VOL. 48. CONSTITUTION. NEW CONSTITUTION PROPOSED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL OR REJECTION, BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION Published by order of the Secretary of the Com monwealth, in pursuance of the 4th section of an act of the General Assembly. entitled "An act to provide for calling a Convention to amend the Constitution," approved the 11th day of April, A. D. 1872. PREAMBLE. We, the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, gratefol to Almighty Gal for the blessings of civil and re ligious liberty. and humbly invoking liis guidance, do or dale& and establish this Constitution. ARTICLE 1. DECLARATION OF RIGHTS. That the general, great, and essential principles or lib erty and free government may be recognized and nualtir abty established. we declare that SEcTION 1. All men are barn equally free and indepen dent, awl have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, poteessing; and protecting property and repuuttion, sailor pursuing their own happiness. . . Sze.l All putter is enherent — in the people, nip! ad free governments are fee nded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safe y and happiness. For the advance ment of three ends they have at all times an inalienable and iniefensiblo tight to alter, reform, or abolish their government is such manner as they may think proper. S.ic. 3. All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty tied according to the dictates of their own conscience=; no man can of right be compelled to at tend, erect or support any place of worship. or to maintain any IMM:try against his consent; no human authority Can. in any race whatever, emit,' or inter.ere with the rights of conscience, and no preferr.ace shall (War be given by late to any religion= estaelishment= or modes of Ivor ettm. See. 4. No person who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future State of rewards and punishment= shalt, on account of his religious sentiments, tie disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Common wealth. Elections shall he free and equal; and no power, civil or mil tory., shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exerei-e of the right of sntlrege. _ . . SEC. S. Trial by jury shall be as 6eretofere, and L 1 Heat thoreof remain inviolate. . 7. The prinC tig press shall •te free to every person who .toy noder take to examine toe proceedings of the Legiato:nre any branch of government, and no Low shall ever he made to ...Amin the right thereof. The free conmiunlult ion or thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of msu, and every citizen may freely speck, write, and print on unysubject, being respon sible fur the abase of that liberty. No conviction shall be ha in any prosecution for the publication of porters re lating to the aids.' conduct of otlicers or men in public capacity, or to any other matter proper for public investi gation or information, whore the fleet that such publica tion was not maliciously or negligently made shall be es tablished to the satisfaction of the jury ; and in all indict ments ter libels the jut y shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other moles. . . . Sc.z F. lite people shall be secure In their persons, houses, pspers, and possessions, from unreasonable bearches and gentiles, and no wormut to search any place or to seize any person or things, shall issue without describing them RS nearly as may be, nor without probable cause, sup: erted by oath or animation, subscribed to by the aftlant. Sec_ 9. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused path eght to be heard by himself and his counsel, to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him, to meet the witneusss lace to face, to have compulsory pro in, for obtaining witne,ses in his favor, and in pri...secte. bons by ludic meet or isformation, a speedy public trial by au impartial jury of the vicinage ; he cannot be com pelled to give evidence against himself, nor can ho be de prived of his life, liberty, or property, unless by thejudg meat of his peers or the law of the S7C. iO. No person shall for any indictable offense be proceeded against criminally. by information, except in cases arising in the land or naval forees or in tie. militia, when in actual service, In time of war or public danger, or by leave of the court, for opprossion or misdemeanor in ofnce. No person shall for the same offence be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall private property be taken or applied to public use without authority of law, and vritlaout m et compensation being first made orseeyred. . . Sac. 11. All courts shall be open land every man for an injury done him in his land., goods, person, or reputation, aball have remedy by due coarse of Ma, and right and jp-tice administered without sale, denial, or delay. Suits may be brought against the Gammouwealth in such man ner, in each mart ,, , and in such eases, as the Legislature may by law direct. . . Scc. lg. No power of suspending laws blued be exercised 11100.3 by the Legislature or by its nntboritr _ Sze. 13. Rice:ire bait shall not be requir - ed, nor extra eive Enos imposed, nor creel puniehments iotlmted. See. 14 All pesoners shall be bailable by bufficient sureties, unless for capi °nonce+, when the proof is evi dent or presumption great; and the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall net be suspended, mikes when in ease of rebellion or invasion the public safety cony require it. SEC. 15. No commission of o'er and torminer or fail de livery 0b . 5.11 Le itrued. Ss& 16. The person of a debtor, where there it not strong pr....intim of fraud. eh» I not be oontinued in prison :after deliverieg np his estate for the benefit of his credi tors, in such manner oe elwll be preocribed by law. Se . i.c. 17. No ex post facto lair , nor any low impairing the obligation of contracts, or malting Irrevocable aey grant of epecipl Ittiellegne or ionunit . .l n, shalllic posted. B o. 18. "lio pei r oon !hall be attaiintd of trison or felony by the D,orivlature- • SZC. 10.14., attainder shall work corruption of blood, nor, except during the life of the offender, forfeiture of es tate to the Commonwealth; the estate of such persons as shall destroy their own lir...bail descend or tent as in cars of natural death, and if any person shall be killed by casualty, there shall be no forfeiture by reason thereof. Sac. 20. The citizens haven right in a peaceable manner to assemble together for their common god, and to apply to those invested with the powers of government for re drone of grievances or other proper purposes, by petition, address or rcmcie.ttanco. . _ ii;;; - ;:i4i;foitizens to boar arms to defer.° of themselte+ and the State shall r!othequeetioned. Sec. 22. No shoaling army shall, to time of pence, be kept op withottt the consent of the Legtelatnre end the military shall in all caaea r . and at all times, ho in Millet tattbonlinattan to the civil power Sae. 2.3. No wilier shalein time of peace he quartered in any lo use without the content of the owner, nor in time olwar hut lan manner to be preortibeti by law. SEC. 21 The Legislature ellen not grant tidy title of nobility or hereditary dititinction, nor create any office, the apwititment to which shall be for a longer term than during good behavior. . S,e. 25. Emigration from the state than not be prohib ited. SEC. 26. To gnarl against transgressions of the high power, which w•e have delegated, w•e declare that every t Mug in this article is excepted out of rho general powers of government, and shall forever nimidti inviolate. ARTICLE 11. iircricn 1. The legislative power of this Commonwealth shalt be code t in a General Assembly, which shall consist of s.Sonata and a U. 1 ,0 of Repro -entail., " " • " • • 31;a ****** of the General Assembly x2&11 be cho sen at the general electron every second year. Their term of service shall begin on the first day of December nest after the;r election. Whenever a vacancy shall occur caber flog, the preddlng officer thereof ehall issue e writ of eleztiou to fill such vacancy fm the remainder of the term. dtc.:t, senator., shell be elected for the term of four yen, and Itepreme.tivei for the teem of two years. bEC. 4. The Genend Assembly shall meet at 12 o'clock neon, on the first Tuesday of January ceery second year, :and at other 111131.9 when convened by the Governor, but shall kohl no adjou rued annual session alter the year 16'78. In are ..f n veletnry iu the Mhos of United Stotee Senator from this Ceinmonwatlth, in a mows between various, the aesern , r shall convene the two house.; td Pn'elamation on notice not exceeding sixty bye to fill the saute. . o —. Sec. 5. Senetove shall beet leist tmenty-live years of age, and Itepreoentati eel twoutpono yowl of a,e. They shall have boon citizens and inhabitants of the State finer years, sod inhabitants of their re4nective dibtricteene year nest before their election Wakes abeent on the public bovine..e of the United States or of tide Stste, and ehail rovide in their re...pective districts doting their terms of bervice._ _ . . . -- tiTc76. No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he shall have Leen elected, be appointed to any civil efßce under this Crimmonw.lth, and no member of Congress or other person bolding any office (except of etttortlepat-law or in the militia) under the United Staten or the; Commonwealth eball be a member of either home during his continuance in office. ii3NC. 7. No person hereafter convicted of embezzlement of public moneys, bribery. perjury. or other infamous crime, &ball in elieible f.. the do ter Assembly or capa ble of bidding any office of truth or prott in this Gom m EEC. S. The member.] of the General Assembly shall re c.-tit,' such salary and mileage for regular and special ses sions as shall be fixed by law, and nu other compensation whatever, whether for service upon committee or other wise. Nu member of either house shall, dining the term for shish he may bare 1.311 eleeted, receive nuy increase of salary, or mileage, under .y haw during such term. Sac. 9. The Senate shall, at the beginning and close of each regular session, and at such other times at may be necessary, elect oue of Its members president pro tempore V/11., shall perform the duties of the Lieutenant Governor, In any case of tbsence or disability of that ollixr, and whenever this said office of Lieutenant Governor shall he vacant, the !louse of Revresontatlves shall elect out of its members as Speaker. Lath liens. shall clioime Its other officers, and shall judge of the election nail qualification of its members. :it:C. 10. A majority of each 'louse shall constitute a ott 'rum. but a entailer number may adjourn from day to dap, mat compel the attendee of absent member.. _ . S;:e. I I. Etch house shall have power to determine the mire of its pl . :Reeding, .111.1 punish its Illelltlerel or Other 11,1, iss f ir contempt or disordoly behavior in itsprexence, 3 enforce obedience to its process, to protect its members agAinst vlo:cone, or oilers of bribes or private solicitation, rind with the roncurrenco of two-thirds, to expel a mem. but not a seem I thue for the same CallSe, and shall have all other p Avers necessary for the legislature of a free State. A member expe!led for corruption shall not tSeresifter be eligible to either hones, and punnishment for contempt or disonlerly behavior shall not 'sir an in. dietment for the same offence. b. U. Etch hut,. Shall keep a journal of Ito proceed. hag; and from time to time pablioh the same, except each pars US requ;re ornery, and the yeao end nays of tho mem hero On any ounotion shall, at the deilre of any two of thew, he entered nn tho.lollrOrli. . _ _ ...... Sr, IS. The sessions of cosh boa - a end of cammitleas of the whole shall ho open, rink. when the business is snob as naght to be kept secret. SEC. 11. Neither house shall. without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three doe, nor to any other piece than that in which the two houses shall he ratting. Ste. 1 5 . The members of the Gaveral Assembly . sir ill in all rams, except teases,, felony, violation of their oath of once, and breech or surety of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendence at the seldom; of their re nisei:five houses, and in going to and returning from the same ; end for any speech or debate in either house, shay shall not I.e questioned in any other Once. ;3,16. The State shall be diviileil into fifty Senatorial districts of compact and contiguous territory, as nearly equal in population na may be, and each district shall toe entitled to elect one Senator. Each county rontri inhig one or more ra cos of population shall he entitled to one Sena tor for each ratio, and to an additional Senator fora sur plus of population exceeding three-6 tthis of a ratio ; but no county Isbell tam a separate district unless it shall con td. tittPfifths ofa mak except where the adjoining coun ties are each retitled to one or more Senators, when each, county may he assigned a Senator or leas than four fifths and exceeding one-half of a ratio, and no county shall be decided miles.' entitled to two or more Senators. No city or county shall lie entitled to separate representation ex ceeding one-sixth of the whole number of Senators. No ward,lmrough, or tadvaship shdl I.e dmided in the forma tion of 'a district. The Setteterial ratio shell lin ascer tained by dividing the populnt ion of the State by the num ber fifty. 