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lefonte, Pa., September 24, 1926.
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CORN BORER A REAL MENACE.
With the inclusion of a dozen ad-
ditional counties and townships .in
Pennsylvania in the quarantine sec-
tion set up against infestation by the
corn borer, bringing the total area un-
der quarantine up to more than 1,500
square miles, Dr, W. H. Larrimer, of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture,
outlined a half million dollar program
by which the department hopes to
check further ravages of the pest.
Dr. Larrimer is chief of the cereal
and forage insect division of investi-
gation and is an entomologist of note.
The department will spend $485,
000 during the fiscal year which com-
menced July 1, under an appropriation
voted at the last session of congress.
A permanent staff of 25 or 30 experts
is maintained at control work, and be-
tween 200 and 300 men are employed
in the infested areas under the direc-
tion of experts to forward “clean up”
activities in driving out the pest.
“The federal government is receiv-
ing unstinted co-operation from the
States in checking an infestation
which has reached alarming propor-
tions and which will take toll of un-
told millions of dollars’ worth of crops
unless it is halted,” Dr. Larrimer said.
“Not only Pennsylvania and other
States which are actually in the in-
fested area but States which are in
the path of the invader and which are
taking preventative measures to pre-
vent its spread have either made ap-
propriations to aid in the work or
have placed their state agricultural
staffs at work co-operating in a con-
.certed national program against the
corn borer.
“We now have under federal quar-
.antine something in excess of an area
of 1,500 square miles, including coun-
ties in six States.
“Pennsylvania has thirteen coun-
ties, Maine one, Rhode Island one,
New York sixteen, Ohio fourteen and
Michigan twelve counties under quar-
antine. _. .
“It is our aim to prevent duplica-
tion of the conditions in Canada which
have resulted in a total commercial
loss of crops in an area of more than
400 square miles laid waste by the
corn borer.
“This pest was first observed in
virulent form in Massachusetts and
Ontario, Canada, in 1917, and it is the
accepted theory that it was brought
over in shipments of broom corn from
Hungary in 1909 and 1910.
“The corn borer gained a foot hold
in Massachusetts and has spread
gradually -around the Great Lakes
basin, leaving an area of more or less
intensive infestation in its wake.
These States raise a great deal of
corn but it is our hope that we can
check the infestation before it reaches
‘the great corn growing States like
Tllinois, Iowa and Nebraska.
“Scouts are maintained in the field
throughout this season of the year
and it has been ascertained that the
infestation is spreading through
northern Ohio as far west as the In-
diana line. It is only another step un-
til the pest will turn up in Illinois and
it is our object to stop it where it now
stands and to eradicate it in the in-
fested area.
“We find that long distance spread
is due largely to the carrying of corn
from one section to another by auto-
mobile tourists, as well as by rail
‘shipments.
“In addition to enforcing quaran-
‘tine regulations, we hope to carry on
a general campaign of education
among the people of the grain grow-
ing sections which will remove the
menace to farm prosperity and the
general well being of the country
which has heen thrust upon us by the
corn borer.”
The Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture - is conducting a rigid
quarantine on all corn brought into
the State from New York, with an ef-
fort to eradicate the corn borer that
seems to be prevalent in New York
State. Officers in charge of the quar-
antine are stationed on all main high-
ways in Pennsylvania where such
highways cross the New York state
line.
Boston had the First Fire Engine in
America.
The first fire engine introduced into
America was received at Boston from
England about 247 years ago.
It was a strong cistern of oak plac-
ed on wheels, furnished with pumps,
air chambers and a suction pipe of
strong leather. In case the suction
-could not be used the water was sup-
plied to the container by buckets pass-
ed from hand to hand.
It required three men to work the
pump and direct the nozzle. Few im-
provements were made in the methods
of fighting fire until the middle of the
last century, when steam fire engines
were introduced, the first successful
one being used in Cincinnati in 1853,
and in a few years most of the larger
cities had one or more of these.
It was about this time that the
present department system of fire
fighting was introduced. But there
‘need be no doubt that the Boston
small boys of 1679 took as much de-
light in running after the engine as
does his modern successor-—only of
.course, he did not have to run so fast
—nor so far.
