Demonic Wawa
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Bellefonte, Pa., October 1, 1926.
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Keep the Foodstuffs
Cool by Evaporation
The old idea of keeping food by the
cooling method of evaporation is re-
called by a story in McClure’s Maga-
zine entitled “Zero,” the whole dra-
‘matie plot of which is based on this
principle. The author, Carl Clausen,
has lived in the southwest where ev-
ery Mexican family uses an “olla” in
preference to ice even when the lat-
ter may be had. An olla is nothing
‘but an unglazed earthen jar with a
cover. The food is placed inside and
‘the great crock set out in the air in
the shade. Then it is somebody's job
to keep throwing buckets of water
over it at Intervals. As the water
evaporates the interior of the jar be
comes colder and colder.
Another niethod our grandmothers
-employed, particularly on farms in the
Middle West, used the same funda-
.mental idea a little more convenient-
ly developed. A set of shelves was
completely surrounded by wire win-
dow screening, a little screened door
being set into the front. The whole
was again covered with several thick-
.nesses of tacked-on burlap or old wool
carpet. This box of shelves was then
:8et up on stilts some three feet off
the ground and placed under the tree
. nearest the kitchen door. And direct-
tly over it, from a handy limb, was
. hung the largest possible tin pail with
:-a slow leak in it. Thus morning and
night the spongy covering was kept
soaked with water, with the over-
. hanging pail filled to drip for hours.
An jceless ice box! With roomy
- shelves inside and a convenient door.
What more can be asked? It does
the trick and costs—next to nothing.
For these ice boxes cannot be bought
but must be made by the person about
the house who can drive a nail
- straightest.
The idea of refrigeration by evapo-
.-ration is invaluable to campers. A
-Mttle screened food box and a bit of
old carpet or blanket that will dry
slowly when soaked with water will"
insure sweet cream with the break-
fast coffee. All that is necessary is
to set the box up off the ground and
throw the wet blanket over it.
Make your own iceless ice box.
Death Painter's Subject
The name “Dance of Death” is
-given to an allegorical representation
~of the triumph of death over all sorts
-and conditions of men. It originated
.in the Fourteenth century, and was a
favorite subject with the artists of
‘the Middle ages. The “Chorea Macha-
‘baeorum,” or “Danse Macabre,” the
first printed representation, was pub-
lished in 1485, and consisted of a se-
ries of woodcuts, representing death
~dancing attendance upon all kinds of
persons, from Adam and Eve down-
ward. A similar series of pictures Is
:ascribed to Holbein the Younger; it
.appeared about 1507. The celebrated
“Dance of Death” on the cloister walls
-of the Klingenthal, a convent in Basel,
was painted about 1312. The “Dance
of: Death” also occurs in rude carvings
:and pictures in various countries of
Eurepe.—Exchange.
Veteran on “Hike”
Walter Marrett;, seventy-six, came
.all the way from Alaska to attend the
‘fiftieth reunion of his class at Bow-
~doin, relates the Boston Globe. When
‘his train reached the White mountain
region he began to think about a hike
‘he took one day half a century ago
from Mount Washington to Portland,
.covering about 100 miles in 24 hours.
So at the next stop he hopped off and
set forth. For 18 hours he hiked over
the road, occasionally stopping to
chat with automobile parties curious
to know why he was walking. He
‘walked 72 miles, and then, after a
brief rest, added 10 more miles for
good measure. ‘‘Might have made it
100, but a man doesn’t want to be
foolish, even if he does feel well,”
said he.
The Poor Mouth
Senator Harrison said in a war-
debt argument in Washington:
“Italy and France are prosperous
and happy. No unemployment, no
want. When they make a poor mouth
I think of little Mabel.
“Little Mabel stalked into the sit-
«dng room where her mother sat at
work, and began to sob and cry hor-
ribly.
*‘Why, what's the matter?
: ner mother.
#¢ falled yesterday,’ sobbed Mabel.
4 ‘But that was yesterday,” said her
_ mother, ‘why are you crying today?
