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Bob Ferguson

AGO 1954 NO. 282 >

1.  Where a later act covers the entire subject of earlier legislation, it is completely within itself and is evidently intended to supersede the prior legislation, there is a repeal of the prior legislation by implication. 2.  In conclusion, a provision allowing payment from the county general expense fund among other general provisions leads to such provision being applicable to all the provisos of the considered section.