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SEVEN INDIANS LOCATED
IN LEWISTOWN.
When Montcalm, in the years 1756-
’68, aspired with the aid of his savage
allies, the Hurons, Ojibways, and
Onondagas, to crush the English on
the frontier of Northern New York
State, when his success in the taking
of Fort William Henry seemed to have
opened an unexcelled opportunity for
the achievement of his dream, one
great stumbling block stood in his
way, the Mohawk tribe of Indians.
Staunch friends of the English, they
proved of inestimable value as scouts
and sharp-shooters until that merho-
rable day on the plains of Abraham,
before France’s last stronghold on the
North American Continent, Quebec.
Today the remains of a once pow-
erful nation, or the majority of them,
live on the Indian Reservation of St.
Regis, in the borderland between the
United States and Canada. No longer
do they follow in the ways of their
forefathers, dependent as the latter
were on hunting, fishing, and the
growing of maize for a livelihood,
save for a bit of fishing in the swirl-
ing waters of the St. Lwarence. They
have taken to the cultivation of the
soil and the weaving of baskets as
only the first Americans can weave
them. These facts were disclosed by
Mrs. Sarah Back, full-blooded Mo-
‘hawk, who with her daughter, Louise,
aged 20, and a sister-in-law and broth-
er, Mrs. Sunday and Richard Sunday,
and their three children—two boys
.and a little girl—have come to live in
Lewistown. Mrs. Back is a graduate
of the Lincoln Institute in Philadel-
phia. The two families are living
now at 160 Valley street.
“Some people seem to think that we
are Mexicans,” Mrs. Back told the re-
porter. “I wish that there be no mis-
take as to our race. We are Mohawk:
Indians,” and there was a touch of
justifiable pride in her voice as she
made the last statement.
“My sister desired that her chil-
dren be given a better education than
it is possible for them to get on the
reservation. The schools there are
poor,” she continued, “so we came to
Pennsylvania. My brother. is now
working at the Mann Edge Axe fac-
tory, and his two boys are on farms.
They like farm work. My daughter
is working at the Susquehanna silk
mill.”
Mrs. Back told of the rapid increase
in the value of land on the St. Regis
reservation, how the Mohawks there
are increasing in number, and of their
agricultural efforts. The farms aver-
age about 50 acres and many of them
are equipped with the most modern
implements. Once a roving people,
dependent upon the game and fish for
sustenance, they have developed into a
race of tillers of the soil. But the call
of the timber still has its spell upon
them, for many of the young men go
into the timber for work, into the
great logging camps of the Adiron-
dacks. Others find work as guides for
sportsmen who stop at the hotels on
the St. Lawrence; and their services
are eagerly sought. It is an heritage
passed down to them that they should !
know the waters of the St. Lawrence
as few others can know them, in what
coves the water tigers or channel
muskies lurk; where the small-mouth
and Oswego or large-mouth bass are
to be found, and where the pickerel
predominate. Lumbermen and sports-
men seldom hesitate when an oppoz-
tunity to secure a Mohawk’s services
arises, for the out-of-doors is their
element.
Mrs. Back and her sister have been
busily engaged in the fashioning of
artistic baskets from the wood of the
black ash which grows in swampy
places of the north. They have al-
ready made a fine collection of them,
which are on sale at their home. For
Indian women, basket making has in
recent years become a work in which
the demand for their product has been
difficult to supply. At present the
chief worry of the local basket weav-
‘ers is to secure the black ash for the
work. On the reservation white trad-
ers eagerly take up the product as
fast as it is put out. J
An interesting feature about the
Mohawk people is their rapid increase
in population during the past ten
years. It has been necessary for them
to purchase land on the Canadian side
of the reservation, according to Mrs.
Back. One village is located in the
reservation on the point of St. Regis
extending into the St. Lawrence. The
nearest large town in the region is
Ogdensburg.
Within the memory of Mrs. Back,
who is 52 years old, many changes
have taken place among her people.
