In re Attorney-General

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief Justice.

The present proceeding is instituted by the attorney-general upon the instruction of his excellency the governor of the state; its purpose being to obtain from this court a judicial declaration that an act of the legislature entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act concerning public utilities; to create a board of public utility commissioners, and to prescribe its duties and powers,’ approved April twenty-first, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, by adding a section concerning the safeguarding and removal of railroad…