VOL. 48. CONSTITUTION. NET cONSTITUTION PROPOSED TO THE CITIZ RNA OF THIS 'COMMONWEALTH FOE THEIR APPROVAL OR REJECTION, BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION Published by order of the Secretary of the Com monwealth, in pursuance of the 4th see.lion of an act of the General Assembly. entitled "An act to provide for call;ny a Convention to amend the Constitution," approved the ilth day of April, A. D. 1872. PREAMBLE We, the people of the Commonwealth of rennvylvania, grateful to Almighty Hod for the blesqiugs of civil and re- Hsi°aa liberty, and humbly invoking His gniclance, do or dain and establi+h the; Constitution. ARTICLE 1. That the ,general, great, and essential principles of lib erty and free government may Ise recognized and unalter ably established, we declare that Soootos 1. All men are born equally free and Indepen dent, and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are those ofietijoying and defending life and liberty, orariptiring . , pa...gains; and protecting property awl reputation. and of pursuing their own happiness. Sac. d. All power in illlitlfelit iu the people, and ail free governntenN aro founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safe p and happinds. For the advance ment of th Aso ends they have at all times an inalienable and inicliwsible rignt to alter, reform, or abolish their government in such manner as they may think proper. Sec. .1. All men have a natural and milefeAsible right to worship A knighty God ai:coriling to the dictates of their own con ;eiencet I no !non can of right be compelled to at tend, erect or support any place of worship. or to maintain any ministry weal est his consent no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or inter.ore with th. rights of consclence and no preference shall ever be givea by law to any Magi.ns estaolishments or moles of wor ehqi. Sac. 4. No person who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishment- shall, on account of his religions sentiments, be disqualified to hold any °file, or place of trust or profit under this Common wealth. Sec. A. Flections shall be free and erinal ; and no power, civil or mildary, shall at any firm, interfere to prevent the free exervi,e of the right of sutintoc. Sso. U. Triad by jury shall be B:heretofore, and rho right thereof remain inviolate. 7. The printing press 'shall be free to every person who may nailei take t, eXillllloo the prticeeilitiga of the Legislature or any branch of government, and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communlattloa of thoughts and opinions ie. one of tho invaluable rights of iota, and every citizen nifty freely p‘peill, write, and print on anysubject, being respon sible for the adman at that liberty. No conviction shall be initny prosecution fir the publication of papers re lating hi the oftlial conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or ti any ether matter proper or piddle incesti pylon or Information, where the fact that such publica tion w is not maliciously or negligeatly Made ACLU be CS. tablished to the satisfaction of the jury; sod in all Indict moats for libels the jay shall bare the right to determine the law and the fries, under the direction of the court, as iu other c. 34., . . s. The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, an tl possessions, front unreasonable searches and seisms, and no warrant to search any place or to seize any perssu or things, shrill Issue without describing thew as nearly as miry be, nor without probable causr, supported by oath er atlbluation, subscribed to by the Milani. • - 71EC.9. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused bath a right to be heard by Itioaa-If and his counsel, to demand the nature and cause of the automation against hint, to meet the witnesses nme to face, 10 have compulsory Imo cess !Ur obtaining witoe.isist in his favor, and in pnvern tfuns by iodic went or iaformation, a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the vicinage; he cannot be com pelled to give evidence against himself, nor can he be elm priced of his life, liberty. or property, unless by thejudg meet of his peers er the law of the land. Sic. 10. No peurun shall for any indictable offense be procatrled agidtmt criminally. Ly information, excetit in cases arising in the land or naval forces or hi the militia, when in actual service, in time of war or public danger, or by leave of the tatert. far oppression or misdemeanor in Waco. No person shall for the sane offence be twice put iu jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall private property be taken or appliml to public use without authority of law, ands without just compensation being Arst made oreecured.. SSC. it. All courts shall be open ; and every man for an injury done hint in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due coarse of law, and right and Ju-ticeinlatinistered without tale, denial, or delay. Snits may be brought atutinst the Commonwealth in such man ntr. in each courts, and Mauch sauce, as the Legielature may by law dived Sec. la. No power of suspending laws shall he exercised unitsss by the Legislature or by its authority. Sac. 11 Exces;ive bail shall not be required, nor nitres eive Suet imposed, nor cruel punishments inflicted. Site. 14 All prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient myelin, unless for capital offences, when the proof is evi dent or presumption grout; and the pried..., of the writ of habeas corpus shall nut be suvended, unless when in cam of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require It. _ _ SEC. 15. No commisvion of Dyer and torminer or jail de livery !hall - - Sao. 16. The person of a debtor, whore there lenot strong preemption of fraud, eha I not be continued