When she left the Indian school 35
years ago, the Mohawks were ap-
proaching a crisis. The large game
was becoming scarce, and trapping no
tonger could be relied upon as a live-
lihood. Within that time she has wit-
nessed the turning to the plow, and
increase in prosperity of the tribe. To-
day every one wants a farm, but
working conditions are difficult on the
reservation and Mrs. Back desired to
leave the farm for a town where more
opportunity would be found.—Lewis-
town Sentinel.
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Real Estate Transfers.
Charles F® Myers, et ux, to Clyde
A. Johnson, et ux, tract in State Col-
lege; $6,500.
Esther B. Frank to Liddie Parker,
tract in Philipsburg; $500.
Reese Williams to Reese Williams,
«uv ux, tract in Philipsburg; $1.
Edward L. Gates to Matilda Gates,
1-act in S. Philipsburg; $1.
Alexander W. Stewart, et ux, to
Alma R. Leathers, tract in State Col-
lege; $9200.
Bertha Bauer, et bar, to Emest T.
+» vdc3, et al, tract in Bellefonte;
¢ 90.
Lyman L. Smith, et ux, to Walter
R. Hosterman, ‘tract in Centre Hall;
$6750.
ATLANTIC’S GREAT
“FLOATING ISLANDS.”
Washington.— “Crossing the Atlan-
tic has become different from what it
was when the first steamship made the
passage barely three generations ago,
or even when men and women not yet
old made their first transit,” says a
bulletin from the Washington head-
quarters of the National Geographic
society. “The larger ships have come
name is in many ways appropriate.
You do not expect to be tossed about
much on a ferry; and you needn’t be
shaken up much now in crossing the
Atlantic, unless you choose the storm-
iest seasons. Ferries run on close
schedules; and when you go aboard a
crack trans-Atlantic liner nowadays
you know pretty well within a few
hours when you will step ashore 8,200
miles away.
“The two biggest of them are prac-
tically great wandering steel islands
that, defying the usual rules of geog-
raphy, make themselves now a part of
the Eastern hemisphere, now a part of
the Western. Their length approach-
es 1,000 feet, almost a fifth of a mile;
their beams are 100 feet, as wide as a
boulevard. Many a proud building,
housing the population of a town,
rises from a land area smaller than
the hulls of these great ships.
“The ships are themselves practic-
ally great buildings, whose ‘land’ as
well as their superstructures was
fashioned by man; and they, too,
house the population of a town. When
you cross to Europe on such a boat it
is no longer a matter of being ma-
rooned for a week or ten days with
a small group of people. It is as
though ycu spent six fleeting days
(they are days of 24 hours) in a town
whose population was far above the
average in culture, prosperity, and in-
telligence; whose government func-
ed numerous attendants to look after
your comfort.
“There are few shore comforts that
you cannot have on such a ship. You
sleep in beds, not bunks. There is
running water in your stateroom. You
dine as you would at a great land hos-
telry; and you will feel uncomforta-
ble if you are not prepared to dress
the part of a metropolitan diner.
There are good orchestras which piay
for tea and for dances in a great ball-
room each evening. The promenade
deck on which you take your walks is
nearly a quarter of a mile in circuit.
There are numerous deck games, in-
cluding two sorts of deck tennis, and
even golf tournaments for the cham-
pionship of the boat. On the lowest
deck is a large swimming pool. There
is a card room for votaries of bridge;
a well-stocked library; and a smoking
room that surpasses in comfort that
of many an exclusive club. Thpre is
a barber, a hair-dresser, a tailor, a
doctor and dispensary, of course.
Whether you are well or ill, and
whether you crave mental diversion,
athletic sports, or luxurious ease, you
can find what you wish.
“Operating a ship of this sort is a
tremendous enterprise. In the linen
closets and in use are close to 200,009
pieces of linen. On the trip from New
York to Cherbourg the biggest liners
might throw overboard a piece of lin-
en every three seconds, leaving a
‘hare and hound ‘trail of towels,
sheets, stewards’ aprons, and the like
entirely across the Atlantic, no two
pieces many feet apart. And the ship
would arrive on the other side with
several thousand pieces left.
