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Bellefonte, Pa., October 8, 1926.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
Our lives are truly at an end when we
are loved no longer.—Landor.
—The explanations given about a
smart woman’s underwear and acces-
sories are that it is best not to order
more than will be needed for a year, as
lingerie changes fashion, too, and one
can not provide piles of each kind to
last a lifetime as was done in the days
of one’s grandmother. Two elastic
girdles are suggested, since to rest
one, and wear one, alternately, keep
them in better shape. Sets of stock-
ings in the same shade are an econ-
omy, because an accident to one stock-
ing does not leave the other of the
pair useless. Stockings for day should
be gauge 40, for evening, gauge 44.
In ordering shoes, it is well to insist
upon having them lined in a light
colour; otherwise, the stockings may
be discoloured by the inside of the
shoe. Shoes should always be treed
and given a day’s rest after a day’s
wear. If they are worn two days in
succession, they, like the elastic gir-
dles, are apt to lose their shape more
quickly. It should be remembered al-
ways that a woman’s smartness is to
be recognized not only by her under-
wear, but by everything she wears
and the way she wears it. Her char-
acter shows in all her surroundings—
‘in her most intimate and infinitesimal
"belongings.
The details of a costume may make
sor mar its success.
Because of this and the constant
change of fashions, it is necessary to
-alter many of the still very good coats
-and frocks at the two important dates
of September and March. A simple
‘touch, perhaps: the skirts and coats
made shorter, the dress narrower, and
‘the chic will be renewed. One must
not fail to look all through one’s ward-
robe at these two dates if one wants
to be fit for every unexpected occa-
sion.
A smart woman has to keep her
looks, and, therefore, she looks care-
fully after her complexion.
A few all-important hints follow.
Be careful in choosing powder and
makeup. They can ruin the skin.
Never put powder directly on the skin.
A cream or a lotion should always be
used as a foundation. After the
make-up is put on, it should be en-
tirely covered with powder and brush-
ed off with a soft brush. This takes
all the hardness away and makes the
face look soft and natural. Except
“the rouge for the lips, which can be ac-
centuated to an unnatural brightness.
“the rest of the makeup must be sub-
stitute for Nature.
The coiffure is also of the greatest
“importance. When choosing the kind
that suits her personality, type, or the
‘style she wishes to adopt, a smart
woman will try to chooe the most be-
coming. If bobbed hair does not fit
‘a woman’s type, let her keep away
from it. One can-follow the general
“trend of fashion without being a slave
“to its every manifestation. The smart
“woman always takes care of her fig-
ure. She does net allow herself to get
fat. Dieting and exercise should keep
a woman’s figure in condition. These
are the important questions in the
smart woman’s catechism, and, if the
answers are taken to heart, any wo-
man may be smart.
—Information of interest to house-
‘wives comes from J. H. Mercer, Sec-
retary of the Kansas Livestock As-
sociation. Mr. Mercer points out that
there is at present an abundant sup-
ply of excellent quality, corn-fed beef
‘on the market at levels from 10 to 15
‘per cent. lower than they were last
"year.
As the live-stock raisers have plen-
ty of corn left, beef of unusually good
quality will be available for some
‘months. Housewives will be interest-
ed in the following suggestions for
prepcring beef dishes according to rec-
ipes which were prize winners in a
recent contest.
The following recipe submitted by
Miss Eleanor Palmer of Bennington,
Vt., is especially timely:
Beef Tenderloin.
1 cup oysters with liquor.
4 tablespoons butter, melted.
1 cup cracker crumbs.
Celery salt.
‘Salt, pepper.
Split the tenderloin, lengthwise.
Season with salt and pepper. Mix the
oysters with the cracker crumbs and
melted butter. Season with salt, pep-
per and celery salt. If there is not
enough of the oyster liquor to moisten
* the dressing, add a little stock or hot
water. Put the dressing between the
pieces of tenderloin and sew together.
Roast for 30 to 40 minutes, basting
often.
There is no more attractive way of
serving steak than to plank it. From
Miss Beatrice Siegfried of North-
ampton, Pa., comes this recipe:
Sirloin steak, 1% inch thick.
Mashed potatoes.
Salt, Pepper.
Wipe steak with a damp cloth.
mashed potatoes around. Put in the
Broil for about 10 minutes. Lay on
hot plank. Pipe hot well-seasoned
oven until well heated, about 10 min-
‘utes. Garnish with parsley and slices
of lemon.
1. Always wash the top of milk bot-
tles before pouring out contents.
