Bowaric atom, I ————————————————— Bellefonte, Pa., September 17, 1926. OUTGUESSING WILD ANIMALS THAT THINK. Mountain lions, bobcats, grizzlies, wolves, coyotes, and other killers slaughtered between twenty and thir- ty million dollars’ worth of live-stock last year on the Western ranges. That is why -the government maintains a band of men, pioneers at heart, who concentrate every effort, night and day, on their extermination. These men belong to the Predatory Animal Division of the Biological Survey, and the stories they tell in monosyllables sound like old medieval tales of were- wolves and ghost-tigers. Do animals think? Listen to their experiences with some of these four-legged des- radoes. : Dy P. Young is the boss trailer of the hunters on Colorado’s stock ranges, with the professorial title of Junior Biologist. : To if animals think,” said Young in an interview. “Let me tell you how we have to go out after wolves. 3 «A wolf has a regular run. Itis a circle about fifty miles in circumfer- ence. He makes the rounds regularly. We study a killer wolf’s habits some- times for months. Thea we make a trap set for him on this run at some key point. Can’t poison a wolf. He’s ‘too wise. “In setting traps for wolves we make two kinds of sets. Wolves have scent posts just like domestic dogs. We find the ground all scratched up -around these. Sometimes we set traps at such points. To stir up the local wolf, get him all excited so he’ll lose his head a bit, we often bring in the scent of some foreign wolf we have ‘trapped. That makes the local wolf mad to find an invader in his baili- wick. He starts rarin’ around and gets into a trap. . “Some of them are, so cunning they will not get into a trap at a scent post. They just sense there is some- thing wrong and dodge the trap. Then we make what is called a blind set. “In making a blind set, the hunter waits until it is about time for the wolf ‘to come by a point on his circle trail. These men get this figured out almost to the hour because they may ‘have been studying that particular ‘wolf for weeks. Then they select a place where the trail is narrow. They -dig a pit and put the trap in it. They “handle the traps with gloves and keep -all of the dirt they dig on what is ea -ed a setting cloth. Everything in the way of footgear, setting cloth, trap and gloves has had the scent of man ‘taken from it.”—Everybody’s Maga- ‘zine. ‘Crop Area Falls Off as Population Gains. Washington.—For the first time in ‘history there has been a decrease in ‘the crop area of the United States. Despite a marked increase in pobu- lation, there was a reduction in the last five years of 19,000,000 acres in the area of harvested crops, the De- partment of Agriculture has disclosed in an analysis of the agricultural cen- sus statistics. Notwithstanding the decrzase, the crop area still is suffi- «cient, in the opinion of department experts, to maintain a large volume of agricultural exports. The 19,000,000 acres have reverted to pasture or have been allowed to lie idle, the cause being attributed chiefly to the agricultural depression of the last five years. Largely as a result of the war-time prices, about 40,000,000 acres of pas- ture land were plowed up and put into crops between 1909 and 1919, and about 5,000,000 acres of forest land cleared for crops. Nearly half of this total, experts believe, was used to meet the increased European demand for foodstuffs. Owing to the extraor- dinary demands of the war period, the acreage of crop land in 1919 was near- ly ten years ahead of what had been the previous rate of expansion rela- tive to increase of population. Dairymen Use Unique System to Buy Cows. Northumberland county dairymen held a unique sale of cattle at Mil- ton recently. Twenty-one cows, four heifers and one bull, purchased in Susquehanna county, were sold at an auction similar to the one held in Union county last spring. As each animal was led into the ring the sale price, which was the actual price plus expenses, was an- nounced. The breeding of the animal was also given. All who wished the animal at the indicated price put their names into a box from which a drawing then was made. The animals submitted at the sale were selected by R. R. Welch, dairy extension specialist of the Pennsyl- vania State College; F. W. Myer, agricultural extension representative in Northumberland county and W. H. Fairchild, banker-farmer, of Mil- ton. The Milton Trust & Safe De- posit Company financed the under- “taking. Invention Relieves Telephone Opera- tors. Weary telephone operators in Paris have obtained relief through the phonograph. When a person calls a number that has been changed the phonograph automatically spiels: “This number has been changed con- sult the new directory.” Occasionally callers are given wrong numbers by the girl operators, and complaints have been made by persons who find that the phonograph with its one answer, gives them the wrong information.—Exchange. —Bermuda has no automobiles but it is proposed there that motor buses be placed on rails. It will be called a railway. One Time Desperado Made No Impression A Blackstone farmer, grazing his cows by the roadside and reading a book comfortably against a wall, was Interrupted the other day by a dusty stranger who inquired, not without pride: “Do you know who I am? I'm Remblad.” “That so?’ sald the farmer, turn- Ing a page. “I've been sleeping in your barn for ten days and I'm getting tired of it.” The agriculturist read on unper- turbed. A queer duck, thought the stranger, and he drew a gun from his pocket and announced : “I think I'll knock that cap off your head.” “I wouldn't,” suggested the farmer, glancing up for an instant from his book. “You might hit low and hurt me.” What was the use? After a fellow has achieved fame by escaping from an insane asylum, robbing a score ef houses and stores, stealing a garage- ful of automobiles and thumbing his nose at the police of two states and a dozen towns for weeks, here was a hick who preferred reading a darned old book to listening to his heroic tale of adventure. Remblad snorted disgustedly, pushed the gun back into his pocket and trudged gloomily off down the road. And the Blackstone farmer just turned another. page.