...charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of the three departments of government, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except as otherwise expressly directed iii the Constitution. The argument of appellant is that this law requires...

...departments, Legislative, Executive and Judicial, and declared that "no person, being of one of those departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except in the instances expressly provided in this Constitution." Const, of 1839, Art. 2: Thomp. Dig.,...

...subsequent Constitutions, as follows: "Sec. 28. No person or collection of persons, being of one of those departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except in the instances hereinafter expressly directed or permitted." It is said in Pratt v. Breckinridge,...

...follows: "In said cities there shall be a legislative, an executive and a judicial department. Neither of these departments shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except as permitted in this act." It is insisted for appellee that the approval of a pay roll is an executive...

...language: "The powers of the government of this State are divided into three distinct departments — the legislative, executive and judicial; and no person...except as hereinafter expressly directed or permitted." To this question the greater part of the argument of the learned counsel on each side has been directed,...

...follows: "The powers of the government of this State are divided into three distinct departments — the legislative, executive and judicial ; and no person,...the others, except as hereinafter expressly directed Opinion of the Court. or permitted." It is said that if the foregoing provisions of the act imposed...

...constitution which distributes the powers of government into these three classes also provides that no person or collection of persons, being one of these...properly belonging to either of the others, except as afterwards expressly directed and permitted. Assessors of taxes and county clerks are ministerial officers,...

...three distinct departments, the legislative, executive and judicial, Opinion of the Court. and that no one of these departments shall exercise any power,...properly belonging to either of the others, except as expressly directed or permitted by those instruments. It is urged, that the appointment of the commissioners...

...the public authority between the executive, legislative and judicial departments, and provides that no person or collection of persons, being one of these...properly belonging to either of the others, except as in the said constitution expressly directed or permitted, and vests the whole judicial power of the...

...said : "The powers of the government of this state are divided into three distinct departments — legislative, executive and judicial; and no person...except as hereinafter expressly directed or permitted . . . This court has never acknowledged the power of the legislature to prescribe the amount of learning...