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Bema, Wald
"Bellefonte, Pa., August 13, 1926.
AMERICA LOSING
OLD LANDMARKS
to Preserve Country’s
Historic Buildings.
Washington, — America is being
robbed of her historic landmarks by
the encroachments of our crowded
cities, according to Prof, A. Lawrence
Kocher,
The public's lack of appreciation and
the indifference of civic authorities
8 other factors which hinder the
oe of monuments, says Pro-
fessor Kocher, who heads a commit-
tée appointed by the American Insti-
tute of Architects to fight the destruc-
tion of bulldings of architectural sig
nificance or historic value.
“Many buildings of the greatest in-
terest as historical records of our
architectural growth are disappearing
because of the ever-increasing conges-
tion of our cities,” said Professor
Kocher recently. “Continuous watch-
fulness and quick action are necessary
to check the loss of valuable monv
ments.”
Local chapters of the institute are
co-operating with Professor Kocher'’s
committee by reporting the threatened
destruction of old buildings in their
city or state. Efforts are then made
to arouse public sentiment to check
the demolition or alteration of the
edifices.
“Restoration” Often Destructive,
Often so-called “restoration” is as
grave a danger as destruction, Pro-
fessor Kocher pointed out. Indiscrim-
inate alteration may distort the his-
torical plan, he declared, urging that
“the snatching of doorways, mantels
and paneling from buildings in order
to simulate or compose, in another
house, the atmosphere of age, be dis
couraged.”
Systematic collection of photographs
of buildings that are of architectural
ignificance or historical value by local
apters of the institute is also sug-
gested by Professor Kocher, This plan
being carried out by the Denver
apter, the Southern Pennsylvania
chapter and the Chicago chapter, said
Professor Kocher.
Some of the historic monuments
which architects have tried to save
during the past year include the Alle-
gheny county jail in Pittsburgh, the
Bartram house and the Lemon Hill
mansion in Philadelphia; fine ex-
amples of colonial architecture in
Charleston, 8. C.; the Cincinnati
Chamber of Commerce building, the
Palace of Fine Arts, Chicago, and
Fort * Winfield Scott, Presidio, San.
Francisco, 3
The - Philadelphia chapter has
strongly organized committee which
has undertaken research in connection
with the restoration of buildings in
Philadelphia and the vicinity.
“The city of Charleston, 8. C.,” cow
anued Professor Kocher, “still con-
tains more early American architec-
ture than any other city in the South,
but many of the finest examples have
been encroached upon by railroad
yards, factories and negro quarters.
Others have fallen into neglect and
decay.
The chapter representative fron.
¢his district has reclaimed a number
of these old dwellings, both In the city
and on the plantations, and his firm
has, as far as possible, preserved their
Integrity. :
Cincinnati's Historic Building.
“ 4qn 1911 the Cincinnati Chamber o
Lommerce building, designed by H. H.
Richardson, was partially destroyed
by fire, but without seriously damag-
Ing the exterior. The original granite
walls, notably the elaborately deco-
rated arches on three fronts, were se-
eured by the Cincinnati Astronomical
society for the purpose of using the
material in the erection of an observa-
tory. This project was endorsed by
‘the Cincinnati chapter. at its -Decem-
‘ber meeting.
“The Chicago chapter has taken ar
active interest in the preservation of
"the Palace of Fine Arts of the’ Chi-
reago World's fair. The Supreme court
of Illinois recently reversed Its un-
‘favorable decision about the legality
of the five-million-dollar bonds neces-
sary for the restoration plans of the
south park commissioners. Bids are
pow being received at this time for
the completion of the undertaking.
“The preservation of Fort Winfield
‘Scott, built in the presidio, San Fran-
elsco, in 1856, was advocated by the
representatives of the San Francisco
chapter. This dismantled fortress, a
splendid building of solid brick and
granite masonry, is used as a store-
house for discarded military supplies
and is in danger of deterioration
through neglect and lack of proper up-
keep.
“It has, in fact, been considerably
sltered internally by the erection of
temporary partitions and changes in-
consistent with its original purpose.
