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April.
The Deacons were at supper.
the middle of the table was a small,
appealing tulip plant, looking as any-
thing would look whose sun was a
gas jet. This gas jet was high above
the table and flared with a sound.
“Better turn down the gas jest a
little,” Mr. Deacon said, and stretched
up to do so. He made this joke almost !
He seldom spoke as a |
every night.
man speaks who has something to say,
but as a man who makes something
to say.
“Well, what have we on the festive
board tonight?” he questioned, eyeing
it. “Festive” was his favorite adjec-
tive. “Beautiful,” too. In October he
might be heard asking: “Where's my
beautiful fall coat?”
“We have creamed salmon,” replied
Mrs. Deacon gently. “On toast,” she
added, with a scrupulous regard for
the whole truth. Why she should say
this so gently no one can tell. She
says everything gently. Her “Could
you leave me another bottle of milk
this morning?” would wring a milk-
man’s heart.
“Well, now, let us see,” said Mr.
Deacon, and attacked the principal
dish benignly. “Let us see,” he added,
as he served.
“I don’t want any,” said Monona.
The child Monona was seated upon
a book and a cushion, so that her
little triangle of nose rose adultly
above her plate. Her remark pro-
duced precisely the effect for which
she had passionately hoped.
“What’s this?” cried Mr. Deacon
“No salmon?”
“No,” said Monona, inflected up,
chin pertly pointed. She felt het
power, discarded her “sir.”
“Oh now, Pet!” from Mrs. Deacon,
on three notes. “You liked it before.”
“I don’t want any,” said Monona, in
precisely her original tone.
“Just a little? A very little?” Mr.
Deacon persuaded, spoon dripping.
The child Monona made her lips thin
and straight and shook her head until
her straight hair flapped in her eves
on either side. Mr. Deaccn’s eyes anx-
fously consulted his wife’s eyes. What
is this? Their progeny will not eat?
What can be supplied?
“Some bread and milk!” cried Mrs.
Deacon brightly, exploding on “bread.”
One wondered how she thought of it.
“No,” said Monona, inflection up,
chin the same. She was affecting in-
difference to this scene, in which her
soul delighted. She twisted her head,
bit her lips unconcernedly, and turned
her eyes to the remote,
There emerged from the fringe of
things, where she perpetually hovered,
Mrs. Deacon's older sister, Lulu Bett,
who was “making her home with us.”
And that was precisely the case. They
were not making her a home, good-
ness knows. Lulu was the family
beast of burden.
“Can't I make her a little milk
toast?” she asked Mrs. Deacon.
Mrs. Deacon hesitated, not with
compunction at accepting Lulu’s offer,
not diplomatically to lure Monona.
But she hesitated habitually, by na-
ture, as another is by nature vivacious
or brunette.
“Yes!” shouted the child Monona.
The tension relaxed. Mrs. Deacon
assented. Lulu went to the kitchen.
Mr. Deacon served on. Something of
this scene was enacted every day. For
Monona the drama never lost its zest.
It never occurred to the others to let
her sit without eating, once, as a cure-
all. The Deacons were devoted par-
ents and the child Monona was deli-
cate. She had a white, grave face,
white hair, white eyebrows, white
lashes. She was sullen, anemic. They
let her wear rings. She “toed in.”
The poor child was the late birth of
a late marriage and the principal joy
which she had provided for them thus
far was the pleased reflection that
they had produced her at all.
“Where's your mother, Ina?” Mr.
Deacon inquired. “Isn’t she coming
to her supper?”
“Tantrim,” said Mrs. Deacon softly.
“Qh, ho,” said he, and said no more.
The temper of Mrs. Bett, who also
lived with them, had days of high vi-
bration when she absented herself
from the table as a kind of self-
indulgence, and no one could persuade
her to food. “Tantrims,” they called
these occasions.
“Baked potatoes,” said Mr. Deacon.
“That's good—that’s good. The baked
potato contains more nourishment
than potatoes prepared in any other
way. The nourishment is next to the
skin. Roasting retains it.”
“That’s what I always think,” said
his wife pleasantly.
For fifteen years they had agreed
about this,
They ate, in the indecent silence of
first savoring food. A delicate crunch-
ing of crusts, an odor of baked-potato
shells, the slip and touch of the
silver.