5,c.17. The member. of the 110119 l) of liepresenatives e Huntingdon Journal. shall be apportioned among the several counties, on a ra tio obtained by dividing the population of the State amer- Mined by the most recent United States census by two hundred. Every county containing leas than five ratios shall have one repr.entative for every full ratio, and an additional representative when the aurplns exceeds half a ratio ; but each county shall have at least one reprtsentn tire, 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 sepa rately its proportion of the representatives allotted to the county in which it is I.xiterl. Every city entitled tomore than four representativ., and every county having over one hundred thousand inhabitants, shall be divided into districts of compact and contiguous territory, earls dis trict to elect its proportion of representatives according to its population, but no district shall elect more than four representatives. . . . §r.c, 18. The lieneral Amend.ly at its first session after the adoption of this constitution, and immediately after each Jnited States decennial census, shall apportion the State into S notarial and Representative districts agreea bly to the provisions of the two next procee d ing sections. ARTICLE 111. Secriox 1. No law alkali be passed except by bill, and no bill shall Le so altered or amended on its passage through either hon as to change its original purpose. s E e, 2. N o bill al k ali be considered unless referred to committee, returned therefrom, and printed for the use of the member. SEC.. No bEI, except general appropriation bill., shall he tweed, continuing more i hate one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title. SEC. 4. Every bill shall be read at length on three differ ent days in each house; all amendments made thereto shall be printed for the use of the members bef ore the final vote is taken on the bill, and no Lill shall become a law unless 011 its final passage the vete be taken by Dens and nays, the names of the persons voting for and against the Mon to entered on the journal, and a msjor.ty tithe mem bers elected to each house be recorded thereon Ud voting in Ito Myer. No amendment to bills by one house shall be concurrval in by the other, except by the vote of a majori ty of the members elected thereto, taken by yeas nod nays, and the names of those voting for and against recorded upon the journal thereof; and reports of committees of conference shall be adopted in either house only by the rote of a majority of the members elected thereto, taken by yeas and nays, and the Ilan]es of those voting recorded upon the journal. SEC 6. Nu law be revived, amended, or the provi slum thereof extended or conferred by reference to its t itle only, but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extend ed, or conferred, shall re-enacted a4dpublished at length. . . 7. The Gencral Assembly ahall'uot pow .y local or Ppecial law : Authorizing the creation, extension or impairing of liens; _ . _ . . . le:minting the affairs of countle3, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts ; Cluinging thu um. es !)fpFn,,?ul or pinrea. Changing the venue in civil or criminal Cesz ; Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, or main taining roads, highways, streets, or alleys ; Relating to ferries or bridges, or incorporating ferry or bridge companies, except fur the erection of brid,saa cross ing streams which form boundaries between this and any other State; Vacating roads, town plate , streets or alleys ; Relating to cemeteries, graveyards or public grounds not oldie State; Authorizing the why tion or legithantion of children.; Locating or changing county wets, erecting new coun ties. or changing county Loco ; Incorponwing cities, terror, or Tillages, or changingtheir charters; For the opening and conduoting of electloue,or fixing or changing the place of Toting; 9 . riintrug di;vfeee. Erecting new townships or boroughs, changing town ship lines, borough limits, or schools districts; Creating offices, or prescribing the powers and duties of officers in counties, cities, boroughs, townships, election or schools districts ; Changing the laws of descent or enccession ; Jteguiating the practice or jurisdiction of, or changing the rules of evidence in any judicial proceeding or inquiry before courts, aldermen, justices of the peace, shei commissioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters In chancery, or other tribunals, or provding or changing methods for the collection of debts, or the euforciug of judgments, or prescribing the effect ofjudicia I sales ot real estate ; • egulating the foils, or extending the powers and duties of aldermen: justices of the peace, ntsgistrates, or coasts bles ; Regulating the management of public schools, the build ing or repairing of school houses, and the raising of mites for sash purposes; • Fixinithe rnfe of interest Affecting the estate of minors or persona under disabili ty, except nf•er due notice to all parties in interest, to be recited in the special enactment ; Remitting lines, penalties and forfeit ur., or refunding moneys legally paid into the Treasury; Ext;mptng property front taxation; Regulating labor,trade, mining, or manufacturing Creating corporations, or mending, renewing, or aiend ing the charters thereof ; Granting to any corporation, association or individu al any special or exclusive privilege or immunity ; or To any corporation assucitition or individual the right to lay down a railroah 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 any case where the gnint leg of such panda and privileges shall hove been provided for by geared him . , nor where the courts have jurisdiction to grant the mine or give the relief asked for. Sac. S. No local or special bill shall be passed unless no tice of the intention to apply therefor shall have been published lathe locality where the matt r or the thing lobe effected may be aituated, which notice shall be at least thirty days prior to the introducclun into the General As sembly else.. bill, and In the manner to be provided by law • the evidence of such notice having been published. shall be exhibited in the General Assembly before sneli • act shall be passed. Bee. 9. The presiding officer of each house shall, in the preseace of the house over which he presides, sign all bills mid joint vegoolutions passed by thetieneral Assembly, after their titles have been publicly read immediately be fore signing, and the fact of eigning shall be entered on the journal. SEC. 10. The General Assembly shall prescribe by law the number, ditties, and compensation of the officers and employees of each house, and nu payment shall be made from the Slate Treasury. ur he in any way amhomed m any person, except to an acting officeror employee elected or appointed in latmuauce of law. Bee. 11. No bill shall he passed giving any extra com pensation to any public officer, servant employee, agent, or ...meter, after cervices shall hove been rendered or contract made, nor providing for the payment of any claim against the Commonwealth, without previous au thority of law. SEC. 12 All atationery, printing, paper, and fuel used in the legislative mid other departments of government shall be furnished, and the printing, binding, and distril, luting of the laws, journals, department report., and all ether printing and Girding, and the repairing and furn ishing the balls .d rooms used for the meetings of the Genend Assembly and its committees, shall be performed under contract, to he given to the lowest responsible bid der below such maximum price and under each rev ule tions . shall be prescribed by law ; no member or officer of any department of the government shall he in any nay interested in each contracts, and all such contnicts shall be subject to the approval of the Governor, Auditor Gen eral and State Treasurer. SEc. 15: Zoo late shall extend the term of any public oMeer. or increase or diminish his salary or emoluments after his e l ec ti on or appointment. - . • Sec. 14. All bills fo; . ralslng revenue ahall originate in the House of Representatives. but the Senate may pro pose amendments as in other bills. SEC. 15. The general awn opriation 101 l shall embrace nothing but appropriations fur the ordinary expenses of the executive, legislative and judicial departments of the Commonwealth, interest on the public debt, and fur pnb lie schools : :tll other appropriations shall be =VIC by separate bill, each embracing but one subject. SEC. 16. No money shall be 'add out of the Treasury except upon appropriations made by law and on warrant drawn by the proper officer in pursuance thereof. SEC. 17. No appropriotion shall be made to any charita ble or educational luatituion not tinder the absolute con trol of the Commonwealth, other than normal sehoule es tablished by law :or the professional training o. teachers fur the public schools of the State, except by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each House. Sue. IS. No spproptiations (except tor pensions or grat uities fur military serVicoo) shall Le made for cluiritatile, educational or Leuevulent purposes, to any person or com munity, nor to any denominational orsecturian institution, corporation or association. _ . - Am 19. The General Assembly may make appropria dons of mousy to institutions whereto the widows of ...ll diers are supported or assbted or the orphans of soldiers arc me ntained and educated; bat and, appropriations shall be applied exchttively to the support of such wok.% s and orphans. . . . . Sec. 5 .i0. The General Assembly ellen not delegate to any special commission, private corporation or association, any power to make, supervise or interfere with any com :- ciptl improvement, money property, ur effects, whether hen' in tryst or oth• rwlse, or to levy taxes or perform any municipal fonction whatever. Sac. 21. Nu act of the General Assembly shall limit the amount to be recovered for injuries resulting in death, or for Wiwien to pereons or property, and iu cane of dimth from tech injuries, the right of action shall survive, and the General As-orlly alma prescribe fur whoso benefit such action. +shall be prosecuted no act obeli prescribe any limitations of time within which su its may be brought against corporation. for Injuries to persons or property, or for other causes different front those flood by general boo regulating actions againet entomb persons, and such acta now exiating are avoided. _ . . . .._ • of tijtelenTsral Assembly ~.haii.nthorize the investment of trust funds by executors, admitlietnitors, guardian., or other trustee., in the bonds or wock of any private co.ponition, nod such acts now existing lire avoid ed, saving investments heretofore made. Sec. 23. The power to chance the venue in civil and criminal cases .hall be vestel in the coml., to be cxerclied in such manner as shall be provided by law. No obligation o; liability 'of any railroad or other corporation, held or owned by the Commonwealth, shall ever be exchanged, transferred, remitted, postponed, or in Rue way diminished by the General Ass, mbly, nor shall 'nib liability or obligation be released, except by payment thereot into the State Treasin7. SEC. Z. When the General Assembly Omit be convened in special session. there shall be no legislation upon sub krt• other than those designated in the proclamation of the Governor, callingsuch session. i . . ....... - Sec. 26. Every order, ri.ollition, or M which the concurrence of both houses may be neceissary Mseept on the adjeurnmentl shall be presented to the thiverue, and hefure it Anil take effeet be approved by him, or being disapproved, shall be re-passed by two-thirds et both houses, according to the rules and limitations pre scribed in ease of n bill. 37 Slate 'tee shall be continued or created for the inspection or inessurltt , " of any merchatati , e, mat us facture, or commodity, but any county or ranni.lpality may appoint such officers when anthorieetl by law. Sec. 28. No Inn rilfmging the locality of the capital of the State shall be valid until the came shall have been .ohniitted to the qualified electors of the Commonwealth ate general election, and ratified and approved by them. See. 22. A member or the General Assembly who shall solicit, demand, or receive, or coilsent to receive, directly or indirectly. for himself or for another, from any ...Ma ny, corporation, or person, any money, offic,ammintment, employment, testimonial, reward, thing of value or en joyment, or ..f personal advantage or promise thereof, for his vote or official influence, or for withholding the same, or with an understanding, expressed or implied, that his rote or official action shrill it , In any way inn...cad 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 vote or official influence or for withholding the same, or shall give or withhold his vete or influence in consideration of the payment or promise.' su c h money, advantage, matter, or thing to another, shall i.e h e ld guilty of bribery nub in the meaning of this Con /Alton., and shall incur the