Peed v. McCrary

• Court: Georgia Supreme Court
• Writing for the Court: PER CURIAM.
• Citation: Peed v. McCrary, 94 Ga. 487, 21 S.E. 232 (Ga. 1894)
• Decision Date: 16 April 1894
• Parties: PEED, County Treasurer, v. McCRARY.

21 S.E. 232

94 Ga. 487

PEED, County Treasurer, v. McCRARY.

Supreme Court of Georgia

April 16, 1894

Syllabus by the Court.

1. According to Speer v. City of Athens, 85 Ga. 49, 11 S.E. 802 the question of the preliminary advertisement of a local bill is for determination by the general assembly before passing the bill.

2. An act which does not purport to amend or repeal any particular law or section of the Code, but which by its title undertakes in general terms "to amend the county court laws as regards Taylor county, and to provide for the appointment of a county solicitor for said county, and for other purposes," is not within the inhibitory words of the constitution, declaring that "no law, or section of the Code, shall be amended or repealed by mere reference to its title, or to the number of the section of the Code, but the amending or repealing act shall distinctly describe the law to be amended or repealed, as well as the alteration to be made."

3. Under the title above recited, it was competent for the legislature in one and the same act to provide that the judge of the county court of Taylor county shall discharge all the duties that formerly devolved on the justices of the inferior court as to county business, and have the exclusive control and management of all public buildings and property belonging to the county; also that he might appoint one or more bailiffs to serve writs, precepts, warrants, executions summonses, and all orders issued by the county court or the judge thereof; also that the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, should appoint a county solicitor to represent the state in all cases in the county court, the act prescribing his...