“Far down in the hull of such a
ship, in the section seen by few pas-
sengers and well below the water line,
is the tremendous, complicated ma-
chinery that shifts these ‘islands’ from
hemisphere to hemisphere; in effect,
huge power houses, :
“Four great shafts 163% inches
through and more than 100 feet long
.are spinning around at 180 revolutions
per minute, nakedly between their
bearings and the turbines that turn
them, Toward the rear of the hull
you see them disappear through the
steel wall. Just outside, fixed rigidly
to the shafts, the big propellers are
churning, pushing nearly 60,000 tons
of steel and humanity through the
ocean at 25 miles an hour. The briny
ocean trickles in about these final
shaft bearings in sturdy streams. You
ask the chief engineer about it with
some nervousness. He laughs reas-
surance above the din. It is necessary
that the packing be not tco tight. And
the pumps are always busy. They
suck up these rills and many more
like them and spew the water back
into the sea.
“As a matter of fact the machinery
reaches out into the ocean and sucks
the sea into the ships in Gargantuan
gulps. A pipe three feet through is
the intake. Through it are pumped
22,000 tons of sea water per hour to
condense the steam. As soon as it
has served its purpose out it is push-
ed on the other side.
“The hull has a double bottom. Be-
tween the two floors are pumped be-
fore each voyage 6,000 tons of fresh
water to serve machinery and passen-
gers.”
Town of 340 Boasts $2,500,000 in
Banks,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.—A unique vil-
lage, tucked away in Clayton county,
has come into the limelight through
its bank report, recently filed with the
State Banking department.
The village is Garnavillo, boasting
two 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 85 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 to-
tal $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.
——Seventy-six per cent. of all mo-
tor cars sold in the United States are
bought on the deferred-payment plan.
to be called ‘ocean ferries,” and the:
tioned perfectly; and which maintain--
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
P CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
MONWEALTH, FOR APPROVAL OR
REJECTION BY THE GENERAL
ANIA, PUBLISHED BY
ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSUANCE OF
OF THE CONSTITU-
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,
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 Ag3-
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-
{ordance 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 supply
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 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-
gordance with the eighteenth article there-
of: 3
That article nine of the Constitution bf
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 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 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
I’'roposing 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 addition to the purposes
stated in article nine, section 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,
epilepties, 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-
cordance 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-
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
defend the |
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 85. 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 in 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 ascertaining 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-
eility 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 lafer 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 te such ginking-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
construetion or - improvements. of public
works er utilities of any character from-
which ineome or revenue is to be derived
by said eity, 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 inelude the amount of the interest.
and sinking-fund charges accruing and
wheh may aeerue thercon 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 amd 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 eopy of Joint Resolution No. T-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 eof Penusylvania 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:
Sectian 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-
sylvands.
A true eopy of Joint Resolution No. 8-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 9-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Propesing an amendment to article nine
of the Constitution of the Commonwealth
ef Pennsylvania by adding thereto an
additional section.
Sectien 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 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 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; protective works, wharves,
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 deviees 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-
Vices authorized by this section may be
used.
os true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1—
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 2—1926.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an smendment to article fifteen,
of the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, by adding 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 Constitutiem 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 eounty, 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 te the electors of
said county, at a special eleetion 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, boreaghs 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 sueh other powers
appropriate to a municipality ass may be
specified therein, except such powers as
are specifically reserved by this section to
ihe municipal divisions herein provided
or.
2. For the election by the people of the
consolidated city, of a beard 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 city 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 pewers and duties.
4+. For the organization of all courts,
other than those of reeord, 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-
font of other provisions of this Constitu-
on.
6. For 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-
mena
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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-
ons.
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
oL 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 Sb las
TO » however, that it is the inten
of this section that substantial powers he
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 divig-
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 munie-
ipal division.
The said municipal divisions shall have
and continue to possess the following pow-
ers:
& The gonstitutional and legal capacity
of municipal corporations, except a im-
ited in the charter, > S tm
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,
. The power to acquire, own, construct,
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 trunk 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.
. 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 veting 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.
wee true copy of Joint Resolution No.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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