—Providence Evening Bulletin. Elephants Must Be Allowed to Increase Elephant hunting in the jungles of usndia is beeoming more difficult be- cause of the thinning of the herds. There was a time, not many years ago, when the elephant drive always yielded a good harvest, say 100 or more young ones, from which a num- ‘ber of perfect specimens could be se- lected. But now the hunters are for- tunate if they get eight or nine good ones from a hunt. Some of the young ‘lephants are se- fected for training and are divided into groups of various numbers, de- pending upon the circus acts for which they are to be used. Others are taught to carry a howdah and allow children to ride on their backs. Elephants always are caught in the dry season, says John T. Benson in Popular Mechanics Magazine. At that time their natural food is the poorest and they have to tramp for miles to get a good meal. As a result, they are In poor condition and have to be fed for weeks hefore they can stand their first sea voyage. Elephants are subject to numerous ills. They require much nursing, but once they become acclimated they will, with proper care, live to a great age. “Miss” Not Old Title Denmark’s decision to abolish the equivalent of “Miss” and address all women, married or single, as “Mrs.” recalls the comparatively recent origin of the distinction in feminine titles in England. Until the Seventeenth cen- tury “Mistress” was the correct form for all women, and the diminutive “Miss” dates only from the time of Charles II. Contemporary evidence goes to show that the term was not intended to flatter, but rather to de- note the inferior status of the person who lacked a husband to provide her with the more dignified title. But it evidently supplied a want, and quick- ly passed into general use—except among the purists. Lady Mary Wort- ley Montague records that in her childhood dignified old ladies refused to use the vulgar new term, and ad- dressed even little girls as “Mistress.” Outcasts of Paris Although Paris has a municipal reg alation which expressly forbids per- sons from sleeping under arches of the Seine bridges, there are 4,000 per- sons making use of these shelters as lodging houses. Many are old and in- capacitated, some are alcoholics and some plain tramps. The Salvation Army tries to look out for these un- fortunates. Every night of the year a pair of “comrades” makes a tour about the bridges, one carrying a lantern and the other a kettle of soup. This is handed out to persons found under the bridges, and where it is possible efforts made to reclaim them. Cobblers Famous in 1318 As long ago as 1316 there were cob- blers who grew rich in their trade and gave credence to the old saying that “the cobbler should stick to his last.” One cobbler of that time was found to have 18,000,000 gold florins. Nathaniel Ward, an Englishman born in 1570, was a scholar of high rank and in his later years a cobbler of note. He graduated at Cambridge. traveled the Continent, became a theo- logian and as a Puritan came to Mas- sachusetts and formed the first code of laws in New England. He was the author of the satiric work “The Sim- ple Cobbler of Agawam.” No Night Letters ‘Then Means of communication has been 4 problem among men from the. begin- ning of time when one group set out to conquer or explore the world. Fire arrows were one of the earliest forms of communication telling one group the location of the other, but mirror signaling as practiced in Persia by the Persians, Babylonians and Egyp- tlans, is probably as old a form of sig- naling as is known. The burnished shields of the warriors acted as mir rors when flashed against the sun, CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS 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 PENN 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 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- cordiite ‘with the eighteenth article thére- 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 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 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- mohwealth 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 comstruction thereon of State buildings and State Institutions; and for 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 deduect- 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 accrue 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 Constitution 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 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 tae 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 tem 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. CLYD . 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 they 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- Yiees 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 adding thereto a hew Section to be known as section four ereof. 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 ie municipal divisions herein provided or. 2. For 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 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- tent of other provisions of this Constitu- tion. 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- 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 ca- 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. For the creation, by the board of commissioners, of special districts for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, main- taining, operating or contracting for, any publc 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 204 continue to possess the following pow- 1. The constitutional and legal capacity of municipal corporations, except as lim- ited in the charter. 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 o syne classification, for the pose of carrying out any lawful - er of said divisions. y bow 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. 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 munieci-’ 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. 1008 true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2-— CLYDE L. KING, Secretary of the Commonwealth. "POULTRY The Season's Delicacy Dinner That’s the thing that appeals to both young and old when tired and hungry.. Our Meats are Always Just Right—whether beef, veal, pork, mut- ton, lamb or fowl. Seasoned in our own big refrigerator, they go to our customers in prime condition.—Clean, Sanitary, Wholesome. Orders by telephone always receive prompt attention. Telephone 450 P. I. 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