disabilities provided thereby for raid offence. and such additional punishment as is or shall be provided by ton. Sze. 20. Any person who 01011, directly or indirectly, off r, give,or prom!se any money, or thing of value, testi monial, privilege, or personal advantage, to any execntive or judicial officer or member of the General Aseembly, to Influence him its the performance of any of hie public or official dune., shall be guilty of bribery, and be punished in ouch manner at shall be provided by law. Crc. 21. The offense of corrupt enlicitation of members of the General Assembly or of public officers of the State, or of any municipal division thereof, and any occupation or practice of solicitation of ands members or officers, to Influence their official action, shall ho defined by law, and shall be punished by fine and imprisonment. Sec 32. Any person may be compelled to testify in any lawful investigation or judicial proceeding, against any person who may be charged with having committal the offetute of bribery or corrupt solicitation, or practices ot solicitation, and shall not be permitted to withhold IlLs tes timony upon the ground that it may criminate himself or sulject hint to public infamy; but such testimony shall not afterwanls be need against hint in any judicial pro ceodi g, except fur perjury in giving ouch testimony,and any person convicted of either of the offences aforesaid, shall, . part of the punishment therefor, be disqualified from holding any office or position of honor, trust, or pro fit in thin Commonwealth. _ . ...... Sec. 33. A member who has a personal or private inter est in any measure or bill proposed or pending before the General Assembly shall disclose the fact to the house of which he is a member, and shall not vote thereon. ARTICLE IV Sccrio:a 1. Th • Executive Department of this Common wealth shall consist of a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Attorney General. Audi tor General, State Treasut er, Secretary of Internal .Iffairs, and a Superintendent of Public In-traction. Sec. 2. The supreme executive power shall be vested in the Go senior, who shall take care that the laws be faith fully execnted he shall be chosen on the day of the gen eral election by the qualified eleetem of the Common wealth. at the places where they shall vote for Represen tatives. The returns °revery election for Governor shall be sealed up and transmitted to the seat of government, directed to the President of the ¬e, who shall open and publish them in the presence of the members of both houses of the General Assembly. The person havint the highest number of votes shall be Governor, but if two or more be 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 be determined by a crim• ntittee, to be selected from bath houses of the General a sembly, and tlirmed and regulated in such manner as shall be directed by law. Nr.C. 3. The Governor shall hold his office during four rears from the third Tuesday of January next ensuing his election, and shall not be eligible W the office fur the next succeeding term. Sec. 4. A Lieutenant Governor shall be chosen at the mane time, in the same manner, for the name term, and subject to the same provisions as the Governor; he shall be president of the Senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided. Sec. 5. No person shall be .legible to the office of Gov ernor or Lieutenant Governor except a citizen of the United States, who shall hare attained the age of thirty years, and have been seven years next preceding his elec tion an inhabitant of the State, unless he shall hare been absent on the public business of the United States o• of this Mate. member of Congress or person holding any office under the United States or this State shall exercise the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor. SEC. 7. The Governor shall be commander-In-chief of the ermy and navy of the Connnonweatth, and of the mil itia, except then they shall oe called into the actual ser vice of • he United States. Eve. 8. Ito shalt nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of two-thirds of all the members of the Sen ate, appoint a Secretary of the Commonwealth and an At torney General during pleasure, a Superintendent of Pale lic Instruction for lour years, end ouch other officers of the Commonwealth us he is or may be authorized by the Con stitution or by law to appoint; be shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen in offices to which he may appoint daring the recess of the Senate by granting cora miationa whirl' shall expire at the end of their next sea son ; he shall have power to fill any vacancy that may happen during the recess of the Senate, in the office of Auditor General, State Treasurer, Secretary of Internal Affahre or Superintendent of Public Instruction. in a judi cial office, or in any other elective office which he is or may be authorized to fill. — lf the vacancy shall happen during the session of the Senate. the thivernor shall nominate to the Senate, before their final adjourinnent, a proper person to fill mid va cncy. But in any such case of vacancy, in an elective office, a person shall he chosen to said office at the next general election, unless the vacancy shall happen within three calendar months immediatgly preceding *inch election, which ease the election for told office shall be held at the second succeeding general election. In acting on Executive notninations, the Senate shall sit with open doors, and in confirming of rejecting the nomi nations of the Governor, the rote shall be taken by yens and nay. 3, and shall he entered on the jnumel. . . See. 9. He shall have power to reruiCtinesand forfollnres, to grant reprieves. commutations of sentence and pardons, except in cases of impeachment lint no pardon shall 1•e granted, nor sentence commutisl except upon the recom mendation in writiog of the Lieutenant Goven3nr, Secre tary of the Common wealth, Attorney General, and Seen , tary of Internal Affairs. or any three of them, after fall hearing. upon due public notice and in open sea-ion, and such recommendation, with reasons therefor at length, shall be recorded and filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. 10. lie may require information in writing from the officers of the Executive Department.upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices. ^- 8i;:11: Ile Audi, Clem time to time. give to the General Assembly information of the Kato of the Commonwealth, and recommend to their consideration 'such mamma as ho may judge-expedient. Soc. 12 lie may, extraordinary aecoolone, convene the General Aseembly, and in are ordisagreement between the two homier, with respect to the time of adjournment, adjourn them to swat tiute as he shall think paver, not exceeding four months. He shall have power to convene the Senate in extmordinary tension, by proclamation, for the transaction of executive business. . . . . — BCC7I3. In case of the death, conviction on impeach ment. failure to qualify, redgnetion, or other disability of the Giivernor, the rowers, du. int, and emoluments of the office for the remainder of the term, or mail the disability be removed. shall devolve upon the Lientouant Governor. _ . - . 13iC.14. In case of a vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Governor, or when the Lieutenant Governor shall be im peached by the House of Representatives. or shall be enable to exercise the duties of Lie office, the powers, duties, and emoluments thereef for the remainder of the term, ur un til the disability be removed, shall devolve upon the Pres ident pro tampers, of the Senate; and the President pro tempera shall its like manner became Governor it a vacan cy or disability shall occur In the office of Governor; his seat as Senator shall become vacant whenever he shall be Governor, Red shall be filled by, election as any other vacancy in the Senate -11. Every bill which shall have pawed both 11.118. , shall be presented to the Governor; if he approve, he shell sign It; Lut if he shall not approve, he *hall return it with hie objectiona to the house in which it shall have originated, which House shall enter the uhiectione et liege upon their journal, and proceed to re-consider it. lf, after such re.conelderation, two-thirds of all the tnembers elected to that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall Le sent with the objections to the o. her home, by widen, likewise, it shall be re.consblered. and if approved by two- thirds of all the members elected be that house, It shall be law; hot in such CAWS the cetera of lath houses Shall he determined by ynneo and nave, &lel the mince of the mem bers voting for and attained the Lill shall be entered on the journals <deed' home respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the Governer within ten days totter it shell have Leen presented to him, thesame shall Le a law In like manner as If he had signed it, tiniest the General Assembly by their adjournment. prevent its return, in which Give it shall be a law, unless he shall file the mine, with hie objections, in the office of the Secretory of the Commonwealth. and give notice thereof by public prioel.iation within thirty days of er *inch adjournment. Sec. 16. Tho Governor shall nave power to disapprove of any item or items of any bill making appropriations of money, embracing distinct items, and the part or parts of the bill approved Shall La the law, and the item or items of appropriation disapproved shall be void. unless repassed according to the tutes and limitations presrilied for the passitge of other bills over the Executive veto. 8ec.27. The Chief Justice of the Supremo Court [shall preside span the trial of any contested election of Gov ernor rr Lieutens nt Governor, and shall decide eines , tines regarding the ivimiseability of evidence, and shell, upon request of the committee, pronounce his (+pint ei upon other queetions of law involved In the trial The Governer and Lieutenant Governor shall exercise the duties of their respective officm until their eaccmiors shall be dilly quel fled. 8EC.48. The Secretary of the Commonwealth elrall keep a record of all official acts and proceedings of the Governor, and when required lay the Name, with all pit , pen, minutes, and vouchers relating thereto,befoie either branch of the General Assembly, and perform such other duties as may be enjoined :Iron him by law. See. 19. The Secretary of internal Ailedce shall eser rise all the powers and perforce all the dutiev of the Surveyor General. subject to such changes na shell be wade by law. Ilia department shall embrace a bureau of Industrial statistics, and he shell Wselearge such duties relating to corporations. to the charitable institutions, the agricultural, manuilectnring, mining, mineral, timber, and other material et Neatness interests of the State n may be preanibed by law. Ile shell annually, and at such ether times. may lie required by law, make report to tbo GeneraLAelembly. . . • cc. 90. The Stilaerintendent of Public Instractlen shell exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of rho Superintendent of Common Schools, anhject to 811111 chan gers as shall barnacle by law. Sic. 21. The tone of the Secretary of Internal Affairs shall be font years; of the Auditor General, three yerrs, and of the State Treasurer, two years. These officers ehall be chosen by the qualified cleetnre of the State at general eleetians. No proton elected to the office of Auditor Gen eral or State Treasurer shell he capable of holding the alone office for two consecutive terms. Pm 22. The present Great Seal of Pennsylvaniashall be the seal of the State. All commissions shall he In the name and Iry authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and be' sealed with the State seal and nit.med by the Governor. ARTICLE V. TUE Alga., flrcrtox I. The judicial power of this Comminvonith shall be vested In the Supreme Court, in courts of minima pleas. courts of overand tenuinerand generation delivery, courts of quarter sessions of the peace, orphans' courts, magistrates' courts. and iu such other courts as theUen oral Assembly may from time t 3 time establish. SEC. 2. The Supreme Court shall consist of seven judges, who shell be elected by the qualified electors of the Ftate at large. They shall hold their offices for the term of twenty-one years, if they E. long Lehave them.elves but shall not be again eligible. The judge whose commis- Finn shall first expire shall he chief justice, and thereafter each judge whose commission shall first expire shall in tern be cbirjkortire. ;. . . SEc. 3. The of the Supreme COllll ~ h all ex tend over the State. and the judges thereof 'ball. by virtue of their Offices, be justices of over and termincr and gen eral jail delivery in the eevend eountlea ; they shall have original jurisdiction in eftses of iiijunetion, and, where a corponttion is a party defimclant, of habeas COrpu., orman damns, and to courts of inferior jurisdiction; and in cafio of qea warrantn aw to all officer,, of the Common wealth whose jurisdiction extends over the State, but not exercise any other original jortoliction ; they shall have appellate jurisdiction by animal. certiorari or writ of error to all cases, us is now or may her.fter be provided by law. Sec. 4. Until otherwise directed