The attention of the federal military
authorities was called to the need of
preserving this and other similar
buildings within their jurisdiction.
“The secretary of war, Mr. Dwight
F. Davis, responded by bringing the
ease of Fort Winfield Scott to the at-
tention of the Ninth corps area com-
mander, who has jurisdiction over this
post, with the request that everything
possible be done to keep buildings at
this station in an adequate state of
vepalr.”
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TEXAS MAN BORN ARMLESS
CAN DO COWBOY STUNTS
Sweetwater Youth Runs OIll Statior
and Can Drive Any Make
of Automobile.
Sweetwater, Texas. — Despite the
fact that he entered life with both
of his arms and hands shriveled, de-
formed and useless, Sam Lambert,
who rung a’'small filling station on the
highway east of Sweetwater, can now
do almost everything with his feet
that it is possible for the average man
to accomplish with two good hands.
He was born with his hands in that
condition, and, according to Lambert
he began using his feet as any bab
would his hands.
He was raised on a farm, and can
do as much farm work as most any
man, with the exception of hoeing and
picking cotton, but when it comes to
handling a team, he’s a regular “mule
skinner,” so his neighbors and friend~
say.
Not only is he handy with farm
work, but he is a real cowboy. He
rides well, can rope a running steer
‘or horse, two throws out of three, and
can saddle and bridle his own horse.
And all with his feet! He cuts the
toes of his socks off in order to have
free use of his feet at a moment's
notice. According to those who know
him well, he takes the rope between
the toes on one foot and almost be-
fore it can be noticed, he has a steer
on the other end of the rope. It takes
a good-sized animal to pull Sam’s feet
from beneath him.
When it comes to swimming, he’s at
home. Although he is only twenty-
and diving at will for over ten years.
Sam has attended school about ten
years, and during that time he used
his feet to do all his writing. And he
writes a nice foot at that!
The fact that he has no control or
use of his hands has never kept him
from feeding himself and shaving him-
self; he does it with his feet. He has
even been known to shave tie back
of his neck with his feet. But he
says it is too much trouble to shave
himself, so he goes to a shop now
€or his tonsorial needs.
Not only is he capable of handling
a team, but he drives any make of
~ar, gear shift, or otherwise.
With such a handicap in life many
men would have been a burden to
their relatives, or to the public, but
Sam is as self-supporting :and inde-
pendent as the average man. He does
not have hands, but he makes his feet
do nearly all that his hands could do.
He is the son of Baxter Lambert,
who for years was sheriff of Fishe=
county.
Boys of Dixie Born
«Naturalists, Says Prof.
Berea, Ky.—A close-up of the na-
ture-loving country boy of the South-
land these summer days is offered by
“John F. Smith, Berea: college pro-
fessor, vice president of the Kentucky
Folklore society. ‘.
“Vhile everybody - in Dixie, fron
«arly childhood to late In life, plays a
good part of the time, the average
country boy’s intimate knowledge
wou'd fill a good-sized volume of nat-
ural history.
fle knows his swimming hole, habit.
+f minnows, groundhog, rabbit squir-
rel, other animals. Discovers hiding
place of barn owl, screech owl, flying
squirrel. Learns where the oven-bitd,
the waterthrush, kingfisher nest.
Pranks aplenty. From doodle-buy
oarty to bear hunt. And a little later,
kissing games, such as picking grapes,
in which he is inwardly thrilled with
prospects they offer, but outwardly
shrinks therefrom.
fown of 340 Boasts
$2,500,000 in Banks
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. — A unique
Allage, tucked away in Clayton coun-
ty, has come into the limelight
through its bank report, recently
filed with the state banking depart-
ment,
The village is Garnavillo, boasting
«wo banks, the Farmers’ State and
the Garnavillo Savings bank. The
combined deposits total $2,500,000. "Its
population is 340. The Farmers’ bank
was organized two years ago and:83
per cent of its stock: is .owned by
farmers. No person may own more
than ten shares of stock and some
own only two. The deposits total
$1,381,054.
