On Nоvember 8, 1955, the following bond issue was submitted to the electors of the Napoleon Rural Agricultural School District:
“Shall Napoleon Rural Agricultural School District, Jackson and Washtenaw counties, Michigаn, borrow the sum of not to exceed $1,360,000 and issue its bonds therefor, for the purpose of erecting аnd furnishing a new high school building, an additional elementary schoolhouse and an addition to the presеnt elementary schoolhouse, and acquiring additional land for site purposes!”
The issue was defeated.
On December 13, 1955, thе electors approved the following bond issue:
“Shall Napoleon Rural Agricultural School Distriсt, Jackson and Washtenaw counties, Michigan, borrow the sum of not to exceed $525,000 and issue its *183 bonds therefor, for the purpose of remodeling and partially refurnishing the present high school building, and ereсting and furnishing an additional elementary schoolhouse and an addition to the present elementary schoolhouse ?”
Plaintiffs and appellants filed their bill of complaint to enjoin the issuing of the bonds, сlaiming that the vote of December 13, 1955, violated the provisions of PA 1955, No 269, §511 (Stat Ann 1955 Cum Supp § 15.3511), which read, in pаrt:
“Provided further, That the same question or measure involving consolidation of school districts, annexаtion of entire districts, annexation or transfer of a portion of 1 school district to another,- or bonding of school districts, shall not be submitted to the voters of any school district more often than onсe in 6 months, anything in part 1 or part 2 of this act to the contrary notwithstanding.”
The sole question presented in this appeal is whether the same measure or question in regard to a bond issue was submitted to the electors of the district “more often than once in 6 months.”
In denying plaintiffs’ bill оf complaint to enjoin the issuing of the bonds, the trial court stated:
“The court interprets the act as meaning ‘substantially the same,’ and, in the opinion of the court, these 2 bond issues were not ‘substantially the sаme.’ And, therefore, the court determines that the temporary injunction should be dismissed in the hope the cause may be appealed to the Supreme Court to have that Court’s interpretatiоn of this new act of the legislature.”
Webster’s New International Dictionary (2d ed, Unabridged) defines the word “sаme” when used as an adjective-(as it is used in section 511 above), as follows;
*184 “Being one without addition, change, or discontinuance; being no other; having one nature or individuality; identical; * * * not different in any еssential regard, though viewed at different times or in different aspects or relations.”
“The ordinary meаning of the word ‘same’ is ‘identical;’ ‘identical in substance or numerically;’ ‘of one nature, degree оr amount.’” Cyclopedic Law Dictionary (3d ed), p 995.
The legislative history of the enactment of section 511 of the school code discloses that as originally introduced (Senate Bill No 1052) there werе no restrictions in regard to the time that must elapse between the submission of successive bond issues. Thе original senate bill was amended, however, on March 30, 1955, to provide as follows:
“Provided further, That nо question or measure involving consolidation of school districts, annexation of entire districts, annexation or transfer of a portion of 1 school district to another, or bonding of school districts, shаll be submitted to the voters of any school district more often than once in 6 months, anything in part 1 or pаrt 2 of this act to the contrary notwithstanding.”
The house of representatives objected to the рrovision that “no question or measure * * * shall be submitted to the voters of any school district more often than once in 6 months,” and changed the language to read “the same question or measure * * * shall not be submitted to the voters of any school district more often than once in 6 months.”
The senate accepted this amendment, and the school code of 1955 (PA 1955, No 269) was passed by the senate on May 26, 1955, and became effective July 1,1955.
In the recent case of
Chapel
v.
School District No. 8, Fractional, Parma Township, Jackson County,
334
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Mich 176, this Court held that we cannot restrict sucсessive elections in a school district unless such restrictions are established by statute. We held in
People
v.
Labbe,
There was a marked difference of $835,000 in the amount of the bond issue submitted to thе electors on November 8, 1955, and the one submitted on December 13, 1955; and, also, the items and purposes set forth in the bond issue of December 13, 1955, were materially different from those submitted on November 8,1955.
Wе cannot agree with appellants’ contention that the submission of the bond issue in December сonstituted an effort to evade the express words of the statute, nor can we agree that it wаs the legislative-intent that the bond question should not have been submitted to the electorate in December, 1955.
The trial court correctly interpreted the legislative intent as expressed in the act.
Judgment affirmed. No costs, the question involved being of a public nature.