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VII.
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, NOTEMBER 28, 1873,
NUMBER 44.
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srrirrurrjtolv- I
roiistitHt'"" proposed to the ,
("-. rural or rejection.
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'fftel'oHttitutional Convention.
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;inHnillli. In pnrintnceor
Is' .!.. Hon of nn Ae r the Uen
I". 'iWmblT. eiU'tleel "An Art to
kr id lor calling; ( KnTenllOB to
r"" j ih- (onsliiuiion." npprorttl
riiU d..J of April, A. D. 17.
pj'.KAMBLE.
the neo'! 'f the Commonwealth of
lu,,ia. gi .telul to Almighty God for
'isiiCs"f , iv'1 and r'giou" liberty,
1 . '. ;.'..Litt(T Hilt 0-lliHanc do or-
AKTICLE I.
JiEfLA NATION OF RIOHT8.
... ,m , crt-it and essential nrln-
tiiCtr T aim live U Cl IllUCIlk uiaj- .
rir(i ami unalterably estaousnea,
l--i-.. - '
.,-vi. Ali men are Dorn equally iree
. ...Lut ami ViavA certain mhriti
-VfiMi'ir riuinw, niuuiiK nuitu am
JJ i l: I : i .
, fuji-y ii'jj anu ueieiuiiug 1110 na
,,f . iiinriiiK, possessing ana pro-
i "z'jwprrty .iiii I reputation, and of pur-
ihcircwii happiness. '
.r All power is inherent in the peo- I
uiil" fr- governments are founded
?;r;ithonty and instituted for their J
ftuV'y ami happiness. For the ad- j
mriit of ili-"se ends they have at all
Lja inil'.ci.alile and indefeasible right
r, rfiVrm i.r aUdish their government
h u anu ! as they may think proper.
-. 3. All lH' ii havo a natural and inde
;e riUt tn worship Almighty God ac--g
to thi 'lit tates of their own con
es: no man an of right be compelled '
-nit. -rf t "i support any plate of wor-
nr lo maiiit.iin any ministry against
j,M:t ; no human authority can, in ,
isi ul, sti ver, ciintrolor interfere with
h; of i i i.M ii-ni-e, and no prefereuoe
ve: ! civi-n by law to any religious
...'iL.iNit niide.s or worship.
. 4. No i-rs' it who acknowledges the
of i). 4 ;nl :i future state of rewards '
1) nii?liii''ti' shnl!, on account of bin re-
Ii srti'.itnvi.ts, be disiualified to hold
irfire or i.'.n o of trust or proflt under
ro;jriMrj iren ! li.
: .V Kin tii.im nhall le free and equal :
. fnvcr. ( ivil or military, shall at any
.vriVri- t im'vent the free exercise of
I'fMitiV.ijre.
c T i i . t ; liy jury shall hn ns hereto- :
:! tl, riht thereof remain inviolate.
7. T!,o irinting press shall be free to
vrsioi wlio may undertake to exam
- pro, i i-dings of the legislature or
ta. h cf government, and no law shall
nia.it- to restrain the right thereof.
i oiiunnnication of thoughts and
is one of the invaluable rights of
every citizen may freely speak,
i print on any subject, being re
for the abuse of that liberty. No
n shall be bad in anv prosecution
1'iiblicattim of papers relating to the
lmuot or othcers or men in public
or to any other matter proper for
nvestigatiou or information where
t that such publication was not ma-
jsly or negligently made shall lie estau
; I to the satisfaction of the jury ; and iu
JiVtfilents for libels the jury shall have
t fodetermine the law and the facts,
i the direction of the court, as in other
it s The people shall be secure in their
. houses, papers and possessions,
jpr.tireasottablM searches and seizures,
t'untTAiit to arch any jilaive or to
t ". v person or things, shall issue with
Sf. r; iiing them as noarly as may lie, nor
a t !nnable cause, supported by oath
li'i-viou, subscribed to by the affiant.
a. In all criminal prosecutions the
! li i:li a right to be heard by himself
S' iw.tisel, to demand the nature and
f tli accusation against him, to meet
.' (see to face, to have compul-
J-x-o-.- f 'r obtaining witnesses iu his
and in prosecutions by indictment or
i'.i"ti, : speedy public trial by an itn-
tinry nf the vicinage ; he cannot bo
mI t.i ive evidence against himself,
: li t i .Icprireil of his life, liberty, or
nn'.oss by the judgment of his
I ; tit law ol" the laud.
1 V. Nil person shall for any indicta
r:! iiroi eeded atrainat criminal! v.
"rvicii, except in cases arising in
lor naval forces, or iu the militia,
" vual scrvi-e, in time of war or
'v. ecr. r bv leave of the court, for
'.mi or iiiiKilenieanor in office. No
f ii'.l fiTthe same offense lie twice
I i"l'r.iv of life or limb; nor shall
f ' rr ' lcrty be takeu or applied to pub
f ;:h"iii autliority of law, and with-
C' tnponaation being first made or
U All r.v.rls shall be open ; and
&m for an injury done him in his
'"'. i.-t3on, or reputation, shall
Miiy hv due course of law. and
f "d j'.:tji administered without sale.
r iU;,iy. Suits may be brought
;s Cotiiinoii wealth in such manner,
mrts. A'Ml in such cases as the Leg-
aiy hy Uw direct.
- No power of suspending laws
'iT-'ifO'ii unless by the Legislature
:h' r;y.
Kx -Hive bail shall not be re-
exi f-ssive fines imposed, nor
'-!hinMs inflicted.
A'.l prisoners shall lie bailable by
I'i 'rrti-'i, unless for capital offenies,
prooi is f-vi.lnt or nrnaumntion
J uj th- privilege of the writ of
r.cri-'Js W not be susiwndad. un-
'" t.i-! of rebellion or invasion
u 'y may require it.
!', '"'' " mission of oyer and term-
' Tlii- puriton of a debtor, where
r'"' str.m presumption of fraud,
, - kliU ui lieu i rm
V, !' "url; inanuer as shall be pre-
i e lor the benefit of ins
r,x 1 OST rACTO law, nor any
iir't1"'8 ' "''Hzation of contracts.
N'o
e any grant of special
!" or i
it.
N
""iimmies, shall be passed
l--on shall be attainted of
.,, " nits legislature.
Cl'IOwl.. .1. -T t 1
f .' rpi auring me jue or
.h ' 'r!"' of estate to the Com-
str.!. ii' ;',T-iIft (f ch persons as
1
n . .. . ....
