Baldwin Township's Annexation

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

This ease was certified to us by the Superior Court in pursuance of the Act of 1895, P. L. 212. That court held that in a proceeding for the annexation of part of a township to a contiguous city under the Act of April 28,1903, P. L. 332, amended by the Act of April 7,1927, P. L. 161, though a majority of the township electors voted for annexation, an annexation decree by the court of quarter sessions was not lawfully made when the state council of education disapproved in writing of that annexation.

The township challenges the constitutionality of the act making as…