2. Insist upon bread coming in oil-
paper. :
3. Buy butter in cartons and keep in
package in ice box.
4. Insist on fresh package goods of
a nationally advertised brand.
5. Wash all fruits and vegetables
thoroughly before using.
6. Keep salt and sugar jars covered
and in a dry place.
7. Wash amd sun, bread ean
thoroughly twice or more times a
week. Never put fresh bread in with
the stale.
8. Do not allow a dog or cat in your
kitehen.
9, Wear clean and easily washed
dresses in your kitchen.
—To make Nut Sauce for ice cream
boil together two cups of water and
three-fourths cup each, chopped figs
and sugar for fifteen minutes. Re-
move from fire and stir in three-
fourths cup thick maple syrup and
one-half cup chopped hickory nuts.
Serve on individual portions of ice
cream.
Added to Vocabulary
by Systematic Effort
What, asks the Mentor, is the ratio
of the words you use to those that
are your birthright? Are you rich or
poor in verbal currency? If you are
an average American, making your
wealth of language, your drawing ac-
count on the dictionary is not more
8,000 or 4,000 words. Shakespeare's
plays contain 15,000 different words.
Milton's works half that number. These
were writers of prolific thought and
phrase, yet even they did not make
heavy draft upon the store of nouns,
pronouns, verbs, adverbs and adjee-
tives in the English language. For
there are a hundred thousand of ther
in all.
Some of the authors whose choice
and variety of words we most ad-
mire—Browning, Stevenson, Benjamin
Franklin—made a systematic business
of adding to their fund, and there.are
interesting stories as to their methods
of doing this.
“R. L. 8.” who became a supreme
artificer in the exercise of words, be-
gan as a boy to enlarge his vocabu-
lary by deliberate means. Wherever
he went he carried in his pocket two
books, “one to read and one to write
in. As I walked my mind was busy
fitting what I saw with appropriate
words; when I sat by the roadside I
would either read or a pencil and a
penny book would be in my hand to
note down the features of the scene
or commemorate some halting stanzas.
Thus I lived with words. And what
I wrote was for no ulterior use; it
was written consciously for practice.”
Robert Browning's novitiate as a
poet was spent in ‘reading and digest-
Ing the whole of Johnson's dictionary”
—and many an exotic and little-known
specimen did he uncover. Emerson
prescribed conversation for an im-
poverished vocabulary. “Science, re-
ligion, politics, letters, art, war, or
love has its vent and exchange in
conversation, and it follows that con-
versation properly conducted helps te
the power of expression in all of
these.”
Mistakes Go on Forever
“Men may come and men may go,
but mistakes go on forever.”
Such were the thoughts of one of
the city librarians yesterday when
a timid-looking girl of perhaps nine-
teen years accosted her, asking if she
had a book entitled “Oranges and
Peaches.”
A mpst diligent search proved that
40” such book was in the possession
of the library.
“Are you sure that ‘Oranges and
teaches’ 1s the title of the book?”
asked the librarian.
“Yes, I believe that’s what the pro-
fessor said to get,” was the answer.
“Who is the author?”
“Darwin.”
Imagine the surprise of the librarian
when it “dawned on her” that the
book desired was Darwin’s “Origin of
the Species.”—Indianapolis News.
Gossip
Earl Carroll, the theatrical produc-
sr, was talking rather bitterly to a
New York reporter about his sentence
to a year and a day in jail.
“Gossip,” he said, “is what made
All the trouble. There was too much
gossip. I reminds me of the anec-
dote:
“A very loquacious lady talked a
man preity nearly to death at a din-
ner party, and then, as she got up
with the other ladies to go into the
drawing room, she tapped him on the
arm with her fan and said:
‘1 talk a lot, don’t I? But if you
men told the truth I believe you'd
all admit that you like talkative wom-
en better than the others.
“ ‘The others? said the man. ‘What
sthers? ”
steam Shovel Digs Up Fossils
Fossil hunting for ‘generations has
oeen a back-breaking process of la-
boriously picking and shoveling re-
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
PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY
ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSUANCE OF
ARNICLE 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 dept; and
the debt created to supply deficiencies in
revenue shall never exceed in the aggre-
gate, et 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-
£Ordanice 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 Sxming 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 fo the Constitution of Pennsylvamia
be and the same is hereby proposed c-
cordance with the eighteenth article theére-
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 lévy
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 streeis, unless at a public election
held therefor a majority of the electors
voting thereen 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-
mains of prehistoric fauna out of rock
and clay ‘way out in a sun-baked
desert. But times do change. Today
a huge mechanical shovel, using elec- !
tric power from the Cleveland service
system, is excavating fossilized fishes
which lived in the Devonian period. It
is doing it in a suburban region that
some day will be overgrown by Cleve-
land and thereby will be rendered for- |
bidden ground for the excavations of |
paleontologists. The shovel is gdig- |
ging up geologic information by the
ton, its electric power having re-
moved all backbreak from the process.