by lot; the COlltto of common pleas than continue as at present established, ex cept as herein changed; not more than four counties shall, at any time, be Included in one judicial district organized for said con rte. _ SEC. 5. II henever a county shall contain forty thous. and inhabitants, it shall constitute,. sepnrate judicial dis trict, and shall effect one judge learned in the law; and the General Assembly shall pmviele for additional judges, as the busineat of the add district may require. Counties containing a population less than is sufficient to constitute separate districts shall be formed into convenient single districts, or, if necessary, may be attached to contiguous districts, as the General Airembly luny provide. The of fice of associate judge, not learned in th 3 law, Is nbolished in counties forming separate district ; bat tho several as sociatejnelgeo in office when this constitution shall he adopted shall tierce for their unexpired' terms. See. 6. In the counties of Philadelphia and Allegheny, all the jurisdiction andpowers now vetted in the District Courts and Courts of Common Pleas, subject to Pitch changes as may be made by this constitution or by law, shall be In Philadelphia vetted in four, and In Allegheny In two distinct and separate courts of equal and co-ordi nate jurisdiction, composed of three judges each ; the raid courts in Philadelphia shall be designated respectively as the Court of Common Pleas number one. number two. number three and number four, and in Allegheny as the Court of Common Pleas number one Bad number two, hot the number of mid courts tray be by Inw incressed, from time to time, and shall to in like mintier designated by successive numbers; the number of judges in any of said courts. or In any county whore the establiahment of an additional HUNTING-DON, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1873 court may be authorized by law, may be increased from time to time; an d whenever such increase shall amount in the whole to three, such three judges Anil compose &dis tinct and Reuling° court as aforesaid, which shall be num bered as aforeoiid. In Philadelphia all suite shall be in stituted in the said Court s of 1111 l Pleas, without designating the nember of said court, and the eer oral courts shall distribute and apportion the 'business among them in such manner as shall be provided by rules of court, and each court to which any snit bo thus as signed Khali have exclusive jurisdiction thereof, subject to change of sense, as shall he provided by law. In Allegheny each court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all proceedings at law and in equity commenced therein, subject to change of venue an may be provided lry SIC. 7. For Philadelphia thee WA.:Olle On. PrthOnOVl . ry's OffiCe, and one Prothontary for all sa d courts, to be appointed by the judges of Said court., and to hold office for three years. subject to removal by a onajtority of the mid judges; tole mid Prothonotary shall appoint such aasiot 800 as may be n.essary and anthortzed by said courts, and he and his .sistan too shall receive fixed salaries, to be determined by law and paid by said county; all lees col lected in said office, except ouch ns may be by law dote to the Commonwealth. shall be paid by the Prothonotary in to the county treasury. Each rourtehall have its separate dockets, except thojudgment docket, which shall contain the judgments and liens of all the said courts, as is or may be directed by law SEC. S. The mid courts in the conntics of Philadelphia and Allegheny respectively shalt, from time to time, in turn, detail one or mote of their jowls'ta to hold the courts of Oyer ond Teriminer and the courts of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of said .unties in ouch summer ea may be directed bylaw. . . Six 9. Judges of the Courts M Common Plops teams' in the law shall be judges of the courts of Oyer and Ter miner, Quarter Sessions of the Peace, and General Jail Delivery, and of the Orphan's Court, and within their re spective districts shall be justices of the peace as to crimi nal matters Sec 10. 'fhe judges of the courts of Common Pleas, with in their respective counties, shall have power to home writs of certiorari to justices of the peace and other inferior courts nut of iecord, and to cause their proceeding to be brought before them and right send justice to to done. Soc. 11. Eveept as otherwise provided in this Consti tution justices of the peace or aldermen shall be elected in the several wants, districts, boroughs, tool townships at the time of the election of constables, by the qualified electors thereof, in such manner as shall ho directed IT late, and shall be commissioned IT the Governor for a term of five years. No township, ward,. district, or borough shall elect morn then two justices of the peace or alder men without the consent of a majority of the qualified electors within such township. ward. or borough; no per eon ehall be elected to sash office unless he shall have resided within the township, lanough, weed, or district for one yottr neat proceeding hie election. In cities cordnin ing over finy tholll4lllli inhabitant., not mom than one al derman shall he elected i n each ward or district. Suc.l2. In Philadelphia there shall lie established. fur each :10,000 iniulbitants, one court not of record, of police and civil causer, witlijurhtliction not exceeding one hun dred dollars; such coatis shall be held by magistrates whoso term of office stall Lc live years, and they shall be elected on general ticket by the qualified voters at large; and in the election of the raid niagiatfittes, na voter shall vote fur inn, titan two-thirds of the number of per- Sous to be elected when more than ono are to be chos en; they shall be colupensated only by tired ruler., to be paid by said county; red shall exercise 'such jurisdiction, civil mud criminal, except as belch. provided, us is now exercised by ahletmen, subject to arch changes, not it volving an increase of civil juriatliction or conferring po litical duties, us may be made by law. In Philadelphia the office of aldermaa is abolished. 8re.13. All fee., flues, and pen:alio, lu nab( reurtb shall lie paid int? the county _treasury. . ire. 14 In all CaSe;ufatimm;ry conviction in thin Com monwealth, or of judgment in exit fora penally Pricer a ntagbitrale, or court not of ri.iconl, either party may ap peal to each court of record as may ho pmescrllayl by law, upon allowance of the appellate court a r judge thereof, up on cause shown. SEC. 15. All judges required to be learned in the law• except the judger of the Supreme Court, Ault be elected by the qualified electors of the respective districts over which they are to preside, and shall bohl their offices f the period of ten years, if they shall so long behave them selves well; but for Key reasonable rause, which f , bal I not be sufficient ground for impeachment, tho Governor may remove any oldie. on the address of to o-thittls of each house of the General Assembly. SEC. 10. Whenever two judgi.s of the Supreme . Court are to be chosen for the same term of sorrier, cacti ',tor aLxll cute for ono only, and when three are to be chosen, he shall rote for no mere than two ; candidates hir host in voto Khali be declared elected. Su, 17. Should any two or more judges of the Supreme Cow t, or ens tw•o or more judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the same district he elected at the same thee, they ellen, as soon efter she election as unaveniunt, cast lots for priority IX reanmission. and certify the result to the Governor, who shell 1....eue their commissionsin accord ance therewith. Sre.lo. The judges of the Supreme Court and the judg es of tile several Courts Id C. thorn Pleas, awl all other judges required to be learned in the law , shall, at stated times, teeeive for their services On adeynute COMIMItlati(111, which Alan be 11.1111 L.W. a n d laid by the State. They shall receive no other comta•nsation, fees, or poi - Tilsitca of office for their services 11-0111 any source, nor hold any other office of profit under the l'ult,l Slat., this State or any other State. Ste. 19. The judges of the Supreme Court, during their continuance to ogice, shat reside within this Common wealth ; and the other judges during their countinuanee in office, shall reside within the district for which they shall be resTectlvely elected. Ste. 20. The several Coarta ei Common Pleas • besides the powers herder contend, shall have anti exerci,e with in their respective district., subject to ouch changes as may be made by law, such chancery powers as are now vested by law to the !leveret CourtsofCOULMOTI Pieaa of this Commonwealth, or 111 may hereafter be conferred upon them by law. Sec. 21. bio duties *hall be Imposed by law• upon the Su preme Court or any f the judge) thereof, except such as are jndicial, nor shall any of the judges thereof exercise any power of appointment, except as herein provided. 7 he. Court of Nisi Pons Id hereby abolished, and no court of original jurisdiction to be presided over• by any one or more of the judge. of the Supreme Court shall tat estab lblied. See. 22. In every manly tt herein the population shalt exceed one hundred and fifty theumnd the General Assem bly shall, and in ony other county may, establish a sap unite Orphans' Court. to coneist of one or more judges who shall be learned in the law, which court shall exer cise all the jurisdiction and powers now vested in, or which may hereafter be conferrcd upon, the Orpluune Courts, and the.enpon the jurisdiction a the judges of the Court of Common Plertir within each county, In Or phan.' Court prmedinge, shall mace and determine; In any county in which a separate Orphans' Court shall in established the Register of Wills shall be clerk of such Court, and antject to its direction in all matters pertaining to his office, he luny appoint assistant clerks, but only with the consent and approval of said court. All outslllC. filed with him as register or as clerk of the mid separate Or phans' Court shall be audited by the Conte without ex pense to pert ies. except where all warm , in interest in a pending proceeding shall nominate an auditor whom the court may, in its chasm:on, appoint. In every county Orphans' Courts Ault possesse all the powers and jurisdic tion of a Register's Court, and separate Registers' Courts am hereby abolished. Sam The style of all process shall Le ‘The Common wealth of Pennsylvania." All pnsteentions shall be ear ried on in the name and by the authority of the enamor wealth of Pennsylvania, and .e.•ouClude agnimt the Imam and dignity of the mine. Sec. 23. In all eases of felonionn hamlettle, and In such other criminal cases as may bat morbl d for by law, the ac cused, after mativirtion and sentenee. cony remove the in dictment, ramord,c and ail 'proceedings bt the Supreme Cuurt for review. SEC. 25. Any vaeancy happening by death, or otherwise, in any court of retard, shall be filed by ap. pointment by the Gorernor, to continue till the fit, Non. day of January next succeeding the tirot general election, which shan't:a:cur three or more mouths atter the happen. ing of F2lch.Taticy. . . Pne. 26. All law..relating to courts Phall he tteneml and of uniform operation- and the ortroniantion, jurisdic tion, and posse, of all courts of the same duos or grade,. far as regulated by law, and the force end effect of the process end judgments of Such ccurts elin ll be uniform; and the General Assembly Is hereby prohibited front cre ating other courts to exercise the powers vested by this constitution in the judges of the Court ~1 Common Phsts and Orphans' Courts. MEC. 27. The parties, Ly agreement 111.1, may, in any civil case, dispense with trial by jury; and submit the deeidon of such case to the court haying jurisdiction there of, and ouch court shall hear and determine the same ; and the judgment thoteun shall 0.-e subject to writ of error as In other curt,. ARTICLE VI. Steriea I. The Haase or Itepresentativee eltall have the aole velvet: ?finliaacltment. St& 2. All iintwaebuientel Anil le. tried by the Senate; when sitting for that inalpoio, the tzoolootora shall be two oath or affirmationy no pereou shall be convicted without the ea:recurrence of lwtetbinle Of the memberto presout. - . Sc.E 3. The novenior and an other civil onlcern xlutll Le liable to impeachmont fur any mi&dentettn or In offioe, brit jarlgulont In witch cancel 'hall not extend further than to removal font, (Ace and qualification to hold any office of trust or profit under thin COM roonwcaltb; the person accusrd whether convicted or ac 9Wtted, hhall nevi-rattle., Le liable to indictment, trial, Judemeut, and puniAnnent acccording to law. S. 4. All °nicely sLall hold their ;Mem on the condi tion that they behave themselves well while In °Mee, and shall is remov,l on oonvictkm of misbehavior in ufne. or of any infamous crime. . . Apixtinted officers other than Judges of the courts of record and the Superintendent of Public instruction, may be removed at the pleasur of the power by which they !Mall have been appointed. All officero elected by the peo ple, except taverner, Lieutenant Governor, members of the General Autoubly. and judges of the emirla of rec ord. learned in the law, atoll be renamed by the Governor fur reatonable canoe. after due notice and lull hettrlog, on the addrem of two-thlrds of the Senate. ARTICLE VII. Sccrtos 1. Senators and Representatives and all judi cial, State, and county officers, shall, before entering on the duties of their respective office, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: - _ "I do sTsleninly swear (er affirm) that I will support, obey, and defend the Constitution of the United t , tatea no the Constitution of this Commonwealth, and that I will ea.