1:6-8 - Assessments on private, local and special acts;  amount;  time for payment;  effect of nonpayment

1:6-8.  Assessments on private, local and special acts;  amount;  time for payment;  effect of nonpayment    Each private, local or special act or supplement thereto constitutionally enacted by the legislature, except such as refer to benevolent, religious, charitable or educational institutions shall be assessed the sum of twenty-five  dollars, and, until such assessment is paid into the state treasury, no such  act shall have the force and effect of law;  and if any person interested in  any such act fails to pay the assessment thereon before the first day of July  next ensuing the passage thereof, the same shall cease, and be inoperative and  void, to all intents and purposes as though the same had not been passed.