9 Neb. 203 | Neb. | 1879
This is an application for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the defendant, who is county clerk of Dawson county, to post notices for the election of three county commissioners for his county at the general election to be held in November.
Section 55 of the act concerning counties, approved March 1,1879, Laws of 1879, 370, provides that “ at the first election held to choose the board of commissioners under this act in anycounty, the person having the highest number of votes shall continue in office for three years, the next highest two years, and the next highest one year; but if any two or more persons have the same number of votes, their term of office shall be determined by the board of canvassers, and each commissioner elected at the first general election as
In the case of Fullerton v. Spring et al., 3 Wis. 671, in a similar case the court say: “It is clear that the effect of this repeal and re-enactment was to continue the uninterrupted operation of the statute. Such is believed to be the proper rule of construction in cases where the repealing act re-enacts a provision of the old statute in the same words. There is no change in the law, and the re-enactment of the new is simultaneous with the repeal of the old provision, and both are the same.
In Wright v. Oakley, 5 Met., 406, the court say: “In terms the whole body of the statute law was repealed ; but these repeals went into operation simultaneously with the revised statutes which were substituted for them, and were intended to replace them, with such modifications as were intended to be made that revision. There was no moment in which the repealing act stood in force without being replaced by the corresponding provisions of the revised statutes.”
It is clear that section 55 is a mere continuation of
Writ denied.