Bellefonte, Pa., August 6, 1920.
——
THE FISHING OUTFIT.
You may talk of stylish raiment,
You may boast your broadcloth fine,
And he price you gave in payment
May be treble that of mine. a
But there's one suit I'd not trade you
Though it's shabby and it’s thf,
For the garb your tailor made you;
That's the tattered,
Mud-bespattered
Suit that I go fishing in.
There's no king in silks and laces
And with jewels on his breast
With whom I would alter places. ..
There's no man so richly dressed
Or so like a fashion panel
That his luxuries to win
I would swap my shirt of flannel ..
And the rusty
Frayed and dusty
Suit that I go fishing in.
*Tis an outfit meant for pleasure,
It is freedom’s raiment, too;
It’s a garb that I shall treasure
Till my time of life is through
Though perhaps it looks the saddest
Of all robes for mortal skin
I am proudest and I'm gladdest
In that easy
Old and greasy
Suit that I go fishing in.
(Copyright by Edgar A. Guest.)
THE DOG AND THE CROOK
This is only partially a dog story.
Otherwise it is a man story.
Seymore Kent was a good man and
intelligent. His dog “Doc” was an
Airedale, and his goodness and intel-
ligence were not recognized so gener-
ally as they were entitled to be re-
nized.
“Doc” never liked Henry Bross,
who for six months of a certain seed-
time and harvest worked at the Kent
farm. He would not make up with
im.
® Henry Bross was well thought of
by the Kents. He resigned his job
late in October to go to the city.
Only “Doc” was glad. He trailed the
man down to the road with never a
tail-wag, and then, having watched
him go over the hill towards the rail-
way station, wagged his tail back to
se.
By said Mr. Kent, thoughtful-
ly. “Doc, old boy, what’s wrong with
Henry ?” J
The animal answered the question
later. ; fwd
Mr. Kent arose one moring to fin
his automobile gone. Also to find his
one.
oi after breakfast the dog
came back. He yas yo weary and
spattered with mud. :
rat telephoned to the sheriff,
reporting the theft, and went on with
Lis work. The dor Sicha out
on the porch and rested.
“The py accompanied by a dep-
uty, appeared presently in a igh
powered car. The dog arose, yawne
and joined the men at the garage. He
followed when they traced the wheel-
the road. :
en: north,” said the sheriff.
After the tracks turned into the
were lost. : :
Te north.” The sheriff clim-
bed into his machine and called to the
eputy.
9 RWait,” said the i dog
i ing to say something.
® Bo ad A naarad a sympathet-
jc and understanding spirit in the
deputy and was alternately looking up
into his face and running down the
and back again.
road 2 says,” said the deputy, “that
there is something he wishes to show
me in the other eioeion from which
are headed sheriff. :
YFiddlesticks!” said the sheriff.
“Likely a squirrel’s nest.’ :
But he too was an understanding
man in a way, the sheriff, and he look-
ed at the dog seriously.
“Follow him and see what you
find,” he ordered.
The depaty ed the dog down
the road for perhaps three hundred
vards. At a clump of bushes by the
roadside the dog stopped and wagged
his tail.
“Well, what is it? ;
Into the thicket and out again went
the dog, greatly excited.
“Your meaning is plain enough,”
said the deputy. “I reckon I'll have
to accept your invitation and crawl in
there.”
Which he did, emerging presently
with an iron registration tag such as
is in common use for attaching to
automobiles.
“Well, I'll be jiggered!” ejaculated
the deputy, and hurried back to
where Mr. Kent and the sheriff were
waiting. “Was this tag taken from
your car?” he asked.
“That is my registration,” declared
Mr. Kent.
“Then,” asserted the deputy, “who-
ever took your car went north for
only a short distance, probably to the
crossroads, as a blind, and then turn-
ed into the thicket younded. The dog
saw them do it. Some dog.”
At this juncture Mr. Kent, stand-
ing with his hand on “Doc’s” head,
began to put two and two together,
as the saying is. He reasoned aloud
for the others’ benefit.
The dog must have followed the
thieves for miles. You will see he is
spattered with red mud, and there is
no red soil this side of the Riverton
district. But why did he come back ?”
There was very little gasoline in the
tank. It is possible the car stopped.”
“And he came back to get you be-
fore it started again,” suggested
the deputy, “and he couldn’t make
you underst:nd. Is that the way of
it, Mr. Dog?”
