Bellefonte, Pa., August 6, 1926.
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The Man Who Introduced Golf in
&“ America.”
As a player, merchant, and manu-
facturer George Wright has literally
“followed the ball” all his life. He
tells how he started in baseball when
the game was in its infancy and how
he had a hand in introducing golf to
Americans. :
Long before gloves were permitted
on a basebal diamond, in the days
when players used cold water and
iodine to toughen their hands, George
Wright had made a brilliant playing
record and retired. It has also been
his pleasure to watch the progress of
golf, both as a player and observer.
Some of the people who crowded
around to stare into the store window
thought the queer-looking contrap-
tions displayed there were a new kind
of walking-stick. And in a way they
were that. At least they have since
persuaded into taking long walks
many men and women who never ‘had
considered them before or imagined
them coming under the head of sport.
The sticks were golf clubs.
They aroused the curiosity of the
passerby which was the most the
owner of the store had hoped for when
he imported the exhibit from England
in 1890. But it had an even more
gratifying effect on one of the spec-
tators. He was a Scotchman, and
those golf clubs made him homesick.
Entering the store, he addressed
George Wright, the famous ex-base-
ball player, who had opened this little
sporting goods store in the conserva-
tive city of Boston.
“Tl buy those,” the man from Scot-
land offered instantly, from which you
may understand that this is no ordin-
ary anecdote about a Scot. “I'll buy
those if you can tell me where I can
play golf hereabouts.”
Thereupon the exhibit ceased to be
a curiosity and became an opportun-
ity. But it was an opportunity which
required a considerable amount of in-
genuity before it could be made use
of. For in those days it was a regret-
table fact that no golf course exist-
ed anywhere in the neighborhood of
Boston. :
“But I'll make a place to play golf,’
Mr. Wright offered. He forthwith ob-
tained a book of rules and looked up
the strange game. Then with a few
friends and some home-made pins and
flags, he descended upon the park
grounds called Franklin Field and
commenced to lay out a course.
But people had not yet learned that
only the weather and severe emerg-
encies may interrupt golfers with im-
punity. A blue-coated figure intrud-
ed on the scene. :
“What do you think you're doing?”
inquired the Irish policeman, for, as
already remarked, the scene is laid in
Boston.
“We're getting ready to play some
golf,” Mr. Wright answered. '
“Golf?” echoed the policeman.
“Golf? What’s that?”
Mr. Wright tried to explain. .
“Whatever it is,” the arm of the
law finally ruled at the conclusion of
the hearing, “you’ll have to get a per-
mit to play it.” .
The permit was obtained by appli-
cation at the city hall; the function
has since been taken over to some ex-
tent by wives of golfers—and the
course was laid out and golf duly
played. Thus came into existence one
of the earliest links in the United
States. —From Everybody’s Maga-
zine.
Who Started the Charleston?
Elida Webb, dancer, teacher, and di-
rectress of dancing, a pretty young
colored woman who produced and di-
rected all the dancing in “Running
Wild” and other Negro musical shows,
declares she discovered an developed
the Charleston.
“The first time I saw the step that
has since grown into the Charleston,”
Miss Webb relates, “was in Harlem
late in 1922. The first person I saw
do it was Mary Serudy, my little ten-
year-old niece, in her home in Harlem.
“She was kind of shuffling. She al-
ways is because she loves to dance.
But I noticed that day that the shuffle
she was doing was a very pattern
which repeated itself. ;
“ ‘Where did you get that step?’
I asked her. ;
“ ‘Oh, all the kids do it,” she said.
‘They call it the Charleston.’
“ ‘Show it to me,” I told her. ‘Do
it slowly.’ :
“Jt came to me in a flash. It seemed
as though I half remembered it, prob-
ably a race memory. Our people have
been dancing for ages. I inquired
around about it. Nobody seemed to
know much about the new step except
that most of the children around Har-
lem were doing it. Fundamentally
it really was simple, just two move-
ments. These two movements are
still the basis for the real Charleston,
the single and the double steps. And
by the way, very few white people do
the real Charleston. 1 would say
after very careful consideration that
there aren’t more than five white
women who do it correctly.”—From
Everybody’s Magazine.