“Num, num, nummy-num!” sang the
child Monona loudly, and was hushed
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by both parents in simultaneous excla-
mation which rivaled this lyric out-
burst. They were alone at table.
daughter of a wife early lost to Mr.
Deacon, was not there, Di was hardly
ever there. She was at that age.
That age, in Warbleton.
A clock struck the half hour.
“It’s curious,” Mr. Deacon observed,
“how that clock loses. Tt must he fally
quarter to.” He consulted his watch.
“It is quarter to!” he exclaimed with
satisfaction. “I'm pretty good ar
guessing time.”
“I’ve noticed that!” cried his Ina.
“Last night, it was only twenty-
three to, when the half hour struck.”
hie reminded her.
“Twenty-one, I thought.” She was
tentative, regarded him with arched
eyebrows, mastication suspended.
This point was never to be settled.
The colloquy was interrupted by the
child Monona. whining for hey toast.
And the doorbell rang.
“Dear me!” said Mr. Deacon.
“What can anybody be thinking of to
call just at mealtime?”
He trod the hall, flung open the
street door. Mrs. Deacon listened.
Lulu, coming in with the toast, was
warned to silence by an uplifted fin- !
ger. She deposited the toast, tiptoed
to her chair. A withered baked pe-
tato and cold creamed salmon were
on her plate. The child Monona ate
with shocking appreciation. Nothing |
could be made of the voices in the
hall. But Mrs. Bett’'s door was heard
softly to unlatch. She, too, was lis-
tening.
A ripple of excitement was caused
in the dining room when Mr. Deacon
was divined to usher some one to the
parlor. Mr, Deacon would speak with
this visitor in a few moments and now
returned to his table. It was notable
how slight a thing would give him a
sense of self-importance. Now he felt
himself a man of affairs, could not |
even have a quiet supper with his
family without the outside world de-
manding him. He waved his hand to
indidate it was nothing which they
should know anything about, resumed
his seat, served himself to a second |
spoon of salmon and remarked, “More
“More Roast Duck, Anybody?” In a
Loud Voice.
roast duck, anybody?” in a loud voice
and with a slow wink at his wife.
That lady at first looked blank, as she
always did in the presence of any hu-
mor couched with the least indirec-
tion, and then drew back her chin and
caught her lower lip in her gold-filled
teeth. This was her conjugal rebuk-
ing.
Swedenborg always uses ‘“conju-
gial.” And really this sounds more
married. It should be used with ref-
erence to the Deacons. No one was
ever more married than they—at
least Mr. Deacon. He made little con-
jugal jokes in the presence of Lulu
who now, completely unnerved by the
habit, suspected them where they did
not exist, feared lurking entendre in
the most innocent comments, and be-
came more tense every hour of her
life,
And now the eye of the master of
the house fell for the first time upon
the yellow tulip in the center of his
table.
“Well, well!” he said. “What's this?”
Ina Deacon produced, fleetly, an un-
looked-for dimple.
“Have you been buying flowers?"
the master inquired.
“Ask Lulu,” said Mrs, Deacon.
He turned his attention full upon
Lulu.
“Suitors?” he inquired, and his lips
Di, |
laft their places to form a sort oa
ruff about the word.
Lulu flushed. and her eyes and the'r
very hrows appealed.
“1t. was a quarter,”
“There'll be five fluwers.”
“You bought it?”
“Yes. There'll
nickel apiece.”
His tone was as methodical as if he
had been talking about the bread.
“Yet we give you a home on the
fupnogition that you have no money
tc -pend, even for necessities.”
His voice, without resonance, cleft
air, thought, spirit, and even flesh.
Mrs. Deacon, indeterminately feel-
ing her guilt in having let loose the
dogs of her husband upon Lulu, in-
terposed: “Well, but, Herbert—Lulu
isn’t strong enough to work. What's
the. use :.: . 0
She dwindled. For years the fiction
had been sustained that Lulu, the
family beast of burden, was not strong
enough to work anywhere else.
“The justice husiness—” said Dwight
| Herbert Deacon—he was a justice of
the peace—“and the dental profes-
' slon—" he was also a dentist—“do not
. warrant the purchase of spring flow-
ers in my home.”
“Well, but, Herbert—"
wife again.
“No more,” he cried briefly, with a
she said.
