This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...was properly to be regarded as a class of itself, and because there was no general law covering the conditions there involved. The special law now under inquiry is directed and confined to a case for which ample provision is made by an existing general law, and hence it is an enactment which the Constitution plainly and positively prohibits. Statutes: date for becoming efiective. Repeats by implica-tion. Tax easemptionsc discretion of Legislature; mortgages held by domestic fire insur-ance companies; Chapter 197 of the Acts of 1914. Under section 31 of Article 3 of the Constitution, unless otherwise provided in the terms of a statute, an Act of the Legislature becomes efiective on the 1st of June following its passage. pp. 383-334 Repeal of statutes by mere implication are never favored by the courts. p-335 It is only when there is a plain, unavoidable repugnflllcy between the statutes that a later Act is held to repeal a former one by implication. P-385 If a subsequent Act can be made, by any reasonable con struction, to stand with previous legislation, that construction will always be adopted. P-385 This is especially true of Acts passed at one and-the same session of the Legislature; in such cases there is a strong presumption against an implied repeal, and they are to be construed together, if possible, so as to give eflect to each. P-385 References to the Code, in amending the laws, may be either to the Code of 1904, or to 1912, where the sections of the Code of 1904 are identical and unchanged in the Code of 1912. The wisdom of granting exemption from taxation is within the discretion of the Legislature, and is not subject to control of the courts; and is not in contravention either of the State or of the Federal Constitution when...