Students Enjoy Camp Life.
Practical experience in military
training, in civil engineering and in
forestry camps is being gained by
more than 100 Pennsylvania State
College students this summer, Can-
didates for reserve officer commis-
sions in the U. S. Army are attend-
ing the various military training
camps; a group of about 50 sopho-
more civil engineers is about to close
an eight weeks’ camp at Bodines, Ly-
coming county; and freshman and
sophomore forestry students are now
at the college forestry camps at La-
mar, Clinton county, and at Shef-
field, Warren county. In addition, a
group of horticultural students has
been working all summer on the col-
lege vegetable farm and in the col-
lege orchards.
Constitutional Amendments.
Constitutional Amendments.
= ee
ROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTI-
TUTION SUBMITTED TO THE CITIZENS OF
THE COMMONWEALTH, FOR APPROVAL OR RE-
JECTION BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNBYLVANIA, AND
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF
THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSUANCE OF
ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CONSTITUTION.
Neo. 1-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine, section four
of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania.
D! ives of the ( Pennsy
YE Nor Assembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be and the
same is hereby proposed in accordance with the eight-
eenth article thereof:
That section four of article nine of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania is hereby amended to read as follows:
Mection 4. No debt shall be ereated by or on
hal! of the State, except to supply casual deficiencies
of repel i i insur de-
fend the State in war, or to pay existing debt; and
the debt created to supply deficiencies in Tepstve shall
never exceed in the aggregate, at amy 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
millions of dollars for the purpose of improving and
yobuilding the highways of the Commonwealth: Pro-
vided further, however, That the General Assembly,
irrespective of any debt. may authorize the State to
fssue 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 thou-
sand nine hundred and seventeen and the: eleventh day
of Ni b one d nine hundred h
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 2-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to ‘article nine,” rection four
of the Constitution of the Commonweatth: of ~Penn-
sylvania, authorizing the Btate to issue bonds to
the amount of ome hundred and fifty millions of
dollars for the p t of the hi 8 of
the Commonwealth.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennayl-
vania in Genersl Assembly met, That the following
amendment tc the Constitution of Pennsylvania be
and the same is hereby d in nd: with
the eighteenth article thereof:
That section four of article mime is hereby amended
to read as follows:
Section 4. Wo debt shall be created by or on
behalf of the State emcept to supply casusl deficienci
of revenues, repel i i
defend the Bate in war,
and the debt ereated to supply
shall mever exceed in the aggregate, at any one time,
ene 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 and fifty millions of dollars for
the purpose of improving and rebullding the high-
ways of the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
or to pay existing debt;
deficiencies in
No. 8-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine ef the Cen-
stitution of the Commonwealth of Pennoylvania by
adding thereto an additional section.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania in General Assembly met, That the following
amendnment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be
and the same is hereby proposed in accordance with
the eighteenth article thereof:
That article nine of the Constitution of the -Com-
monwealth of “Pennsylvania be amended by adding
hereto the following new section:
© Section 16..:.9%ie” General Assembly may authorise
‘the: City= of ‘Pittsburgh to levy special “assessments
against both abutting and non-abutting property, pe-
culiarly benefited, for the payment of any public im-
provement whatsoever; to lay out and build as addi-
tional public improvements, for the payment of which
properties peculiarly benefited shall be liable to spe-
s'al assessments, rapid transit railway systems, drain-
age and sewerage systems, flood protective works,
wharves. piers and quays, highway tunnels and bridges,
and underground and overhead streets , supplementing
original streets or street systems; to ievy general and
special taxes and special assessments therefor either
before or after the laying out and construction thereof;
end to provide that all special taxes and special as-
sessmeonts so levied whether payable presently when so
Jovied or in instaliments over a period of years shall
ve credits or offsets to indebtednesf incurred for such
purposes in ealculating the debt of such city; to prov
vide for the use and operation of any rapid transit
system by private corporation; organized for that pur-
pose. No law passed in pursuance hereof shall author- |
ize the construction of any rapid transit railway sys-
tem, flood protective works, wharves, piers or quays,
highway tunnels or underground or overhead streets,
unless at 8 public election held therefor a majority
of the voting th shall h
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 3-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Becretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 4-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine of the Consti-
tution ef the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by
adding thereto a section.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva-
nia in General Assembly met, That the following
smendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be and
the same is hereby proposed in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof:
That article nine be amended by adding thereto the
sollowing section:
Section 19. In addition to the purposes stated in
srticie nine, section four, of this Constitution, the
$tate may be authorized to issue bonds to the amount
of fifty millions of dollars ($50,000,000) for the aequi-
sition of lands and buildings and the construction and
improvement of state-owned buildings and the equip-
ment thereof for the care and maintenance of penal
offenders, delinquents, mental defectives, epileptics, and
persons mentally diseased.
