Bellefonte, Pa., September 10, 1926.
Has Your Child Been Examined Be-
fore Entering School?
“The department of health, through
its oreo child health, co-operat-
ing with the parent-teacher associa-
tions of various counties, is making a
great effort to have the children en-
tering school for the first time this
fall properly examined prior to ad-
mission. This is for the purpose of
correcting any physical defects that
might handicap them in their school
career. Investigations indicate that
adenoids and diseased tonsils, poor
vision and dental defects are the most
troublesome factors. The proper cor-
rection of these not only gives the
child a chance to progress in school,
but affords him a general happiness
which is his absolute right. :
“In view of the thousands of chil-
dren who will start school for the first
time this autumn, it will be impossibi :
for the health department, even with
the cooperation of parent-teacher as-
sociations, to cover more that a mini-
mum territory. This appeal therefore
is made by the department in behalf
of all children about to enter school.
And it is directed to parents.
“Pennsylvania’s educational system
and its advantages are as good as any,
and better than most, in the United
States. Your child has the right to
receive the maximum result from
these benefits by a healthy mind and a
healthy body. .
“Give your children the right start
therefore by taking them to your pri-
vate physician and submitting them to
a thorough physical examination. Ie
the tonsils are diseased or adenoids
are present, and the doctor recom-
mends it, by all means have them re-
moved. Incidentally, there is no par-
ticular age for this operation. The
test is—are they diseased and does the
skilled physician recommend the re-
moval? If the vision is poor, it is
equally your obligation to have the
correction made by a recognized eye
specialist. Don’t forget the teeth.
And by all means have your child
vaccinated. Why run the risk of
smallpox when. such a painless pre-
ventive exists? Moreover, your child
can not remain in school unvaccinated.
It is the law. Jo
“The state will do everything it can
for your child’s educational welfare.
The health department will exert its
power to conserve the life and happi-
ness of the citizens. But you, as par-
ents, owe it to your children person-
ally to attend to this vital pre-school
duty. It is yours and yours alone to
perform. Send your child to school
without physical disadvantages.
Whether yours is altogether healthy
now is for the doctor alone to say.
Take the trouble to find out. It will
»
pay.’
Rights of Pedestrians.
In Norristown, the other day, a po-
liceman was “given a pointer” by the
president judge of the county. At the
street intersection where the police-
man stood, Judge Williams came near
being struck by an automobile which
crossed the street at great speed the
moment the traffic signal permitted.
The judge called the officer’s atten-
tion to his own danger and the mani-
fest disregard of the motor driver for
him and received the reply: “I paid
no attention to the motorist as he had
the right of way according to the traf-
fic signal.”
It was here that the policeman re-
ceived the pointer, for the judge re-
plied: “Signal or no signal, a pedes-
trian always has the right of way.
The Supreme Court of the State of
Pennsylvania recently so ruled. It is
your duty and that of the motorist as
well, to see that a person crossing
the street is protected.” Needless to
say, the policeman was enlightened,
and, with the recital of this incident,
the reading public should be as well.
The law expects a person crossing
the street to exercise due caution, but
by traffic signals or any other signal
it does not give the motorist prece-
dence over the pedestrian, and the
motorist can take it only at his risk.
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New Golf Game.
Handicapped in his golf game by
rheumatic pains that troubled him
every time he swung at the ball, N.
E. Warwick, of Cleveland, Ohio, re-
fused to give up his favorite sport.
Instead, he invented a remarkable
new form of golf, says Popular Sci-
ence Monthly, in which the ball is
hurled with a whipping motion above
the head instead of being driven from
the ground.
With light, whiplike sticks he now
elaims he can make a better score
than ever before. The heads of the
sticks are cups that hold the ball.
Warwick has developed three kinds of
clubs—the hurler, for the long shots
ordinarily made with driver or bras-
sie; the midiron, and the sinker, cor-
responding to the putter. With the
hurler Warwick claims to get more
distance than the ordinary golfer gets
in the average drive off a tee.
First Animal Protection.
The first step in the enactment of
humane legislation was taken in 1822,
when a bill providing punishment for
the ill treatment of cattle was intro-
duced into the British parliament by
Richard Martin, an Irish nobleman,
later nicknamed by King George IV
“Humanity Martin.” To Richard
Martin belongs the credit for the first
eonviction under the law for the pro-
tection of animals. The misused
animal was dragged into court to show
evidence of its master’s cruelty, and
the driver was found guilty. Two
years later, Martin formed a society
for the enforcement of his anti-cruelty
act. The Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals was thereupon
organized. From this society originat-
ed the American Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, found-
ed in New York in 1866 by Henry
Bergh.