iu prison after delivering up his estate for the benefit of his credi tors, in such wanner as shall be prescribed by law. SEc. 17. No es port facto law, nor any low impairing the Obbgation of contracts, or making irrevocable soy grant of special privileges or inentuniti s, ehall be pawed. Sec. 18. No peixon shall be attaiuttd of treason or felony by the Legislature. attainder shall work corruption of blood, nor, except during . the life of the offender, forfeiture of es tate to the Commonwealth; the .tttte of each persons as shall destroy their own lives shall decreed or vest as in vases of natural death, and if any person shall be killed by casualty, there shall be no forfeiture by reason thereof. Ste. 211 The citizens have a rft.ht in a peaceable manner to assemble together for their common pad. nod to apply to these invest.' with the powers of government for re dreo. of grievance.; or other proper purposes, by petition, address or renr.m-tance. Stc. 21. Tuo right of citizens to beer arms in defense of themmelvm and the State shall not be quTtioned. Sim. a. No standing army shall, in time of pence, be kept up without the consent ot the Legislature and the military shall in all cases, and at sal times, be in strict subordination to the civil pacer. sac. -a. No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any li. use without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war but Ina manner to be prencriberl by law. Sac. 21. The Legislature shall not grant any title of nobility ur hereditary distinction, nor create any office the appointment to which shall be for a longer term thud during good behavior. S.. 25: fluigrat:on from the State shall not be prohib ited. _ _ . Sec. 20. To guard against transgressions of the high powers which we haVe delegated, we declare that every thiag to this article is exoepted out of .he general powers of goverwnent. and ■hall forever remain inviolate. ARTICLE IL Semen 1. The legislattve power of this Commonwealth shall be vested is a General Assembly, which shah consist of a Senate and a of Repremntativee. Sea. S. Members of the General Assembly eltsll be cha sm at the general election every second year. Their term of service shall begin on the first day of December cent after their election. Whenever a vacancy shall occur In either lioum the preeidlng °Meer theneot shall imue a w.it of ele,tion w fill sutth vacancy fir the remainder of the num. 4,; a. Senators shall ho elected for the term of four years and Represenmtives for the term of two years. rise. 4. The General Assembly shall meet at IS e'cleek noon, on the first Tuesday of January every second ymr, and at other JlMes when convened by the Governor, but shall kohl no adjourioni annual session alter theyvar 1818. In case .4 a vocunry in the sulks of United States Senator from this Commonwealth, in a recess between sessions, the Governor shall outvote the two holm, by proclamation on notice not exceeding sixty days to fill the Brune. Sso. 4. Senators shall be at least - tsetitysfive years of age, and Itepreeentatives twenty.me year. of aye. They shall have bra citizens and inhabitants of the State lour yOurl, a n d lithabi.ux of their respective districts one year nest before their election (unless absent on the public basin,. of the 130:ted States or of this State), .d shad reside in their respective districts dining their terms of service "" " " . 5;716. N., Senator or Representadve shall, during the tim_• for which he shall hove been elected, be appointed to any civil office under this Commmwealth, and no member of amgreas or other person holding any office (except of attorney-st-law or in the militia) under the Gaited States or thm Commonwealth shall be a member of either hon.e during his Co:Mama:Mu in office. Sac. 7. N., parson hereafter convicted of embezzlement of public moneys, bribery, perjury. or other infamous crime, shall he eligible.to the General Assembly or capa ble of holding any office of trust or profit in this Com m inwealth, Soc. S. The members of the General Assembly shall re ceive such salary and mileage Mr regular tel special sne ak.. at sh;dl to- fixed by Mw, and no other rumpensatiotr whatever, whether for service upon committee or other wise. No welcher of either house during the tent for which he moy have been elemod, receive any increase of sALtry, or mileage, under any law passed during such teem. Sac. 9. Tbo Sonata shall, at the beginning and close of each regular semi., and at such other times as may be neoesmry. elect one of its members president pro tempore who shall perform that dubes of the Lieutenant Governor, In any ease of absence or disability of that officer, and whenever the mid oni. of Lientertant aivernor shall he vacant. The House of Representatives shall elect mil of its members as Spotker. Hach House shall choose its other milcers, aid shall judge of the election and qualificalion of its members. .. - Sec. 7,17 i majority of each Home abaft tenstitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, n o d compel the attendance of absent members. Sac. 11. Fitch Inane 'Mall have power to determine the rules of its proceedings and punish Its members or other piirsoes for contempt or dooni rly hehavior in itepreaenoe, to ertflirce obedience to its process, to protect its members against viomnce, or offers of bribes or private solicitat ion, an 1 with the concurrence of two-thirds, to expel a mein -I.r, but not a sound Unto for the acme cause, and 'hall have all other pswers ,neoeasary for the legislature of a free State. A member expelled for corruption shall not thereafter be eligilde to either house, and pnonishnient for contempt sr disorderly behavior dial' not bur an in dictment for the saute offence_ rise 12. Etch house shall keep a journal_ of its proceed ings and from time to timeamblish the same, except sach• parts as rola.", secrecy, and toe yeas anti Dayauf the mem ber," on any question shall, at the desire of any less of them, be entered on thejournal. See. 13. The gemstone of etch house and oficommittees of the whole 'loll boopen, onlese when the business is each as might let he kept secret. Sac. 14. Neither house shall, without the onnaent of the other ' adjourn for m o re than three days, nor to any other plueellian that in which the two houses shall be pitting. See. Irt. The members of the General Amenably shall in all cases, except treanon, felonY,vitilittien of their oath of °fare, and breach or enrol of the peace, be privileged from arm,. (luring their attendtmce at the et scions of their. re spective 'rases, and In going to and returning from the same ; and for any speech or debate in either house, they shall not he qinsiVonel in any other place . Si-V.16. The State shall he divided into fifty Senatorial districts o.f compact and contiguous territory, as nearly equal in population at "nay. he, and each district almll be entitled to elect one Senator. Each sountycontninhig one or m ire ra f.m of population shall be entitled to one Sena tor for each ratio, and to an additional Senator fora sun pilld of 11,111111ttiO12 exce eling three-fifths era ratio ; fat no county shall firm a separate district unit:melt shall con thin fair-fifths of a ratio. exoept where the reljoiningramn ties are etch entitled to one or more Senators, when sash, county any be assigned a Senator or less then fonr Milts and exceeding one-half of a ratio, and no county shall be derided nnlesa entitled to two or more Senators. No city or county shall be entitled to separate representaticu ex oeeding onemlxth of the whole number of Senators. No ward, borough, or novnehp ehdl Ice divided in the forma tion of a distrct. The Senatorial ratio Nhall lM ascer tsined by dividing the Npulation of the State by the non, The members 14 the House of Represeasliee■ _ N..'" RC CI 'V 1 t :If 1.4 -,, . . ii. -- , . • . i •, i. - : ~- :. . , 1 . -_,• - I . 0 _ he . .7 . -7- 7.-fn t.t. - 1 4 . ,- , - . iit ,-*' -;.' ' _ - tin t in 4 4 on ;• - 'l l- - . A .. , . , It urr - i. a 1 • up shall be apportioned among the seveml counties, on a m io obtained by dividing the population of the State ascer tained by the most recent United States census by too hundred. Every county containing less than five ratios shall havo one representative fur every full ratio, and an additional roprmentative when the surplus exceeds half a ratio ; but each county than have at least one representa tive, Every county containing live 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 located. Every city entitled tumor° than four ropresennitives, and every county having over one hundred thousand inhabitants, shall be d ivided into districts of compact and contiguous territory, each dis trict to elect its proportion of representatives according. to its population, but no district shall elect more than four representative., . . . _ . iiec. IS. The General Assembly at its first session eft, the adoption of this constitution, and immediately after each Jetted States decennial census, shall apportion the State into S material and Representative dish lets agreea bly to the provisions of the two neat proceeding neetions. ARTICLE• SeertoN 1. No law shall be passe.l except by bill, and no bill ball be so altered or untended on iLs passage through either house, as to change its original purpose. SEC. 2. No 1,111 shall be consider of unless referred to a committee, returned therefrom, and ' , rioted ha the lIM of the members. . . . Pee. 3. No bt:l, except general appropriation bills, shill be passel, containing mere than one subject, ninth shall be clearly expressed in its title. Sec. 4. Every bill shall be semi at length on three differ ent days in each house; all amendments made thereto shall be printed for the line of the rotrubers before the final role is taken on tho bill, and no bill shall heettme a law unless on its final passage the rote he taken by peas and nays, the names of the persons Voting fir awl against the same be entered on the Journal, and a un tjor:ty °film mem bers °Mete.] to each house be recorded therein as voting in its file,. Sae 5. No amendment to bills by one house shall be concurred in by the ether, except by the vOte of a majori ty of the members elected thereto, taken by yea, and nays, and the names of those voting for and against recorded upon the journal thereof; and reports of committees of conference shall be adapted in either bones only by the vote el a nuljority of the members elected thereto, taken by pits and nays, and the names of Oleic voting recorded upon the jined'. Sic ti. No law shall be revived, amended. er rho prurt tiar,a ibeleolest.nled or conferred by reference to its title only, but s., much thereof as is recited, amended, extend ed. or e“nferre,l, shall re-eaac,ed a ad published at leumtli. See. 7. 