A  kindred  subject  is  treated  in  the
chapter  on  Municipal  Officers:  "  Special
Tribunal  to  determine  Election  Contests
for  Municipal  Offices,"  ante,  sec.  200,
and  it  is  there  shown  that  the  ordinary
constitutional  provision  that  the  judicial
power  shall  be  vested  in  certain  courts
does  not  disable  the  legislature  from  pro
viding  that  the  council  of  municipal  cor
porations  may  finally  determine  the  valid
ity  of  the  election  of  corporation  officers
New  Orleans  v.  Morgan,  7  Martin  (La.)
N.  s.  1,-9  Martin,  repr.  381  ;  State  v,
Fitzgerald,  44  Mo.  425  (1869)  ;  Ewing  v,
Filley,  43  Pa.  St.  384  ;  State  v.  Johnson
17  Ark.  407.  But  the  supervisory  juris^
diction  of  the  superior  courts  will  not  be
held  to  be  taken  away  by  mere  negative
words.  Grier  v.  Shackleford,  Const.  Rep.
642  ;  State  v.  Fitzgerald,  supra ;  Com-
monwealth v.  MeCloskey,  2  Rawle  (Pa.),
369  ;  Strahl,  In  re,  16  Iowa,  369  ;  State
v.  Funck,  17  Iowa,  365  ;  Bateman  v.
Megowan,  1  Met.  (Ky.)  533  ;  Wammack
v.  Hollovvay,  2  Ala.  31  ;  Hummer  v.
Hummer,  3  G.  Greene  (Iowa),  42;  State
v.  Marlow,  15  Ohio  St.  114;  Attorney-
General  v.  Corporation  of  Poole,  4  Mylne
&  Cr.  17  ;  Attorney-General  v.  Aspinall,
2  Mylne  &  Cr.  613;  Parr  v.  Attorney-
General,  8  CI.  &  F.  409  ;  Taylor  v.  Ameri-
cus,  39  Ga.  59  ;  State  v.  Kempf,  69  Wis.
470  ;  post,  chaps,  xx.  xxi. ,  xxii.;  post,  sec.
926.