“Doc” wagged his tail violently.
“I is, by thunder,” cried the sherif?.
“Get in here, both of you—all three
2 and we’ll see what we can
nd.”
After an hour’s rapid driving, the
deputy suddenly put a hand on the
sheriff’s arm.
“There they are,” he said.
hard, sheriff.”
The car they were in quest of sto'xl
by the roadside at the foot of a long
hill. As they approached, a man
jumped from the car and started to
run across a field towards the timber.
“Shoot!” ordered the sheriff.
“Drive
The deputy drew his pistol and
fired. The man stopped and put up
his hands. 4
“Fine!” grunted the sheriff. “Go
get him.”
The deputy obeyed.
“Your car?” asked the sheriff when
the man stood before him.
“Mine and my partner’s.”
“Where is your partner?”
“Gone over yonder for gasoline.”
“IT see. Well, we’ll just put our-
selves out of sight behind that straw-
stack and wait for your partner.
“Take down the bars, Bill.”
It was perhaps a half-hour later
when a peculiar growl deep in the
throat of the dog, and a lifting of
the hair of his back gave warning
that someone was approaching. Yet
no one was in sight upon the road.
“Look!” whispered the deputy.
“Follow the dog’s nose. See! There
he is with a gasoline can, edging out
of the woods. He’s the foxy bird of
the two.”
“Henry Bross!” muttered Mr. Kent.
“Watch close!” commanded the
sheriff. “There! I knew it! He's
seen us. We'll have to run if we get
him. Shoot, Bill. Maybe he’s as yel-
low as his partner. What the—
With a growl which was almost a
roar “Doc” had broken away, and it
was less than three minutes later
when Henry Bross meekly clambered
down from a tree at the sheriff’s re-
quest.
“How much for the dog. Kent?”
asked the sheriff, as they stopped at
the Kent place on the return trip.
“You're owing him something, for I
fear these birds would have got clean
away if it hadn’t been for him.”
“Not for sale, Sheriff,” replied Mr.
Kent. And then, obeying a sudden
impulse, he dropped to one knee ard
put an arm affectionately around
“Doc’s” neck. “You good old—mis-
understood — Unappreciated— broth-
er!” he whispered brokenly.
More Sugar for You.
People who have soft-pedaled the
sugar bowl for six years may be in-
terested in the statement that crop
conditions on July 1 promised an in-
crease in next fall’s sugar production
in the United States; an increase
amounting to, approximately, 333,000
tons or enough to load a train of
freight cars 70 or 75 miles long, al-
lowing 40 tons per car. This pros-
pective crop is equal to more than 22
pounds of sugar for every man, wo-
man, and child within the United
States, and the increase over last year
equals more than six pounds per per-
son. The sugar-beet crop this year
covers almost a million acres as
against the 5-year average of about
two-thirds of a million; and the
growing conditions on July 1 were
about the 10 year average.
More than half of which is intended
for sugar and the other half for syr-
up, after deducting considerable
amounts for planting the next crop.
There is a substantial increase in
acreage over last year, especially in
Louisiana where nearly all the cane
sugar of the United States is made.
The growing condition of the cane in
Louisiana is much better than last
vear but considerably under the aver-
age for the pastnine years. The De-
partment of Agriculture, which has
carried on a number of projects lool:
ing toward making this country self-
sustaining from a sugar standpoint,
in cooperating with other agencies in
protecting the crops from insects an:!
disease and otherwise promoting the
production and utilization of a bump-
er sugar crop. It should be borne in
mind, however, that the forecast for
1920 is based upon conditions on July
1, and the actual outrun would be
above or below this forecast accord-
ing as conditions between July 1 and
harvest are better or worse than av-
erage.
Potato Wart Makes First Appearance.
The dreaded potato wart disease,
imported from Europe to Pennsyl-
vania two years ago, has been found
to attack the tomato plant in the in-
fected districts of Pennsylvania,
through the investigations carried on
since its discovery. Small galls are
to be found clinging to the roots of
tomato plants growing in soil that
has produced warty potatoes, but so
far as now known, the disease pro-
duces no further injury to the plant
and does not effect the fruit of the
tomato. Specialists from the Penn-
sylvania State College continued their
investigation of the wart disease at
Freeland with renewed efforts this
spring, in cooperation with the U. S.