1 he (burrs' Assembly shall Hot pas.; any local or special law : Authorizing the creation, extension or impairing of liens; fe,,,tulating the affairs of ctntntios, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts; • Changing the namestkif persons or places. Changing the venue iu civil or criminal cases; Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, or main taining roads, highways, streets, or alleys ; Relating to ferries or bridges, or incorporating ferry or bridge c.irispanies, except for the erection of bridges cross ing streams which form boundaries between this and any other Siato ; Vacating , roads, town plats, streets or alleys ; Rotating to comierios, graveyards or public grounds nut of the State; Authorizing the adertion or legitimation children ; Locating or changing county seats, erecting new coun ties or changing county lines ; Incorponiting cities, towns, or Tillage% orchanging their charters; Ttit ' e opening and conducting of elections,or fixing or clanging tin:place of rating; Griintrug diiorces; Erecting new townships or boroughs, changing town ship Imes, horough tiwita, or schools districts; Creating offices, or prescribing the powers and duties of officers in countias, cities, boroughs, towiships, election or schools districts ; --- Changing the laws of descent or soccession ; Regulating the practice or jurisdiction uf, or changing the rules of evidence in and• judicial proceeding or inquiry before courts, aldermen, justices of the peace, she. ifts, commissioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters In chancery, or other tribunals, or proding or changing methods for the collection of debts, or the enforcing of judgments, or prescribing the effect ofjndicial sales of real estate ; egulating the fees, or extending the powers and duties of aldermen: justices of the peace, magistrates, or coasts Lies ; . . . — llie ' gulating the management of public echeolkg, the buil.l - or repairing of school houi,e3, and the raising of money for snob parposiai; Fixing . the'rate of interest ; Affecting the estate of minors or persons under disabili ty, except of er due notice to all parties in interest, to be recited iu the special enactment ; Remitting fines, penalt and forfeitures, or refunding moneys legally paid into the Treasury ; Exempting' property front taxation ; Regulating labor, trade mining, or manufacturing ; Creating corporations, tieltmendiug, renewing, or ex tend ing the charters thereof; tiranting to nay corporation, association or Individu al any special or erCludse priTtlege or immunity ; or Ti, any corporation association or individual the right to lay down a ntilnai:l track. Nor shall the (leneral As sembly indirectly enact such special or local law by the repeal of a general law, but laws repealing local or special arts may be passed. Nor shall any law be passed grauttug lowan or privilegtes in any case where the gnint ing clench powers and privileges shall have been lirovidel for by genend pew, nor where the courts have jurisdiction to grunt the same or give the relief asked for. Sec. 8. No local or special bill shall be passed unleas no tice of the intention to apply therefor shall Uwe been published in the locality whale the matt. r or the thing to be effected may be situated, widen notice shall be et least thirty clays prior to the introdue ion into the General As sembly of each bill, and in the manner to be provided by law; the evidence of such non, e having been published, .shad be exhibited in the General Asounbly before such aball be passed. Sec. S. The pntsidlng officer of each !rouse shall, in the presence of the house over which he presides, sip. all Mlle and Joint resoled°. peksed by the General Assembly, after their titles have been publicly read immediately he force:lvan& and the fact of signing shall be entered on the Journal. SEC. 10. The General Assembly shall prescribe by law the number, duties, and wairm.iition of the officers and . . employees Ur each hotwe, and no payment shall be made from tue State Treasury, or be in any way authorized to any person, except to un acting officorer employee elected or appointed in pursuance of law. SEC. 11. Na bill .hail be passed giving any extra com pensation to any public officer, servant employee, agent, or contractor, after services shall have been rondered or contract made, nor providing for the payment of any claim ngainet the Commonwealth, without previous au thority of law. BEO. 12 All stationery, printing, paper, and fuel used in the legislative and other departments of government 'hall be furnished, and the printing, binding, and distrib uting of the laws, journals, dopartment repine, and all other printing and binding, and the repairing and furn ishing the halls and r e ams used for the meetings of the General Assembly and its committee% shall be performed under contract, to be given to the loweat responsible bid der below such maximum price and under such regulii tiom shall be prescribed by him ; no member or officer of any department of the government alien be in any way intern-ted in such contracts, end al! such contracts shall be aubject to the approval of the Giveruor, Auditor Gen eral and State Treasurer. Sec. 13. No law shell extend the term of any public officer. or increase or diminish hie salary or emoluments after his election or appointment. ....... • • All bills reFraising revenue slwll originate In the Reuse of Representatives, but the .'ovate may pro pose amendments as in ()the bills. .7isc.ls. The general appopriation Nil shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the ortlinary expenses of the executive, legtelative and judicial departments of the Counnonwealth, interest on the public debt, anti for pub lic schools t all tither appropriations shall he made by eeparate bill, each embracing but one subject. Sno, 16. NO money shall he paid out of the Treasury except upon appropriations node by law and on warrant drawn by the proper officer in pursuance thereof. Sec. 17. No appropriation shall be made to any charita ble or educational iiptituion net under the absolute con tra.' of the Commonwealth, other than vernal schools es tablished by law for the professional training m teachers for the public schools of the State. except by a vote of two-thlivls of all the members elected to ear' House. Bs.c. 18. iiosWropriations (except for pensions or grat uities for military services) shall be made for charitable, edueational or benevolent purposm, to any person or com munity, nor to any denominational or sectarian institution, corporation or a.sociation. 