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Bellefonte, Pa., October 22, 1926.
Early Frosts Harmful in Sections of
U. S.
Babson Park, Mass.—The farmers
in Western Canada and in some
laces in the Northwestern part of the
nited States have received a jolt now.
from early frosts.
As we pointed out just a week ago
after a review of the farming situa-
tion throughout the country, the re-
mainder of the crop season will be an
unusually critical period for the lat-
er crops because of the coghination
of delayed development and the prob-
ability of early frosts.
The effects of the weather for the
first two weeks of this month are al-
ready recorded in the figures of the
semi-monthly cotton report. It is in-
teresting to note that killing frosts
in the cotton belt have been recorded
2s early as Sept. 22 in Northwestern
Texas and on or before the first week
in October in parts of South Carolina,
North Carolina, Tennessee and Okla-
homa.
The average date of such frosts
over a series of years is from two
weeks to a month later than that, but
on account of the unusual weather
conditions this year the earliest frost
date is the more significant. It is en-
tirely possible that estimates of the
amount of cotton and even of corn
that the farmers will produce will
have to be reduced.
There continues to be little better
news from farmers abroad. Reports
to the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture indicate that the German wheat
crop is from 14 per cent. to 20 per
cent below what it was last year.
Rye, too, is only about 75 to 80 per
cent. of what it was in 1925 in that
country. Official estimates of Italian
wheat will also probably have to Le
changed to a smaller amount. In fact,
estimates are that the total European
wheat crop aside from what Russia
will produce will only be about 90 per
cent of what it was last year. Rus-
sians are neither going to grow nor
export the amount of either wheat or
rye during 1926 that they did in 1925.
—Exchange.
Farming for Corn-Cob Pipes.
In the early ’seventies, one Henry
Tibbe, a Dutch scissors grinder and
spinning-wheel maker at Washington,
in the northern part of Franklin coun-
ty, used his grinding lathe to bore the
pith from a few large corn-cobs. In-
to these cobs he inserted some hollow
weed stems, or occasionally bits of
cane. He smoked these first corn-cob
pipes. But they were too porous. So
he went to his friend, Ludwig Muench,
a Washington chemist, for putty,
Muench suggesting using plaster of
Paris. The plaster of Paris turned
the trick.
“Henry Tibbe exhibited his pipes at
the Franklin county fair in 1874.
Then he patented his corn-cob pipes,
and his son, Anton A. Tibbe, who lat-
er became a judge in Franklin county,
Janded an order for 6,000 pipes in St.
Louis. In 1878 the young concern
graduated from foot-power lathes to
engines. This raised its daily output
from 500 to 1,000 pipes. The infant
industry was on its way. Franklin
county has been the world’s center of
cob pipe production ever since that
time.”
It means something to be the cen-
ter of the ‘world’s cob pipe production.
Franklin county, on the southern bank
of the muddy Missouri river, about
fifty miles west of St. Louis, produces
about 30,000,000 cob pipes each year,
or 100,000 a day, 12,500 an hour or 208
a minute. To reach this grand total
of production about 15,000,000 cobs
are rescued from the waste heaps or
kitchen fires of Franklin county
farms. What would be a total loss is
turned into about $250,000 cash, which
goes into the farmers’ tills. Some of
the cobs come from other Missouri
counties, but most of the cob pipes
upon which Gloucester fishermen,
Pennsylvania coal miners, Pacific
Coast railroad men, Michigan auto-
mobile makers, Birmingham steel
workers, Australian sheep herders,
Kaffic diamond diggers, or Dutch bulb
growers puff in vast content are
grown in Franklin county, home of the
eob pipes of commerce.—From Every-
body’s Magazine for October.
eee eee.
Lightning Kills Two Men and Sixteen
Horses in Circus Parade.
Alabama City’s Labor Day celebra-
tion was turned into one of mourning
when lightning killed two persons,
seriously injuring five persons and
shocked sixty others. Sixteen horses
were also killed. The flash struck in
the center of town while Christy
Brothers wild animal circus, a feature
of the celebration, was parading. The
16 lead horses in the pageant dropped
dead and men and women staggercd
in all directions.
T. E. Bowling, of Alabama City, an
employe of the Alabama Power com-
pany and an unidentified six year old
girl met instant death. The seriously
injured persons were removed to a
hospital.
The seores of persons slightly
shocked received treatment in nearby
residences and later were able to go
to their homes.
No wild animals were loosed by the
bolt but great confusion resulted, in
which a number of children were sepa-
rated from their parents for a time.
The lightning paralyzed temporarily
the power supply of towns, Gadsden
and Attalla. It will be recalled that
Christy Bros. shew exhibited in Belle-
fonie in June.
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Tip on Tire Changing.
Because of the ever present danger
of having the car slip off the jack, it is
always best to have the spare tire or
wheel ready to put on before taking
off the old tire or wheel. Sometimes
th: -ar is made to slip off the jack
whea the motorist removes the old
t:re and then tugs away at the tire
carrier to remove the spare.
FARM NOTES.
—Give the alfalfa field a chance to
produce a good crop next year by not
cutting too late this fall.