Department of Agriculture. All of
the usual truck and farm crops have
been tried on the infected soil, but
the tomato is the only plant attacked.
It has been found that seventeen of
the sixty-three American varities of
potato grown at the Freeland laboru-
tory are immune from the disease.
More native varities are beine tested
this year. Parts of seven Pennsyl-
vania counties are infected with the
disease, and quarantines have been
placed in a number of towns and dis-
tricts in Luzerne, Carbon, Schuylkill,
Lackawanna, Cambria, Centre and
Clearfield. Only immune varieties
are undesirable necessities. Thus
far it has been proved that
steam sterilization of the infected soil
will kill the disease, as will also
steam and formaldehyde combined.
But these are expensive methods, and
the work this year may bring out a
Lette plan for complete eradication.
Big Trade in Old Papers.
A curious item of commercial news
is that the east coast district of the
island of Sumatra in 1918 imported
886,835 pounds of “second-hand news-
papers” from the United States. Im-
ports of the same of merchandise
from January 1 to September 1, of
last year, were 572,585 pounds. The
papers are wanted to cover young
sprouts of rubber trees and sugar
cane. The climate of the island iz
very hot—as might be surmised from
the circumstance that the equator
runs through the middle of it—and, to
prevent the sprouts burning up in
the fierce sunshine, sheets of paper
are spread over them. Old newspa-
pers serve the purpose very well, each
sheet being held down with stones at
the corners. In Hawaii the same
method of protection is adopted, but
in that archipelago sheets of rice pa-
per, imported from Japan, are used.
INDIAN SYMBOLS
To the old-time Indian warrior the
wearing of feathers was a serious
matter. He adopted only the feath-
ers of certain birds and wore them
in accordance with well-understood
law and custom.
He held in high honor the eagle,
the raven and the falcon, commonly
called the hawk. The owl and some
of the waterfowl, such as the loon,
the cormorant and the pelican, played
a minor part in Indian myths and
folklore, for in the warriors’ codes and
emblems only the dashing and cour-
ageous birds of prey were permitted
to appear—the eagle standing first.
The feathers of this bird were
highly prized, since they stood for
brave deeds. They were variously
worn among different tribes. Perhaps
the best and completest system
was developed by the Sioux nation,
a system that their neighbors on the
plains gradually adopted.
No Sioux could wear an eagle’s tail
feather unless he had counted a coup,
or stroke, upon an enemy dead. or
alive. In a battle his fellow warriors
were witnesses of the deed; but if
he was alone when he made the count,
to obtain the feather he must have
unmistakable proof.
There were four coup counts on
each enemy. If a man struck an en-
emy in a hand-to-hand battle and got
away without being killed or even
seriously hurt, he could count one
coup, but he might not kill his foe
and yet be able to count no coup.
The eagle feather is the only one
that represented a coup given in
battle, but other feathers and, subsid-
lary trimmings were used to express
various degrees of courage and endur-
ance. For example, a group of raven
on the sides indicated tna? the wear-
er had been wounded in a battie more
than once. A single goose feather
dyed red and trimmed meant that the
wearer was severely wounded in
battle. Sometimes a man wore an
eagle feather dyed or trimmed, mean-
ing that he was wounded at the time
he counted the coup. An eagle feath-
er with a notch dyed red meant that
the wearer counted the coup and took
the scalp also, but was wounded while
accomplishing it.
Perhaps he had the feather cut off
at the tip, showing that he had killed
his foe and counted the coup on the
same enemy. If he had a desperate
battle, with the odds against him, in
which he come off victor, he might
tip his eagle’s feather with buffalo
hair; and if he counted coup in a
charge on horseback in the face of
imminent danger, he was privileged
to tip the feather with hair from a
horse’s tail.
Among some tribes, the wearing of
a split feather denoted that the wear-
er had been wounded, and when the
feather was clipped off at the tip, that
he had taken a scalp. When a war-
rior wore one eagle feather upright
and the rest drooping it indicated
that he was surrounded in company
with a party of warriors of whom he
was the sole survivor.
When the Indian had won a number
of eagle feathers and had been sur-
rounded by the enemy, but succeeded
In getting away, he was entitled to
2 war bonnet. Only an exceptional
record of many battles in which he
had shown great coolness, skill and
daring entitled him to the long, trail-
Ing war bonnet of many plumes.