'Sze. 19. The Geteml Assembly may make appropria tlons of money to institutions wherein the widows of sol diers are supported or asskted or the orphans of soldiers (re nta stained and eilimated; but such appropriations shall tie applied exclusively to the support of such widows suit oephans. Ssc. 20-The General Assembly shall not dologato to oy special commission, private corporation orasainiatiuti, ny power to make, supervise or interfere with any mini rip il improvement, money property, or effort, whether held in trust or oth rwise, ur to levy taxes or perform any miinicipal funci ion whatever. St.e. '..1. No act of the (Muer!! Assembly shall limit the amount to be recovered for Injuries resulting in death, or for injuries to persons or property, and in case occlusal from such injuries the right of action shall survive, and n the Geeral Ac-stably shall prescribe for whose benefit ... ' ' " such actions shall bepncrecuteXl no act Atoll prescribe any limitations of time within which suits may be brought against corporations for injuries to persons or property, or for other euxure-s different from those fixed by general laws regulating actions aprinst natural persons, and such acts now existing are avoided. . . . — Sze 22. No act of the General Assembly shall authorize the invwtment of trust funds by executors, administratent, guardian., or other trustees, in the bonds or stock of any private corporation, and such acts now existing sire avoid ed, savoig investments heretofore made. Sac. Ti. The power to change the venue in civil and criminal cases shall be vests I in the courts, to he exercised in such manner as shall be provided by law. 'Sac. 24. No obligation or liability of any railroad or other corporation, held or owned by the Commonwealth, shall ever be exobanged, transferred. remitted, postponed, or in nay way diminished by the General Assembly, nor shall such liability or obligation be relegated, except by payment there'd into the State Treasury. Sea 25. When the General Assembly shall be convened in special:session. there shall be no legislation upon sub jocts other than those designated in the proclamation of the Governor, calling such sermon. Soo. 20. Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of both houses may be neccaeory (except on the question of adjournment) shall be presented to the Governor. and before it shall take effect lan approved by him, or being disapproved, shall be re-passed by two-thirds of both houses, according to the rules and limitations pre scribed in case of a bill. . _ Sac.~'7. Flo State office shall be continued or ....tea for the ion:action or measuring of any • merchandise manu facture, or commodity, bet any county or municipality may appoint tech officers when authorized by law. Sze. 28. No law changing the locality of the capital el the State shall be valid until the same Anil lupe been etibmitted to the qualified eleetom of the Commonwealth ut a. general election, and ratified and approved by them. SEC. 29. A member of the Genend Aissembly who shall solicit, demand, or receive, or consent to receive, directly or indirectly: for himeelf or for another, from any comp. ay, corporation, or proton, any money, offic -,appollitmed; employment, testimonial, reward, thing of value or en hyment, or of personal advantage or pnimise thereof, for ili'viite or official Influence, or for withholding the same, or-with nn anderiertnding, expressed or implied, that hit vote or official action shall be in any wily Inftitenced there by, or who shall tolicit dr demand any such money or other advantage. matter, or thing afore rid f ir, another, as the consideration of his vote or official influence or for withholding the 44ame. or shall rice or withhold .14M v. 4 te or influence in eon ilderation of the payment or promisee(' such money, advantage, metier. or thing to ituotbei, shall be held guilty of bribery within the meaning of this Con stitution, and shall incur the disabilities provided theieby for stud offence. and such additional punishment as is or emit be provided by law. Any person ,who shall, di , ectly or indirectly, off r, ve,or promise any money, or thing of value, testi .numial. ptiviluge, or personal advent:4ga to any executive orjudiced officer or member of the General Assembly, to influence him iu the performance of any of hie public or official duties, shall be guilty of bribery, and be punished itrauch manner to shall be provided by law. FICC. 31. The offense of corrupt solicitation of members of the General Assembly or of public officers f the State, or of any municipal division thereof, and any occupation or practice of solicitation at such members or officers, to influence their official action, Shall be defined by law, and shall be punish,' by tine end imprisonment. BEc 32. Any person may be compelled to testify in any lawful investigation or judicial proceeding, against any person who may be charged with Moving, conituitted the offense of bribery• or corrupt solicitation, or practices of solicitation, and shall not be permitted to withhold hi.. tee tiniony upon the ground that it may criminate himself or subject bin, to public infamy; but such testinidny shall not afterwards he need against lie in nny judicial pro ct.edi g, except fur perjury in giving such testinnmy, and any person convicted of either of the offences aforesaid, shalt, as part of the punishment therefor, be disqualified from holding any office or pogition of honor, trust, or pro- fit in this Commonwealth. . . . . Ineitleitrho liar a personal or private inter est in any measure or 101 l propostal or pending before the General Aasenably shall diaelme the fact to the house of which he is a member. and shall not rote thereon. Siterros 