Poa
be five—that's a
It was his
sticht bend of his head. “Lulu meant |!
ne harm,” he added, and smiled
Lulu,
at
num, nummy-num,” as if she were tlie
| burden of an Elizabethan lyric. She
i seemed to close the incident. But the
burden was cut off untimely. There
| was, her father reminded her posten-
' tously, company in the parlor.
| “When the bell rang, I was so afraid
i
Ina, sighing.
is little daughter tonight?”
He must have known that she was
at Jenny Plow’s at a tea party, for at
| noon they had talked of nothing else:
| but this was his way. And Ina played
| his game, always. She informed him,
: dutifully.
i “Qh, ho,” said he, absently. How
| could he be expected to keep his mind
. on these domestic trifies.
“We told you that this noon,” said
Lulu. He frowned, disregarded her.
, Lulu had no delicacy.
| “How much is salmon the can now?”
| he inquired abruptly—this was one of
his forms of speech, the can, the
pound, the cord.
His partner supplied this informa-
tion with admirable promptness. Large
! size. small size, present price, former
{ price—she had them all.
I *“Dear me,” said Mr. Deacon. “That
. ir very nearly salmoney, isn’t it?”
“Herbert!” his Ina admonished, in
gentle, gentle reproach. Mr. Deacon
punned, organically. In talk he often
feil silent and then asked some ques-
tion, schemed to permit Tis voice® to
fiourish. Mrs. Deacon’s return was
always automatic: “Herbert!”
| “Whose Bert?” he said to this.
thought I was your Bert.”
She shook her little head. “You are
a case,” she told him, He beamed
upon her. It was his intention to be
a case.
Luiu ventured in upon this pleas-
antry, and cleared her throat. She
was not hoarse, but she was always
: clearing her throat.
“The butter is about all gone,” she
observed, “Shall I wait for the butter-
woman or get some creamery?”
Mr. Deacon now felt his little jocu-
larity lost before a wall of the matter
of fact. He was not pleased. He saw
himself as the light of his home,
bringer of brightness, lightener of dull
hours. It was a pretty role. He in-
sisted upon it. To maintain it intact,
it was necessary to turn upon their
sister with concentrated irritation.
“Kindly settle these matters with-
out bringing them to my attention at
mealtime,” he said icily.
Lulu flushed and was silent. She
was an olive woman, once handsome,
now with flat, bluish shadows under
her wistful eyes. And if only she
would look at her brother Herbert and
say something. But she looked at her
plate.
“I want some honey,” shouted the
child, Monona.
“There isn’t any, Pet,” said Lulu.
“I want some,” said Monona, eyeing
her stonily. But she found that her
hair-ribbon could be pulled forward to
meet her lips, and she embarked on
the biting of an end. Lulu departed
for some sauce and cake. It was
apple sauce. Mr. Deacon remarked
that the apples were almost as good
as if he had stolen them. He was
giving the impression that he was an
irrepressible fellow. He was eating
very slowly. It added pleasantly to his
sense of importance to feel that some
one, there in the parlor, was waiting
his motion.
At length they rose. Monona flung
herself upon her father. He put her
aside firmly, every inch the father.
No, no. Father was occupied now.
Mrs. Deacon coaxed her away. Monona
encircled her mother’s waist, lifted her
own feet from the floor and hung
upon her. “She's such an active
child,” Lulu ventured brightly.
“Not unduly active, I think,” her
brother-in-law observed.
He turned upon Lulu his bright
smile, lifted his eyebrows, dropped his
lids, stood for a moment contemplat-
ing the yellow tulip, and so left the
room.
Lulu cleared the table. Mrs. Dea-
con essayed to wind the clock. Weli,
now. Did Herbert say it was twenty-
three tonight when it struck the half
hour and twenty-one last night, or
twenty-one tonight and tast night
twenty-three? She talked of it as they
cleared the table, but Lulu did not
talk.
“Can’t you remember? Mrs, Deu-
“1
There was a moment's silence into |
‘ which Monona injected a loud “Nun. '
| something had happened to Di,” said |
“Let's see.” said Di’s father. “Where !
i con said at last. “I should think you
might be useful.”
| Lulu was lifting the yellow tuiip
! to set it on the sill. She changed her
| mind. She took the plant to the wood-
‘shed and tumbled it with force upon
: the chip-pile.
i The dining room table was laid for
| breakfast. The two women brought
i their work and sat there. The chiid
Monona hung miserably about, watch-
ing the clock. Right or wrong, she
was put to bed by it. She had eight
| minutes more—seven—six—five—
Lulu laid down her sewing and left
the room. She went to the woodshed,
groped about in the dark, found the
stalk of the one tulip flower in its
heap on the chip-pile. The tulip she
| fastened in her gown on her flat chest.