Other ornaments and parts of u
warrior’s dress bore a special signif-
icance. If he had been in the van-
guard of battle more than once and
had led counter-charges he might wear
the whole skin of a raven on his back
in the dances. If he had pursued his
enemy into the hostile camp and
killed him there, he might wear over
his shoulders an otter skin with the
head hanging upon his chest. A gart-
er made of skunk’s skin with the head
and tail on showed that he had suc-
cessfully taken a scalp under the
enemy’s fire. He adorned himself
with a grizzly bear’s claws if, on
having been surrounded, he had
charged singly, bear like, and repuls-
ed the enemy. The paws of a grizz-
ly bear, claws and all, donated that
he had knocked off or pulled off the
foe in a mounted encounter.
The addition of an ermine skin to
the war bonnet is an honor that few
warriors earned in the old days. It
was a degree of the highest type.
The man who was recognized as a
past master of courage, who had
achieved all the decorations of a pat-
riot and a true warrior, who was
dauntless in war, yet gentle at home,
a friend and a brother—he alone
might wear ermine upon his war bon-
net or trim his ceremonial shirt with
the beautiful white fur.
The addition of buffalo-hair trim-
ming to a warrior’s bonnet or shirt or
leggings indicated that he had taken
many scalps. If he was a chief, he
might even have a buffalo tail dangle
from one of his tepee poles.
Favoritism was unknown. No hon-
crs without the authority of the tribe
and the highest degrees were conferr-
ed only upon men who had been tried
again and again by every conceivable
ordeal.
At a public dance the warrior re-
counted his deed, acting it out for
the benefit of the younger element.
He could not add anything to it, be-
cause the event was already well
known. When the old customs were
intact, it was the old warriors who
claimed this privilege, and they, too,
were allowed to paint their bodies
in imitatiom pf their severe wounds.
I remembe¥r very well in a great
tribal dance that there were so manv
of these old men who enacted their
deeds with great spirit. One had
painted the upper half of his face
black, with zigzag lines representing
lightning, the whole symbolic of a
terrific battle. The lower part of his
face was painted red, with streaks
running from the mouth to the chin;
every Indian knew that he had been
wounded in the mouth. Another had
painted in the middle of his broad
chest a red hole, and from it there
ran red streaks, with a Crow arrow
depicted in realastic fashion.
These customs have their barbaric
side, but a really touching part of
them is that a warrior always shar-
ed his honors with his war horse.
Such a horse wore an eagle plume in
his forelock as proudly as his master,
and his tail or mane was trimmed and
dyed according to his rider's war rec-
ord.
Sometimes an acknowledged war-
rior decorated his long pipestem or
the handle of his war club. But no
Indian wore the honorable insignia of
another; in fact, he wore only what
had been awarded to him in due course
by the council of his tribe.
The Boy Scouts may, if they choose,
adapt this
counted in their organization, grad-
ing the various exploits in accordance
with the real manhood needed to ac-
complish them.
Paid for His Paper and Costs.
The Court of Common Pleas of
Lawrence County recently decided a
small case involving $5.40 in the in-
terest of a newspaper published in |
that county. It appears from the
evidence that a carrier delivered a
paper for a year and several months
to one Henry Seiber who refusd to
pay for it because he hadn’t ordered
it. Seiber accepted the paper and
the family read it. The court in in-
structing the jury said among other
things that Seiber in not refusing
the paper was party to an implied
contract to pay for what he got on
the same theory that if a merchant
delivers groceries to the wrong house
and the person who got the groceries
and used them, was liable, or a man
called to do a day’s work in a gar-
den and gets in the wrong lot and
works a day with the knowledge of
the owner of the lot, the man who re-
ceived the benefit of that man’s work
was under obligations to pay for tha
labor, or the man who cleans anoth-
‘er’s pavement while the owner looks
on without ordering the workman
to stop, there is an implied contract
to pay .for that man’s service. The
same principle of law holds good,
said the Judge, when you receive a
paper through the mails. In accept-
ing the paper there is an implied con-
tract to pay for it.
The decision by the court in di-
recting a verdict against the mun
who read the paper in favor of the
publisher is not new as the question
has been decided by many of the
lower courts and upheld by appellate
courts of nearly every State in the
Union.—Huntingdon News.
Infected Areas are Under Scrutiny.