Waterproof Stockings
Mud amd rain splashed stockings
may soon be things of the past. It
is claimed that a new shower-proot
stocking, made from artificial silk and
treated by a patented process, cannot
be marked by mud or water. These
stockings can be dyed any color, and
in appearance are exactly like any
other artificial silk stocking. Another
interesting invention-in the artificial
silk industry is a process to. diminish
the naturally bright luster of the fiber.
By the adoption of a special finish
artificial silk goods can now beimade
with the characteristic, dull luster of
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 mine, 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 Pennsylvidnia 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 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
real silk,—Chicago Daily News,
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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
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
the enlargement of existing State build-
ings and State Institutions.
true copy of Joint Resolution No. 5-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
em—
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 this article, shall never ex-
ceed seven (7) per centum upon the
assessed value of the taxable prop-
erty therein, and the debt of any
county except as provided in section
fifteen of this article shall never exceed
ten (10) per centum upon the assessed val-
ue of the taxable realty therein; but the
debt of the City of Philadelphia may be
increased in such amount that the total
city debt of said city shall not exceed four-
teen (14) per centum upon the assessed
value of the taxable realty therein; nor
shall any such county, municipality, or dis-
trict incur any new debt or increase its
indebtedness to an amount exceeding two
(2) per centum upon such assessed valua-
tion of taxable realty in the case of coun-
ties, or taxable property in the case of
other municipalities or dstricts, without
the consent of the electors thereof at a
public election in such manner as shall be
provided by law; but the city of Philadel-
phia may incur any debt or increase its
indebtedness to an amount not exceeding
three per centum of the valuation of tax-
able realty in, said city without the con-
sent of the electors. In ascertaining the
borrowing capacity of the City of Phila-
delphia at any time, there shall be deduct-
ed from such debt so much of the debt of
said city as shall have been incurred or is
about to be incurred and the proceeds
thereof expended or about to be expended
upon any public improvement, or in the
construction, purchase, or condemnation of
any 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
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-
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 gection:
Sectien 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,
ee. et a.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
piers or quays, highways, tunnels or un-
derground or overhead streets unless at a
public election held therefor a majority of
the electors voting thereon shall consent
thereto.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 9-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
a
No. 10-A.
RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitu-
tion of Pennsylvania.
Be it resolved that the folowing amend-
ment to the Constitution of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania be and the same is
hereby proposed in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof.
That article nine of the Constitution of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be
amended by adding thereto the following
section sixteen:
Section 16. The debt of any city of the
second class shall never exceed ten per
centum upon the assessed value of the tax-
able property therein, nor shall any such
city of the second class incur any new debt
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 *he following ainend-
ment to the Constitition 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-
Jices authorized by this section may be
used.
2 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
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-
Cordance with the eighteenth article there-
Section 4. The General
hereby authorized to provide
solidation of the county,
Assembly is
for the con-
poor distriets,
cities, boroughs and townships of the coun-
ty of Allegheny, .and the effices 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, subjeet to the po-
lice power of the State, for the Legisla-
ture to provide in said charter:
1. For the exercise, by the comsolidated
city, of all the powers and duties vested in
the county of Allegheny,
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
ihe 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 fixe by the
charter, in lieu of present county eommis-
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 neeessary 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 exereise
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 sueh property and
indebtedness of the cities, boroughs and !
townships thereof as relate to the powers
and duties of said eonsolidated 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 propenty 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-
and the poor
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fited thereby, and, for this purpose, real
estate so charged shall be el ‘as ur-
ban, suburban and rural, and assessments
pade in accordance with such classifica-
ons.
7. For the creation, by the board of
commissioners, oF districts for the ENS
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of regulating the loca neigh, area,
1 nen _ eervavily
bulk and -w or buildings ahd 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 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
and continue to possess the following pow-
ers:
1. The constitutional and legal capacity
of municipal corporations, except as lim-
ited in the charter.
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
i Nesp. classification, for the
urpose of carrying out any lawfu -
er of said divisions. y pow .
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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