Bellefonte, Pa., October 15, 1926.
‘Nation’s Fire Loss Runs Into Millions.
The nation’s fire loss in 1925 was
$562,751,466, according to the Nation-
al Board of Fire Underwriters, the
country’s authority on the subject.
‘This was an increase of $13,689,432
over 1924. The increase in the an-
nual fire loss since 1928 is $403,759-
969.
Who pays this tremendous annual
tribute to destruction? Not only the
owners of the property destroyed; not
only the families of the 20,000 persons
who die in fires every year. Every
resident of the country pays his share
for this loss, exceeding half a billion
dollars annually, is what keeps insur-
ance rates high. These destructive
fires—one dwelling house burns in our
country every four minutes day and
night—are what make it necessary for
the taxpayers to maintain fire depart-
ments. The national fire loss is a na-
tional problem, and for that reason
President Coolidge has set apart the
week of October 3 to 9 for public in-
struction as to the causes of fires and
means of preventing them.
Just what this half-million dollar
drain on our national wealth means
may be visualized this way: Uncle
Sam, in taxing the incomes of his peo-
ple, allows an exemption of $200 for
every child. That is exempted, pre-
sumably, because it is sufficient to
keep a child in school for a year. On
this basis it appears that the money
we waste by fires every year would
‘keep more than 2,000,000 children in
.school.
Yet we go on wasting it, for it is
waste, because it can be prevented.
Insurance experts, fire department of-
ficials and engineers firmly state that
75 per cent. of the fires that cause this
tremendous total loss are preventable.
How? By being careful with
matches, cigars and cigarettes, and by
keeping’ chimneys clean so that they
do not throw burning embers upon
roofs. But caution alone will not save
our nation $568,751,466. What is more
needed is PREcaution. The reason
why buildings burn is that they are
‘built so they will burn. The funda-
mental way to prevent their burning
is to “build so it won’t burn.”
This does not necessarily mean that
the average home-owner must adopt
expensive masonry construction to
substitute the traditional American
wood frame house. It means to build
wisely with wood, but protect it at its
most vulnerable points.
This is the path to an appreciable
reduction in our enormous annual fire
loss and protection for yourself and
your family. How much money have
you to burn ?—Exchange.
Paris Limits Number of Legionnairez
to 30,000.
The National France convention
committee of the American Legion an-
nounces that the French government
has limited the number of American
Legionnaires who can be cared for.in
Paris during the Legion convention
in September, 1927, to 30,000, that
total being as many as the housing ac-
commodations will permit. There are
no large hotels in Paris, as Americans
know them .in the large cities of the
United States. No other conventions
will be permitted in the French capi-
tal during the proposed Legion con-
vention week, September 19-23, 1927.
Because of this limitation, an al-
lotment of space on the 24 ocean lin-
ers that will. carry the Legionnaires
to France has been determined, based
on Legion membership in each State,
the booking of berths, beginning No-
vember 15, 1926, will be done in each
State by the department France con-
vention officer until March 1, 1927,
when those unfilled will be returned
to John J. Wicker, Jr., national travel
director of the committee, who will
then fill them direct from his office
from States whose allotments were
not sufficient to care for the demand.
Country Going Backward in Cases of
Drunkenness.
The United States as a whole has
gone backward rather than forward
with respect to liquor drinking and
drunkenness as a result of the Vol-
stead act, according to a survey made
public this week by the Moderation
League, composed of scholars, jurists,
industrialists and professional men.
The survey covered a nation-wide
study of liquor conditions during the
past year.
In hundreds of the principal cities
of the country the number of intoxi-
cated persons has exceeded all pre-
vious records, and even surpassed pre-
prohibition figures, the report stated.
The number of cases of drunken auto-
mobile drivers has run to new high
levels, and liquor drinking by youths
of both sexes has risen to such an ex-
traordinary degree, it was announced,
that it now constitues one of the most
alarming factors of the present situa-
tion. Considering all phases of the
situation, conditions in the original
dry States today are worse than were
conditions in the so-called wet States
in 1914, the report declares.
remem
Cuts, Threshes, Plows 100 Acres in
One Day.
Hutchinson, Kan.-—What a few
years ago would have been the wild-
est dreams of imagination are now be-
coming matter of fact, everyday stor-
ies in the Kansas wheat fields. For
instance, there’s the case of Irwin
Brownlee, a young farmer near Zen-
ith, west of here a few miles. He
started in at daybreak one morning
with a 50-horsepower tractor and a
combine cutting a 20-foot swath.