'1 OWIl IVIil k ha I .luu..unH
'.K,n
natural death, and If
"Oil 1.
V
killed by casualty,
.'"nature by reason
TV oi,--
us hare a right in a
assemble together for
Jm'.,u R-skI.
"ti l to apply to thosA
nif ai... '"' of government for
M-titi,,, otl""- proper pur-
rfl iciiitiiiBilaiivv.
"i " ltizensui bear arms
lve ati.i the State shall
tinh.,1
M W.r'aT",,nt arn'y 111111, in time
'stiiri. . i,h"111 consent of
n'l the mi I it.. .u.n ;n
'"m;-. " ',,u". in strict aub-
i tor.
rr sbaU i
b tim f peace
be quartered in any house without the con
sent of the owner, nor in time of war but in
a manner to be prescribed by law.
Sec. 24. The Legislature shall not grant
any title of nobility of hereditary distinc
tion, nor create any office the appointment
of which shall be for a longer term than dur
ing good behavior.
Sec. 25. Emigration from the Stat shall
not le prohibited.
Sec. 26. To guard against transgressions
of the high powers which we" hare dele
gated, we declare that everything in this ar
ticle is excepted out of the general powers
ot government, and shall forever remain in
violate. ARTICLE II.
TUX LEGISLATURE;
Section 1. The legislative jiowef of this
Commonwealth shall be vested in a General
Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate
and a House of Representatives.
Sec. 2. Members of the General Assem
bly shall be chosen at the general election
every second year. Their term of service
shall begin on the first day of December next
after their election. Whenever a vacancy
shall occur in either House, the presiding
officer thereof shall issue a writ of election
to fill such vacancy for the remainder of the
term.
Sec. 3. Senators shall be elected for the
term of four years and Representatives for
the term of two years.
Sec. 4. The General Assembly shall meet
at twelve o'clock noon, on the first Tuesday
of January every second year, and at other
times when convened by the Governor, but
shall hold no adjourned annual session after
the year ono thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight. In case of a vacancy in the
office of United States Senator from this
Commonwealth, in a recess between ses
sions, the Governor shall convene the two
houses by proclamation on notice not ex
ceeding sixty days to fill the same.
Sec. 5. Senators shall be at least twenty
five years of age, and Representatives tweii-ty-one
years of age. They shall have been
citizens and inhabitants of the State four
years, and inhabitants of their respective
districts one year next before their election
(unless absent on the public business of the
United States or of this State), ami shall re
side in their respective districts during their
terms of service.
Sec. 6. No Senator or Representative
shall, during the time for which he shall
have len elected, le appointed to any civil
office under this Commonwealth, and no
member of Congress or other person holding
any office (except of attorney-at-law or in
the militia) under the United States or this
Commonwealth shall lie a nieinlier of either
house during his continuance in office.
Sec. 7. "o person hereafter convicted of
einWzzlemetit of public moneys, briliery,
perjury or other infamous crime, shall be
eligible to the General Assembly, or capa
ble of holding any office of trust or profit in
this Commonwealth.
Sec. 8. The members of the General As
sembly shall receive such salary and mile
age, for regular and special sessions as shall
be fixed by law, ami no other compensation
whatever, whether for service upon commit
i tee or otherwise. No member of either
house shall, during the term for which he
may have lieen elected, receive any increase
j of salary, or mileage, under any law passed
! during such term.
! Skc. . The Senate shall, at the beginning
and close of each regular session and at
such other times as may be necessary, elect
one of its members president pro tempore,
. who shall perform the duties of the Lieuten-
I ant Governor, in any case of absence or disa
bility of that officer, and whenever the said
' office of Lieutenant Governor shall bo va
cant. The House of Representatives shall
elect one of its members as Speaker. Each
' house shall choose its other officers, and
shall judge of the election and qualifications
of its members.
Sec. 10. A majority of each Houso shall
constitute a quorum, but a smaller number
may adjourn from day to day, and compel
Mie attendance of absent members.
. Sec. 11. Each house shall have power to
' determine the rules of its proceedings and
punish its members or other persous for con
tempt or disorderly behavior in its presence,
i to enforce ohedience to its process, to pro
tect its niemVrs against violence, or offers
of bribes or private solicitation, and with
the concurrence of two-thirds, to expel a
member, but not a second time for the same
j cause, and shall have all other powers neces
I saryforthe legislature of a free State. A
1 memlier expelled for corruption shall not
, thereafter be eligible to either house, and
punishment for contempt or disorderly 1j
havior shall not bar an indictment for the
same offense,
j Sec. 12. Each house shall keep a journal
of its proceedings, and from time to time
publish the same, except such parts as re
quire secrecy, and tho yeas and nays of the
members on any question shall, at the desire
of any two of them, be entered on the Journal.
I Sec. 13. The sessions of each house and of
committees of the whole shall be open, un
less when the business is such as ought to
be kept secret,
j Sec. 14. Neither house shall, without the
' consent of the other, adjourn for more than
j three days, nor to any other place than that
I in which the two houses shall h sitting.
I Sec. 15. The members of the General As
sembly shall in all cases, except treason,
felony, violation af their oath of office, and
breach or surety of the pea?e, be privileged
from arrest during their attendance at the
sessions of their respective houses, and in
going to and returning from the same ; and
fVtr inv Rnflflrh or debate in either house
j they shall not be questioned in any other
j P'sc. 16. The State shall be divided Into
fifty Senatorial districts of compact and con
tiguous territorv, as nearly equal in popula-
' tion as may be, and each district shall be en
titled to elect on Senater. Jacu roiioiy
containing one or mora ratios of population
shall be entitled to one Senator for each ra
tio and to an additional Senaor for a sur
plus of population exceeding three-fifths of
a ratio : but no county shall form a separate
district unless it shall contain four-fifths Oi
a ratio, except where the adjoining counties
are each entitled to one or more Senators,
when such county may be assigned a St"n
tor on less than four-fifths, and exceeding
one-half of a ratio, and no county shall be
divided unless entitled to two or more Sena
tors. No city or county shall lie entitled to
separate representation exceeding one-sixth
of the whole numberof Senators. No ward,
borough, or township shall be divided m the
formation of a district. The Senatorial ra
tio shall bo ascertained by dividing the
whole population of the State by the num
ber flftv. ,
Sec. i7. The members of the House or
Representatives shall be apportioned among
the several counties, on a ratio obtained by
dividing the population of the State as as
certained by the most recent Uuited States
census by two hundred. Every county con
taining less than five ratios shall have one
representative for every full ratio, and an
additional representative when the surplus
exceeds half a ratio ; but each county shall
have at least one representative. Every
county containing five ratios or more shall
have one representative for every full ratio.