Outside were to be seen the early
ftars. It is said that if our sun were
as near: to Arcturus as we are near
to our sup, the great Arcturus would
burn our sun to nothingness.
* * * * * *
|
|
*®
{ In the Deacons’ parior sat Bobby
: Larkin, eighteen, He was in pain ail
over. He was come on an errand
which civilization has contrived to
make an ordeal.
i Before him on the table stood a pho-
' tograph of Diana Deacon, also eighteen.
He hated her with passion. At school
: she mocked him, aped him, whispered
about him. loviured him. For two
vears he had hated her.
fell asleep planning to build a great
‘house and engage her as its servant.
Yet, 2s he waited, he could not keep
i his eves from this photograph. It
| was Di ot her curliest, at her fluffiest,
i Di conscious of her bracelet. Di smil-
{ ing. Bobby gazed, his basic aversion
to her hard-pressed by a most reluc-
| tant pleasure, He hoped that he would
{not see her, and he listened for her
| voice.
! Mr. Deacon descended upon him
{ with an air carried from his supper
hour, bland, dispensing. Well! Let
us have it. “What did you wish to see
me about?’—with a use of the past
tense as connoting something of indi-
rection and hence of delicacy—a
. nicety customary, yet unconscious
Bobby had arrived in his best clothes
and with an air of such formality that
Mr. Deacon had instinctively suspect-
ed him of wanting to join the church,
and, to treat the time with due sol-
emnity, had put him in the parlor un-
til he could attend at leisure,
Confronted thus by Di’s father, the
speech which Bobby had planned de-
serted him.
“TI thought if you would give me a
job,” he said defenselessly.
“So that’s it!” Mr. Deacon, who al-
ways awaited but a touch to be either
irritable or facetious, inclined now to
be facetious. “Filling teeth?’ he
would know.
Assistant justice or assistant dentist
—which?
Bobby blushed. No, no, but in that
big building of Mr. Deacon’s where his
office was, wasn’t there something
. . . It faded from him, sounded
ridiculous. Of course there was noth-
ing. He saw it now.
There was nothing. Mr. Deacon
confirmed him. But Mr. Deacon had
an idea. Hold on, he said—hold on.
The grass. Would Bobby consider
taking charge of the grass? Though
Mr. Deacon was of the type which
cuts its own grass and glories in its
vigor and its energy, yet in the time
after that which he called “dental
hours” Mr. Deacon wished to work in
4 [Fo
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a
ill
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tl
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“Oh, Hullo,” Said He. “No.
to See Your Father.”
1 Cams
nis garden. His grass, growing in late
April rains, would need attention early
next month . . . he owned two lots
~—*“of course properiy is a burden.” If
Bobby would care to keep the grass
down and raked . . Bobby would
care, accepted this business oppor-
tunity, figures and ail, thanked Mr.
Deacon with earnestness. Bobby's
aversion to Di, it seemed, should not
stand in the way of his advancement.
“Then that is checked off,” said Mr.
Deacon heartily.
Bobby waveted toward the door,
emerged on the porch, and ran almost
npon Di returning from her tea party
at Jenny Plow’s.
“Oh, Bobby! You came to see me?”
the was as fluffy, as curly, as smil-
ing as her picture. She was carrying
nink, gauzy favors snd a spear of
flowers. Undeniably in her voice there
was pleasure. Her glance was startled
but already complacent. She paused
on the steps. a lovely figure.
(Continued next week).
Nights he |
“Marrying folks, then?” |
ARSE
i CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
i THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
MONWEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL
OR REJECTION, AT THE ELECTION
TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY, NOVEM-
BER 7, 1922, BY THE GENERAL AS-
SEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTII
OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUBLISHED
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF
THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU-
ANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section one
(1) of article fifteen (XV) of the Con-
stitution of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania.
Section 1.