Ebensburg, July 29, 1920—Inspect-
ors D. C. Reese and H. L. Roberts of
the Potato Wart Quarantine Office
here, this week began the work of
visiting gardens in the districts quar-
antined for. Potato Wart Disease in
order to ascertain whether or not
each person who has planted pota-
toes has the necessary permit. Dur-
ing these visits the inspectors are
counting the rows, and the length so
that when digging time comes in the
fall there will be no mistake as to the
amount to be inspected. Every grow-
er of potatoes in infected areas should
read the reverse side of the permit,
with special attention to paragraph 2,
which provides for the present and
future in prohibiting the digging, har-
vesting or removal from the soil cf
any potatoes grown under the permit
except in the presence and with the
consent of an authorized inspector or
by his written permission. All per-
sons concerned will be visited prior to
the time of digging to arrange dates
for the inspection of the crop. The
foregoing applies only to the Bor-
oughs of Nant-y-Glo, Vintondale,
tilly with the adjoining area of
Washington township, villages of
Dunlo and Llanfair with the adjoin-
ing area of Adams township, borough
of Osceola Mills, with the adjoining
area of Rush township (Newtown),
Snow Shoe borough with the adjoining
area of Snow Shoe township, (Clar-
ence.)
For information regarding any mat
ters connected with the Potato Wart
Quarantine in the districts named,
pecple interested are requested to
write or phone to the Potato Wart
Quarantine office, room 203, Cambria
Trust Building, Ebensburg, or Bell
‘phone 21-M.
Something Else Again.
jenchere When did Rome begin to
fall ?
Freshie—I don’t know the exact
date, sir, but I see that roller skating
dates back to 1790—Buffalo Express.
——Subscribe for the Watchman.
ROPOSED AMENDMENTS 7»? THE
P CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
MONWEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL
OR REJECTION, AT THE ELECTION
TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY, NOVEM-
BER 2, 1920, BY THE GENERAL AS-
THE COMMONWEALTH
OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUBLISHED
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF
THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PUR-
SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section eleven
of article sixteen of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met,
That the following amendment to the
Constitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania be, and the same is hereby,
proposed, in accordance with the eigh-
teenth article thereof: —
Amend section eleven, article sixteen of
the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, which reads as follows:
“No corporate body toe possess banking
and discounting privileges shall be created
or organized in pursuance of any law
without three months’ previous public
notice, at the place of the intended loca-
tion, of the intention to apply for such
privileges, in such manner as shall be pre-
scribed by law, nor shall a charter for
such privilege be granted for a longer
period than twenty years,” so that it shall
read as follows:
The General Assembly shall have the
power by general law to provide for the
incorporation of banks and trust com-
panies, and to prescribe the powers
thereof.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1..
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine,
section eight of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Sen-
ate and House of Representatives in Gen-
eral Assembly met, That the following
amendment to the Constitution of Penn-
sylvania be, and the same is hereby, pro-
posed, in accordance with the eighteenth
article thereof: —
That article nine, section eight, be
amended to read as follows:
Section 8. The debt of any county,
city, borough, township, school district, or
system to the honors:
other municipality or incorporated dis-
trict, except as provided herein, and in
section fifteen of this article, shall never
exceed seven (7) per centum upon the
assessed value of the taxable property
therein, but the debt of the city of Phila-
delphia may be increased in such amount
that the total city debt of said city shall
not exceed ten per centum (10) upon the
assessed value of the taxable property
therein, nor shall any such municipality
or district incur any new debt, or increase
its indebtedness to an amount exceeding
two (2) per centum upon such assessed
valuation of property, .without the con-
sent of the electors thereof at a public
election in such manner as shall be pro-
vided by law. In ascertaining the bor-
rowing capacity of the city of Philadel-
phia, at any time, there shall be deducted
from such debt so much of the debt of
said city as shall have been incurred, or
is about to be incurred, and the proceeds
thereof expended, or about to be expended,
upon any public improvement, or in the
construction, purchase, or condemnation
of any public utility, or part thereof, or
facility thereof, if such public improve-
ment or public utility. or part thereof,
whether separately or in connection with
any other public improvement or public
utility, or part thercof, may reasonably
be expected to yield revenue in excess of
operating expenses sufficient to pay the
interest and sinking fund charges thereon.
The method of determining such amount,
so to be deducted, may be prescribed by
the General Assembly.