- charge the ditties of my office with fidelity; that I have not paid or contributed, or proud.' to pay or contri bate, either directly or indirectly, any money or other val uable thing, to pnscure my nomination or election (or appointment), except for Illef,CB.,Cy :sad proper expenses expressly authorized by law; that I have not knowingly violet.' any election - law of this Commynwealth, or procured it to be done by others in my behalf ; that I will not knowingly nectar, directly or indirectly, any money or other valuable thing for the periormance or non-per formance of any act or duty pertaining to my office, one er than the compensation allowed by law," The ffiregoing oath shall be administered by tome per son authorized to adminiater oaths, and in the Ca, of State officers and Judges of the Supreme Court. shall he filed In the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and in the cane of other judicial and county officers, in the office of the Prothonotary of the county in which the same ie taken; any person refusing to take coil oath or affirm ! tion oh.' I forfeit his office, and any person who shall be convict.' of having sworn or affirmed falsely. or of having violated said oath or affirmation, shall ho guilty of pet:fury. end he forever disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit within this Commonwealth. The oath to the members of lbe Senate and Rouse or Representativea shall be tom ini - ts red by one of the Judges of the Supreme Court or of a Court of Common Pions, learned in the inw, in the ball of the house to which the member shall he elected. ARTICLE. VIII. SUYFRAGD AND ELtenvie. SECTION 1. Every tussle citizen twenty-one years tit ago, poenewting CIO following qualifications, stall be entitled to votent nll elr^tiunx. . "I'f;;t. — fleslsil have been a citizen of the trotted States at Past one month. . . . . 11;71;11 haw resided in the State one year for if, hating preciously been n qualified elector or native born citizen of the State, be shall hare removed therefrem and returned, then 913111.1100 immediately preceding the election. . . . Ile shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vide M least two months Immedi ately preceding the election. Fourth If twenty-two years of age or upwards, be Phall have paid within two years. a State or county Tax, which than hate been amassed at least two 111,111116 and paid at leas one month before the election. SEC. 2' The general elc+•tion eliall be held annnafiy on on tie Tuesday next following the first Monday of ise.vent her. Lut the General A,seuibly may by him fix 3 different day, two-thirds of all the members of each horse consent lug thereto. 'he. 3. Ali electrons for city, ward, borough, and town ship officers, fin• regular term of service, shall be held WI the third Tuesday of February. Size. 1. All elections by the citizens shall be by ballot. Every ballot voted shall be numbered in the order in which it 'hall t e received, and the number rccortled by the elec tion officer:: on the lint of voters, opposite the name of the elector who presents the ballot. Any elector may write his name upoa his ticket. nr • CUM. the MHO to be wlltten thereon and attested by u citizen of the district. The election of shall b•• sworn or affirmcd not to disclose how any elector shall hove voted 'ante , ss re quired to do so as witnesses in a judicial proceeding. Pro. 5. Elect ra shall in all antes, except !reason. felony, and breach or surety of the pc:ten, Is privileged from ar rest during their attendance n elections and going to and returninglherefrom. cc. G. — Whenever any of the qualified electors of this Commonwealth shell be in actual military service, under a requisition from the Presideut of the United States or by the authority of this Commonwealth. such electors may exercise the right of suirrage to all elections by the citi zens,neler such regidations RR are or Filiall he prescribed by law. as fully as if they were present at their usual places of election. . . . Sec. 7. AS laws regulating the holding of elections by the citizens or for the registration of electors shall he uni form throughout the State. but no elector el llbe deprived of the privilege of voting by reason of his name nut being registered. figc. A. Any person who Atoll give, or promise, or otter to give to an elector, any sooney, reward, or other valuable con•ldera- tion tic his vote at an election, or for withholding the same, er who shall give or promise to give such considera tion to any other person Or party for such clector's vote, or for the withholding thereof, and say elector who shall receive or agrre to receive, for himself nr for another, any money reward or other valuable cousideratmn for lie vote at an election, or for withholding the same, shall therrby forfeit the tight to vote at such election. and 'thy elector whose right to vele shall la• challenged for mach cause be fore the eleetion officer. stmt be required to swearor Marto that the matter of the challenge is untrue before vote shall he received. Sre. 9. Any perm!' who trill], a candidate fur office, lie guilty or lirihery, fraud, or tcillitl vrilaiton of any election law. Atoll he forever dkimalificii from holding. office of trust or profit in tionnionwealth ; and any person convicted of wilful - violation of tho election shall in addition to am penalties provided 1.., luau, be mired of the right of zhtollite ly far a term of four years. Sr.;'. In. In trim l ;;f 0,111,41.4 v1,11,04,thel in prorer,l inas for the itivi,stiption of eleetiore, nu ilerson shall he permitted to witl.holil bin te.l;tininy upon the ground:hat it may criminate himself or ,-illject him to public infamy; but such testimony shall not IdterwareN be 11.eil against him in any judicial proceeding, except for perjury in giv ing, such testimony. gee. 11. Towimlilt, and wards of chi, or borough; shall form or be divided rate election ili,triers of compact and contiguous territory. in SllOl manner tIS the Court of Quarter oe--in n s of the city in...minty in which the same are located may direct; but districts in cities of over one hundred thousand inliabitatim shall 1.0 divided by the Courts of Quarter S.vi. , iuns having jurisdiction therein whenever at the next preceding election more time two hundred and fifty votes shall have• been pulled therein; nod other election tlittricts whenever the court of the proper Conn ty shall be of opinion that the convenience of the electors and the public isitele.te wilt be promoted thereby. . . Su. 12. All elections I.y persons in a representative c pacity shall be in'ett voce. Su. 13. For the purpose of %Ain,. reason Rll4ll be deemed to have gained a residence byrettenn of his prev enee, or lost it by reason of his absence while employ...l in the service, either civil or military, of this State or of the United Stat. ' nor while engage" to the navigation of the waters of the State or of the United te, or on the high seas, nor whi le a Otident of any iii-that ion of learning, nor while kept in any poor house or other asylum at pub lic expose, nor while confined in public . _ . , t 4 r.e.14. Ifistrict election barcis'shall e:oisis:t of a judge an.l two hp-Ter:ors. who shall be chosen annually by the citizens. Each elector shall have the right to vote for the, judge and con inspector, and each Inspector afoul appoint one cleric. The flint election Wawa for any new distriet shall be selected, and vacancies in election tannin filled as shall be provided by law. Election i.fficers shall be privi leged from arrest upon days of election n ad while engaged in making up and transmitting returns. except ups war rant off% court of record or judge thereof for on election fraud, for felony, or for Val ton breach of the pence. Lc MU/. they may claim exeni!dion from jury duty during their terms or serViCe. Six. 15. !co person shall he qualified to nerve.; nu elpe. tiou officer who shall hold, er shall within two months have held any Mike, appointment, or employment in or under the Government of the Coiled State, or of this State, or "fatly city or county. or of any umnicipal hoard, .111- IniAgiOn, or toot in any city. Faye only justices of ;helve. and aldermen, notaries public, anti peroon , in the militia service of the State ; nor shall any election onicer to eligi ble to any civil office to be tilled at an election at wh:ch lie shall serve, nave only to such subordinate muniteipal or ice cal ME.x below the grade of city or tronnty offices us shall be designated by genend law. tire. 18 The Courts of Common Plats of the several counties of the Commonwealth shall have power within their leapectivejuristlictions to appoint oren:eera of .le, than to supervise the proceedings of election anions, .d to make report to the court as may ho required ; such ap pointments to be mink for any dlatrict in a city or county, upon petition of five citizens, lawful voters of such elec tion district, setting forth that such appointment Is a rea sonabio precaution to secure the parity and fairness of elections; overseers shall be two in number for an election district, ellen be residents therein, and shell be persons qualified to rerve upon election boards, and iq eneh eche members of different political parties ; whenever the mem bers of an election board shall Wifer in opinion, the °err eeerA, if they ;Mall be agreed thereon, shall thcide the question ofdifferrnre; in appointing; oVernee.r9 of elec tion, all the law judge- of the proper court, able to act at the time, shall concur in the appointments mode. Sac. 17. The trial and dote rmination of cont.ted elec tions of electors of President and Vire President, members of the General tiattembly, and of all doblic officers, whether State, judicial, municipal, or local, slut I le by b.: 1•011 rte of law. or by one or more of the law judges thereof; the General Assembly sltall, by general law, deeignate llto courts and judged by whom the s vent' classes of election contteito shall be trio], and regalate the manneroftrial and all matters incident thereto; but no each law assigning Jurisdiction, or regulating its exercise, shall apply in any contest ad./ills out of tee election held before it, pagrage. ARTICLE IL. Szrriox 1. An taxes shall Le unlthrm up. the same class of subject+ within the territorial limits of theauthor ity levying the tax, mod be levied and txttleotoll under general laws; but the General Assembly may, by general Lau., exempt frtnc taxation public property u.ed for pub lic purposed. actual places of religious •worithip, plecte of ri bual not need or held for private ur corporate profit, and institutions of purely public clarity. ar I,C 2. All la - ws eXeinpting property fr nt taxation, eth er than the property above enumerated, shall be void. Sao. S. Tito power to tax corporations and corporate property shall not not be :amend. ed or suspended by any contract or grant to which the State shall ben party. Site. 4. No debt shall be created by or on behalf of the State, except to imply cannel deficiencies of revenue re pel invasion, suppress insurrection, defend the State in war, or to pay existing debt, and the debt created to sup ply deficiencies in revenue shall never exceed in the WS gregato at any one time one million of dollars. sec. 5. All laws authorizing the farrowing of rummy by and on behalf of the State shall specify the purpose for which the money is to he used, and the money to bummed shell-be used for the purpose specified end no other. , sc. 6. The credit Of ;he Commonwealth Ebel] net lc pledged or leaned to any Individual, trommuly, corporation, or ;A. - mutation, norshell the Commonwealth hecome a joint owner or stockholder in auy company, association, or or .. General Azet.mbly shall not authorize any county., city. borough, township or incorporated district to become a I:4.cl:balder In any company, asst.lntion or our pontllon, or to obtain or appropriate money for or to loan its trCeit to nay corporation, n,.