Every city containing a population equal to
a ratio shall elect separately its proportion
of the representatives allotted to the county
in which it is located. Every city entitled
to mora Xhxu font representatives, and every
county having over one hundred thousand
inhabitants, shall be divided irto districts
of compact and contiguous territory, each
district to elect its proportion of representa
tives according to its population,- bat no dis
trict shall elect more than four representa
tives. Sec. 1B. The General Assembly at its first
session after the adoption of this constitu
tion, and immediately after each United
States decennial census, Shall apportion the
State into Senatorial and Representative
districts agreeably to the provisions of the
two next preceding sections.
ARTICLE III.
LEGISLATION.
Section 1. No law shall lie passed except
by bill, and no bill shall be so altered or
amended on its passage through either house
as to change its original purpose.
Sec 2. No bill shall be considered unless
referred to a committee, returned therefrom,
and printed for the use of the members.
Sec. 3. No bill, except general appropria
tion bills, shall be passed, containing more
than one subject,- which shall be clearly ex
pressed in its title.
Sec. 4. Every bill shall be read at length
on three diffeient days in each house ; all
amendments made thereto shall be printed
for the use of the members before the final
vote is taken on the bill, and no bill shall
become a law unless on its final passage the
vote be taken by yeas and navs, the names
of the persons voting for and against the
satae be entered on the journal, and a ma
jority of the members elected to each house
be recorded thereou as voting in its favor.
Sec. 5. No amendment to bills by one
house shall be concurred in by the other,
except by a vote of a majority of the mem
lier s elected thereto taken by yeas and nays,
and the names of those voting for and against
recorded upon the journal thereof ; and re
ports of committees of conference shall be
adopted in either house only by the vote of
a majority of the members elected thereto,
takeu by yeas and nays, and the names of
those voting recorded upon the journal.
Sec. 6. No law shs.ll be revived, amended,
or the provisions thereof extended or con
ferred by reference to its title only, but so
much thereof as is revived, amended, ex
tended, or conferred, shall be re-enacted and
published at length.
Sec. 7. The General Assembly shall not
pass any local or special law;
Authorizing the creation, extension or im
pairing of liens;
Regulating the affairs of conn ties, cities,
townships, wards, boroughs, or school dis
tricts; Changing the names of persons or places
Changing the venue in civil or criminal
cases;
Authorizing the laying out, opening, al
tering, or maintaining roads, highways,
streets, or alleys;
Relating to ferries or bridges, or incorpo
rating ferry or bridge companies, except for
the erection of bridges crossing streams
which form boundaries between this and any
other Stat';
Vacating roads, town plats, streets or al
leys; Relating to cemeteries, graveyards or pub
lic grounds not of the State;
Authorizing the adoption of or legitima
tion of children;
Locating or changing connty seats, erect
ing new counties, or changing county lines;
Incorporating cities, towns, or villages, or
changing their charters;
For the opening and couducting of elec
tions, or fixiug oi changing the place of
voting;
Granting divorces;
Erectiug new townships or boroughs,
changing towuship lines, borough limits, or
school districts;
Creating offices, or prescribing the powers
and duties. of officers in counties, cities, bor
oughs, townships, election or school districts;
Changing the law of descent or succession ;
Regulating the practice or jurisdiction of,
or changing the rules of evidence in any
judicial proceeding or inquiry before courts,
aldermen, justices of the peace, sheriffs,
commissioners, arbitrators, auditors, mas
ters in chancery, or other tribunals, or pro
viding or changing methods for the collec
tion of debts, or the enforcing of judgments,
or prescribing tho effect of judicial sales of
real estate ;
Regulating the fees, or extending the
powers and duties of aldermen, justices of
the peace, magistrates, or constables;
Regulating the management of public
schools, the building or repairing of school
houses, and the raising of money for such
purposes ;
fixing the rate of interest;
Affecting the estates of minors or persons
under disability, except after due notice to
all parties in interest, to bo recited in the
special enactment ;
Remitting fines, penalties and forfeitures,
or refunding moneys legally paid into the
Treasury;
Exempting property from taxation;
Regulating labor, trade, mining, or manu
facturing; Creating corporations, or amending, re
newing, or extending the charters thereof;
Granting to any corporation, association,
or individual any special or exclusive privi
lege or immunity or to any corporation, as
sociation or individual the right to lay down
a railroad track. Nor shall the General As
sembly indirectly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a general law,
but laws repealing local or special acts may
be passed. Nor shall any law be passed
granting powers or privileges in auy case
where the granting of such powers and priv
ileges shall have been provided for by gen
eral law, nor where the courts have juris
diction to grant the same or give the relief
asked for.
Sec. 8. No local or special bill shall be
passed unlusa notice of tho intention to ap
ply therefor shall have been published in the
locality where the matter or the thing to be
affected may be situated, which notice shall
be at least thirty days prior to the introduc
tion iuto the General Assembly of such bill,
and in the manner to be provided by law ;
the evidence of such notice having been pub
lished, shall bo exhibited in tho General
Assembly before such act shall be passed.
Sec. 9. The presiding officer of each houso
shall, in the presence of the house over which
he presides, sign all bills and joint resolu
tions passed by the General Assembly, after
their titles have been publicly read immedi
ately before signing, aud tho fact of signing
shall be entered on the journal.
Sec. 10. The General Assembly shall pro
scribe by law the number, duties and com
pensation of the officers and employees of
each house, and no payment shall be wade
from the State Treasury, or be in auy way
authorized to any person, except to au act
ing officer or employee elected or appointed
in pursuance of law.
Sec. 11. No bill shall be passed giving any
extra compensation to auy public officer,
servant, employee, agent or contractor, af
ter services shall have been rendered or con
tract made, nor providing for the payment
of any claim against the Commonwealth,
without previous authority of law.
Sec. 12. All stationery, printing, paper,
and fuel used in tho legislative and other
departments of government shall bo furnish
ed, and tho printing, binding, and dis
tributing of the laws, journals, department
reports, and all other printing and binding,
and tho repairing and furnishing the halls
.n.i moms used lor the meetings of the Gen-
! eral AaeroblT and its committees, shall bo
performed under contract, to be given to the
lowest responsible bidder below such maxi
mum price aud under such regulations as
shall be prescribed by law ; no member or
officer of any department of tho government
shall be in any way interested in such con
tracts, and all such contracts shall be sub
ject to the approval of the Governor, Audi
tor General aud State Treasurer.