—The love for good horses has kept
many a boy at home and disgust with
plugs has driven many away.
—When through using the plows
put some grease on the shares. It
will prevent rusting and save a lot of
inconvenience in the spring.
—Wether lambs that have been
docked sell for higher market prices
than do undocked ram lambs. It is
good business to follow the practice
which brings the most money.
—No type of live stock has been so
neglected by the average farmer as
sheep. No type of live stock will show
a greater response in profit for the
additional labor and feed put into
them.
—In producing hogs, it is a good
thing to get away from the old-time
custom of breeding only once a year.
Certainly two crops a year, well dis-
tributed in marketing, are better for
farmers and better for the consumer.
—In some recent lamb-feeding ex-
periments in Nebraska the lambs re-
ceiving the ration of corn, linseed
meal, corn silage and alfalfa hay made
the largest and cheapest gains of any
lot.
—Seed corn cures best if picked in
the field and hung in a building
where there is free circulation of air
around each ear. Be sure the corn is
well cured before hard freezes come,
say State College farm crops special-
ists.
—Feed dairy cows enough to get a
paying flow of milk. Every cow needs
a certain amount of feed to maintain
her system. Feed above that amount
goes for milk production. Get a prof-
itable yield from each cow by proper
feeding.
—To avoid the losses of a fall molt
among the pullets, be sure they are in
winter quarters before they start lay-
ing. Ventilate well on warm fall
nights. Observe regular feeding hab-
its. Keep the birds fat. An abund-
ance of green food and exercise are
essential.
—If your rhubarb has been decreas-
ing in yield with stalks getting small-
er and the whole plant less vigorous,
it may be time to divide the crowns.
This work should be done every five
or six years and may be satisfactorily
accomplished in the fall. As soon as
the tops have died down, dig up the
roots, chop into several pieces with a
spade, providing at least one bud to
each piece of root and replant three
to four feet apart in the row.
—The ownership of a calf, which
later develops into a cow that gives
more milk than any other cow that
has ever been on the place, is a real
foundation to the dairy business. If
arrangements are made to breed these
heifers to.a good pure-bred bull, which
is usually done, the offspring will
form a nucleus of a future herd. At
the same time the whole family is
making more of a study of the dairy
business than would otherwise be the
case.
—As a rule, duck eggs are very fer-
tile, but they cannot .be held as long
as hen eggs. If possible, five days is
the limit for age with ducks eggs.
This is not saying some eggs will not
hatch up to three weeks of age, but
the strongest ducklings are hatched
from fresh eggs. Duck eggs are suc-
cessfully hatched in incubators, but
they need more moisture than hen
eggs. More care must be taken also
to prevent overheating the first five
days.
—-Jt is a very common practice
ainong those who salt their horses and
mules to give them a liberal amount
of salt once each week. Experimental
work indicates that it is much better
to keep salt before horses and mules
so that they may eat it as the system
demands. If given salt once a week
they frequently overeat and drink an
abnormal amount of water at that
particular time, which frequently up-
sets the digestive system and causes
other disorders.
—For the growing lambs cracked
corn and oats with an addition of bran
makes a very good ration. The lambs
should be weaned around five months
of age. Earlier than this may be ad-
visable in exceptional cases; particu-
larly would this be true if one had a
good, fresh pasture of meadows or
wheat or oat stubble in which the
lambs could be turned and which pos-
sibly would be sufficient to take care
of both the lambs and the ewes until
cold weather sets in.
—Clover demonstrations in McKean
county under the direction of the agri-
cultural extension service favored
domestic seed, H. B. Musser, farm
crops extension specialist of the Penn-
sylvania State College, reports.
Seed from a half dozen States
yielded about the same amount of hay.
Italian clover was practically a total
failure, yielding only one-fifth as
much hay as American seed. The
French, Hungarian, and Chilean clov-
ers averaged about three-fourths the
yield of the domestic strains. The
plots are on the DeKalb type of soil.
—Fighting insects and diseases
with sprays and dusts is effective in
producing clean fruit, reports received
at the Pennsylvania State College
show.
A survey in Beaver county by R.
M. Gridley, the agricultural agent, of
orchards whose owners used the spray
service revealed that 93 per cent. of
clean fruit was grown where four ap-
plications were made, 80 per cent.
with three, and only 20 per cent.
where no spray was applied. A block
of trees sprayed once and dusted sev-
en times gave 86 per cent. clean fruit
and one sprayed once and dusted six
times showed 80 per cent. clean fruit.
In Venango county the fruit grow-
ers accompanied by county agent E.
G. Ifft visited the orchard spraying
demonstrations of the county. They
found that 90 per cent. of the apples
on unsprayed trees were scabby while
the sprayed trees bore 100 per cent.
clean friut.