“ ‘Because,’ Mabel sobbed, ‘you
wasn't home yesterday to give me a
. plece of pie to comfort me.’”
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said
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: Passing of the Clog
"Many work people of Europe have
tong worn clogs instead of shoes, but
the fashion is changing. Originally
clogs were made entirely of wood. In
Holland families used to make clogs
by hand, doing all the work with
knives. Before the World war a pair
of clogs could be purchased in Hol-
land for about 14 cents. Welsh and
English working folk,” especially in
Lancashire and Yorkshire, wore clogs,
but they are now using leather ‘“‘up-
pers” and employing wood only for
soles.
—New York City will soon receive
its milk supply in tank ears, each hav-
ing a capacity of 6,000 gallons. The
cars are lined with glass covered with
cork, thus providing perfect refrigera-
tion.
Coloma, City of Gold,
Pathetic in Its Ruin
Coloma is an unknown name today,
ut three-quarters of a century ago
very American able to ‘speak had it
t his tongue’s end. There that New
ersey adventurer, James Wilson Mar-
hall, discovered gold in January,
848, and started the rush of fortune
kers from all the world to Califor-
a, a writer in the New York Sun
alls. Coloma grew quickly to a
own of ten thousand inhabitants and
asted of all the luxuries that a pi.
neer could demand. A stranger
andering among the hills of El
orado county recently rediscovered
t. He found a country store and a
ost office in the midst of a cluster
pf deserted shops and houses. The
mail carrier said that in the whole
community there were scarcely a hun-
dred and fifty persons. In the grave-
ard on the hillside was the only re-
inder of Coloma’s fame, a memorial
to Marshall, the bronze statue sur-
mounting it pointing to the place of
California’s first gold discovery.
Coloma had dreams of magnificence
in the early fifties. Coloma then had
a dozen hotels, a street lined with
stores, a hundred saloons, as many
wide-open gambling places and dance
halls, an express office, three schools,
four churches and a jail. The shells
of the dance halls, the saloons and
the gambling places remain. The
churches and schools passed genera-
tions ago. The jail that had housed
the bad men, the killers and crooked
gamblers long ago fell into ruins.
First Settlement in
Oregon Was Astoria
The first permanent settlement in
Oregon was founded at Astoria by
agents of the Pacific Fur company,
who arrived at the mouth of the Co-
lumbia river 115 years ago. The fur
company was backed by John Jacob
Astor, but the men engaged by him
to invade the northwestern wilderness
were Canadians, a majority being of
Scotch descent.
The party left Montreal in a big
canoe and made their way down the
St. Lawrence, thence to the Hudson
and New York, from which port they
sailed on the ship Tonquin, which
doubled Cape Horn and proceeded to
Hawaii, salling thence for the Colum-
bia river. Arrived at the mouth of
that mighty stream, they built a fort,
calling it Astoria, which gradually de-
veloped into the town and city of that
name.
Tea-Totalers
ihe English poor owe their indi-
gestion to their mania for tea drink-
ing. An hour before he gets up ev-
ery Englishman drinks on an empty
stomach a huge cupful of tea as
strong as it can be brewed. This fur-
nishes the foundation for the tea
jag that he will build up in the course
of the day.
. A peasant woman in an English yil-_
fage once asked an American visitor
to have a cupful of tea. But the tea
was as black as ink, and the Ameri-
can declined.
“How long have you had that tea-
pot simmering on the stove?’ she
asked.
“Why, miss, I never take it off,” the
peasant woman replied. “I put in a
fresh pennyworth when it gets weak
and then, when the pot gets full of
leaves; I put in my hand and pull out
a handful for my old man to smoke.”
What Interested Him
Jne of our customers is a merchant
who thinks, eats, and sleeps in terms
of business. His business interests
him more than anything else in the
world. One night, according to the
story, his wife discovered him stand-
ing over his baby’s crib. She saw in
his face rapture, doubt, admiration,
despair, ecstasy, incredulity.