Qualities That Give
Fern a Staple Value |
" Hawall has an especially interest-
ing species of fern which is so thick-
ly covered with fine wool that it is
gathered for stuffing pillows and even
mattresses.
The columnar trunks of the tree
fern of the tropics are frequently used
for telephone poles and are so highly
prized for upright supports in the
construction of native huts that they
are never left behind but carried on
when the family moves as a valuable
piece of household furniture, The fern
stem is a well-known source of supply
for the manufacture of rope and, since
it is impervious to the action of wa-
ter, it is In most cases superior to
hemp. The great strength of the fern
stalk is thought to come partly from
the hard outer shell and partly from
the intricate network of dark strands
within,
The Boston fern finds a ready com-
mercial value in annually supplying
millions of American homes with liv-
Ing ferns, while the dagger fern and
the fancy fern of the northeastern
part of the United States are gath-
ered in enormous quantities in late
Summer and autumn and put in cold
storage for winter use. When taken
from the refrigerator months later
these fronds are still as fresh as when
cut, and supply the ever-increasing
commercial demand as a setting for
bouquets of roses and other cut flow-
ers,
Living Organism That
Possesses No Shadow
At night a host of small creatures
found safety in being divested of all
pigment. In the course of evolution
they ‘had scraped off all the mercury
from the back of their beings, becom-
ing so. transparent that the food
which they swallowed was the most
conspicuous and opaque part of thej-
anatomy,
I could never quite escape from a
decided Alice In Wonderland feeling
when I looked into a dish of night
plankton scooped from the surface.
By keenest scrutiny I could perceive
only the usual hosts of small fry,
when, reaching down and lifting out
what seemed only an area of clear
water, there would materialize before
my eyes a phyllosoma., This was a
creature who cast no more shadow
than the thinnest skim of clear ice.
Yet it was a living animal, more than
three inches long, with all the general
organs which we ourselves possess—
eyes, mouth, feet, stomach, nerves,
muscles and a strong will to live.
Phyllosoma, or “leaf person,” was
che only name I could give them, al-
though glass crab would be more ap-
propriate, for they were the young of
some lobsterlike crustacean and noth-
ing is known of the intermediate
stages.—“The Arcturus Adventure,”
by William Beebe,
“Dog Days”
What are the “Dog days?”
Beginning on July 8 is the period
supposed to be the hottest of the year,
and which in ancient astronomy was
associated with the rising of the Dog
star.
Astronomy and religion being then
closely connected, it was thought that
the pestilences and drought of vege-
tation often occurring at the period
in the heats of Italy could be warded
off by propitiatory offerings to the god
of the Star, and red dogs were, there-
fore, sometimes sacrificed.
From this old belief has survived
our modern Dog days, though the term
is often confused with the hot period
during which dogs used to be sup-
posed to be especially subject to mad-
ness.
The Automower
An American motorist touring this
country pulled up at the roadside,
where an aged countryman was mow-
ing.
“Air yew a native?” asked the tour-
st, and, receiving an affirmative re-
ply, added: “Then you don’t know
what this is?” He indicated his lux-
urious car,
“Aye, that be a motor car.”
“No; it’s an automobile.”
“Ave, said the aged one.
won't know wot this be.”
*o his scythe.
“It’s a scythe.”
“You be wrong; it’s an automow-
grass.”—London Tit-Bits.
“An’ you
He pointed
Age of Figureheads
The age of sail was pregnant with
strange belief and sentiment. To the
imaginative and superstitious sailor
the figurehead not only expressed the
Individuality of the craft, but it made
her a living thing. To many, it was
the guardian spirit in whose sacred
care the inexplicable future lay. More
than one old salt has refused to go
to sea behind a naked bow, and when
owners skimped in the matter of fig-
urehead, shaggy eyebrows contracted
and doleful predictions thundered
forth as to the fate that awaited the
“unlucky craft.
Nature’s Largest Plants
Scientists are now turning their at:
tention to submarine farming, for the
ocean beds contain rich pastures of
vegetables. In the northern Pacific
alone there are-2,000,000 square miles
of unexplored sea bottom. As good to
eat as any vegetables grown in the
garden are the giant seaweeds coyer-
ing 10,000 square wiles off the Straits
of Fuca. These kelps, as they are
called, are the largest plants in the
world, for the stem is often 100 feet
long and carries a tuft of leaves 80
feet across.
| CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
P CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
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-
£ordsnes 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-
pn 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 City of Pittsburgh to levy
special assessments against both abutting
and non-abutting property, peculiarly
benefited, for the payment of any publie
improvement whatsoever; to lay out and
build as additional publie 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 eitlier 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 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,
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-
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:
Sectlon 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
the enlargement of existing State build-
ngs and State Institutions.