1. Tb • Executive Department of this Common wealth shall consist of a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the C..ommonwesith, Attorney General. Audi ' for General, State Treasurer, Secretary of Internal Affairs, and a Superintendent,f Public Instntction. are. 2. The supreme eXeCiiiire power droll be rested in the I.l,ernor, who xlmll take Care that the laws be faith fully executed; he shall he chosen on the day of the gen end election by the qualified electors of the Common wealth. at the places where they shall vote ter Represen tatives. The returns of every election fir Goventor shall. be sealed up and transmitted to the seat of government. directed to the President of the czenate, who shall open and puolish them in The presence of the membein of both houses of the General Assembly. The person harms the highest manlier of votes shall be Governor, but if two or more be equal and highest in rotes, one of ,help shell be chosen Governor by the joint rote of the members of both Lanes. Col.-ht.' electiotas shall be determined by a cum mittee, to be selected from both houses if the Genend Pe sembly, and ginned and regulated in such nmuner as shall he directed by law. Sea 0. The Governer shall hold his office during Pow years from the third Tuesdny of January next mining his election, and shall not he eligible to the office for the next sticeeeding term. Sec. 4. A Lieutenant Governor shall he chest) tat the same time, in the same manner, fer the name term, and subject to the vame provinionn its the Governor; he shall be president of the Senate, but shall barn no vote unlays they be equally divided. Sec. 5. No person sitttll he elegible to the office of Gov ern, sr Licatenant Governor except a citizen of the United State,, who shall have attained the age of thirty years, sod have been screrryears next preceding his elec tion an inhabitant of the State, unless he shall have been absent en the public business of the United States or of thht State. Sec. 6. ho member of Congress or person hnbiin¢ any office under the Unitell States or this State shall exercise the office of liovernor or Lieutenant Governor. • • - • - ' — sZZY.7ll;G;verm;i• shall he commander-in-chief of the army and nary of the Commonwealth, and of the mil itia, except when they shall to called into the actual ser vice of he United States. ' • Sec. 8:11; shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of two-thirds of all the members of the Sen ate, appoint a Secret:oy of the Commonwealth and an At torney general during pleasure, a Superintendent of Pub lic Instreation for tour yeatu, nod such other officers of the Commonwealth as he is ur may be mullet-vet by the Con stitution or by law to app fiat ; he shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen in offices it which he may appoint dining the recess of the Sonde by Fronting emu niimiona which shall expire at the emi of their Tim Fee on ; he shall have power to fill Any vacancy that may hsppen during the recess of the Senate, in the office of Auditor General, State Treasurer, Secretary of Internal A ffaice or Superinteudent of Public Inetruction. in a judi cial OffiCe. or in any other elective office which he is or may be authorized to fill. If the Tammy shall happen daring the session of the Senate. the Governor shall numinete to the Senate, before their final adjournment, a proper person to fill ;slid va cancy. But in any such case of vacancy, In as elective office, a per on shell be chosen to exist Mike at the next general r!cetion, untos the viteancy shell happen within three calendar months immediately preceding such election, which case the election for said office shall be held at the second succeeding general election. In acting ou If:it:entire nominations, the Senate shall sit with open do ars, and in confirming or rejecting the nomi nations of the Governor, the vote .hall be taken by yeas and nays, and shall be entered on the journal. Sea it. Ito shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures, to grant reprieves, commutations of sentence and pardons, except in cases of impeachment ; but no pardon shall be granted, nor sentence commuted except upon the recom mendation in writiog of the Lieutenant Governor, Secre tary of the Commonwealth, Attorney General, and Secre tary of Internar.kffairs, or any three of them, after full hearing, upon doe public notice and in open soa-don, and ouch rec.mmendation, with masons therefor at length, shall be recorded afirl filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commooweelth. . . Sec. lm. lle may require information in writing from the officers of the Executive Department, upon ally subject relating to the duties of their nupective offices. See. 11. He Anil, [tom time to time. give to the General Assembly information of the state of. the Commonwealth, and recommend to their consideration euch inewurrs as he may Judge expedient. Sae. 12. Ile may, on extraordinary Gemstone, convene the General Assembly, and in case ordisogreement between the two bonsai, with respect to the time of adjournment, adjourn them to ouch time as he Khali think proper, not exceeding four mouths. He eh - ill have power to convene the Senate in extraordinary session, by proclamation, for the tmiosiction ofexecutire . . Sec. 131 In case of the death, conviction on impeach ment, failure to qualify, resignation, or other dintbitity o: the Governor, the powers, du! ire„ and emoluments of the I.lllce for the remainder of the term, or until the disability be removed. !Mall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor. SEC. It. In case of a vacancy in the office of Lieutonaut Governor, or when the Lieutenant Governor shall be Inc peached by the Hummer Representative. or ehall be enable to exercise the duties