•ciation, imtitut:on or in dividual. _ . . _ 8. The debt of any connty, city, borough, township, school district, or other mnnicipality, or Incoris,sted die- Viet, except a' , herr:it provhlfel, shall never exceed seven per centem upon the assns,d value of the taxakle proper ty therein, nor doll any such municipality or district in cur any new debt, or increase. itu Indebtrdne+stnanomonnt exceeding two per .entree upon such etesred valuation of property without the assent of the electeie thereof, et n public election, in such manner au shell be provided by laic ; but any city. the debt or which now execute seven per centunt of such asveeed valuation, may be anthoriged by taw to inerenee the sune three per centem (in the ug l i - gregate at any one Sew) upon reel, rah:Minn. C. Tier. Countreetweelth sisal! not assume the debt, or any part thereof, of auy city, rolilley, bornugh or town ship. unicessuch debt shell have tea:au t ms~ meted to enable O&M:tie to repel hives . .., ' old insurreenen, defend itself in time of war, Or to ;mist the State in the discharge orally portion of its ',relent indeldMitesq. Sea. to Any county. townehip, school district. or other municipality incurring a y indebtednese shell, at or before the time of ro ',jog, provide for the col lectinn of annual too .efficient to pay the interest and also the principal thereof within thirty years se. 11. Top outdo for the peyetent the precut State dekt and any additional debt contracted as afora void the Genera, a se-n*ly shall continue and nt.i.e. Wu the sinking fund snifireent to ay the scorn leg ; interest on such debt, and annually to reduce t. e prin cipai tber of bra sum not less than two hundred and (Sty thousand dull -re; the sold sinking lord shall consist of the prime ds of the sale. of the punlic works or any pert thereof. and of the iticome or pro ceeds of the sale o t any stocks treed by the CoL.nion wealth. together with other funds and rector se that may be designated by law, and shall be increauPd from time to time by nssigniug to It any part el the taxes or ocher revenues of the State not rsquin d for the or dinary cud current expennea of government; nod tl les. In Cote of war. invasion. or insurrectioo, co pore of the said sinking fund shall be need or spelled other %vice than in the ex - Inguisbment ref the puolc debt pee It. The moneys of the State, over AA above the necessary rea• rte, shall he use I In the payment of the debt of the State. either directly or thr•tigh the siok ing fond, and the money, of the sinking fund .11.11 never I e invested in or loaned upon the security of anything except the bonds of the United States or of this State. E.G. 13 The moneys held as neceaseryremerve obeli be limited r low to the amount required by current expenses, end shall iie secured and kept as may be pro• sided by law Moo hiy eiateniente shall be publiehed r.howine the emi.ust of such moue's, where the Flame are d• posited a• d how secure'. See 14. The mak irg of profit out of the public nu wept. Pr tlldi th, tonne for any purpose not author ized by law, by any officer of toe stele t•r month •r or officer of 'hi. Genetel asoembly, s ell he r. mtele• unmoor. and Khali be ',finished es may be provid.d ).y law. but part of retch punishment oholl 1.0 notion to hold olliee fort period of not less thou floe years ART:CIii; X. Santies I. The General Assembly !hal I provile the maintenance and sat port of a thorough and effi• eient system of pui.lie mantels, wherein all the On!• dren of this cototnonweal , h, a` eve the ageof sic years, mmy be edueat“l and shall apprepAate et least ens tall Ilion du , !ars eaeh veer for that purpose. - . . Sae, 2 No tummy millet for the suppo it of the pule lie schools el the tkimmanwealth shall be aperopriated to or used for the marmot, of any aectari te school Ake. 3. Women twerity.one rears of age and upwards stud be eligible to any office of o ntrol or m inage went nutlet the school lases of this :tate ARTICLE XI FiCTION 1. The freemen or this Commonwealth shall he wined. organised and disciplined I.e in defence when and in Stich manner as in .3 , be dlrectrd ny law. The. General Assembly shall provide for maintaining th, militia by appr prink .n from the Treasury of the Commonwealth. and may ex mint from military service pers.s having cOuselentious scruples against bearing arms. ARTICLIS XII SI , CTION 1. All racers whose selection is not prov id ed for in this constitutions. alt to elected or appointed as way be dirrcted by Intr. „__ - . iisd. 2. No membe - r of Congress from this Stat., nor any person holding or exercising any nffico or appoint meet of traitor profit tinder the United Stet 's. shall et the same time hold or xtricire ant office in this Stale to which a safety. fees or perquisites shall be attached. The General Assembly may by law declare what offices are incompatible. 8u0.3. Any person slit, shall fight a duel or and a challenge fo that purpose. or be aid, or abettor to ligh , lng a duet, shall be deprived of the right of hold ing any office of home or pan: In thin State and may be otherwise punished an isheel be prescribed by law. ARTICLE XIII, NM COUNTIES. &terms 1. flo new county ■ball he established which thrill reduce any county to less than four hun dred ivert) miles, or to less than twenty thouesed intlimitants; nor shall any county be formed of less area. ore centring a leas populatino, nor .hall acy line thereof pass within ten miles of tho county that of any county proposed to be divided. ARTICLE XIV. COUNTY OiVICERS Secy. 1. County officers shall consist of sheriffs, coroners, prothouotal i.e, registers of al I's. r..corders of deeds. commissioners, treasurers, surveyors audi tors or controliels, clerks of the courts. dis , rict attor neys. and soda others es mdy from thee to time be es tablished by law • and no sheriff or treasurer shall be eliglble for the bem next succeeding the one for which be may be elected.. ... Sao. 2. County officer..hall be electtol at the general elections, and sh.tli hold their offices for the term of thee year.. begleming on the fleet Monday of January next alter their election. end until their sw•cessors Alan I e duly qualified ,• all illoincies not otherwhe provided frr.h.ll Ce tiled in such meaner as may be pr. 'hied by law. EEC 3 No person shall la appointed to any office with in any county who thall nut eve beim a citizen eel inb.bitaut thereof one year next t.efore his appoint. meet. it the county shall bare been AO lot g erected, but if it shalt not bare been e 3 long erected, then within the limits of the citunty or rounti s out of which it shell have been taken. S.C. 4. Pruthonotaries, cleilis of the courts. recoi.l. ere of deeds. registers of wills, county surveyors, and sheriffs shell hr.], their ofda•e in tho County town of the county in which they eckyeetively shell be officers. fisc. 5. - The compensation of count; nftie•rs 0.11 be regulated 1 y law. and all county officers who are or mvy 1.0 salaried shall pay all fees which they in iy be au thnrlz-d to receive into the treasury of the county or ;late, as me., be direeted by law. In couu ties con taining over one hundred cod filly thousand inhabi tants al. county officers shall be paid by ralary, .11. d the as ary of any Fitch officer and 614 clerks, heretoLre paid by fees. 01.11 tor exceed the agg.eote amount of f, es owned Ouricg his term and collected by or for bin]. b. The General Assembly obeli provi,e by lap for the etrict e , eonntak ility of al coon . y. township. and orough officers. ea well for fere which may be con. tied by tnem se for all publicar moulcipal moneye which may be paid to thorn _ . . SEC 7. 'Ciliate county commissions re and three county auditors shafi Le erected in encl. cuuaty where such eel ters ate chosen. in the year one thousand eight hundred put seventy-five, and every third year thereafter ; .d in the efection of said officers easy quadfled ettcter will vote for no met, than two per POOP, and the three persons having the highest num bero• vet-s shall t e elected ; any cast./ vacancy in the tare of county commissioner or county auditor !ball be tried by the Court of Common W.'aa of the county in which such vacancy abaft occur. by the appointment of an sfe•tter of the proper county who shed/ have voted ter the camniseioiter or auditor whose place is to be filled ARTICLE XV Eatcx:ue 1 Cities may be cbartered whenever a ma j dity of the erctora of soy tune or baronet having it population o" at Vast ten thousand shall voto at any !nlavorof the came. Sue 2. No debt shag 1.,cr;;ir;;;:l or ;lied ty in curred by any intuVcirar C0r1V111851..0. excr pt in t uruu &nue of an uppr. priation war iouriy made there!, by the munkipat g0r0111..11, 2 4 1:0 3. Every city shall create a Puking ft,d, wt i• h shall LP invioA,b.y idedged for the rayalent of its funded debt. ARTICLE XVI. FR VAT,: CORFOR Tlu.S, Samna 1. Ali existing charters, Or grants of special or 4,ctusis, pririfigi.a. under whiih a t.ec fide organ ize ion Olaf! not have tither, Waco and IttlaillYl.4 been commenced in good faith at the time of the adoption of this cocrittthn, i•ba t then after have no •sitility tee 2. The Genera! Aecembly shell not remit the for feiture of the charter of any corporation now existing. or a/ er or amend the same. r pa-s any other geserd or spechil law for the beninit of such corporation, ex cept upon the crind'tion that sash corporation ahn't tl,resfter bo'd its charter Fit jest to the prov , sions of this constitutio, S.C. 3. The exercise of the right of eminent domain Asti never be abridged or so construed as to prevent the Genera/ Assemb y fr m Lakin, the prop •rty and from bises of incorporated companion, and nob,ctinv them to pabiic tee, the aline an the property of toil v:duats t and the exercise of the paiice power of the Stole shall never be w ridged tv no eonstrord as to permit corPortstioon to coudoct their Wittiness in such manner as It iufringe the twin/ rights of Jodie iduate or the genera! w of the Mato rec. 4. to nil e!ectione for airecturs or managers of a corporation o--oh member or Aare-holder may cant the whole number of his votes fur one candidate, or dintrinute theta upon two or um, candidates, as he may prefer. as, 5. No foreign corporation Anil do any business in this State without baying one or more knot, places of business. and on auth-,ria-d se nt or agents in the same. upon whom rocese may be served, - _ . " "• SSC fr. No ef , rperatlOn e4gage in any hula• SR vibe• than 1h...5p....Ty authorized in ita charter hor aball i•. take or boht any re..l mutate. except such as may he necessary and proper for its legitimate ine•a- Si.c. I. No corporation .hall isame stocks or bon a xc-ot for manor. latcr dune or money cr property actually received; end all fictitious Mclver. of ptf or inde. tednees shall be void; the stock and indebted- C.. of cotpotatlons shall not be herein-A except in pursuance of general law, nor without the comment of the p-rsoos h.ading the fareer amount to of the sock first obtaicei at a me. ting to be beta after alx , y days , notice giro. in por , narce (law. 40. 8. MuOicipitt sod other corporations and indi viduals iovetted with the privilege of Peking private property tar pub is use shall make just compensation for property taken, Jr jured, or olestroyed by the con spoetion or. , nlargement of their works. highways, o: improvements. which compeosstion shall he pail or secured before such liking. injury. or destruction The Givieral A mem ly I. her y prohibited from de priving any person of an appeal from any preliminary asiwisment of d.ret,•ee egaii,et any such corporations or indiridu.ile mane ty viewers or otherwise; and the amount of such civrampts, in all losses of appeal shall, on toe il-mend of either party, be deL, s.sioed by ju ry according to the goers.. of the common law. . . no p, Every asking law shall providl for the rtg iatry *mei countersianlng, by an office of the Stati• all rotor or bile tbutor, el for circulation, and that ample aeca•lry to the fall amount theroof obeli be depottited with the Auditor General for the redemtion of each not, or bill, Pa .:.10 The Getteral As:en/1y Phan have the power to alter, revoke, or atom' any charter of in corporation cow existing and revocable at the odor thm of this retat.tution, or any that may herenfter be created, whenever in their opinion ',may be injuri ous to the eitia tia of this Commonwealth. In such manner. however, that no injuatlea shall to d“ne to the corporator.. On irw beret (ter enacted shall Cre• ate iroew, or extend the charter of more than one em porn:Mo. . . ti r rc 11. Nu corporat, bed, to pussese bankiug and disrouutingprivii gas shall bo erosted ur iogaitis-d is pomusuce uY any lam without three months moil us public notice at therime or the intcrodmi location. o f the iutouri. 11 tO apply for such pris i lege, iu Roth 1111t11 11,1.11 shall be prro,cm bed by lan,nor obeli a charter .cor !aril privileggo be granted for a longer period than twenty yens. . . . *Ka. l 2 Aoy ItFßOLiatiOn or corporation org,ised for the or aoy imPvitsal, obeli bar toe right cen.truct aod irt4intain line,. of telegraph w imin ,tato. and to connect the name with other Aims; and the tienerol A terirbly shall. by general tow of uniform °perste, rue ido reasonable regulatious to giro lull elfeet to Vile section No telegraph c ropany shal' consolidate ouch or hold w controlling iotvrost in the stock or emeis of y mhos to !seraph economy owning a compelling lino, or acquire. by purchase or utherw ion, soy ..flee competb g floe of telegteph. 13 The term t•co4oratforia," as 1.114 . 