4A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 4-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonweaith.
No. 5-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine of the Cia-
stitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania oy
adding thereto a section.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania in General Assembly met, That the following
amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be and
the same is hereby proposed in accordance with the
elghteenth article thereof:
That article nine of the Constitution of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania is hereby amended by add- |
fag thereto the following section:
Section 1. That the State may be authorized by
1aw to create debt and to issue bonds not exceeding
in the aggregate one hundred millions of dollars, for
the construction of office buildings in and a Memorial
Bridge In and adjacent to the Capital Park; for the
acquisition of lands and the construction thereon of
State buildings and State Institutions; and for the
enlargement of existing State buildings
Institutions.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 5-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 6-A
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article three of the Cen-
stitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Pemnsylvania is hereby
Section 1. No. vomited vv the Bendis nd House .
and State |
proposed in accordance with the eighteenth article
thereof :
That article three be amended by adding therets
the following:
Section 85. The General Assembly may by general
law make appropriations of money for assistance $e
indigent of the Commonwealth.
A true copy Joint Resolution No. 6-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Becretary of the Commonwealth.
No. T-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine, section eight
of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Sonate and House
of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby en-
acted by the authority of the same, That the follow-
ing amendment to the Constitution of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania be and the same is hereby
proposed in accordance with the eighteenth articie
thereof :
That article nine, section eight of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 8. The debt of any city, borough, township,
school district, or other munieipality or incorporated
district, except as provided herein and in section Af-
teen of this article, shall never exceed seven (7) per
centum upon the assessed value of the taxable property
therein, and the debt of any county except as provided
in ‘section fifteen of this article shall never exceed ten
(10) per eentum upon the assessed value of the taxable
realty. therein; but the debt of the City of Philadel-
pliia may be increased in such amount that the total
city debt of said city shall not exceed fourteen (14)
per centum upon the assessed value of the taxable
realty therein; nor shall any such county, municipality,
or district incur any new debt or increase its indebt-
edness to an amount exceeding two (2) per centum
upon such assessed valuation of taxable realty in the
case of counties, or taxable property in the ease of
other municipalities or districts, without the consent
of the electors thereof at a public election in such
manner as shall be provided by law: but the city of
Philadelphia may ineur ‘sny debt or. incredse "its in-
debtedness to an amount mot exceeding three per cen-
tum of the valuation of -taxable ‘realty in said city
‘without the consent of the -electors. In ascertaining
“the” borrowing “capacity. of the. City of Philadelphia at
any time, there shall be deducted from: such” debt so
much of the debt ‘of said city as shall have been
i d 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 therefor to the extent that such publie
improvement or publie utility or part thereof, whether
ly or in ion with any other public im-
provement or public utility or part thereof, may yield
or may Teasenably be expected to yleld revenue in
excess of operating expenses for or towards the pay-
ment of the and sinking-fund eh h
The hod of determin such 0 to be
di d shall be prescribed by the General Assembly.