Hooked on behind were plows. As the
wheat was cut and threshed the
ground behind the harvester was im-
mediately plowed. When night came
Brownlee had cut, threshed and put in
the bin 100 acres of wheat—some 3,-
000 bushels in all—and his land was
plowed again. All in one day’s work.
And he and two men did it.
FARM NOTES.
—One animal on the farm that we
ought always to keep on the right side
of—the horse.
—Build the self-feeders so they
will be ready for the spring crop: of
live stock, say farm engineering work-
ers.
Lift the house plants that have been
plunged all summer; bring them in to
a frame or to a cool part of the house
to get ready for winter indoors.
Alfalfa .is not bad for horses, but
fine for them, unless too much is fed.
They will eat too much if given a
chance, and they then incline to soften
and sweat easily.
Bull associations promote the rapid
development of community breeding
and increase the interest in better
dairy cattle, say specialists at the
Pennsylvania State College.
—If you have never tried to keep a
few sheep, just make the start. They
are easy to take care of and return
handsome profits. They also perform
good service in eradicating weeds.
—In the production of baby beef,
the calves must be kept fat. Since
calves grow more readily than they
fatten, they must be fed more grain
and less hay and forage than older
steers. By feeding a mixture of
grain they will eat more than if only
one kind is fed.
way of putting gains on hogs. It
saves the labor of husking and crib-
bing corn and the work of feeding.
Cost account records kept last year
by a successful Pennsylvania farmer
revealed that the returns from hogged
off corn were three times the price of
corn on the local markets.
—Instances of a variation of from.
18 to 30 cents in the price of eggs re-
ceived by farmers often are noted at
this time of year. Local market con-
ditions and methods of selling fre-
quently have an influence, but the
quality of eggs produced is the chief
cause of this difference in price.
Small, dirty, old eggs will not com-
mand the price of large, clean fresh
eggs.
—If you have kept notes on the be-
havior of certain varieties of vege-
tables this year you will know which
ones to plant next year. Also con-
sider the quality of the seed you had
this year. Did it germinate well un-
der the prevailing soil and weather
conditions? Profit by this year’s ex-
perience and get seeds that will germ-
inate well and produce vegetables of
fine quality and flavor, and also early
ones.
—There have been some feeding
trials with beef steers to determine
the value of clover as compared to
alfalfa. When steers were fed in
Indiana on silage, corn, and cotton-
seed meal, clover hay was found to be
fully equal to alfalfa hay, ton for ton.
Doubtless these results may have been
affected more or less by the fact that
enough protein-rich concentrates were
fed to balance the ration even though
no legumes had been fed. This prob-
ably resulted in the loss of the ad-
vantage of alfalfa hay in its richer
protein content. However, when fed
in rations which are low in protein,
alfalfa has been found to be worth
more per ton than clover hay of equal
quality.
—The practice that some farmers
follow of permitting their hogs to
find shelter in straw stacks during
cold weather is a very dangerous one
for the reason that on cold nights
hogs are inclined to burrow deep into
these stacks, or perhaps to pile up
closely together—and then when
morning comes and when they crawl
out of their nests they are frequently
so warm from perspiration that they
steam as they walk out into the cold
air. Such a condition can very easily
produce pneumonia and is therefore a
very risky policy. The wiser course
is to provide sheds of one kind or an-
other that are dry under foot and so
well ventilated that the animals can-
not become excessively warm.
—Farmers in Pennsylvania are buy-
ing each year from outside the State
approximately 25,000 cattle for dairy
and breeding purposes while they sell
only 3000 from the State, according to
the Pennsylvania Department of Agri-
culture.
Most cattle owners appreciate the
fact that unless they breed and raise
healthy cattle it is practically impos-
sible to dispose of them. In order to
be a success, all live stock improve-
ment programs must be built on the
foundation of a healthy herd. Atten-
tion must likewise be given to the pro-
ductive capacity of the cows because
the buyers of the future will demand
evidence of production as well as
health. The breeder who can furnish
both will find a ready market for sur-
plus dairy animals, asserts E. P
Willits, Secretary of Agriculture.
" With the number of cattle under su-
pervision and the activity on the part
of the owners to breed and raise bet-
ter cattle, indications point to a time
when a sufficient number of cattle will
be raised to meet the needs in Penn-
sylvania, and later on the State will
become a selling rather than a buying
territory.