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 one of article fifteen, 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
i 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 own
| charters and to exercise the powers and
! authority of local seif-government, sub-
ject, however, to such restrictions, limi-
| tations, and regulations, as may be im-
posed by the Legislature. Laws also
may be enacted affecting the organization
and government of cities and boroughs,
{ which shall become effective in any city
ior borough only when submitted to the
: electors thereof, and approved by a ma-
| jority of those voting thereon.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1.
BERNARD J. MYERS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
: ROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
i CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
MONWEALTH, FOR THEIR APPROVAL
{OR REJECTION, BY THE GENERAL
| ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH
{ OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUBLISHED
i BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF
THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU-
{ANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE
{ CONSTITUTION.
Number One-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article seven-
teen, section eight, of the Constitution
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
authorizing the granting of free passes
or passes at a discount to clergymen.
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 eight of article seventeen,
which reads as follows:
“Section 8. No railroad, railway, or
other transportation company shall grant
free passes or passes at a discount to any
person, except officers or employees of the
company,” be amended to read as follows:
Section 8. No railroad, railway, or
other transportation company shall grant
free passes or passes at a discount to any
i person, except officers or employees of the
company and clergymen.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No.
BERNARD J. MYERS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
NUMBER 2-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine,
section four, of the Constitution 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 four of article nine, which
reads as follows:
“Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of the State, except to
supply casual deficiencies of revenue, repel
invasions, suppress insurrection, defend
the State in war, or to pay existing debt;
and the debt created to supply deficiencies
in revenue shall never exceed, in the ag-
gregate at any one time, one million dol-
lars: Provided, however, That the Gen-
eral Assembly, irrespective of any debt,
may authorize the State to issue bonds to
the amount of fifty millions of dollars
for the purpose of improving and rebuild-
ing the highways of the Commonweaith,”
be amended so as to read as follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created by
or on behalf of the State, except to
supply casual deficiencies of r ue,
repel invasions, suppress insurrection, de-
fend the State in war, or to pay existing
debt; and the debt created to supply de-
ficiencies in revenue shall never exceed, in
the aggregate at any one time, one mil-
lion dollars: Provided, however, That
the General Assembly, irrespective of any
debt, may authorize the State to issue
bonds to the amount of fifty millions of
dollars for the purpose of improving and
rebuilding the highways of the Common-
wealth: Provided further, however, That
the General Assembly, irrespective of
any debt, may authorize the State to
issue bonds to the amount of thirty-five
millions of dollars for the payment of
compensation to certain persons from this
State who served in the Army, Navy, or
Marine Corps of the United States,
during the World War, between the sixth
day of April, one thousand nine hundred
and seventeen, and the eleventh day of
November, one thousand nine hundred
and eighteen.
Section 2. Said proposed amendment
shall be submitted to the qualified elec-
tors of the State, at the general election
to be held on the Tuesday next following
the first Monday of November in the year
nineteen hundred and twenty-four, for
the purpose of deciding upon the approval
and ratification or the rejection of said
amendment. Said election shall be
opened, held, and closed upon said elec-
tion day at the places and within the
hours at and within which said election is
directed to be opened, held, and closed,
and in accordance with the provisions of
the laws of Pennsylvania governing elec-
tions. Such amendment shall be printed
upon the ballots in the form and manner
prescribed by the election laws of Penn-
sylvania, and shall in all respects conform
to the requirement of such laws.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No.
BERNARD J. MYERS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number 3-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine
De Et: of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, au-
thorizing the State to issue bonds to
the amount of one hundred millions of
dollars for the improvement of the high-
ways of the Commonwealth.
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 four of article nine, which
reads as follows:
“Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of the State, except to
supply casual deficiencies of revenue,
repel invasion, suppress isurrection, de-
ROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE |
Be it resolved by the Senate !
fend the State in war, or to pay existing
debt; and the debt created to supply de-
ficiencies in revenue shall never exceed, in
the aggregate at any one time, one mil-
lion dollars: Provided, however, That
the General Assembly, irrespective of
any debt, may authorize the State to
issue bonds, to the amount of fifty mil-
lions of dollars, for the purpose of im-
proving and rebuilding the highways of
the Commonwealth,” be amended so as
to read as follows:
Section 4. No debt
by or on behalf of the State, except to
supply casual deficiencies of revenue,
repel invasion, suppress insurrection, de-
fend the State in war, or to pay existing
debt; and the debt created to supply de-
ficiencies in revenue shall never exceed,
in the aggregate at any one time, one
million dollars: Provided, however, That
the General Assembly, irrespective of any
debt, may authorize the State to issue
bonds, to the amount of one hundred mil-
lions of dollars, for the purpose of im-
proving and rebuilding the highways of
the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No.
shall be created
BERNARD J. MYERS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Four-A. .