In ineurring indebtedness for any purpose the City
of Philadelphia may issue its obligations maturing
not later than fifty (30) years from the date thereof
with provision for a sinking-fund sufficient to retire
said obligations at maturity; the payment to such
sinking-fund to be in equal or graded. snnual, or
other periodical installments. Where any indebted-
ness shall be er shall have been ineurred by said
City of Philadelphia for the purpose of the comstruc-
tion 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 reclamation of land
to be used in the construction of wharves or docks
owned or to be owned by said eity, such obligations
may be in an amount sufficient to provide for and
may include the the 1 snd sinking-
fund charges accruing snd which may accrue thereon
throughout the period of construction and until the
expiration’ of one year after the completion of the
work for which said indebtedness shall have been in-
curred, 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 Censtitu-
tion of Pennsylvania until the expiration of said pe-
riod of one year after the completion of said work.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 7-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Becretary of the Commonwealth.
Mo. 8-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine of the Consti-
tution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by add-
ing thereto section One B.
Bection 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of
Reprencuiatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania be and the same is hereby propesed in
scoerdance with the eighteenth article thereof:
That article nine of the Constitution of Pennsylvania
is hereby amended by adding thereto section 1B,
which reads as follows:
Bection 1B. Taxation laws may grant exemptions or
b to id or est of residents, of other
Btates which grant similar exemptions or rebates te
residents, or estates of residents, of Pennsylvania.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 8-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
. by special
Ne. 1—1936.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1
Provosing an amendment to article eight, sectiel
saven, of the Constitution of the Commonwealth eof
Pennsylvania, :
Section 1. Be it cesolved by the Senate and House
of R ives of the Ci ith of P }
nis in General Assembly met, That the following
smendment to the Constitution of the Commonwesith
of Pennsylvania be and the same is hereby proposed,
ia accordance with the eighteenth article thereof:
That section seven, of article eight, 1s hereby
amended to read as follows:
Section 1. All laws regulating the holding of ‘elec-
tions by the citizens, or for the registration ef elec-
tors, shall be uniform throughout the State, except
that laws regulating and requiring the registration of
electors may be enacted to apply to eities only, pro-
vided that such laws be uniform for eities of the same
class, and exeept further, that the General Assembly
shall, by general law, permit the use ef voting ma-
chines, or other mechanical devices for registering or
recording and eomputing the vote, at all olections or
primaries, in any county, eity, borough or township of
the Commonwealh, at the option of the electors of
such county, eity, borough or township, without being
obliged to require the use of such voting machines or
mechanical devices in any other county, city, borough
or township, under such with ref:
he Vast, Accumulation of Wealth in the
United States makes it more and more
difficult to find investments that pay.
Government Bonds selling on a 4% basis
indicates that other high grade issues will
soon follow.
The rate of interest is downward. This
shows that the Nation is growing richer.
thereto as the General Assembly may from time to
time prescribe. The General Assembly may, from
time to time, prescribe the number and duties of elec-
tion officers in any political subdivision of the Com-
monwealth in which voting machines or other mechan-
1cal devices authorized by this section may be used.
4 true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1—1926.
CLYDE L. KING,
Becretary of the Commonwealth.
NO. 2—1926
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article fifteen, of the Con-
stitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by
adding thereto a mew section to be known as section
four thereof.
Bection 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania in General Assembly met, That the following
amendment ‘to the Constitution of Penusylvania be and
the same. is hereby proposed in sécordance with the
eighteenth article thereof:
Bection 4. The General Assembly is hereby author-
ized to provide for the consolidation of the county,
poor districts, cities, boroughs and townships of the
county of Allegheny, and the offices thereof, into a
consolidated city and county, with the constitutional
and legal capacity of a municipal corporation to be
known as the City of Pittsburgh, and to provide for a
charter for its government. The said charter shall be
submitted to the electors of said county, at a special
election to be provided for therein. If the majority of
the electors voting thereon, in the county as a whele,
and at least two-thirds of all the electors voting there-
on in each of a majority of the cities, boroughs and
townships thereof, vote in the affirmative, the act shall
take effect for the whole county. If rejected, the sald
charter may be resubmitted to the electors in original,
new or modified form, at any subsequent election until
adopted.