of his office, the powers, duties, and emoluments thereof for the remainder of the term, ur the disability be removed, shall devolve upon the Pres ident pro tempers, of the Senate; and the Preeideait pro tempura shall in like mannerbecome Governor if a vacan cy or disability shalt occur iu the office of Governor; hie sear an Smatter shall become vacant whenever he shall be come Governor, ne !I shall be filled by election as any other vacancy in the Senate. time. 15. Ever} bill which shall have paned both Houses shall be prose red to the Governor; if he approve, hr shall sign It; but If he Elba not approve, he shall return it with hie objections to the loose in which it shell have originated, which. House shall enter the objections at large upon their jourmil, and pressed to re-consider it, If, afiereuch reconsideration, two-thirds of all the membere elected to that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent with the ohjections to the e her house, by widen, likewise, it shall be reconsidered, and if approval by two thirtbrof all the members elected to that house; it shall be a km; but in such cases the voters of both houses sheltie determined by yeas and nays, middle mono.; of the mem bers voting for mid against the bill shall be entered on the journals of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within ton days after it stud! have been presented to him, the same shall be a lac• In like manner ne if he had signed it, unless theGenend Assembly by their adjournment. prevent its return, in which CAW it shall be a Inw, unless be shall file the same, with his objections, in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. mid glee notice thereof by public proclamation within thirty days titer each adjournment. Sec. 16. The Governor Audi nave power to disapprove of any item or items of any bill making appropriations of money, embracing distinct twine ; and the part or torte of the bill approved shall be the law. and the item or items of appropriation disapproved Anil be void. unless' renamed according to the rides and limitations preeribed for the passage of other bilks over I,‘ e Executive veto. Zee. 17. The Oiler Justice of the Supreme Court shill preside upon the trial of any contested election of Gov erner or Lieutenant Governer, and thrill decide tines- Hens regarding the admissebility of evidence; and !dud], upon request of the committee, pronounce his spin in upon other questions of law involved in the trial The Governer and Lieutenant Governer shall exercise the duties of their respective offices nutil their successors ehall tae duly mud first. Sec- 14. The Secretary of t•ee Commonwealth shill keep a record of dll official acts and preeeellings of the Governor, and when required lay the same, with all pa pers, minutes, and vonchere relating therete,before either branch of the General Assembly, end perform such other der,es ns m•tv be enjoined neon him by law. Sec. 19. Tile Secretary of Intense' Affairs shall exer cise all the poseers and perform all the duties of the Surveyor General. subject to such changes an shall be mule by law. His department shall embrace n lowan of Industrial Heiden., and he shall drecherge each duties relating to corporation. to the charitable inatitntlons, the agrieultitral, manufacthring, mining, mitteral, timber, and other material is Interne-it Interest!, of the State as malhie prescribed bylaw. lie shill annwilly, and at such other times., may be required by lase, make report to this General Al:senility. • cc. 20. The Superin tetident of Public Instrnetlon shall exerebe all the pewees and perform all thecluties of the Superintendent of Cemmon Schools, selifect to such chan ges fle shall be made by law. Sec. 21. The term of the Secretary of Internet Affalm ! pled! he four genes; of the Auditor General, three yerrs,' and of the State Treamirer. two years. These officers shall be chosen by the qualified elector/1 of the State at general elections. No person elarted to the office of Auditor Gen eral or State Treasurershall he capable of holding I he LAMP office far two consecutive terns.. ' • Sea '2 . 9. The present Great Soso! of Pennsylvania shall he the seal of the Stotto. All commh.iona shall to In the name and by authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. and bo sealed with the State seal and signed by the dowser, ARTICLE V. Stormy I. The judicial power of this Commonwealth shall be vested in the Supreme Joliet, in courts nfrommon pleas. courts of over and termineranil general jail .lelivery. escorts of quarter sessionsof the peace, orphans' courts, magistrates' eonrts, and In such other moots as the Ge neral Assembly may from time to time establish. SEC. 2. The Supreme Court shall consiot of ace.) judges, who shall be elected by the (rolific., electors of the State at large. They shall hold their offices for the term of twenty-one yearn, if they PO long behave thcmoolves but shall not be again eligible. The judge whose commis sion shall first expire shall be eh ief justice, and thereafter each judge whose commission shall finm expire shall in turn be chief justice. See. 3. The jnrisclictiowof the SnpremcConrt shall ex tend over the State. and the judges thereof 'ball, by virtue of their offices, be just icon of eiyer runt terminer and gen eral jail delivery in the r-everal counties; they shall have original jurisdiction In casco of injunction, and, where • corporation in a party defendant, of habeas c0n..., of man damus, and to courts of Inferior jurisdiction ; and in case of qno warrant° an to all officers of the Common wealth whoa(' jurisdiction extends over the State, lint shall not exercise any other original jurisdiction: they shalt have appellate jurisdiction by appeal. certiorari or writ of error in all