Sec. 13. No law shall extend tho term of
any public officer Or increase or diminish
his salary or emoluments after his election
or appointment.
Sec. 14. All bills for raising revenue shall
originate iu tho House of Representatives,
but the Senate may propose amendments as
in other bills.
Sec. 15. The general appropriation bill
shall embrace nothing but appropriations
for the ordinary expenses of the executive,
legislative and judicial departments of tho
Commonwealth, interest on the public debt,
and for public schools ; all other appropria
tions shall lx) made by separate bills, each
embracing but one subject.
Sec 16. No money shall be paid out of
the Treasury except upon appropriations
made by law and on warrant drawn by tho
proper officer in pursuance thereof.
Sec. 17. No appropriations shall be made
to any charitable or educational institution
not under absolute control of the Common
wealth, other than normal schools establish
ed by law for the professional training of
teachers for the public schools of the State,
except by a vote of two-thirds of all the
members elected to each house.
Sec. 18. No appropriations except for pen
sions oi gratuities for military services shall
be made for charitable, educational or be
nevolent purposes, to any person or commu
nity, nor to any denominational or sectarian
institution, corporation or association.
Sec. 19. The General Assembly may make
appropriations of money to institutions
wherein the widows of boldiers are support
ed or assisted or the orphans of soldiers are
maintained and educated ; but such appro
priation shall be applied exclusively to the
support of such widows and orphans.
Sec. 20. The General Assembly shall not
delegate to any Special commissiou, private
corporation or association, any power to
make, supervise, or interfere with any mu
nicipal improvement, money, property or
effects, whether held in trustor otherwise,
or to levy taxes or perform auy municipal
function whatever.
Sec. 21. No act of the General Assembly
shall limit the amount to lie recovered for
injuries resulting in death, or for injuries
to persons or propel ty, ami in case of death
from such injuries, the right of action shall
survive, and the General Assembly shall
prescribe for whose benefit such actions shall
be prosecuted ; no act shall prescrilm any
limitations of time within which suits may
be brought against corporations for injuries
to prisons or property, or for other causes
different from those fixed by general laws
regulating actions against natural iktsoub,
aud such acts now existing are avoided. I
Sec. 22. No act of tho General Assembly
shall authorize the investment of trust funds
by executors, administrators, guardians, or
other trustees, in the bonds or stock of any
private corporation, and such acts now ex
isting are avoided, saving investments here
tofore made.
Sec. 23. The power to change the venue
in civil and criminal cases shall be vested
in tho courts, to be exercised in such man
ner as shall lie provided by law.
Sec. 24. No obligation or liability of any
railroad or other corporation, held or owned
by the Commonwealth, shall ever be ox
changed, transferred, remitted, postponed,
or in any way diminished by the General
Assembly, nor shall such liability or obliga
gation be released, except by payment
thereof into the State Treasury.
SEC. 25. When the General Assembly
shall be convened in special session, there
shall be no legislation upou subjucts other
than those designated in the proclamation
of the Governor, calling such session.
Sec. 26. Every order, resolution, or vote,
to which the concurrence of both houses
may be necessary (except on the question
of adjournment) shall le presented to the
Governor, aud before it shall take effect bo
approved by him, or being disapproved,
shall be repassed by two-thirds of both
houses, according to the rules and limitations
prescrilieu in case of a bill.
Sec. 27. No State office shall 1m continued
or created for the inspection or measuring of
any merchandise, manufacture or commo
dity, but any county or municipality may
appoint such officers when authorized bylaw.
Sec. 28. No law changing tho location of
the capital of the State wLin.ll be valid until
the same shall have Ixten submitted to the
qualified electors of the Commonwealth, at a
general election, and ratified and approved
by them.
Sec. 21). A member of tho General As
sembly who shall solicit, demand, or receive,
or consent to receive, directly or indirectly,
for himself or for another, from any compa
ny, corporation, or person, any money, of
fice, appointment, employment, testimonial,
reward, thing of value or enjoyment, or of
personal advantage or promise thereof, for
his vote or official innuence, or tor withhold
ing the same, or with an understanding, ex
pressed or implied, that his vote or official
action shall be in any way influenced there
by, or who shall solicit or demand any such
money or other advantage, matter, or thing
aforesaid for another, as the consideration
of his rote or official influence, or for with
holding the same, or shall give or withold
his vote or influence in consideration of the
payment or promise of such money, advan
tage, matter, or thing to another, shall be
held guilty of bribery within the meaning of
this Constitution, aud shall incur the disa
bilities provided thereby for said offense,
and such additional punishment as is or
shall be provided by law.
Sec. 30. Any person who shall, directly
or indirectly, offer, give, or promise any
money or thing of value, testimonial, privi
lege, or personal advantage, to anj execu
tive or judicial officer or member of theGen
eral Assembly, to influence hiin in the per
formance of any of his public or official
duties, shall be guilty of briliery, and be
punished in such manner as shall be provi
ded by law.
Sec. 31. The offense of corrupt solicitation
of memliors of the General Assembly or of
public officers of tho State, or of any muni
cipal division thereof, and any occupation
or practice of solicitation of such members
or officers, to influence their official action,
shall be defined by law, and shall lie pun
ished bv fine and imprisonment.
Sec. 32. Any person may lie compelled to
testify ia anv lawful investigation or judi
cial pr ceding, against any person who
may be t hrgl with having committed tho
offense of britwry or corrupt solicitation, or
practices of solicitation, and shall not bo jer
mitted to withhold his testimony upon the
ground that it may criminate himself or snl
ject him to public infamy ; but such te.sli
roonv shall not afterwards bo used against
him in any judicial proceeding, except for
perjury .in giving such testimony, and auy
person convicted of either of tho offenses
aforesaid, sha'.l, as part of the punishni.-i.t
therefor, bu disqualified from holding any
office or position of honor, trust or proflt in
this commonwealth.
Sec. 33. A member who has a personal
or private interest in any measure or bill
proposed or pending before the General A s
umklr aristl 1icloia the fact to the honso
1 of which ho is a member and shall not vote
thereon.
ARTICLE IV.
THE KXECTJTIVK.
SECtl6Sr i: Tho Executive Department of
this Commonwealth shall consist of a Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor. Secretary of
i- i . . . ... . - .
hib uunimunweaiio, Attorney ueneral, Au
ditor General, State Treasurer, Secretary of
Internal Affairs, and a Superintendent of
Public Instruction.