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section one
of article fourteen of the Constitution
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, and it is hereby en-
acted by the authority of the same, That
the following amendment to section one
of article fourteen of the Constitution of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be,
and the same is hereby, proposed, in
accordance with provisions of the eight-
eenth article thereof: —
That section one of article fourteen,
which reads as follows:
“Section 1. County officers shall con-
sist of sheriffs, coroners, prothonotaries,
registers of wills, recorders of deeds, com-
missioners, treasurers, surveyors, auditors
or controllers, clerks of the courts, district
attorneys, and such others as may, from
time to time, be established by law; and
no sheriff or treasurer shall be eligible for
the term next succeeding the one for
which he may be elected,” be amended so
as to read as follows:
Section 1. County officers shall consist
of sheriffs, coroners, prothonotaries, regis-
ters of wills, recorders of deeds, com-
missioners, treasurers, surveyors, audif-
ors or controllers, clerks of the courts, dis-
trict attorneys, and such others as may,
from time to time, be established by law;
and ne sheriff, except sheriffs in counties
having a population of less than fifty
thousand inhabitants, and no treasurer
shall be eligible for the term next sue-
ceeding the ome for which he may * be
elected.
+3 true copy of Joint Resolution No.
BERNARD J. MYERS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number 5-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine,
section one, of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, so as
to permit the exemption from taxation
of real and personal property owned,
occupied, or nsed by any branch or post
or camp of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, the Spanish-American War Vet-
erans, the American Legion, the Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars, and the Mili-
tary Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States.
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
is hereby proposed, in accordance with
the eighteenth article thereof :—
That ‘section one of article nine be
amended so as to read as follows:
All taxes shall be uniform, upon the
same class of subjects, within the terri-
torial limits of the authority levying the
tax, and shall be levied and collected
under general laws; but the General As-
sembly may, by general laws, exempt from
taxation public property used for public
purposes, actual places of religious wor-
ship, places of burial not used or held
for private or corporate profit, institu-
tions of purely public charity, and real
and personal property owned, occupied,
and used by any branch, post or camp
of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors,
and marines.
5a true copy of Joint Resolution No.
-¥
BERNARD J. MYERS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number 6-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section one,
article nine, of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen-
eral Assembly met, That the following
amendment to the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be, and
the same is hereby, proposed, in accord-
ance with the provisions of the eight-
eenth aritcle thereof: —
That section one of article nine, which
reads as follows:
“All taxes shall be uniform, upon the
same class of subjects, within the ter-
ritorial limits of the authority levying
the tax, and shall be levied and collected
under general laws; but the General
Assembly may, by general laws, exempt
from taxation public property used for
ublic purposes, actual places of religious
worship, places of burial not used or held
for private or corporate profit, and in-
stitutions of purely public charity,” be,
and the same is hereby, amended to read
as follows:
All taxes shall be uniform, upon the
same class of subjects, within the terri-
torial limits of the authority levying
the tax, and shall be levied and collected
under general laws; but subjects of tax-
ation may be classified for the
purpose of laying graded and progressive
taxes, and, in the case of inheritance
and income taxes, exemptions may be
granted; and the General Assembly may,
by general laws, exempt from taxation
public property used for public purposes,
actual places of religious worship, places
of burial not used or held for private or
corporate profit, and institutions of purely
public charity.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No.
BERNARD J. MYERS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number 7-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article three
(III) of the Constitution of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
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,
proposed, in accordance with the eight-
eenth article thereof: —
That article three be amended by add-
ing thereto the following:
Section 84. The Legislature shall have
power to classify counties, cities, bor-
oughs, school districts, and townships
according to population, and all laws
passed relating to each class, and all
laws passed relating to, and regulating
procedure and proceedings in court with
reference to, any class, shall be deemed
general legislation within the meaning
of this Constitution; but counties shall
not be divided into more than eight
classes, cities into not more than seven
classes, school districts into not more
than five classes, and boroughs into not
more than three classes,
A true copy of Joint Resolution No.
A :
7-A.
BERNARD J. MYERS,
67-31-13 Secretary of the Commonwealth.