of act amended shall be set forth and published as amended. (Cooley on Const. Limit. 151: People v. Mahaney, 13 Mich. 481.) II. The said act of 1868 amends all that part…
1Opinion of the Court
Wagner, Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.; The only question presented for our consideration in this case involves the constitutionality of the act approved March 23,1868, amending the charter of the city of Boonvilie. The - city of Boonvilie was incorporated by an act of the Legislature, approved February 8, 1839, and the first section of the act defined the boundaries of the city, designated its name and style, and conferred upon it certain powers.
By section 1 of the act of 1868 the original act was amended so far as limits and boundaries were concerned. The whole section is not…
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