Sec. 2. The supreme executive power shalt
bo vested in the Governor, who shall tako
care that the laws be faithfully executed;
he shall bo chosen on the day of the general
election by tho qualified electors of the Com
monwealth, at the place where they shall
vote lor Representatives. The returns of
every election for Governor shall lie sealed
up and transmitted U- the seat of govern
ment directed to the President of the Senate,
who shall open and publish therrt in tho pres
ence of the members of both houses of tho
General Assembly. The person having the
highest number of votes shall le Governor,
but if two or more bo equal and highest in
votes, one of them shall be chosen Governor
by the joint vote of the members of both
houses. Contested elections shall bo deter
mined by a committee, to lie selected from
both houses of the General Assembly, and"
formed and regulated in such manner as
shall be directed by law.
Sec. 3. The Governor shall hold his office
during four years from the third Tuesday of
January next eusuing his election, and shall
not bo eligible to th office for the next suc
ceeding term.
Sec. 4. A Lieutenant Governor shall bo
chosen at the same time, in tho same man
ner, for the same term, and subject to the
same provisions as tho Governor ; he shall
be president of the Senate, but shall have no
vote unless they lie equally divided.
Sec. 5. No person shall bo eligible to tho
office of Governor or Lieutenaut Governor
except a citizen of tho United States, who
shall have attained the age of thirty years,
and hye been seven years next preceding
his election an inhabitant of the State, un
less he shall have been absent on the public
business of the United States or of this State.
Sec. 6. No member of Congress or person
holding any office under th United States
or this State shall exercise the office of Gov
ernor or Lieutenant Governor.
Sec. 7. The Governor shall be commander-in-chief
of the army and navy of the Com
monwealth, and of the militia, except when
they shall be called into tho actual service
of the United States.
Sec. 8. He shall nominate, aud by and
with the advice and consent of two-thirds of
all the memliers of the Senate, appoint a
Secretary of the Commonwealth and an At
torney General during pleasure, a Superin
tendent of Public Instruction for four years,
and such other officers of the Commonwealth
as ho is or may be authorized by the consti
tution or by law to appoint ; he shall have
jiower to fill all vacancies that may happen
in offices to which he may appoint during
the recess of the Senate by granting com
missions which shall expire at the end of
their next session ; he shall have power to
fill any vacancy that may happen during
the recess of the Senate, in the office of Au
ditor General. State Treasurer, Secretary of
Internal A flairs or Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction, in a judicial office, or in any
other elective office which he is or may be
authorized to fill :
If the vacancy shall happen during the
session of the Senate, the Governor shall
nominate to the Senate, liefore their final
adjournment, a proper person to fill said va
cancy. Uut in any such case cf vacancy, in any
elective office, a person shall be chosen to
said office at the next general election, un
less the vacancy shall happen within three
calendar months immediately preceding
such election, in which case th election for
said office shall bo held at the second suc
ceeding general election ;
In acting'oii Executive nominations, the
Senate shall sit with open doors, and in con
firming or rejecting the nominations of the
Governor, the vote shall be taken by yeas
and uays, and shall be entered on the journal.
Sec. 9. He shall have power to remit fines
and forfeitures, to grant reprieves, commu
tations of sentence and pardons, except in
cases of impeachment, but no pardon shall
be granted, nor sentence commuted, except
upon the recommendation in writing of the
Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the Com
monwealth, Attorney General and Secretary
of Internal Affairs, or any three of them,
after full hearing, upon due public notice
and in open session, and such recommenda
tion, with the reasons therefor at length,
shall be re;orded and filed in the office of
the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Sec. 10. He may require information in
writing from the officers of the Executive
Department, upon any subject relating to
the duties of their respective offices.
Sec. 11. Ho shall, from time to time, give
to the General Assembly information of the
state of the Commonwealth, and recommend
to their consideration such maasuros as he
may judge expedient.
Sec. 12. He may, on extraordinary occa
sions, convene the General Assembly, and
in case of disagreement between the two
houses, with respect to tho time of adjourn
ment, adjourn them to such time as he shall
think proper, not exceeding four months.
He shall have power to convene the Senate
in extraordinary session, by proclamation,
for the transaction of executive business.
Sec. 13. In case cf the death, conviction
on impeachment, failure to qualify, resigna
tion, or other disability of the Governor, tho
powers, uuues, ana emoluments OI the ottico
for the remainder of the terra, or until the
disability bo removed, shall devolve upon
the Lieutenant Governor.
Sec. 14. In case of a vacancy in the office
of Lieutenant Governor, or when the Lieu
tenant Governor shall bo impeached bv tho
House of Representatives, or shall bi un
able to exercise the duties of his office, tho
powers, duties, and emoluments thereof for
the remainder of tho term, or until the disa
bility be removed, shall devolve upon the
President pro tempore of the Senate ; and
the President pro tempore of tho Senate
shall in like mannr becomo Governor if a
vacancy or disability shall occur in the office
of Governor ; his scat as Senator shall lie
come vacant whenever he shall become Gov
ernor, and shall be filled by election as auy
other vacancy in tho Senate.
Sec. 15. Every bill which shall have pass
ed both houses shall be presented to the
Governor; if be approve, he shall sign it;
but if he shall not approve, he shall return
it with his objections to tho house in which
it shall have originated, which house shall
enter the objections at large upon their
journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If.
after such reconsideration, two-thirds oL all
the members elected to that house shall
agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent with
the objections to the other house, by which,
likewise, it sliall be reconsidered, and if a
proved by two-thirds of all the tnemlmrK
elected to that house, it shall bo a law ; but
in such cases tb votes of both houses shall
be determined by yeas aud nays, and th
names of tho members Toting for ami
against the bill shall be entered on the jour
nals of each house resjxx-ti velv. If anv bill
shall not be returned by the Governor with
in ten days after it shall have been pre
sented to him, tho same shall be a law in
like manner as if ho had signed it iinlesa
tho General Assembly, bv their adjourn
r?nirVpr!vent it" "fPturn. in which case it
shall bo a imvr, unless he shall file the Mine,
with his objection, ia the oflco of tlo Sec
retary of the Commonwealth, and rive notice
thereof t.y public proclamation within thirty
days after sucb ailjourtiment.