Garnavillo has no poor and it is
said that every family owns its own
home. The village has no jail. It has
been so many years since there was
an arrest that the oldest inhabitant
has forgotten the date.
Jerses to Cupid Cost
Husband, 65, $4,000
New York.— Verses written by
jeorge Washington Beckel 25 years
ago to the woman who is now his wife
were read in the Kings county Su-
preme court and Beckel admitted he
recently used them again at the age
of sixty-five, but on Mrs. John E.
Norton, who is now twenty-five.
The jury then found Beckel guilty
of doing $4,000 damage to Norton
through alienating Mrs, Norton's af-
fections, as charged “with gifts, auto-
mobile rides and poems of passion.”
Welcomes Jazz King
Vienna.—The City of Melody has
king.” Franz Lehar, Emerich Kalman
and other of the city’s popular com-
posers have been entertaining Paul
Whiteman.
three years old, he has been swimming
given a fitting welcome to a “jazz |
| CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
P CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
; THE CITIZENS OF THE (OM-
MONWEALTH, FOR APPROVAL OR
REJECTION BY THE GENERAL AS-
SEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF
PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY
ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSUANCE OF
ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CONSTITU-
TION.
No. 1-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine,
section four of the Constitution of the
Comonweatlh of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly 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 section four of article nine of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created by
or on behalf of the State, except to supply
casual deficiencies of revenue, repel inva-
sions, supprss 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 aggre-
gate, at any one time, one million dollars;
Provided, however, That the General As-
sembly, irrespective of any debt, may au-
thorize the State to issue bonds to the
amount of one hundred millions of dollars
for the purpose of improving and rebuild-
ing the highways of the Commonwealth;
Provided further, however, That the Gen-
eral Assembly, irrespective of any debt,
may authorize the State to issue bonds to
the amount of thirty-five millions of dol-
lars 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 thous-
and nine hundred and seventeen and the
eleventh day of November, one thousand
nine hundred and eighteen.
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,
section four of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, author-
izing the State to issue bonds to the
amount of one hundred and fifty millions
of dollars for the improvement of the
highways of the Commonwealth.
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 ac-
cordance with the eighteenth article there-
of:
That section four of article nine is here-
by amended to read as follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created by
or on behalf of the State except to s/pply
casual deficiencies of revenues, repel in-
vasions, 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 aggre-
gate, at any one time, one million dollars;
Provided, however, That the General As-
sembly, irrespective of any debt, may au-
thorize the State to issue bonds to the
amount of one hundred and fifty millions
of dollars for the purpose of improving
and rebuilding the highways of the Com-
monwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 3-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine of
the Constitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania by adding thereto an ad-
ditional section.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Coin-
monwealth 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 ac-
Gardanee with the eighteenth article’ there-
of : 3
That article nine of the Constitution of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be
amended by adding thereto the following
new section:
Section 16. The General Assembly may
authorize the City of Pittsburgh to levy
special assessments against both abutting
and non-abutting property, peculiarly
benefited, for the payment of any public
improvement whatsoever; to lay out and
build as additional public improvements,
for the payment of which properties pe-
culiarly benefited shall be liable to spe-
cial assessments, rapid transit railway sys-
tems, drainage and sewerage systems, flood
protective works, wharves, piers and
quays, highway tunnels and bridges, and
underground and ®verhead streets, supple-
menting original streets or street systems;
to levy general and special taxes and spe-
cial 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 payable presently when so levied
or in installments over a period of years
shall be credits or offsets to indebtedness
incurred for such purposes in calculating
the debt of such city; to provide for the
use and operation of any rapid transit sys-
tem by private corporations 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.