It shall be competent, subject to the police power of
the State, for the Legislature to provide in sald
charter:
1. For the exercise, by the consolidated city, of all
the powers and duties vested in the county ef Alle-
gheny, and the poor districtes thereof, and such other
powers appropriate to a municipality as may be speei-
fied therein, except such powers as are specifically
reserved by this section to the municipal divisions
herein provided for.
2. For the election, by the people of the consoli-
dated city, of a board of commissioners, the number
to be fixed by the charter, in lieu of present county
commissioners, in which board shall be vested all the
powers of the consolidated city and county, except as
otherwise provided in the charter.
8. For the organisation of a government fer the
consolidated city and county, and for the election or
appointment of the constitutional and other necessary
officers thereof, and for their powers and duties.
4. For the organization of all courts, other than
those of record, in the consolidated eity, and for the
thereof, and -for the appointment of judges
and officers thereof, which courts shall’ exercise the
furiadiction, powers and “duties of the magistraies,
aldermen and justices of the peace, and such other
powers as may be conferred by law.
5. For the transfer to the consolidated city of the
property and indebtedness of the county of Allegheny,
snd the poor districts thereof, and of such property
sand indebtedness of the cities, boroughs and town-
ships thereof as relate to the powers and duties of
said consolidated city, and to provide for an equitabie
adjustment and payment of such indebtedness, and ‘for
this purpose, any taxation therein shall be uniform
taxation within the meaning and intent of other provi-
sions of this Constitution. :
6. For the assessment of property for taxation, the
levying and collection of taxes, and the payment of the
cost of any public improvement, in whole or in part,
t upon abutting and non-ab
property materially benefited thereby, and, for this
| purpose, real estate so charged shall be classified as
: urban, suburban and rural, and assessments made in
| accordance with such classification.
7. For the creation, by the board of commissioners,
i of districts for the purpose of regulating the location,
No. 9-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine of the Consti-
tution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by add-
ing thereto an additional section. :
_ Bection 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva-
nia in General Assembly met, That the following
amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be and
the same is hereby proposed in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof:
That article nine eof the Constitution of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania be amended by adding
thereto the following new section:
Section 16. The General Assembly may authorize
the County of Allegheny to levy special assessments
against both abutting and non-abutting property pe-
culiarly benefited for the payment of any public im-
provement whatsoever to lay out and build ss addi-
tional public improvements, for the payment of which
properties peculiarly benefited shall be lable to spe-
cial assessments, rapid transit railway systems, drain-
age and sewerage systems, flood protective works,
wharves, piers and quays, highways, tunnels and
bridges, and underground and overhead streets supple-
menting original streets or street systems; to levy
general and special taxes and special assessments
therefor, either before or after the laying out and
construction thereof; and to provide that all special
taxes and special assessments so levied whether pay.
able presently when so levied or in installments over g
period of years shall be credits or off-sets to indebted.
ness incurred for such purposes in calculating the debt
of such county; and to provide for the use and opera-
tion of any rapid transit system by private eorpora-
tions organized for that purpose. No law passed in
pursuance hereof shall authorize the construction of any
rapid transit railway system, flood protective works,
wharves, piers or quays, highways, tunnels or under-
¥1oung 3 or eihuad streets unless at a public electiom
refor a majority of the elector: thereon
shall consent thereto. voting
4A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 9-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
No. 10-A.
RCSOLUTICN
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Penn-
sylvania.
Be it resolved, That the following amendmen: to the
Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be
and the same is hereby proposed in accordance with
the eighteenth article thereof.
That article nine of the Comstitution of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania be amended by adding
thereto the following section sixteen:
Scction 16. The debt of any city of the second class
shall never exceed ten per centum upon the assessed
value of the taxable property therein, nor shall any
such city of the second class incur any new debt or
3 its indebted: to an ding twe
per centum upon such assessed valuation of property
without the consent of the electors thereof, at a publie
election, in such manner us shall be provided by law.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 10-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Socretary of the Commonwealth,
height, area, bulk and use of bulldings and premises.
