14 Minn. 524 | Minn. | 1869
By the Gourt
On the 23d day of February, 1869, the legislature passed an act entitled “An
On the argument, several questions were raised, but we deem it necessary to consider only one; that question is, whether so much of said act as provides for the division of the town of High Forest, and the organization of a new town, is in conflict with the constitution. Sea. 27 of Art. 4 of that instrument provides: “ No law shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its tille. ”
The exigencies of legislation require that this provision should not be so strictly construed as to cripple the legislature, by prohibiting the insertion into laws of those matters which, though they may not be specifically expressed in the title, are proper to the full accomplishment of the object so expressed ; such is presumed to have been the intention of its authors ; courts, therefore, give it a liberal construction. The insertion in a law of matters which may not be verbally indicated by the title, if suggested by it, or connected with, or proper to the more full accomplishment of the object so indicated, is held to be in accordance with its spirit; but a more liberal construction cannot be given,
A peremptory writ must issue.