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—Make the sheep barn warm, to be
in shape for the lambing season. A
little extra care means lambs saved.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
REJECTION
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-
ions, 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-
Tordance 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. oa
Section 1. Be it' resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania
be and the same is hereby proposed in ac-
cordance with the eighteenth article there-
of:
That article nine of the Constitution of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be
amended by adding thereto the following
new section:
Section 16. The General Assembly may
authorize the City of Pittsburgh to levy
special assessments against both abutting
and non-abutting property, peculiarly
benefited, for the payment of any public
improvement whatsoever: to lay oul 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 thercfor 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 purpese. No law passed in pursuance
hereof shall authorize the construction of
any rapid tramsit 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 eof 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 te the purposes
stated in article nine, section four, of this
Constitution, the State may be authorized
to issue bonds te 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 eare 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 1. That the State may be an-
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
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
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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 art thereof, may yield
or may reasonably be expected to yield
revenue in excess )f 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 eomstruction 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 thercon threngheut 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 eity shall
not be required to levy a tax te pay said
interest and sinking-fund charges as re-
quired by section ten, article mine 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
the Constitution of the Commoawealth
of Pennsylvania by adding thereto see-
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 aceordance with the
eighteenth article thereof:
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. whieh
grant similar exemptions or rebates to
residents, or estates. of residents, of Penn-
sylvania.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 8A.
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
No. 9-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article mine
of the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania by adding therete an
additional seetion.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
monwealth of Pennsylvania im General
Assembly met, That the followirg amend-
ment to the Censtitution 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 seetion:
Section 16. The General Assembly may
authorize the County of Allegheny te levy
special assessments against both abutting
and nen-abutting property peculiarly ben-
efitted for the paymeat 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 speeial 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,
Proposing an amendment to artiele nine of |
and House of Representatives of the Com- }
taxation, the levying and collection of tax-
l es. and the payment of the cost of any
| county,
' the charter.
piers or quays, highways, tunnels or un-
derground or overhead streets unless at a
public election held therefor a majority of
ine elactors 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 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 excepl
further, that the General Assembly shall,
by general law, permit the use of voting
machines, or other mechanical devices for
registering or recording and computing
the vote, at all elections or primaries, in
any county, city, borough or township of
the Commonwealth, at the option of the
electors of such county, city, borough or
township, without being obliged to require
the use of such voting machines or me-
chanical devices in any other county, city,
borough or township, under such regula-
tions with reference thereto as the Gener-
al Assembly may from time to time pre-
scribe. The General Assembly may, from
time to time, prescribe the number and du-
ties of election officers in any political sub-
division of the Commonwealth in which
voting machines or other mechanical de-
Yiees authorized by this section may be
used.
A true co of Joint —
1926. py nt 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-
Lordance with the eighteenth article there-
Section 4. The General Assembly is
hereby authorized to provide for the con-
solidation of the county, poor districts,
to a consolidated city and county, with the
constitutional and legal capacity of a mmn-
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 eounty, 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 im said charter:
1. For the exercise, by the consolidated
€ity, of all the powers and duties vested in
the eounty of Allegheny, and the poor
distriets 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
ite municipal divisions herein provided
or.
2. Fer the election by the people of the
consolidated eity, of a board of commis-
| siomers, the mumber to be fixed by the
charter, in lew of present county commis-
| sioners, in whieh board shall be vested all
the powers of the consolidated city and
exeept as otherwise provided in
3. For the organization of a government
for the consolidated eity and county, and
for the eleetion or appointment of the con-
stitutional amd other necessary officers
That article nine of the Constitution of | thereof, and for their powers and duties.
Pennsylvania is hereby amended by ad- other than these of record, in the conecl
4. For the eorganization of all courts,
idated eity, and for the procedure thereof,
and for the appointment of judges and of-
ficers thereof, which courts shall exercise !
the jurisdietion, 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 preperty and indebtedness of
the eounty of Allegheny, and the poor
| distriets thereof, and of such property and
| indebtedmess of the cities, boroughs and
| townships thereof as relate to the powers
and duties of said eonsolidated city, and
te provide for an equitable adjustment and
| payment of suell indebtedness, and for this
purpose, any taxation therein shall be uni-
form taxation within the meaning and in-
| tent of ether provisions of this Constitu-
tiem.
6. Teor the assessment of property for
cities, boroughs and townships of the coun- |
ty of Allegheny, and the offices thereof, in-
fited thereby, and, for this purpose, real
estate so charged shall be classified as ur-
ban, suburban and rural, and assessments
made in accordance with such 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 lev-
ied throughout such special districts re-
spectively, separate and apart from the
vo
ro , however, that it is the int
of this section that substantial re ent
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 Uivisions st any general or special
on, be united to form a sin -
ipal division. gle Junie
The said municipal divisions shall have
ii continue to possess the following pow-
I's:
om The constitutional and legal capacity
C unicipal corporations, except -
ited in the charter, Pte 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
o roarresponding classification, for the
pose of carrying out an 1 -
er of said ng § lawn pow
. The power to acquire, own,
maintain, operate or contract for
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 er trunk lines
for sewer, power and water service, run-
ning through more than ome 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 eity.
. The power to establish a Imitation
of indebtedness for the comsolidated city
and the municipal divisions thereof, pro-
vided that the total of the indebtedness of
the consolidated city and the munieipal 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, subjeet 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.
eS true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2-—
CLYDE L. KING,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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