In incurring indebtedness for any pur-
pose the city of Philadelphia may issue its
obligations maturing not later than fifty
(60) years from the date thereof, with
provision for sinking-fund sufficient to
retire said obligations at maturity, the
payment to such sinking-fund to be in
equal or graded annual or other periodi-
cal installments. Where any indebtedness
shall be or shall have been incurred by
said city of Philadelphia for the purpose
of the construction or improvements of
: public works or utilities of any character,
{ from which income or revenue is to be
derived by said city, or for the reclama-
tion of land to be used in the construction
of wharves or docks owned or to be owned
by said city, such obligations may be in
an amount sufficient to provide for, and
may include the amount of, the interest
and sinking-fund charges accruing and
which may accrue thereon throughout
the period of construction, and until the
expiration of one year after the com-
pletion of the work for which said in-
debtedness shall have been incurred; and
said city shall not be required to levy a
tax to pay said interest and sinking-fund
charges as required by section ten, article
nine of the Constitution of Pennsylvania,
until the expiration of said period of one
vear after the completion of said work.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
MONWEALTH, FOR THEIR APPROVAL
OR REJECTION. BY THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH
OF PENNSLYVANIA, AND PUBLISHED
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF
THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PUOR-
SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One-A,
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article three
(III) of the Constitution of the Com-
minwealth of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General
Assembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania
be, and the same is hereby, proposed, in
accordance with the eighteenth article
thereof :—
That article three be amended by add-
ing thereto the following: .
Section 34. The Legislature shall have
power to classify counties, cities, bor-
oughs, school districts, and townships ac-
cording to population, and all laws passcd
relating to each class, and all laws passed
relating to, and regulating procedure and
procezdings in court with reference to.
any class, shall be deemed general legis-
lation within the meaning of this Con-
stitution; but counties, cities and school
districts shall not be divided into more
than seven classes, and boroughs into not
more than five classes.
3 true copy of Joint
1A.
Pron AMENDMENTS TO THE
Resolution No.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two-A
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article three,
section six of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, so
that the subject of an amendment or
supplement to a law and the subject
to which such law is extended or on
which it is conferred shall be clearly
expressed in its title.
Be it resolved by the Senate and the
House of Representatives of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania
be, and the same is hereby, proposed, in
accordance with the eighteenth article
thereof :—
That section six of article three be
amendad so as to read as follows:
Section 6. No law shall be revived,
amended, or the provisions thereof ex-
tended or conferred, by reference to its
title only. So much thereof as is revived.
amended, extended, or conferred shall
be reenacted and published at length,
and the subject of the amendment or sup-
plement and the subject to which such
law is extended or on which it is con-
ferred shall be clearly expressed in its
title.
a true copy of Joint Resolution No.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section one,
article eight of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Sen-
ate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen-
eral Assembly met, That the following
amendment to the Constitution of Penn-
sylvania be, and the same is hereby, pro-
posed, in accordance with the eighteenih
article, thereof :—
That section one of article eight, which
reads as follows:
“Section 1. ¥Every male citizen twenty-
one years of age, possessing the follow-
ing qualifications, shall be entitled to vote
at all elections, subject, however, to such
laws requiring and regulating the regis-
tration of electors as the General As-
sembly may enact:
“First. He shall have been a citizen
of the United States at least one month.
“Second. He shall have resided in the
State one year (or, having previously
been a qualified elector or native-born
eitizen of the State, he shall have re-
moved therefrom and returned, then six
moni), immediately preceding the elec-
tion, .
“Third. He shall have resided in the
election district where he shall offer to
vote at least two months immediately
preceding the election.
“Fourth. If twenty-two years of age
and upwards, he shall have paid, within
two years, a State or county tax, which
shall have been assessed at least two
months, and paid at least one month
before the election,” be amended so that
the same shall read as follows:
Section 1. Every citizen male or
female of twenty-one years of age, pos-
sessing the following qualifications, shall
be entitled to vote at all elcetions, sub-
ject, however, to such laws requiring and
regulating the registration of electors as
the General Assembly may enact:
First. He or she shall have been a
citizen of the United States at least one
month.
Second. He or she shall have resided
in the State one year (or, having pre-
viously been a qualified elector or native-
born citizen of the State, he or she shall
have removed therefrom and returned,
then six montlis), immediately preceding
the election.