Sxc. 16. Th Governor shall hsvo power to
disapprove of any item or item of any bill mak
ing appropriations of money, embrscing- dis
tinct turns, and the part or parts of the bill ap
proved shall tie the law, and tho item or iterrts
of appropriation disapproved shall be void.- iin
loss repassed accordtnr to the rules ffrtd limita
tions prescribed for the passafe of other bills
Over the executive veto.
Sec 17. Tho Chief Justice of tho Supreme
Court shall preside upou (he trial of any con
tested election of Onvernoi-or I.iautnnant Gov
ernor, and shall decide questions reg-ardinr
the admissibility of evidence, and shall, upon
request of the committee, pronounce his opin
ion upon other questions of law Involved in
the trial. The Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernor shall exercle the duties of their respect
ive offices until their successors shall bo duly
qualified.
8rc. 18. The Secretary of the Commonwealth
shall keep a record of all official acts and pro
ceedings of the Governor, and when required
lay the same, with all papers, minutes and
voucher relating thereto before either branch
of the General AsaemVly and perform mich
other duties as may be ebjotned upon him by
la-r,
8bc. 10. The Secretary of Interna! Affair
shall exercise all the powers and perform all
the duties of the surveyor General, sutiject to
such change as shall be mad by law. His do-
Am.nt . 1 1 1 in hra liliru. ii r,f Inilnclriul
statistics, and he shall discharge such duties ,
relating- to corporations, to the charitable in- ,
titutions. the nsrricult oral, manufacturing-. :
mining, mineral, timber, and other material or
business interests of the State as may be pre-
scribed by law. He shall annual)-, and at sucb ;
other times aa may be required by law, make .
report to the GTieral Assembly.
Sic. SO. Tho Superintendent of rubllc In- 1
miction shall exercise all the power and per- .
form all the duties of the Huneriutendent of ,
Common Schools, subject to eu;h change as
shall be made hv law.
Sec. 21- Tho tnn of tho Secretary or Inter-
rial Affairs shall be four rears, of th Auditor
General three years, and of the State Treasurer
two rears. These o dicers shall be chosen by
the qualified electors of the Slate at rencral
election. No person rlec-ted to the office of
Auditor Gcncrnl or State Treasurer shall bo
capable of Ixddiiig the aama office for two const-cut
ire, term. ...
Sec 52. The present Great Seal of Pennsyl
vania shall be th seal of the State.
All commission shall be in the name and by
authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva
nia, and be scaled with the State seal aud sign
ed by the Governor.
AltTICLK V.
THE JCDICtARV.
Sacriox 1. The Judicial power of thl Com
monwealth shall he vested in the Supreme
Court, in courts of corvmon pleas, courts of
oyer and tormlner and general Jail delivery,
courts of quarter sessions of the peace.orphens'
courts, magistrates' courts, and in such other
courts a the General Assembly may from time
to time establish.
Sec. 2. The Supreme Court shall consist of
seven Judges, who shall be -lected by the qual
ified electors of the State at large. They shall
hold their offices for the term of twenty-one
years. If they so long behave themselves well,
but shall not be again eligible. The judge w lions
commission shall nrst expire shsll be chief Jus
t ice. anil thereafter each judge whose commis-
siou shall first expire shall in turn be chief jus
tice.
Sec 3. The jurisdiction of the Supremo Court
shall extend over the State, and the judges
thereof shall, by virtue of their offices, be Jus
tices of orer and terminer and ireneral In 1 1 de
livery in the several counties; they shall have j Orphans' Conrt shall be established, the Kepis
original Jurisdiction in casesof injunction, mid ; ter of Wills shall be clerk of such court, and
where a corporation is a party defendant, of . subject to its direction in all matters portaln-
haboas corpus, or mash a Mrs to court or line-
rior Jurisdiction : and of ouo warranto as to
all officers of the Commonwealth whose Juris
diction extends over tho State, but shall not
exercise any other original jurisdiction; they
shall have appellate jurisdiction by appeal.
certiorari or writ of error in all cases, as is
now or may hereafter be provided by law.
Sec. 4. Until otherwise directed by law, tho
courts of common pleas shall continue as at
present established, except as herein changed ;
not more than four counties shall, at any time,
te Included In one judicial district organized
for said courts.
Sec. 5. Whenever a county shall contain forty
thousand inhabitants it shall consul te a sepa
rate judicial district, and shall elect one Judge
learned in the law; and tho General Assembly
shall provide for additional Judges, a the bus
iness of the sold district may irqutre- Coun
ties containing a population less than Is suffi
cient to constitute separate districts shall bo
formed Into convenient single districts, or. If
necessary, may be attached to contiguous dis
tricts as the General Assembly may provide.
The office of associate Judge, not learned In tho
law. Im abolished In counties tormina- separate
districts; but the several associate judge in
office when this Constitution shall be adopted
ball servo for their unexpired terms.
Skc. 0- In the counties of Philadelphia and
Allegheny, all the jurisdiction and powers now
vested in the District Courts and Court of
Common Pleas, subject to such changes as my
be made by this constitution or by law, shall to
in Philadelphia vested in four, and in Alleghe
ny iu two distinct and separate courts of equal
and co-ordinate jurisdiction, composed of three
judges each ; tho said courts tn rnuaoeipnia
shall bo designated respectively as the Court of
Common Pleas number one, Humbert wo. ntitn-
ber threoand number four, and In Allegheny
as tho Court of Common Picas number one and
number two. but the tniintfcr of said courts
may be bylaw Inci eased, from time to time,
and shall lie in like manner designated by suc
cessive numbers ; the number of Judges in any
of said courts, or in any county whero the es
tablishment of an additional court may be au
thorized by law, may be increased from time
to time: and whenever such increase shall
amount in the whole to three, such three judg
es shall compose a distinct and separate court
as aforesaid, which shall be numbered asafore
sitid. In Philadelphia all stilts shall 1e institu
ted In the said Courts of Common Pleas, with
out designating the nuinbor of said Court, and
tbe several courts 6hali distribute and appnr-
tion the business among theui in such tninner
as shall be provided by rules of court, and each
court to which any suit shnii be thus assigned 1
shall have exclusive jurisdiction tl-reof, snt
Ject to change of venue, as shall be provide! J
by law. In Allegh y each court shall have ;
exclusive jurisdiction of all proceedings at Ijw
and in equity commenced therein, suhjoct to
change of venue as may bo provided by law. j
Sue 7. For Philadelphia there shall bo ono
Prothonotary' office, and one Prothonotary
for all said courts, to be appointed hy the ;
judges of said courU ,and to hold office for three
years, subject to removal by a majority of tho ,
said Judges; the said Pmthonotary shall ap- '
point such assistants as maybe tiecossary and
authorized by said courts, and he and his as- ;
sistants shall receive fixed salaries, to bi? deter
mined bv law and paid by said county: nil fees
collected in said office, except such as may le
hy law'due lo the Common wealth, shall bepatd
bv tue'Prothonotary into the county treasury.