highway tunnels or underground or over-
head streets, unless at a public election
held therefor a majority of the electors
voting thereon shall consent thereto.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 3-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 4-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine of
the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania by adding thereto a
section.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth 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 ac-
cordance with the eighteenth article there-
of : :
That article nine be amended by adding
thereto the following section:
Section 19. In additgs to the purposes
stated in article nine, ion four, of this
Constitution, the State may be authorized
to issue bonds to the amount of fifty mil-
lions of dollars ($50,000,000) for the ac-
quisition of lands and buildings and the
construction and improvement of state-
owned buildings and the equipment there-
of for the care and maintenance of penal
offenders, delinquents, mental defectives,
epileptics, and persons mentally diseased.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 4-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 5-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine of
the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania by adding thereto a sec-
tion.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth 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 ac-
gorqatice with the eighteenth article there-
of:
That article nine of the Constitution of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is
hereby amended by adding thereto the fol-
lowing section:
Section 1. That the State may be au-
i thorized by law to create debt and to is-
sue 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
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
the enlargement of existing State build-
ings and State 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 Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania
is hereby proposed in accordance with the:
eighteenth article thereof:
That article three be amended by adding
thereto the following:
Section 35. The General Assembly may
by general law make appropriations of
money for assistance to aged indigent res-
idents of the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 6-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 7-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine,
section eight of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the same, That the fol-
lowing amendment to the Constitution of
the Comonwealth of Pennsylvania be and
the same is hereby proposed in accordance
with the eighteenth article 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, bor-
ough, township, school district, or other
municipality or incorporated district, ex-
cept as provided herein and in section fif-
teen of this article, shall never ex-
ceed seven (7) per centum upon the
assessed value of the taxable prop-
erty therein, and the debt of any
county except as provided im section
fifteen of this article shall never exceed
ten (10) per centum upon the assessed val-
ue of the taxable realty therein; but the
debt of the City of Philadelphia may be
increased in such amount that the total
city debt of said city shall not exceed four-
teen (14) per centum upon the assessed
value of the taxable realty therein; nor
shall any such county, municipality, or dis-
trict incur any new debt or increase its
indebtedness to an amount exceeding two
(2) per centum upon such assessed valua-
tion of taxable realty in the case of coun-
ties, or taxable property in the case of
other municipalities or dstricts, without
the consent of the electors thereof at a
public election in such manner as shall be
provided by law; but the city of Philadel-
phia may incur any debt or increase its
indebtedness to an amount not exceeding
three per centum of the valuation of tax-
able realty in said city without the con-
sent of the electors. In ascertainTng the
borrowing capacity of the City of Phila-
delphia at any time, there shall be deduct-
ed 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 puble utility or part thereof or fa-
cility therefor to the extent that such pub-
lic improvement or public utility or part
thereof, whether separately or in connec-
tion with any other public improvement
or public utility or part thereof, may yield
or may reasonably be expected to yield
revenue in excess of operating expenses
‘for or towards the payment of the inter-
est and sinking-fund charges thereon. The
method of determining such amount so to
be deducted shall 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
(50) years from the date thereof with pro-
vision for a sinking-fund sufficient to re-
tire said obligations at maturity; the pay-
ment to such sinking-fund to be in equal
or graded, annual, or other periodical in-
stallments. Where any indebtedness shail
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 reclamation 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
wheh may acerue thereon throughout the
period of construction and until the expi-
ration of one year after the completion of
the work for which said indebtedness shall
have been incurred, and said city “shall
not be required to levy a tax to pay said
interest and sinking-fund charges as re-
quired by section ten, article nine of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania until the ex-
piration of said period of one year after
the completion of said work.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 7-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 8-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine of
the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania by adding thereto sec-
tion One B. :
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania be and the same
is hereby proposed in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof:
That article nine of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania is hereby amended by ad-
ding thereto section 1 B, which reads as
follows:
Section 1 B. Taxation laws may grant
exemptions or rebates to residents, or es-
tates of residents, of other States which
grant similar exemptions or rebates to
residents, or estates of residents, of Penn-
sylvania.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 8-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 9-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine
of the Canstitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania by adding thereto an
additional section.