1 LI this article, .hal I bo coostrae4 to inc , utle tot joint etcen atm:panics or asaociationa having soy of the power. or pr vlegea of corporations not pas/teasel by itatieidaaia or partnersl: ARTICLN XVII ELM. 1. All railroads and canals shall Le bighwat a, and all ruilro...d acid mail companies shall be common carriers Any Pligt.e Jen or corporatit orwanized for the pulp. se sham hats the right to CO4I - and operate .» tailroad between any points with- in this St,. PIO to coon et at the state lice with rtilroads of other Slates. Every raiiroad company a .11 have the right. with 1 s road, to interuset. coont-et with or cross Stay Whelk. Mitt , . I, nal atm. I Ire.ita and transport each the other a' pawricogent, ton. a e. and cars, Waled or empty, without welay or disci Wilts, tion . . etsdll Every railroad and mint corporation organ ized in this :late shall meintein no t Itize th-reio, where 111.6ferx, , t1 it.. stock ..ball made. and where Its hooka elle' 1 t e kept for luepectiou by . any Mock holder or :red itor of such corporation, fu Which shell e re. cord. (1 the mount of capital .:eek sub.crfbed or paid in by whom, the names of the owuei a it I iii mock and the amounts owned by Ibvin. ret.pective!y, the trAoHlerk, of s tit! mock. and the names ei.d f reridenerSf iii offiesrx . . - 2340 3 All iudisoduals, assoc iat ore, and corpors tions shalt Move equal right, to have palm. .4 property transo toed over railroads sad canals. a d no .14118 or um cafronable d.scrimiortion shall he med, in chance, for or in facilities fur transpreMtion of frelght or para.:gem with,. the Etat, or coming Irma or going to any other State Poo.as and prop erty trann,trod over any railroad mall be delivered at any statoon at couges not 4.v:edam the charges for tmomportationof moral., end property of the saute els., in the same direction to coy moire distant station; bat excursion commutation ticket, may be issued stapeciel rates, S. 4. No railroad. care], or other corporationovor the 4.38ee porch. somfo, ors, log. rs ol any railroad or canal corporation, ,hell coneotidate tfte stack. proper ty, or Co...Mein ench corporation with. or lease . r purchase the Wort ur franCaltra of, or fo any way con tool any other raiorosd u. canal me puration owningor basin owlet it, casino l• parallel or competing lioe, 1.1.1 r shall any ,Dicer of sucn ref Iron.' or canso corpora tion at, as an ufilarr of any other railroad or canal cor potation owning or having the cootrol of a !mane, or competing lion, end the question whether rsilreade or COMM 8 are ',mallet or competing lines shall. .41em de manded i y the pony complainant, be dacitled by ajury us in other civ.l issome. ,' SE. :.. No iecorgorafed company doing the hominess of a commoucarrier shall, directly or indirect :y. pros. acute er engaee in mining or manufacturing au ticles tut transportation , Vet i to works, our Shall each com pany, directi or irlirectly. enrage in any nth, r huff torte than that of common carriers. or hold or &mitre tonna. fee• bold or leasehold, directly nr indirectoy, extort much as -hall b. neceo.mary for carrying o o its busiross; but any towing or nosncfacturimf company ni oy carry the pro ducts a.l its mines sod motomfactorke ,n it, railroad or canal not exceeding 3.4 miles in length Soc. O. Nopresident, director, officer. agent. or em ploye of any railroad or canal cmaptny shall be inter ested, directlo or indinctlr, iu the luruishing of 8111. tonal or mopplies to such smipsny. oc to the business of transportation as a common carrier of freight or palm niter. over the works °wool, leased. cootrolaed or worked by such company Sod. 7 eo discrimination in chimps or radial.. for tronspneation shall be mole between transporta tion cotnpanie. and iniiividaao. or in ftvor of either. by aim tem dn. diawbeck, or aitherwase, aPdi no railroad or canal company, nor any 1 eRYee managoi, or employe thereof. snail make any preferences in tarnishing c ors or motiee power Sec. S No rntirrad , railvr,y. or other transportation company shall grant 'roe passes or ',epees at a discount to any person esco r t officers or employee of the com pany. Sc 9. So street passenger railway shall be con structod wit , in the limits of any city, borough. or tow ship w thout the consent of Its lo.ml authorities. Sec. 10. N.. reilroad, canal, or other Irampertation company, in existPnce et the time of the adept.on of this article. shall have the benefit of any future leg'. lstion by general or special laws, except On condition of c molete acceptance of all the provisions of this article. 1;011. The existing powers and duties of the Aud itor (levers' in regard to the railroads. canals, and °fir, transportation companies, except asto their Re counts, are hereby transferred to the Secretary of In ternal Affairs. echo .1,11 have a general supervision ov r them subject •o sash regulations and alteration. so shall be provided 1 y isee j and in addition to the annual reports now required to he made, said Peeretaq may ',quire epecial reports at any time upon Soy sub j et rotating to the Lusinees cf said companies from soy cMcer or otticrrs thereof. ARTICLE XVI!" SECTION t Any amendment or emendmente to Ohio constitution m be proposed intl.:Lei:late or Nouse of Representatives. and i I toe same shall he agreed to by a majority of the men:era elected to each house, auch proposed anteptlinset et ainetwitnenta shall be en tered on their iiurnale, with the yeas and oars taken thereon. And toe Secretary of the Commonwealth shall o use the some to he published three msoth n before the next general election in at least two newspapers in ever, county in which moon newspapeta shut be publi-had; and if: in •he General Assembly next afterwards chosen, such proposed amendment or amena ments ehall be agreed to tya majority of the 'simmers elected to each house, the Secretary of the Commouwealth shall eause the name again to le pub lished in the manner aforess Id. and such proposed amendment or amendments shall he submitted to the qualitild electors of the state in such a insulter, and at such time, at least three month.' sifter being no lignite' to by tl.e two hone.,, as tete General Assam h.y. than presciibe; and if stch amendment or amend men 'ideal be approved b.. a majority of those vot ing thereon, ouch amendment or amendments shall become a pert of the constitution but no amendment or amendments cent be subtuitti it oftener than once in live years; oxen two or more amendments shall be submitted the_ shall ha voted spelt aeplretely gCHlift (Si That. no Inconvenience may arise from the changes In the constiafflon of the Commonwealth, and in order to carry the same into complete operation. it is hereby declared that: SECTION 1. This constitution shall take effect on the first day of January, in the year one thousand hundrc , i and seventy-four, forall purposes not otherwise provided for therein. sec 2. - 'Ail laws in force is this Commonwealth at the time if the adoption of this constitution not inconsistent therewith,and all rights, actions, pros ecutlons, and contracts shall continue as if this con stitution had not been adopted SEC. 2. At the general election In the years one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four and one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five Senators shall be elected In all districts where there shall be vacancies Those elected in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four shall serve for two years, and those electeu in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five shall serve for one Year. Senators now elected, and those whoseterms are unexpired. shall represent the districts In which they reside until the end of the terms for which they were elected. Sec 4. At the general idectlon in the year one thousami eight hundred and seventy-six, Senators shall he elected f the even numbered districts to serve for two years, and front odd numbered dis tricts to serve for four years SEC. 5. The first election of Governor under this caustitution shag he at the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, when • Governor shall be elected for three years; and the term of the Governor elected in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight and of those thereafter elected shall be for four years, according to the provisions of this constitution. SEC. 6. At the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four a Lieu roomit Governor shall elected according to the provisions (if this constitution. SEc 7. The Secretary of Internal Affairs shall be elected at the first general election after the adoption of this constitution: and when the said officer shall be dilly elected and qualified, the office of Surveyor General shall be abolisheitand the Sur veyor General in office at the time of the adnptfen of this constitution shrill continue in office until the expiration of the term fur which he was elected. SEC. 8. when the SuperinPmdent of Public In struction shall be duly qualthed.the office of Super intendent of Common Schools shall cease. ... . SEC. - 9. Nothing contained in thli constitution shalt be construed to render any person now hold ing any State office for a first official term ineligibie for re-electron at the end of such term. — Sic. 're. The judges of the Supreme Court In of fice when this constitution shall take effect shall continue until their coning issions severally expire. Two judges in addition to the number now compo. jug the said einirt shall be elected at the first gen end election after the adoption of this constitu tion. SEC. 11 All courts of record and all existing courts which are not specited in this constitution shall continue in existence until the first day of De centber,lu the year one thousand eight hunthed and seventy-five, without abridgement of their present jurisdiction, but no longer. The Court of First Criminal Jut Ltd lotion for the counties of Schuylkill, Lebanon and Dauphin is hereby abolished; and all causes and' preccodings pending therein In the county of Schuylkill shall be tried and disposed of in tee Courts of Oyer and Terminer and Quarter Sessions of the Peace of said county. Sge. 12. The molders' courts now in existence &tali be abolished on the first day of January next. succeeding the adoption of this constitution. SEC. li. The General Assembly shall, at the next session after the adoptloa of this constitution, designate the several judicial districts as required by this constitution. The judges in commis-ion when such designation shall be made shall continue daring their unexpired terms judges of the new dis tricts in whica they reside. But when there shall be two judges residing in the saute district, the President inapt shall elect to which district bestial! be assigned; and theadditional law judge shall be assigned to the other district. Sge 14. The general Assembly shall, at the next succeeding session after each decennial census, and not oftener. designate the several Judicial districts as requiced by this constitution. Sge. 15. Judges learned lit the law of any court 'of record hotline commissions in force at the adop tion of this constitution shall hold their respective offices until the expiration of the terms for which they were commissioned, and until their suceessora shall be duly qualified • The Governor shall com mission the president lodge of the Court of First . Criminal Juriselictlen for the counties of Schuylkill Lebanon and Dauphin as a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county for the unex pired term of his office. Sac. 16. After the expiration of the term of any president judge of any Court of Common Pleas in coutinlashm at the adopt ion if this coast it ut lon, the judge of sect) curt learned in the law an oldest In commission shall be the prealdent judge the d reoLand when two or more judges are elected at the same time in any judicial district they shall decide ny l o t which shall he president judge; but when Ills president judge of a court shall be re-elected h shall continue to he president judge of that court. , Associate Judges, not. Warned In the law, elected af ter the adoption of t , Ix coastitutien, shalt be com utissioned to hold their offices for the term of live years from the lirstday of January next after their election. Sac. 17- The General Assembly at tile first ses sion after the adoption of this constitution shall fix and determine the compensation of the, judges of the Supreme Court and of the judges of the several Judicial dlsti leis of the Coinnionwealtit, and the Legislation of the fifteenth section of the article on Legislation shall not be deemed inconsistent here. with. Nothing contained in this constitutinn shall lie held to reduce the compensation now M any taw judge of this Cotmoonwealth tow in commis. sion Sec. IS. The Courts of Common Pleas In the comities of Philadelphia and Allegheny shall bo composed of the president Judges of the district Court awl Court of Common Pleas of said comities until their offices shall severally end, and of such other ;judges as may front time to time be se lected For the purpose of first, organization in Phila delphia thejudges of the Court number one shall be Judges Allison, Pierce and Paxson; of the Coen number two, Judges flare. Mitchell and one other judge to be elected; of the Court number three, Judges Ludlow. Fir.letter and Lyn& and of the Court number four. Judges Thayer, Briggs and one other judge to be elected Tit:, judge first named shalt be the president judge of said courts respectively,and thereafter the wesident judge shall be the judge oldest In coin, missioa ; but any president judge re-elected in; the' same court or district shall continue to be president judge thereof The additional judges for Courts numbers two and four shall be voted for and elected at the first general election after the adoption of this constitu tion iu the same manner as he two add Menai judg es of the Supreme Court. and they shall decide by lot to which court they shall belong. Their term of office shall commence on the first Monday of January, In the year one thousand eight hundred .d seventy. five. Sze. P. In the county of Allegheny, for the pur pose of first organizitotn under this constitution, tile judges of the Court of Common Pleas at the time of the adoption of this Constitution shall be Ijudges of the Court number one, .d the judg es of the District Court at the same date shall be the Judges of the Common Pleas number two. The president judges of the Common Pleas and District Courts shall ,be president judges of wild Courts number one and two respectively until their offices vital! end. and thereafter the judge ()iciest In conunission shall be preshlent judge; but any pres ident judge re-elected in the same court or district shall continue to be president judge thereof Sac. 20. The organization of the Court of Com m. Pleas. under this constitution for the counties of Philadelphia and Allegheny. slut' I take effect on the tirst Monday of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-blue, .d existing courts in said counties shall continue wi h their present powers and jurisdiction until that date: but no new suits shall he instituted in the Courts of Nisi Prim; after the adoption of this constitution. SEC 21. Tne causes and proceedings pending in the Court of Nisi Pelts. Court of Comm. Pleas. • and District Court in Philadelphia shall he tried and disposed of in the Court of Common Picas. 