Each court shsll have its separate docket.whiHi j
shall contain the Judgments and liens of all the
euid courts, as Is or may be directed by law. ,
Sec. 8. Tho said court in the counties of Phil
adelphiaand Allegheny respectively shall.froin
lime to time, in turn, detail one or more of .
their juHre to hold tbe courts of Oyer and i
Terminarand the courtsof Quarter Sessions of j
the Peace of said counties iu such manner as
nvtv be directed by law. '
Sec. 9. Judgesof the Courtsof Common Pleas
1 anted in the law shall bo Judges of the courts
of Oyer and Terminer. Quarter Sessions of the
Peace, and General Jail Ifelivery. and of the
Orphans' Court, and within their respective
districts shall be justices of the peace a to
ctiininal matters.
Sec. 10. The judges of tho courts of Common
Pleiis, within their respective counties, shall
have power to issue writs of ckktiori to jus
tice's of the ncaccand other inferlorcourts not
of re ord, and to cause their prncet ding to be
br might before them and rl.fUt.iud Justice to
be done.
."EC II. Kxcenl as otherwise provided
Constitution, justices of the pence or aldermen
hh ill lie elected ill the Feveral wards, d'atricie,
b 'roughs and townships at the; time of tlie ilc
tion of constable, by the qualified electors there,
of. in such manner as shall directed by law; md
!mll b? tunmtssiowi by theGoreriv-r f'r .. tCi iu
of tivevnra. No township, ward, UBrrT..t -r -otisr!i
shall ele -t more than IvrO lii'tice ot" the
J pea-' or aldermen nitu'lt ine consent of a msjor-
ity t Hie o'tnliii Ad electors within sn-h towislup,
ward, r borough. o jrs n shall 1-e elected to
! such f fiioe unless he shall have r-sid.-d wi'liin U
. townMiS boroiurh. ward or district fur one ar
' next preceding his leciim. In citlr; t! ut.'alnjTig
; over fifty thousand inhuhttnit. n il nt-ir.'tli;tf orb.
j alderman shall be eleete.l in fwoii wsr, pe t-.itr c-.
; Sec 12. In PMid!n!ip I'-ere rha'l ho ef-'aiitifh-;
e.l. for erudt thlery thousand inhabitants; one court
' not of rooord. of p .lire and ci. II causos. with jnt-is
diction nut exceeding ono hii.idred .lo.Urs: such
Courts shall Ik' liaJ.l bv iuagi-trates Wlioso term of
OJBceahall he tire re-ft". a 'id ther aualt l -b:tt.
e jeiara! ii Uet hy tlrj ju.Viti.il Tta it 1 t,s":
and fti th elwtinn cf the said mssiitrstes no r--.
wr shall vole for mnrnthat. two-thiMs ol the rinrr.
I ber of prrMmi to bo rlerted, ch'-n more than ona
are t' ' rhosn ; thry sha I bs competisrtC!l only
hr ftx-vl salaries, to br paid by miri rountv : and
sfisll exer-ie snvh Jnriadirtion. -tTii nl crimin'
al. eTrept as b"iein provided, a U now excrruwd
br aldermen, sulve-t to such changes, not inroW
Ing an int-reas of civil jurisdiction or couferrin?
political dmie. as may he ma te bv law. in 1 hli-
adelphis the office of a'ldermsn is aboll.-bcrt,
! Skc 13. All fees, fines and penalties in srd J courts
shsll lie paid into tlm co.unty tr-asury.
vr.c. 14. In all caes of .ommary eonrictlon in
' this Commonwealth, or of JudRmrnt 1 suit tor a
penalty lforoa maicist rate.or court not of record.
, either " arty may appral to Mich court of record a
! may lx prescribed by laa. upon allowance of tha
! appellate, court or jnd'jre thcreof.upon can so shown.
Src, IV All Indue, required to be learned in tha
law. except the judges of the Supreme Court,
mall lx- elected by the qia,U!iei electors oi u.e re
spectiTe districts" over which thev are to preside,
arrt shall hold the-ir ofbees ftr he period of ten
veara. if they shall o orp behave themselves ofM;
but f..r any reasonable cause, which shall not bo
sufficient prouud for imp. sHimnt, the Governor
may remove any Of them on th address of lo
thirds of ach IiOum of th lienersl Aa-embiy.
txc 10. WhOne two jidprff tha Saprems
Court are to be tbo-SD f.-r the same term of w
ie, each oter alinll line for i.iia only. mnH
thro ara to be chosen. I.O shall Tote for tio 111. ire
than two; candidates highest itt vote sha'l bo de-
! fhrnl eleetrd
Sec. 17. Slio-ild any toor more JndVs of to
Supreme Court, or any two or more Jn'ic.es o tho
Court of Common Pl-a for the tame di-trict bo
elected at the sam time, they shall, as soon af or
the election as coaveok-nt. cast lots for priority
of commission and certify tho result tcrthe tior
ernor. who shall issue tUoir commission in ac
cordance therewith.
Hro. Is. The judges of thn Supreme Court and
the fudge of the several CVnrts of fomfll in Pleas,
and all other judges required to be learned Id the
law. shall, at aia'ed t!tne, receive for their e'er
Tfces an adeonate c iiirvonsntion. which shall bfl
fixed bv law. and raid bv the State. They shall
; recei-e no other eomp n .i
.ation, fews.or iierquisitcs
of office for their services 'rum any sorrce n ir
hold anv other office of on fit under the L'lllUd
, Sint-, this State, or any o her State.
Skc. 19. Thn judges of the Snnreme. Conrt, Vir
' Ing thelrcontiuusllce in offlire, slmll resiuo wl: hill
thm 'Vmmvnweal'h. and tho othvr judges, during
.' their continuance in office, sha'l reside within
! the districts for which they shall bo respectively
1 elected.
Sec.). Tho several Courts of Common M-ss
lsidea tho power herein conferred, shall have
' and exercise within their resjective district, sub
: Ject to such chnfs as mv lie made by law. aurh
l chancery powers as af mi vested by Ja' in tho
j several IXiUrts of Common Pb'i of this Ct tnmi n
j -! h. or ai may l.or afier be conferred upon
J them by law.
