Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1904 — MORE LAWS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. [ARTICLE]

MORE LAWS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Indianapolis, Ind., February 18 The Supreme Court to-day held the Legislature has no power to pass laws for the government of cities having not more nor less than a stated population to apply to a single city in the state, and exclude other cities of substantially the same size. The last Legislature passed more than a dozen statutes applying to cities or towns of specified population, within such narrow limits as to embrace a single place. Thus Marion, Goshen, Alexandria, Frankfort, Crawfordsville, Mishawaka, Martinsville, East Chicago, North Vernon, Howell and Converse each procured an act for its benefit that indicated so clearly by reference to population the town for which it was intended that it is so indexed in the statutes.