Third. He or she shall have resided in
the election district where he or she shall
offer to vote at least two months im-
mediately preceding the election.
Fourth, If twenty-two years of age
and upwards, he or she shall have paid,
within two years, a State or county tax,
which shall have been assessed at least
two months and paid at least one month
before the election.
Fifth. Wherever the words “he,” “his,”
“him,” and “himself” occur in any sec-
tion of article eight of this Constitution,
the same shall be construed as if written,
respectively, ‘he or she,” ‘his or her,”
“him or Ler,” and “himself or herself.”
a true copy of Joint Resolution No.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Four-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section one
(1) of article fifteen (XV) of the Con-
stitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Sen-
ate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen-
eral Assembly met, That the following
amendment to the Constitution of Penn-
sylvania be and the same is hereby, pro-
posed, in accordance with the eighteenth
article thereof :—
That section one of
which reads as follows:
“Section 1. Cities may be chartered
whenever a majority of ‘the electors of
any town or borough having a population
of at least ten thousand shall vote at any
general election in favor of the same,”
be, and the same is hereby, amended to
read as follows:
Section 1. Cities may be chartered
whenever a majority of the electors of
any town or borough having a population
of at least ten thousand shall vote at any
general or municipal election in favor of
the same. Cities, or cities of any partic-
ular class, may be given the right and
power to frame and adopt their owa
charters and to exercise the powers and
authority of local self-government, sub-
ject, however, to such restrictions. limi-
tations, and regulations, as may be im-
posed by the Legislature. Laws also
mdy be enacted affecting the organiza-
tion and government of cities and bor-
oughs, which shall become effective in any
city or borough only when submitted to
the electors chereof, and approved by a
majority of those voting thereon.
12 true copy of Joint Resolution No.
article fifteen,
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number 5-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to article nine,
® section seven of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Sen-
ate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen-
eral Assembly met, That the following
amendment to the Constitution of Penn.
sylvania be, and the same is hereby, pro-
posed, in accordance with the eighteenth
article thereof :—
That article nine, section seven
amended to read as follows: be
Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not authorize any county, city, bor-
ough, township, or incorporated district
to become a stockholder in any company,
association, or corporation, or to o tain
or appropriate money for, or to loan its
credit to, any corporation, association,
institution, or individual.
This section shall not apply to any con-
tract entered into by the city of Phila-
delphia under legislative ahonty with
respect to the use or operation of transit
facilities, whether furnished by the city
or by a private corporation or party or
jointly by either or both. Nor shall
this section be construed to prohibit the
city of Philadelphia from acquiring by
contract or condemnation in the franchises
and property of any company owning or
operating transit facilities, or any part
thereof, within its corporate limits or
the shares of stock of the corporation
owning cr operating the same, or any part
thereof.
cd true copy of Joint Resolution No.
: CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Six-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Consti-
tution of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania so as to consolidate the courts
of common pleas of Philadelphia
County.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of. the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General
Assembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania
be, and the same is hereby, proposed, in
accordance with the eighteenth article
thereof :—
That section six of article five be
amended so as to read as follows: —
Section 6. In the county of Philadel-
phia all the jurisdiction and powers now
vested in the several numbered courts of
common pleas of that county shall be
vested in one court of common pleas com-
posed of all the judges in commission in
said courts. Such jurisdiction and powers
shall extend to all proceedings at law
and in equity which shall have been in-
stituted in the several numbered courts,
and shall be subject to such change as
may be made by law, and subject to
change of venue as provided by law. The
president judge of the said court shall
be selected as provided by law. The num-
ber of judges in said court may be by
law increased from time to time. This
amendment shall take effect on the first
day of January succeeding its adoption.
In the county of Allegheny all the juris-
diction and powers now vested in the sev-
eral numbered courts of common pleas
shall be vested in one court of common
pleas composed of all the judges in com-
mission in said courts. Such jurisdiction
and powers shall extend to all proceed-
ings at law and in equity which shall
have been instituted in the several num-
bered courts, and shall be subject to such
change as may be made by law, and sub-
ject to change of venue as provided by
law. The president judge of the sald
court shall be selected as provided by
law. The number of judges in said court
may be by law increased from time to
time, This amendment shall take effect
on the first day of January succeeding
its adoption.
ob true copy of Joint Resolution No.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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