26 Pa. Super. 243 | Pa. Super. Ct. | 1904
Opinion by
The plaintiff company is the publisher of a newspaper in the county of Lycoming, and the defendant was in 1902 the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of said county. The defendant caused the list of applicants for license to sell liquors, for the
The contention is that this special local act must, as to the county of Lycoming, control and modify the manner in which the list of applications for license to sell liquors is authorized and required to be made by the Act of July 30, 1897, P. L. 464, section 3. The provisions of the latter act, in so far as material, are: “ Every person intending to apply for license as aforesaid under the provisions of this or any other act of assembly in any city or county of this commonwealth, on or after the passage of this act, shall file with the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of the proper county his, her or their petition, at least three weeks before the first day of the session of the court at which the same is to be heard, and shall, at the same time, pay said clerk five dollars for expenses connected therewith; and said clerk shall cause to be published two times in three newspapers designated by him, one of which may be printed in the German language, the list containing the names of all such applicants, their respective residences, and the place for which application is to be made; . . . . Provided, the amount to be paid for such advertisements shall not, in the aggregate, exceed the five dollars provided in this section to be paid by such applicants for expenses.” The argument of the plaintiff is, that the act of 1897 requires the publication in more than one newspaper, that the special local act of 1873 is not repealed by the general act of 1897, and that, therefore, one of the three newspapers in which the notice is published must be that having the largest bona fide circulation, notwithstanding the requirement of the act of 1897 that the three newspapers shall be designated by the clerk.
The Act of July 30, 1897, P. L. 464, entitled, “ An act to
A general affirmative statute will not repeal a previous particular statute upon the same subject, though the provisions of the former be different from those of the latter: Bell v. Allegheny County, 149 Pa. 381; Murdock’s Petition, supra. The appellee invokes this rule but we cannot agree that it is applicable to this case. “The rule is one of construction adopted in order to settle judicially the legislative intent in the absence of words declaring such intent: ” Commonwealth
The judgment is reversed and judgment is now entered in favor of the defendant.