; ic 21. 5 if duties shsll lie imposed by law Cpon
tho ciuproine Court or any of the jiidzc thereof,
eic-'t t such as sro judicial nor Khali any of the
Judgoa thereof -xrcise any power of appoint
ment exc-pt as herein provided. The Court of
Nisi Prius is hereby al olished, and no conrt of
original jurisdiction to bo presided over by any
j one or more of tho Judges of tho Supreme Court
. shall b established.
Stc. T!. In every county wherein thepopula
tion shall exceed one hundred and fifty thou
; sunj the General Assembly shall, and in any
' other county mny. establish a separate Or
i phaiis' Court, to consist of one or more judge
who shall t learnen tn tne law. which court
j shall oxerclse all the jurisdiction and powers.
now vested in, or which may hereafter lie con
ferred upon, the Orphans' Courts, and there
upon the jurisdiction of the Judges of the Court
of Common I'leas within such county, In Or
phans' Court proceedings, shall cease and de
termine: in any county In which a separate
ingto iiisotnce; ne may appoint assistant civrns
but only with the consent and approval of said
court. All accounts tiled with him as register
or as clerk of the said separate Orphans' Court
shall be audited by the court without expense
to parties, except where all parties in Interest
in a pending proceeding shall uominate an au
ditor whom the court may. In its discretion,
appoint- In every county Orphans' Courts
shall possess all the powers and jurisdiction of
a Heglster's Court, find separate Kcgistcrs'
Courts are hereby abolished.
Sec. KL Thb style of all process shall bo "Tho
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." All prose
cutions shall be carried on In the name and by
the authority of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, and conclude Htfalnst the peace aud
dignity of the siiuie.
Skc. 24. In all cases of felonious hnmicldo,
and In such otli r criminal cases a may be pro
vided for by law. the accused, after conviction
and sentence, may remove the Indictment, re
cord, and all proceedings to tho Supreme Court
for rexMew.
Sec. 25. Any vacancy happening by death.
resignation, or otherwise. In any court of re
I cord, shall be filled bv appointment bv th Gov
I ernor, to continue till the first Monday of Jan
nary next succeeding the first general election,
which shall occur three or more months after
the happening of such vacancy.
Sec. 24. All laws relating to courts shall bo
a-eneral and of uniform operation, and tho or-
j ganizatlon. Jurisdiction and powers of all loiins
' of the same class or grade, so far as regulated
) by law. and the force and effect of the process
( and Judgments of such courts shall be uniform:
: and the General Assembly Is hereby prohlbltod
from creating otln-r courts to exercise tho
powers vested by this Constitution in the judj
of the Courts of Common 1'leasand Orphan
in tbe Judg-
Conrta.
Skc. 27. The parties, by agreement filed, may.
In any civil case, dispense with trial by jury,
and submit the decision of such case to the
court having Jurisdiction thereof, and such
court shall hear and determine the same; and
the judgment thereon shall be subject to writ
of error as in other cases.
ARTICLE VI.
1MPEACB1IEMT A!tD REMOVAL FROM orFICS. Z
Sf.ctiosj i. The House of Representatives
hall have the solo power of impeachment.
Sec. 2. All Impeachment shall bo tried by
tho Senate: when sitting for that purKse, tho
Senators shall he upon oath or affirmation; no
person shall bei convicted without the concur-
i renoe of two-third of tho members present.
Sec. 3. The Governor and all other civil offi
cers shall be liable to tmpemchment for any mis
demeanor In offleo. but Judgment in such wises
shall not extend further than to removal from
office and disqualification to hold any office of
trust or profit under this Commonwealth; the
person accused, whether convictHd or-acqiiit-ted.
shall nevertheless be liable to Indictment,
trial. Judgment and punishment according to
law.
Sac. 4. All oflUonr-i shall hold their office on
the condition that they behave themselves well
while In office, and shall be removed on convic
tion of misbehavior tn office or of any infa
mous crime.
Appointed officer other than Judges of tho
cwrts of record and tho Superintcndont of
Public; Instruction, may rcmiivwl at tho
leoaiireof the power by which they thsll hs-e
bcon appointed. All officer elocted by the
Itcople. except Governor, Lieutenant Gover
nor, member of the General Assembly, and
Jt'dge of the courts .-f record, learned in tho
law, shall be removed by the Governor for rea
sonable cans., after duo notii-eand full hear
lug, on the address of two-thirds of the Senate.
ARTICLE VI L.
OATH OF OFFICE.
SFTfn 1. Senators and Representative and
all judicial. State, and county officers, shall, be
fore) onterlng on the duties of their respective
offices, take ami aubscribe? the following- oath
or affirmation: ,
t do solemnlv swenr for affirm! that I will
support, obov and defend the C-onsiitutlon of
tho United States and the Cot stltution or th "
Commonwealth, and that I will discharge tho
duties of mv office with fidelity: that I have not
rttld or contributed, or promised to pay or
contribute, either directly or indirectly, any
money or other Vul'.tublo thing, Vj procure my
numimtion or election (ir appointment), ex-
tlce to ""t far nc-.'s'urv and prpr-r oxpenscs ex
t prosslr authorized1 by law; that I havo not
in this knowingly iolated anv election law of th'.t
Com moil wealth, or prociireii it to none ty
others in mj behalf; tbnt I will nut. knowtrtrl
recelvd directly or indir o:ly, any money or
other vsi'.ia'.jjc 'thlrtjr for the performance or
n.'n-p.-rf'irir.Bnce of nnv act or dutv m-m t lining
l i mv offii-o, other than the compensation al'
I jwed by law."
The fo: owning oath shall be adm'ntsterM by
snmo pe'rson authorized to administer omUis.
and in tho case of State offii-ors and Judges of
the Supreme Couht; shall l ftUsl in the offic.
of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and ri
t 'lecsseor other Judicial and comity i.Ocera.
In the tfDc hr the Prothonotary of ie county
in whlcithea-MQf is taken: anv person rcfusj
Ing to latesnhlnetth or aftirmntion shall forfeit
Irs ejfljtsm atulny piwa wlm shalJ lis emu
vlotwd hf having sworn or affirmed falsely.
it's natlnar tiolated said oath or affirmation,
shall bo guilty of perjury, and l.o forever dis
qualified from holding anv office of trust or
profit within th!" Commonwealth.
i Uo oath to the tu'.-tU'M r vf th; Stn-t -i.i
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