Cincinnati seems to have led in the
organization of paid departments, as
in 1858 that city had 100 firemen on
its payrolls, who each received a sal-
ary of $60 per month.
1,000,000 Prints Recorded.
More than 1,000,000 fingerprints, or
nearly one per cent. of the nation’s
population, are on record in the fed-
eral bureau of identification at Wash-
ington.
—One of the easiest ways to stif-
fen a horse is to compel him to stand
on a plank floor when not at work.
Old Hawaiian Custom
of Birth Celebration
In years gone by the Hawallans, a
primitive, nature-loving people, made
gods of mountains, trees and stones.
{The “alii” or chiefs associated the
birth of a child with a specific tree.
A tamarind or a koa tree was planted
at the time a chief's child was born,
and grew to maturity with the child.
On certaln occasions the first fruits
of a young tree, coconut palm by pref-
erence, were plucked by a son of th”
“alii.” /
When an heir was born to the “alii”
the ceremonial drum was beaten at
the temple and a sacred hula per-
formed. One of these ceremonial
drums, taken from a temple on Dia-
mond head, in Honolulu, i8 of koa
wood (mahogany) and nearly four
feet high. Its ends are covered with
sharkskin and the sides decorates
with human teeth.
As the great drum booms out Its
message that a son has been born to
the “alll,” the people gather to offer
sacrifices and propitiate the gods. A
feast is given by the chief and the se-
cred hula-hula is performed. This sa-
cred hula is more a historic panto-
mime than a mere dance, and is as
different from the hula-hula of today
as a symphony orchestra is from a
jazz band.
Twice Escaped Death
Plans Carefully Laid
Sorcerers in Papua, or New Guinea,
seldom attempt to employ their “puri-
puri,” as native magic is termed,
against white men, but twice one Mira-
Oa did seek to avenge a fancied wrong
by bringing about the death of Merlin
Moore Taylor, the writer relates i»
“The Heart of Black Papua.”
The first attempt was frustrated
when a native discovered that a coco-
nut handed the white man contained
minute slivers of bamboo in the nut’s
milk. If swallowed, these bits of fiber
would penetrate the delicate tissues of
the vital organs, causing inflammation
and eventually death.
Later Taylor narrowly
death from a snake which
toward him while he was walking
along a narrow path. The sorcerer
had captured the poisonous reptile,
tled a noose of pliant vine back of its
head, and placed it in a pot over a fire
with a handkerchief owned by Taylor.
Tortured.by the heat, the snake asso-
ciated the scent of the handkerchief
with its torture, and when released
sought to attack the person whose
scent was similar to that of the hand-
kerchief,
The witch doctor then became re-
signed and disappeared into the jungle
until the white man had departed.
escaped
charged
On the Trolley Car
On board .the trolley car which plies
oetween the Sixty-ninth street termi-
nal and Easton a man and wife were
in earnest conversation. The man
had been "speaking in subdued tones
when his wife burst out with: “She
wasn’t. She wasn't to blame. If
there's. any blame to be fixed it be-
longs to thé husband. I think she
was entirely justified. Any woman In
her place would have done the same.
1 don’t care if the meals were late.
She loved him and that made it all
right.” No, gentle reader, this isn’t
the sort of marital difficulty you sus-
pect. The husband of the woman
who spoke the foregoing, exclaimed:
“But any woman that wastes all aft-
ernoon on a Pekingese is a good-for-
nothing bum, and any man who stands
for such nonsense, deserves to get in-
digestion.”—Philadelphia Record.
Cause of “Cold” Mystery
In spite of all attempts to deter-
mine the specific cause of the common
cold, the cause remains unknown. A
cold, as the doctors explain it, is a
catarrhal inflammation of the lining
of the nose, mouth and throat. It is
held by some to be due to infection
with some peculiar germ which as yet
has not been found. Some think that
this micro-organism is so small that
it cannot be detected even by the most
delicate instrument. At various
times various bacteria have been
thought to be the cause of colds, but
no definite organism has yet been
chosen to bear the blame. Medical aun-
thorities generally are not quite agreed
as to the bacterial origin of the dis-
ease. Evidence is still being collected
and weighed.—Kansas City Times.