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 ac-
cordance with the eighteenth article there-
of :
That article nine of the Constitution of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania he
amended by adding thereto the following
new section:
Section 16. The General Assembly may
authorize the County of Allegheny to levy
special assessmentg against both abutting
and non-abutting property peculiarly ben-
efitted for the payment of any public im-
provement whatsoever; to lay out and
build as additional public improvements,
for the payment of which properties pe-
culiarly benefited shall be liable to special
assessments, rapid transit railway sys-
tems, drainage 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 spe-
cial 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 payable presently when so levied
or in installments over a period of years
shall be credits or offsets to indebtedness
incurred for such purposes in calculating
the debt of such county; and to provide
for the use and operation of any rapid
transit system by private corporations or-
ganized for that purpose. No law passed
in pursuance hereof shall authorize the
construction of any rapid transit railway
system, flood otective works, wharves,
—— en ne
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
| piers or quays, highways, tunnels or un-
! derground or overhead streets unless at a
' public election held therefor a majority of
the electors voting thereon shall consent
thereto.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 9-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 10-A.
RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitu-
‘tion of Pennsylvania.
* Be it resolved that the folowing amend-
ment to the Constitution of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania be and the same is
hereby proposed in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof.
That article nine of the Constitution of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be
amended by adding thereto the following
section sixteen:
Section 16. The debt of any city of the
second class shall never exceed ten per
centum upon the assessed value of the tax-
able property therein, nor shall any such
city of the second class incur any new debt
or increase its indebtedness to an amount
exceeding two per centum upon such as-
sessed valuation of property without the
consent of the electors thereof, at a public
election, in such manner as shall be pro-
vided by law.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 10-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 1—1926.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article eight,
section seven, of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania be and the same is
hereby proposed, in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof:
That section seven, of article eight, is
hereby amended to read as folows:
Section 7. All laws regulating the hold-
ing of elections by the citizens, or for the
registration of electors, shall be uniform
throughout the State, except that laws reg-
ulating and requiring the registration of
electors may be enacted to apply to cities
only, provided that such laws be uniform
for cities of the same class, and except
further, that the General Assembly shall
by general law, permit the use of voting
machines, or other mechanical devices for
registering or recording and computing
the vote, at all elections or primaries, in
any county, city, borough or township of
the Commonwealth, at the option of the
electors of such county, city, borough or
township, without being obliged to require
the use of such voting machines or me-
chanical devices in any other county, city,
borough or township, under such regula-
tions with reference thereto as the Gener-
al Assembly may from time to time pre-
scribe. The General Assembly may, from
time to time, prescribe the number and du-
ties of election officers in any political sub-
division of the Commonwealth in which
voting machines or other mechanical de-
Tice authorized by this section may be
used.
i, true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1--
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 2—1926.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article fifteen,
of the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, by addi thereto a
new section to be known as section four
thereof.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth 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 ac-
cordance with the eighteenth article there-
of:
Section 4. The General Assembly is
hereby authorized to provide for the con-
solidation of the county, 'poor districts,
cities, boroughs and townships of the coun-
ty of Allegheny, and the offices thereof, in-
to a consolidated city and county, with the
constitutional and legal capacity of a mu-
nicipal corporation, to be. known as the
City of Pittsburgh, and to provide for a
charter for its government. The said char-
ter shall be submitted to the electors of
said county, at a special election to be pro-
vided for therein. If the majority of the
electors voting thereon, in the county as a
whole, and at least two-thirds of all the
electors voting thereon in each of a ma-
jority of the cities, boroughs and town-
ships thereof, vote in the affirmative, the
act shall take effect for the whole county.
If rejected, the said charter may be resub-
mitted to the electors in original, new or
modified form, at any subsequent election
until adopted.
It shall be competent, subject to the po-
lice power’ of the State, for the Legisla-
ture to provide in said charter:
1. For the exercise, by the consolidated
city, of all the powers and duties vested in
the county of Allegheny, and the poor
districts thereof, and such other powers
appropriate to a municipality as may be
specified therein, except such powers as
are specifically reserved by’ this section to
the municipal divisions herein provided
or.
2. Tor the election by the people of the
consolidated city, of a board of commis-
sioners, the number to be fixed by the
charter, in lieu of present county commis-
sioners, in which board shall be vested all
the powers of the consolidated eity and
county, except as otherwise provided in
the charter.