Naturally, she was touched at this
somewhat unusual parental attitude,
so with glistening eyes she arose and
slipped her arms around him.
“A penny for your thoughts,” she
said in a voice tremulous with ten-
derness.
Startled into consciousness, he
plurted out: “For the life of me, I
can’t see how anybody can make a
crib like that for $3.49.”—Old Colony
News-Letter.
Artificial Pearls
The method used by the Buddhist
priest in producing pearl images was
to insert a small wooden wedge be-
tween the two shells of the mussel,
when these were open, to keep them
from closing. All mussels can only
open their shell a little way, Just
enough to extend the foot by meaus
of which they slowly plow through
the mud of the river bottom, and two
tubes, one bringing in water loaded
with microscopic animals and plants
upon which the mussel feeds, and
oxygen for breathing, the other carry-
ing away the waste water and refuse.
The wedge once quickly and carefully
slipped in makes it possible to work
in the interior.—Nature Magazine.
China’s Many Rulers
1'he early condition of China was
tribal, which before Christ merged
into a vast feudal system nominally
ruled by many contemporaneous dy-
nasties, dated from 2205 B. C. The
king of Ts'in put down all other rul-
ers and assumed the title of Hwang Ti
or emperor. The pringipal dynasties
from this period are Han, 206 B. C.
to 220 A. D.; T'ang, 618 to 906; Sung,
960 to 1279; Yuan the Mongol, 1280
to 1367; the Ming, 1368 to 1643; the
Cl'ing or Tsing Mancho Tartar, 1643
to fall of the empire and date of re-
public.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
MONWEALTH, FOR APPROVAL OR
REJECTION BY THE GENERAL AS-
SEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH 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-
£ordance with the eighteenth article there-
of:
That section four of article nine is here-
by amended to read as follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created by
or on behalf of the State except to supply
casual deficiencies of revenues, repel in-
vasions, suppress insurrection, defend the
State in war, or to pay existing debt; and
the debt created to supply deficiencies in
revenue shall never exceed in the aggre-
gate, at any one time, one million dollars;
Provided, however, That the General As-
sembly, irrespective of any debt, may au-
thorize the State to issue bonds to the
amount of one hundred and fifty millions
of dollars for the purpose of improving
and rebuilding the highways of the Com-
monwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 3-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine of
the Constitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania by adding thereto an ad-
ditional section.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania
be and the same is hereby proposed in ac-
cordance with the eighteenth a here-
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 artiele 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 propesed im aec-
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 aec-
quisition of lands and buildings and the
construction and improvement of state-
owned buildings and the equipment there-
of for the care and maintenance of penal
offenders, delinquents, mental defectives,
epileptics, and persons mentally diseased.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No, 4-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 5-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine of
the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania by adding thereto a sec-
tion.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania
be and the same is hereby proposed in ac-
cordance with the eighteenth article there-
of:
That article nine of the Constitution of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is
hereby amended by adding thereto the fol-
lowing section:
Section That the State may be au-
thorized b¥ 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 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
erty therein, and the debt of any
county except as provided in section
fifteen of this article shall never exceed
ten (10) per centum upon the assessed val-
ue of the taxable realty therein; but the
debt of the City of Philadelphia may be
increased in such amount that the total
city debt of said city shall not exceed four-
teen (14) per centum upon the assessed
value of the taxable realty therein; nor
shall any such county, municipality, or dis-
trict incur any new debt or increase its
indebtedness to an amount exceeding two
(2) per centum upon such assessed valua-
tion of taxable realty in the case of coun-
ties, or taxable property in the case of
other municipalities or dstricts, without
the consent of the electors thereof at a
public election in such manner as shall be
provided by law; but the city of Philadel-
phia may incur any debt or increase its
indebtedness to an amount not exceeding
three per centum of the valuation of tax-
able realty in said city without the con-
sent of the electors. In ascertaining the
borrowing capacity of the City of Phila-
delphia at any time, there shall be deduct-
ed from such debt so much of the debt of
said city as shall have been incurred or is
about to be incurred and the proceeds
thereof expended or about to be expended
upon any public improvement, or in the
construction, purchase, or condemnation of
any publc utility or part thereof or fa-
cility therefor to the extent that such pub-
lic improvement or public utility or part
thereof, whether separately or in connec-
tion with any other public improvement
or public utility or part thereof, may yield
or may reasonably be expected to yield
revenue in excess of operating expenses
for or towards the payment of the inter-
est and sinking-fund charges thereon. The
method of determining such amount so to
be deducted shall be prescribed by the
General Assembly.