The opportunity to sell will con-
tinue to exist after this occurs for the
reason that adjacent States such as
New Jersey, Massachusetts and Con-
necticut will always be buying States.
The owners who desire cattle in these
States at this time are going through
Pennsylvania and are buying their
cattle in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Tennessee and West Vir-
ginia.
Pennsylvania has numerous sections
where a large number of farmers are
or soon will be breeding high-praduc-
ing pure-bred cattle because of the
good pastures, low land values, re-
mote markets for the more perishable
products, and favorable health condi-
tions. These sections will become a
source of supply for other areas.
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—FEngland has 83 women undertak-
ers, and eight of these practice in
London. The women undertakers in
England specialize in arranging the
funerals of children.
~—Subseribe for the “Watchman.”
—Hogging off corn is an economical:
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
P CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
MONWEALTH, FOR APPROVAL OR
REJECTION BY THE GENERAL AS-
SEMBLY OF 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, 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, 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-
coraance 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-
corqance 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 ae-
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.
l. 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
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
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
the enlargement of existing State build-
ings and State Institutions.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 5-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 6-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article three
of the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania
is hereby proposed in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof:
That article three be amended by adding
thereto the following:
Section 85. The General Assembly may
by general law make appropriations of
money for assistance to aged indigent res-
idents of the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 6-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 7-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine,
section eight of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the same, That the fol-
lowing amendment to the Constitution of
the Comonwealth of Pennsylvania be and
the same is hereby proposed in accordance
with the eighteenth article thereof:
That article nine, section eight of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Section 8. The debt of any city, bor-
ough, township, school district, or other
municipality or incorporated district, ex-
cept as provided herein and in section fif-
teen of this article, shall never ex-
ceed seven (7) per centum upon the
assessed value of the taxable prop-
erty therein, and the debt of any
county except as provided in section
fifteen of this article shall never exceed
ten (10) per centum upon the assessed val-
ue of the taxable realty therein; but the
debt of the City of Philadelphia may be
increased in such amount that the total
city debt of said city shall not exceed four-
teen (14) per centum upon the assessed
value of the taxable realty therein; nor
shall any such county, municipality, or dis-
trict incur any new debt or increase its
indebtedness to an amount exceeding two
(2) per centum upon such assessed valua-
tion of taxable realty in the case of coun-
ties, or taxable property in the case of
other municipalities or dstricts, without
the consent of the electors thereof at a
public election in such manner as shall be
provided by law; but the city of Philadel-
phia may incur any debt or increase its
indebtedness to an amount not exceeding
three per centum of the valuation of tax-
able realty in said city without the con-
sent of the electors. In ascertaining the
borrowing capacity of the City of Phila-
delphia at any time, there shall be 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
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. S-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
ihe $lessorg voting thereon shall consent
ereto.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 9-A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 10-A.
RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitu-
tion of Pennsylvania.
Be it resolved that the folowing amend-
ment to the Constitution of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania be and the same is
hereby proposed in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof.
That article nine of the Constitution of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be
amended by adding thereto the following
section sixteen:
Section 16. The debt of any city of the
second class shall never exceed tem per
centum upon the assessed value of the tax-
able property therein, nor shall any such
city of the second class incur any new debt
or increase its indebtedness to an amount
exceeding two per centum upon such as-
sessed valuation of property without the
consent of the electors thereof, at a public
election, in such manner as shall be pro-
vided by law.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 10-A.
CLYD. . KING
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 1—1926.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article eight,
section seven, of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Section 1, Be it resolved by 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
A true co of Joint Resol —_—
1996. Py Join esolution No. 1
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 2—1926.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article fift
of the Constitution of the Commonvoitn
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 Assembly
hereby authorized to provide for the con-
solidation of the county, poor districts,
cities, boroughs and townships of the coun-
ty of Allegheny,
to a consolidated
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
the 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.
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-
int 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-
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7. For the Sisarion,
commissioners, of districts for the purpose
of regulating the location, heigh
bulk and use of buildings and pi hy 5
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 towne
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
and that any two
more municipal divisons of the Son
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:
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municipal corporations, except a -
ited in the charter. bas 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
ob Sorresponding Slassigcation, for the
rpose of carrying out any lawfi -
er of said EE ? i 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 poiice
force, and local fire department, with the
necessary buildings, appurtenances and
equipment therefor, which may be supple-
mental to the police force d fire depart-
ment of the consolidated A oh
. 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.
rT true copy of Joint Resolution No, 2-—
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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