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 homestead right was gone. The court, in discussing the case, say: "If it requires future action of the legislature to provide what a homestead shall be, then this section of the constitution is inoperative to protect a homestead until such act is passed. It appears strange to us that it should be contended that this clause of the constitution is legislation so completely covering the whole ground of homestead exemption as to suspend all former laws on that subject, and at the same time that it is so incomplete as to be wholly inoperative." Goldman v. Clark, 1 Nev. 610.

We are, then, inevitably led to this position: Whether or not article 20 of our constitution repealed chapter 26 of the Laws of 1879 depends upon whether or not said article is self-executing, and this latter position, in turn, depends upon whether or not the legal machinery exists for its enforcement. On the argument both parties contended that the article was self-executing, but from widely different views as to the result. Relator claims it to be self-executing, and as a result the repeal of the entire license system, including penalties, follows. Respondent claims it was self-executing, but did not repeal the license law, except as to selling as a beverage, or, at most, repealed only the sections providing for license, and that the remaining provisions, being not inconsistent, stood, and that article 20 attached to it, for its own enforcement, the penalties of the old law, and in that form stood a complete penal law. Counsel for relator cites on this point Norton v. Taxing District, etc., 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 322. The case went up from Tennessee. The constitution of 1834 of that state gave the legislature "power to authorize the several counties and incorporated towns in this state to impose taxes for county and corporation purposes, respectively, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law; and all property shall be taxed according to its value, upon the principles established in regard to state taxation." Article 2, § 29. Under that constitution the legislature authorized the city of Brownsville, by act of Feb. 8, 1870, by a majority vote, to issue bonds and subscribe to the stock of railroad corporations. At an election held for that purpose all the votes cast were in favor of the proposition. But before the bonds were issued, or the election held, the state