In incurring indebtedness for any pur-
pose the City of Philadelphia may issue
its obligations maturing not later than fifty
(50) years from the date thereof with pro-
vision for a sinking-fund sufficient to re-
tire said obligations at maturity; the pay-
ment to such sinking-fund to be in equal
or graded, annual, or other periodical in-
stallments. Where any indebtedness shail
be or shall have beem incurred by said
City of Philadelphia for the purpose of the
construction or improvements of public
works or utilities of any character from
which income or revenue is to be derived
by said city, or for the reclamation of
land to be used in the construction of
wharves or docks owned or to be owned
by said city, such obligations may be in
an amount sufficient to provide for and
may include the amount of the interest
and sinking-fund charges accruing and
wheh may acerue thereon throughout the
period of construction and until the expi-
ration of one year after the completion of
the work for 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
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: en.
Section 16. The debt of any city of the
second class shall never exceed ten per
centum upon the assessed value of the tax-
able property therein, nor shall any such
city of the second class incur any new debt
or increase its indebtedness to an amount
exceeding two per centum upon such as-
sessed valuation of property without the
consent of the electors thereof, at a public
election, in such manner as shall be pro-
vided by law.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 10-A.
CLYDE L. KING
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 1—1926. :
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article eight,
section seven, of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania 'be and the same is
hereby proposed, in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof:
That section seven, of article eight, is
hereby amended to read as folows:
Section 7. All laws regulating the hold-
ing of elections by the citizens, or for the
registration of electors, shall be uniform
throughout the State, except that laws reg-
ulating and requiring the registration of
electors may be enacted to apply to cities
only, provided that such laws be uniform
for cities of the same class, and except
further, that the General Assembly shall,
by general law, permit the use of voting
machines, or other mechanical devices for
registering or recording and computing
the vote, at all elections or primaries, in
any county, city, borough or township of
the Commonwealth, at the option of the
electors of such county, city, borough or
township, without being obliged to require
the use of such voting machines or me-
chanical 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-
ices authorized by this section may be
used.
i y) true copy of Joint Resolution Ne. 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
hw 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 :eapacity 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 te 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
ibe 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.
. 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-
tens 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
ads in accordance with such classifica-
ons.
7. For the creation, by the board of
commissioners, of districts for the purpose
of regulating the location, height, area,
bulk and use of buildings and premises.
8. For the creation, by the board of
commissioners, of special districts for the
purpose of acquiring, constructing, main-
taining, operating or contracting for, any
puble property, work, improvement, utili-
ty or service, not for the exclusive benefit
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 leve
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
and continue to possess the following pow-
ers:
x Tne constitnsional and legal capacity
of municipal corporations, except a -
ited in the eae } PS 88 Im
The power to lay and collect taxes
and to incur indebtedness, subject to the
limitations which are or may be imposed
by law upon cities, boroughs or townships
of corresponding classification, for the
purpose of carrying out any lawful pow-
er of said divisions.
The power to acquire, own, construct,
maintain, operate or contract for all kinds
of public property, works, improvements,
utilities or services, which shall be within
the municipal division, and principally for
the use and benefit of the inhabitants
thereof, provded this power shall not be
taken to include the construction and
maintenance of through-traffic streets and
bridges, tunnels, subways and appurte-
nances thereof, nor main or trunk lines
for sewer, power and water service, run-
ning through more than one municipal di-
vision, and designated as such by the
board of commissioners.
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.
. 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.
1 true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2-—
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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