By Inches
When Bobbie was six, he was given
a real watch, which, regardless of
quality or accuracy, had a loud tick.
Naturally the little fellow was very
proud, and he would stroll up and
down the street, stopping every mo-
ment or two to draw the timepiece
from his pocket and regard it gravely.
Every passer-by smiled at Bobby's
performance, but the climax came
when his little cousin, Betty, tripped
along and asked him the time.
Bobby regarded his watch perplex-
edly for a moment, and then replied
with dignity, “Two inches to four!”
Historic Timekeeper
Four hundred years ago a church
¢lock was made at Wantage (the birth-
lace of King Alfred the Great), in
fs and placed in the church
tower of East Hendred. It played
gvery three hours the “Angel’s Hymn,”
pnd went on ticking out the time for
$00 years, thus placing all grand-
father’s clocks in the shade. East
Hendred’s timepiece had recently to
pe stopped for repairs. When these
have been satisfactorily completed it
Is not anticipated that the church
clock will need further expert atten-
tion until the year 232
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
‘CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
P CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
MONWEALT FOR APPROVAL OR
REJECTION 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, detend 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-
tordanes 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-
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 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-
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 Commonweakh of Pennsylvania is
hereby amended by adding thereto the fol-
lowing section:
Section 1. That the State may be au-
thorized by law to create debt and to is-
sue bonds not exceeding in the aggregate
one hundred millions of dollars, for the
construction of office buildings in and a
Memorial Bridge in and adjacent to the
| Capital Park; for the acquisition of lands
and the construction thereon of State
buildings and State Institutions; and for
the enlargement of existing State build-
ings and State Institutions.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 5-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 6-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article three
of the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania
is hereby proposed in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof:
That article three be amended by adding
thereto the following:
Section 35. The General Assembly may
by general law make appropriations of
money for assistance to aged indigent res-
idents of the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 6-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 7-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine,
section eight of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the same, That the fol-
lowing amendment to the Constitution of
the Comonwealth of Pennsylvania be and
the same is hereby proposed in accordance
with the eighteenth article thereof:
That article nine, section eight of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Section 8. The debt of any city, bor-
ough, township, school district, or other
municipality or incorporated district, ex-
cept as provided herein and in section fif-
teen of thi; article, shall never ex-
ceed seven (7) per centum upon the
assessed value of the taxable prop-
erty therein, and the debt of any
county except as provided in section
fifteen of this article shall never exceed
ten (10) per centum upon the assessed val-
ue of the taxable realty therein; but the
debt of the City of Philadelphia may be
increased in such amount that the total
city debt of said city shall not exceed four-
teen (14) per centum upon the assessed
value of the taxable realty therein; nor
shall any such county, municipality, or dis-
trict incur any new debt or increase its
indebtedness to an amount exceeding two
(2) per centum upon such assessed valua-
tion of taxable realty in the case of coun-
ties, or taxable property in the case of
other municipalities or dstricts, without
the consent of the electors thereof at a
public election in such manner as shall be
provided by law; but the city of Philadel-
phia may incur any debt or increase its
indebtedness to an amount not exceeding
three per centum of the valuation of tax-
able realty in said city without the con-
sent of the electors. In ascertaining the
borrowing capacity of the City of Phila-
delphia at any time, there shall be deduct-
ed from such debt so much of the debt of
said city as shall have been incurred or is
about to be incurred and the proceeds
thereof expended or about to be expended
upon any public improvement, or in the
construction, purchase, or condemnation of
any puble utility or part thereof or fa-
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 shall
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
whch 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-
cordaiice with the eighteenth article there-
of:
That article nine of the Constitution of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be
amended by adding thereto the following
new section:
Section 16. The General Assembly may
authorize the County of Allegheny to levy
special assessments against both abutting
and non-abutting property peculiarly ben-
efitted for the payment of any public im-
provement whatsoever; to lay out and
build as additional public improvements,
for the payment of which properties pe-
culiarly benefited shall be liable to special
assessments, rapid transit railway sys-
tems, drainage and sewerage systems,
flood protective works, wharves, piers and
quays, highways, tunnels and bridges, and
underground and overhead streets supple-
menting original streets or street systems;
to levy general and special taxes and spe-
cial assessments therefor, either before or
after the laying out and construction
thereof; and to provide that all special
taxes and special assessments so levied
whether payable presently when so levied
or in installments over a period of years
shall be credits or offsets to indebtedness
incurred for such purposes in calculating
the debt of such county; and to provide
for the use and operation of any rapid
transit system by private corporations or-
ganized for that purpose. No law passed
in pursuance hereof shall authorize the
construction of any rapid transit railway
system, flood protective works, wharves,
piers or quays; highways, tunnels or un-
derground or overhead streets unless at a
public election held therefor a majority of
the electors voting thereon shall consent
thereto.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 9-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 10-A.
RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitu-
tion of Pennsylvania.
Be it resolved that the folowing amend-
ment to the Constitution of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania be and the same is
hereby proposed in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof.
That article nine of the Constitution of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be
amended by adding thereto the following
section sixteen:
Section 16. The debt of any city of the
second class shall never exceed ten per
centum upon the assessed value of the tax-
able property therein, nor shall any such
city of the second class incur any new debi
or increase its indebtedness to an amount
exceeding two per centum upon such as-
sessed valuation of property without the
consent of the electors thereof, at a public
election, in such manner as shall be pro-
vided by law,
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 10-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
No. 1—1926.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article eight,
section seven, of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania be and the same is
hereby proposed, in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof:
That section seven, of article eight, is
hereby amended to read as folows:
. Section 7. All laws regulating the hold-
ing of elections by the citizens, or for the
registration of electors, shall be uniform
throughout the State, except that laws reg-
ulating and requiring the registration of
electors may be enacted to apply to cities
only, provided that such laws be uniform
for cities of the same class, and except
further, that the General Assembly shall,
by general law, permit the use of voting
machines, or other mechanical devices for
registering or recording and computing
the vote, at all elections or primaries, in
any county, city, borough or township of
the Commonwealth, at the option of the
electors of such county, city, borough or
township, without being obliged to require
the use of such voting machines or me-
chanical devices in any other county, city,
borough or township, under such regula-
tions with reference thereto as the Gener-
al Assembly may from time to time pre-
scribe. The General Assembly may, from
time to time, prescribe the number and du-
ties of election officers in any political sub-
division of the Commonwealth in which
voting machines or other mechanical de-
Vices authorized by this section may be
used.
A true co of Joint Resoluti . 1—
a py ution 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
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-
Lotdsney with the eighteenth article there-
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
foe 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-
on. .
6. For the assessment of property for
taxation, the levying and collection of tax-
es, and the payment of the cost of any
public improvement, in whole or in part,
by special assessment upon abutting and
non-abutting property materially bene-
—
fited thereby, and, for this purpose, real
estate so charged shall be classified as ur-
ban, suburban and rural, and assessments
fuade in accordance with such classifica~
ons.
7. For the creation, by the board of
commissioners, of districts for the purpose
of regulating the location, height, area,
bulk and use of buildings and premises.
8. For the creation, by the board of
commissioners, of special districts for the
purpose of acquiring, constructing, main-
taining, operating or contracting for, any
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 gpecial taxes lev-
ied throughout such special districts re-
spectively, separate and apart from the
genera) city lay
TO , however, that it is the inte
of this section that substantial powers u
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 munie-
ipal division. *
The said municipal divisions shall have
and continue, to possess the following pow-
ers:
A The Constitutional and legal capacity
of municipal corporations, exce -
ited in the charter. PL as hm
2. The power to lay and collect taxes
and to, incur indebtedness, subject to the
limitations which are or may be imposed
by law upon cities, boroughs or townships
of Corresponding. classification, for the
urpose of carrying out any lawful -
er of said oan y Dow
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 munici-
pal division may surrender, by majority
vote of the electors voting thereon at any
general or special election, any of its pow-
ers to the consolidated city, subject to the
acceptance thereof by the board of com-
missioners.
The said charter may be amended by the
Legislature, subject to ratification by a
majority of the electors of the consolidat-
ed city voting thereon at any general or
special election; Provided, That no amend-
ment reducing the powers of municipal di-
visions shall be effective unless ratified by
a majorty of the electors voting thereon
in each of a majority of said divisions.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2—
1926.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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