8. For the creation by the board of commission-
ers, of special districts for the purpose of acquiring,
constructing, maintaining, operating or contracting for,
any public property, work, improvement, utility or
service, not for the exclusive benefit of any one mu-
nicipal division, and for the payment of the costs and
int. of such property, work, imp t, util-
ity or service, there may be special taxes levied
hrough such ial districts ively,
and apart’ from the general city tax:
Provided, however, That it is the intent of this see-
tion that substantial powers be reserved to the cities,
b and hi 1 d in Allegh County,
To this end the charter shall provide for the continued
existence of the said elties, boroughs and townships,
as municipal divisions of the" consélidated city, under
their present names and forms of government, subject
to the laws provided for government of municipslities
of their respective forms and classes, except as pro-
vided in the charter, and with their present bounda-
ries, provided that the city of Pittsburgh may be desig-
nated by a term other than city and may be divided
into two or more municipal divisions, and that any
two or more municipal divisions of the consolidated
city may, with the consent of a majority of the elec-
tors voting thereon in each of such divisions at any
general or special election, be united to form a single
municipal division.
The said municipal divisions shall have and continue
to possess the following powers:
1. The constitutional and legal capacity of muniei-
pal corporations, except as limited in the charter.
2. The to lay and collect taxes and to incur
indebtedness, subject to the limitations which are or
may be imposed by law upon cities, boroughs or town-
ships of cor ding classificati for the of
carrying out any lawful power of said divisions.
3. The power to ecquire, own, comstruct, maintain,
operate or contract for ail kinds of public property,
works, improvements, utilities or services, which shall
be within the municipal division, and for
the use and benefit of the inhabitants thereof, provided
this power shall not be taken to include the construs-
tion and maintenance of through traffic streets and
bridges, tunnels, subways and appurtenances thereof,
mor main or trunk limes for sewer, power and water
service, running through more than one municipal
division, and designated as such by the board of com-
missioners.
4. The power to maintain a local police force, and
local fire department, with the necessary buildings,
appurtenances and equipment therefor, which may be
supplemental to the police force and fire department
-| of the consolidated city.
5. The power to establish a limitation of indebted-
ness for the consolidated city and the municipal divi-
slons thereof, provided that the total of the indebted-
ness of the consolidated city and the munfeipal divi-
sions thereof shal! mot, in the aggregate, exceed the
limits of the total indebtedness allowed by the Consti-
tution te the county snd to the separate municipalities,
6. All other powers mot specifically granted by the
charter to the consolidated city: Provided, however,
That a municipal division may surrender, by majority
vote of the electors voting thereon at any general or
special election, any of its powers to the consolidated
city, subject to the acceptance thereof by the board of
commissioners. :
The sald charter may he smended by the Legisla-
ture, subject to ratification by a majority of the elec-
tors of the consolidated city voting thereon at any
general or special election: Provided, That no amend-
ment reducing the powers of mumieipal divisions shall
be effective tnless ratified by & majority of the elec-
bors voting thereon in each of a majority of said divi-
ions,
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 3—1926,
CLYDE L. KING,
Becretary of the Commonwealth,
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Opportunity Sale
Wednes. Aug. 11
ith every dollar’s worth of merchandise
purchased in our store you will be given
an Opportunity Ticket, which entitles you
to share in the Twenty Gifts to be given away on
the Diamond at 9.30 o’clock.
For this Golden Opportunity
we have made Reductions in Every Depart-
ment of our store. It will mean money
saved for you to visit us on this day.
Opportunity Sale of Silks 35in. wide at $1 yd.
3 yards 36in. Tissue Ginghams and Voiles $1.
Silk Hose ($2.50 quality) at $1.50 per pair.
Gingham Dresses for Children, 2 to 14 yrs., $1.
Rompers, Creepers and Overalls at $1.
Childrens Socks (all sizes) 4 pairs for $1.
Two Yards Fine Table Damask for $1.
See Our Special Bargain Tables and Racks
Rare Values at. Opportunity Prices
Lyon & Compan;