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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.
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