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 publc 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 whieh 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. 8A.
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 mine of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania is hereby amended by ad-
ding thereto seetiom 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 eopy 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 Constitution of the Commonwealth
of 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: i
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,
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.
7
8.
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
ied
con
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.
LYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
the
No. 1—1926.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article eight,
section seven, of the Constitution of tho
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
ity
sembly met, That the following amend- 1
ment to the Constitution of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania be and the same is
hereby Droposed, 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, | t
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-
Yices authorized by this section may be
used.
1 true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1—
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CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth. and
6.
No. 21926.
A JOINT RESOLUTION pal
Proposing an amendment 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 Constitution of Pennsylvania
be and the same is hereby proposed in ac-
Loraance with the eighteenth article there-
of:
Section 4. The General
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-
gen
ers
1
ed
Assembly is
fited thereby,
fstate So charged shall be classified as ur=
an,
made
tions.
spectively,
general city tax.
Provided, however, that it is the intent
of this section that substanti
reserved to A) posers bs
ships situated in Alle, hen A
this end the charter ne Y aty
oughs and townships
or increase its indebtedness to an amount | ions of the consolidated city, under their
municipal 3 Sivisons,
more municipal divisons of the consolidat-
ed city may, with the consent 2liget
of such divisions at
election, be united to form a sing] -
ipal division. Single music
of municipal
Ted in the charter.
limitations which are
of Sn esbondingy
purpose of carrying out any lawfi -
er of said divisionse y Hiewial pow
maintain,
thereof, provded this
taken to include the
bridges,
nances thereof, nor main or trumk lines
force,
necessary buildings,
of ‘indebtedness for
acceptance thereof by the
missioners.
Legislature, subject
majority of the electors of the consolidat-
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
and, for this purpose, real
suburban and rural, and assessments
in accordance with such classifica-
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.
For the creation, by the board of
commissioners, of special districts for the
purpose of acquiring,
taining,
puble property, work, improvement, utili-
ty or service,
of any one municipal division, and for the
payment of the costs and maintenance of
such property, work, improvement, utility
or service,
construeting, main-
operating or contracting for, any
not for the exclusive benefit
there may be special taxes lev-
throughout such special districts re-
separate and apart from the
the cities, boroughs and town-
To
provide for the
the said cities, bor-
as municipal divis-
shall
tinued existence of
ment of municipalities of th
Later p eir respective
classes, except as provided in
charter, and with their present bound-
aries, provided that the city of Pittsburgh
and that any two or
of a major-
of the electors voting thereon in io
any general or special]
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate The said municipal divisions shall have
and House of Representatives of the Com. | and continue to possess the following pow-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As- | ers:
The constitutional and legal capacity
corporations, except as lim-
The power to lay and collect taxes
to incur indebtedness, subject to the
Or may be imposed
boroughs or townships
classification, for the
law upon cities,
The power to acquire, own,
operate or contract for
publie property, works, improvements,
ities or services, which shall be within
municipal division, and principally for
use and benefit of the inhabitants
power shall not be
construction and
ntenance of through-traffie streets and
tunnels, subways and appurte-
construet,
all kinds
sewer, power and water service, run-
ning through more than one municipal di-
on, and designated as such by the
rd of commissioners.
The power to maintain a local police
and local fire department, with the
appurtenances and
ipment therefor, which may be supple-
mental to the police force and fire depart-
ment of the consolidated city.
The power to establish a limitation
the consolidated city
allowed by the Constitution to the county
to the separate
All other powers not specifically
granted by the charter to the consolidat
city; Provided, -
however, That a munici-
division may surrender, by majority
vote of the electors voting thereon at any
eral or special election, any of its pow-
to the consolidated city, subject to the
board of com-
he said charter may be amended by the
to ratification by a
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—
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
to a consolidated eity 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 bowers and duties vested in
the county of Allegheny, and the poor
districts thereof, and such other powers
appropriate to a munieipality as may be
specified therein, exeept such bowers as
are specifically reserved by this section to
the municipal divisions herein provided
or.
2
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 city and
bot
county, except as otherwise provided in | ton,
the charter.
3. For the organization of a government
for the consolidated eity and county, and | cus
for the election or appointment of the con-
stitutional and other necessary officers
thereof, and for their powers and duties.
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.
. For the transfer to the consolidated
city of the preperty 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-
tion.
6. For the assessment of property for
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