'f he records and dockets of said courts shall be transferred to the Prothonotary's office of said county. STA,. The causes and proceedings pending in the Court of Common Pleas In the county ef Alle gheny shall be tried and disposed of in the court number ours; and the muses and proceedings pend ing in the District Coon shall be tried and disposed of in the court number TWO. SEC. 22. The Prothonotary of the Court of Com. mon Pleas of Philadelphia shall be first appointed by the judges of said court on the first Mouday of December, in the year nue tholes:and eight hundred and seventy-five: and the present Prothonotary of the District Court in said county shall be the Pro thonotary of the said Court of Common Pleas until said date. when leis commission shall expire, and the present Clerk of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and Quarter Sessiens of the Peace in Philadelphia shall be the clerk of such court until the expiration of his present commission on the first Monday of NO. 46. December In the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five Sao. 24. In cities containing over fifty thousand inhabitants (except Philadelphia) all aldermen in office at the time of the adoption of this constitution shall continue in office until the expiration of their commissions, and at the election for city and ward officers in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy. live one alderman shah be elected In each Ward, as provided in this constitution. see 25. In Philadelphia inagistrates In lien of a'rit rm.], shall be chosen as required la this consti tution at the election in said city for city and ward officers in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five; their term of office shall commence on the first Monday et April succeeding their eke t lon. The terms of once of aldermen in said city, hold• inn or entitled to commissions at the time of the adorolon of this constitution shall hot be affected thereby _ . . _ Sae. Y 6. All persons in offiee in this Common wealth at the time of the adoption of this constitu tion, and at the first election under. It, shall hold their respective offices until the term for which they have been elected or appointed shall expire and un til their successors shall be duly qualified, unless otherwise provided In this constitution SEC. 27. The seventh article of this constitution prescribingan oath of office, shall take effect on, and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five. SEC. 28. The tsrms of office of county comnik. stoners and county midi ors chosen prior to the year ore thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, which shall not have expired before the first Monday of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, shall expire on that day. Slrc. 9. All State, county, city, ward, borough. and township officers in office at the time of the adoption of this constitution. whose compensation Is not provided for by salaries alone, shall continue to receive the compensation allowed them by law until the expiration of their respective terms of of fice. SEC. 30. All State and Judicial officers heretofore elected. sworn.affirmed, or in office when this con stitution shall take effect, shall severally, within one month after such adoption, take and subscribe an oath (or aMrmattion) to support this constitution. SEC. 31. The General Assembly, at its first se, sion. or as soon as may be after tile adop tipn of this constitution,shall pass such laws as may be neces sary to carry the same into full f orltand effect. S - ec. 32. The ordinance passed by this conven- Nom entitled "an ordinance for submitting the amended constitution of Pennsylvania to a vote of the electors thereof," shallbe held to be valid for all the purposes thereof. Sec. at The words "County Commissioners: ' wherever used in this constitution, and in any ordi nance accompanying the same, shall be held to in clude the Commissioners for the city of Philadel phia. Adopted at Philadelphia, on the third day of No vember, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. OFFICE OF SECEETART OF THE COMMONWEALTH. imunsinTia:, Nov. 13, 1873. ) 1 certify that to foregoing is a correct cony of the, new Constitiation._proposed to the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. for their approval or rejection. as the same appears of record in this office. M. 8. QUAY. Secretary of dOiniiioli AN ORDINANCE FOR SUBMITTING TILE AMENDED VOTE OP THE QUALIFIED PENNSYLVANIA TO A ELECTORS TIIEREOP, AS PASSED SECOND RIADING. Be it ordained by the thnstitutional Gonvention of the Contntonwecdth of Pennsylvania, as follows: I. That the amended constitution prepared by this convention, be submitted to tne qualified elec tors of the Commonwealth for their adoption or re• jection, at an election to be held on the third Tues day of Deceinber next :except as hereinafter ordered and directed- the said election shall be held and con ducted by the regular election officers in the several election districts throughout the Commonwealth, under all the regulations and provisions of existing laws relating to general elections: and the sheriffs of the several counties shall glee at least twenty days notice of said election by proclamation. 2 The secretary Lathe Commonwealth shall, at least twenty days before the said election. furnish to the Commissioners of each county, a sufficient num ber of properly prepared circulars of it.structions.— The commissioners of the several counties shall cause to be printed at least thtee times as many bal lots of affirmative votes as thereare voters in each county—and the same soother of negative votes: and the said commissioners shall, at least live days before said election, cause tube fairly distributed to the several election districts in their respective counties, tile said ballots, tally-lists, returns cirett lars of iustruetions, and such other books and pa pers as may be necessary The ballots shall he printed or written in the following form: on the outside the mortis "New Constitution," in the in side for all persons giving affirmative vo t es the words: "For the New Constitution," and for all persons giving negative votes the words -Against the New Constitution.' 3. If It shall appear that a majority of the votes polled are for the new Constitution. then it shall be the constitution (tithe Commonwealth of Peunsyt van aon and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four; but if it shall appear that a majority of the votes polled were apliast the new constitu tion, then it shall be rejected and be milt and void. 4. Five Commissioners of Election, viz: Edwin H. Fitter. Edward itrowuing.John P. Verree, Henry S. Hagert, and John 0. James, are hereby appoint ed by thiseonvention. who shall have direction of the election upon this amended constitution In the city of Philadelphia The said connotssioners Mall be duly sworn or affirmed to perform their duties with impartiality and fidelity. They shall alsd have power to MI vacancies in their own number.. It shall be the duty of said commissioners. or a ma jority of them and they shall have authority to mane a registration of voters for the several election di visions of said city, and to furnish the listsno made to the election officers of eachprecinct or division; to distribute the tickets for said eitypeovkled for by this ordinance to be used at the election; to ap point ajudge and two inspectors for each e!eetion division, by whom the election therein shall be held and conducted, and to give all necessary Instruc tions to the election officers regarding their duties In holding the election and in making returns there of. No person shall servo as an election officer who would be disqualified under Section 55 Arti cle F, of the new constitution- The general retorts of the election In the.eald city shall be opened.eom ptVed and certified before the said commissioners, and with their approval—which approval shall be endorsed upon the return. They shall make re port . tlirected to the president of this conventlon,of their official action under this ordinance and con cerning the conduct of the said election within the said city. The judges and inspectors aforesaid shall con duct the election in all respects conformably to the general election laws of this Commonwealth. and with like powers and duties to those of ordinary election officers F.:8811 inspector shall appoint one clerk to assist the hoard ig the performance at Its duties, and all the election officers shall be duly sworn or affirmed according to law , and shall sess all the qualifications required by law of e fee -1 lion officers In this commouwealth. M said eke thou a.ty duly qualified elector who shall' be unreg istered shall be permitted to vote upon making proof of his right to the election °niers, according to the general eleeth. laws of this Commonwealth. Return inspectors and their clerks and an hourly count of the votes shall be dispensed with, but over , seers of election may be selected for any precinct by wild election commissioners, whose duties and pow. ors shall be the same as those of overseers of elec tion in said city under existine election laws aeon. cable thereto. Returns of the election shell he made In said city as In the case of an eleetion for Governor. but a tr iplicate general return for. said city shall be made out and - forwarded to the pres ident of this conventioaat Harrisburg. as is bereiu. after provided in case of eeunty returns 5. 1 u each of the (tenni im of the Ucimmanwea (except Philadelphia.) the returns of the election shall he made a.s 'nine case of an election for Gov. enter, but the return judges in each county shall make out a triplicate county return and transmit the same, within five days after the election...direct ed to the president of this convention. at Jalarrb burg. Hone in convention this Third day of November. In the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. - • .IN.U. H. VALKFIf. Presf4ent. D. L. IMBEIg. Clerk. A trim co{ .y of Ordinance of submission. At. M. QUAY, Secretary of the Cbmintinirealth. REMEMBER THE THIRD OF DECEDLBER. Those who propese investing, (and whodoesnotf) in tickets for the FOURTII GRAND GIFT CONCERT PUBLIC LIBRARY or KENTUCKY Which comes oil in 'Atli/0,1:1c on tho 3d of Hi cerubor next, hove no time to lose. ONLY 60,000 TICKETS Hare neon issued, and .1:2.000 CA 811 GIFTS, Amounting to 01,500,000. WILL BE DISiItIB LITED AS FOLLOWS LIST OF OLPTS One GrandSik 4 2 5 ,0 00 One Grand Gmh Gift.... Grand (a,ll One One finial Utah Gift. . _ 17,500 one Grand CLLth Gift. 1U Ca , h Gifts $14410 , each _ 30 Crsh Gifts 6.0 G) 150,000 So Cash GUIs 10,000 60,000 U Cx•ls Gifts 600 each 40,000 _ , - - --..... ... . 1W Cash Gifts 4O welt. 150 (NA Gifts 3041 each. 250 Caeh Wits 200 each • b 4 ,00M 325 Cosh Gifts 100 each 42,500 11,000 Cash Gins 50 „ „„„ &WOO° WHOLE TICKETS, $5O. COUPCII.I3,( Tenth.) tr• ELEVEN TICKETS FOR t5OO. For tickets or information, address THOS. S. BRAMLERTB, Agent Public Library Kentucky, LouisvilM, Ky., THOS. 11. HATS d CO., 607 Broadway, N. Y. Nov.s-41. DR GARVIN'S ELIXIR OF TAR. It is recommended by regular Medical pray. ti,100.071 and a speedy rare guaranteed for Colcht, Cough, Catarrh, Aohnia.Broneliiti, Spitting Blood, Oolurtiniption and all Poinamonary Scrota*, ilryeipolae, Dyspepola and tiot. Dysentery, Choleraludibita, Cholera and all liver and bowel complaints. Kidney dice .e and all affect ions of the Vrina Urga..—peripeny free from Mmeral or Alcoholic proportieg—Ricyailt to take and never known to fait—Price gib. per bottb: Full particulars with medical testimony and- perKleptersest on application. Address, L. F. HYDE - ICW., 195 Seventh Arcane, New York. ' • •
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