5.  An  act,  providing  for  the  appointment  by  the  governor,  or
other  person,  of  an  officer  for  a  town  or  city  incorporated  before
the  adoption  of  the  present  constitution,  is  unconstitutional.
Speed  &  Worthington  v.  Crawford,  3  Met.  212.
6.  An  act,  creating  an  office,  but  failing  to  designate  the  period
for  which  one,  appointed  or  elected,  shall  hold  the  office,  is  uncon-
stitutional.   Speed  &  Worthington  v.  Crawford,  3  Met.  213.
7.  Under  the  law  in  force  when  the  mayor  and  city  attorney  of
L.  were  elected,  they  were  entitled  to  hold  their  respective  offices
for  two  years.    After  they  were  elected,  the  legislature,  by  act,


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reduced  the  term  to  one  year  and  provided  for  the  election  of
successors.  Seld:  The  law  is  constitutional.  Btandeford  v.
Wingate,  2  Duv.  440-442.
IX.    LAWS   IMPAIRING   THE   RIGHTS   OP   CORPORATIONS.
1.  When  the  privilege  of  selling  lottery  tickets  is  given,  by  act
of  the  legislature,  without  a  bonus,  an  act  allowing  a  city,  within
whose  limits  such  tickets  are  sold,  a  right  to  tax  the  sale,  is  not
unconstitutional.     Wendover  v.  Lexington,  15  B.  Mon.  262.
2.  A  reservation  by  the  legislature,  in  an  act  creating  a  private
corporation,  of  the  right  to  alter,  amend,  or  repeal  the  charter,
gives  no  right  to  add  to  the  original  number  of  trustees  men  of  its
own  selection,  without  the  assent  of  the  original  trustees  or  their
successors.     Sage  v.  Dillard,  15  B.  Mon.  356-358.