3. For the organization of a government
for the consolidated city and county, and
for the election or appointment of the con-
stitutional 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 consol-
idated city, and for the procedure thereof,
and for the appointment of judges and of-
ficers thereof, which courts shall exercise
the jurisdiction, powers and duties of the
magistrates, 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, and the poor
districts thereof, and of such property and
indebtedness of the cities, boroughs and
townships thereof as relate to the powers
and duties of said consolidated city, and
to provide for an equitable adjustment and
payment of such indebtedness, and for this
purpose, any taxation therein shall be uni-
form taxation within the meaning and in-
tong of other provisions of this Constitu-
ion.
6. Tor the assessment of property for
taxation, the levying and collection of tax-
es, and the payment of the cost of any
public improvement, in whole or in part,
by special assessment upon abutting and
non-abutting property materially bene-
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fited thereby, and, for this purpose, real
estate so charged shall be classified as ur-
ban, suburban and rural, and assessments
made in accordance with such classifica-
tions.
7. For the creation, by the board of
commissioners, of districts for the purpose
of regulating the location, height, area,
bulk and use of buildings and premises.
8. For the creation, by the board of
commissioners, of special districts for the
purpose of acquiring, constructing, main-
taining, operating or contracting for, any
puble property, work, improvement, utili-
ty or service, not for the exclusive benefit
of any one municipal division, and for the
payment of the costs and maintenance of
such property, work, improvement, utility
or service, there may be special taxes lev-
ied throughout such special districts re-
spectively, separate and apart from the
general city tax.
Provided, however, that it is the intent
of this section that substantial powers be
reserved to the cities, boroughs and town-
ships situated in Allegheny County. To
this end the charter shall provide for .the
continued existence of the said cities, bor-
oughs and townships, as municipal divis-
ions of the consolidated city, under their
present names and forms of government,
subject to the laws provided for govern-
ment of municipalities of their respective
forms and classes, except as provided in
the charter, and with their present bound-
aries, provided that the city of Pittsburgh
may be designated by a term other than
city and may be divided into two or more
municipal divisons, and that any two or
more municipal divisons of the consolidat-
ed city may, with the consent of a major-
ity of the electors voting thereon in each
of such divisions at any general or special
election, be united to form a single munic-
ipal division.
The said municipal divisions shall have
and continue to possess the following pow-
ers:
1. The constitutional and legal capacity
of municipal corporations, except as lim-
ited in the charter.
2. The power 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 townships
of corresponding classification, for the
purpose of carrying out any lawful pow-
er of said divisions.
3. The power to acquire, own, construet,
maintain, operate or contract for all kinds
of public property, works, improvements,
utilities or services, which shall be within
the municipal division, and principally for
the use and benefit of the inhabitants
thereof, provded this power shall not be
taken to include the construction and
maintenance of through-traffic streets and
bridges, tunnels, subways and appurte-
nances thereof, nor main or grunk lines
for sewer, power and water service, run-
ning through more than one municipal di-
vision, and designated as such by the
board of commissioners.
4. The power to maintain a local police
force, and local fire department, with the
necessary buildings, appurtenances and
equipment therefor, which may be supple-
mental to the police force and fire depart-
ment of the consolidated city.
5. The power to establish a limitation
of indebtedness for the consolidated city
and the municipal divisions thereof, pro-
vided that the total of the indebtedness of
the consolidated city and the municipal di-
visions thereof shall not, in the aggregate,
exceed the limits of the total indebtedness
allowed by the Constitution to the county
and to the separate municipalities.
6. All other powers not specifically
granted by the charter to the consolidated
city; Provided, however, That a munici-
pal division may surrender, by majority
vote of the electors voting thereon at any
general or special election, any of its pow-
ers to the consolidated city, subject to the
acceptance thereof by the board of com-
missioners.
The said charter may be amended by the
Legislature, subject to ratification by a
majority of the electors of the consolidat-
ed city voting thereon at any general or
special election; Provided, That no amend-
ment reducing the powers of municipal di-
visions shall be effective unless ratified by
a majorty of the electors voting thereon
in each of a majority of said divisions.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2--
1926.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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