roam, as in now or may hereafter too provided by law. See. 4. Until otherwise directed by law, the courts of ronunon pleas shall coutinne as at present established, ex cept as herein changed; nut morethan four ounutics shall. at any time, be included in oue judicial district orgauized for maid courts. Sec.!, Whenever a county shall contain forty Diens and inhabitant., it shall etmetitute o separate judkial trlct, and shall effect one judge learned in the law; and the Genenil Assembly shall projide for additional judges, WS the business of the said distikt may require. Counties containing a population less thou is sufficient to constitute neparate districts shall be formed into convenient single districts, or, if necessary, may be attached to contiguous districts, as the Gereral As - einbly may provide. The of fice of associate judge, not learned In the law, is otiolished in counties forming separate district ; but the several as sociate judges in office when this constitution obeli be adopted filial] serve for their unexpired terms. 6. In the counties pf Phiiadelphia and Allegheny. all the jurisdiction and poWerm now rooted In the District Onirts and Courts of Common Pleas, subject to etch changes as may be made by this constitution or by low, shall be in Pliitadelphia vetted in four, and In Allegheny in two distinc , and separate courte of wino] and no-onli nate. jurisdiction, composed of three Pilsen each ; the .aid courts in Philadelphia shall be designate.] respectively as the Court of Common Pleno number one. number two. number throe and number four. and in Allegheny as the Ci6tet of Common Pleas nntober one and number two, but the number of said courts may be by low loci weed, from time to time, and shall be in like manner elesigiottsol by sure...ire numbers; the number of judges in any of maid court", or In any county where the establiihment of an additional HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1873 court nmy be authorized by law, may be increased from time to time; and wheuever such increase shall lllll.llllt in the whole to three, such three judges shall couipose tint and sepande court as aforesaid, which shall be num bered us aforesaid. In Philadelphia all suits shall lo In stituted in the said Courts or l:00.011 Pleas, without designsting the number of said court, and the several courts shail distribute and apportion the business fuming them in such manner as shall be provided' by rules of caurt, and each court to which any snit ?mil be thus as signed shall have exclusive jurisdiction thereof, subject to change of venue, as shall be prodded by lass. In Allegheny each court shall have exclusie•jnrisliction of all proceedings at law and in equity commenced therein, subject to change of venire us rimy be provided by tofu. See. 7. For Philadelphia there shall be ono Prothonota ry's office. and one Protliontary for all as 41 court, to be appointed by the judges of said room', and to hold (Ace for three years, subject to remoml by a majority of the add judges; toe said Pion ,notary shall appoint such assist ants as nifty he necessary and authorized by said resets, and he and his assistants shall receive fixed salaries, to he determined by law idol paid by said comity; sill fires cob tested in said office, except each as may be by law due to the Commonwealth. Mall be pud by the Protlionotory in to the county treasury. Each court shall have its separate dockets, except the judgment docket, which shall contain iliejudgments and liens of all the said courts, as is or may be directed by law. See. S. The add courts in the colinties of Philadelphia and Allegheny respectively shall. from time to time. in torn, detail one or more of their judges to hold the courts of Oyer and Terminer and the courts of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of said counties is Ellett manner as may be directed by law. _ _ _ - Sct: 9. judges of the Courts of Common Pleas learned in the law cloill be judges of the moil-. of Oyer and Ter miner, Quarter Sestions of the Pere.•, and General Jail Delivery. and of the Orpbans Court, and within their re spective distracts shall he justices of the peace as to crim nal nt diem The judges of the courts a ( . oinninti Plea, their roving iv*, counting, shall bare pOWer tO I.IIC WritS of certiorari to jii.tice4 the 10, o. and other inferior court', not of +mod, raid to range their procorillng to to brought before them tot right and jir , tice to be done. . • ske't7. 11. Except as otherwise provided in this Consti tution . justices of the peace or aldermen shall be elected in the several wards, districts, boroughs, and townships at the time of the election of twistable., by the qualified electors thereof, in such manner at shall be directed by law - , and ells II bs COllllll.iOllC.l by the I.orer nor iota term of five years. n. township. w.iril, district, or borough shell elect more than two justices of the pence tic alder nice without the consent of a majority of the quidifled electors within tech towniditp. ward, or borough; no p..- 8011 shall be eieLted to stall naive tiniest hr shall have resided within the township, borough, ward, or district for one year next proceeding his election. In cities coutniu ing over fifty thutexted inhabitatit , , not more than are al derman shall be elected in each ward or district. et c. 12. In Philadelphia there shall be establiziocol, for each 30,000 inhallimnts, tone court not of neon!, of 101 ice awl civil pauses, withjuridliction not exceeding ono hun dred dollars; sotch courtS shall be held by nuogistratfis whose term of office shall lo• love years, and they shall be elected on general tidies by the, qualified voters at large; and in thiCeleclien tot the said nongistratei, 111 J Voter shall vote for toot-., than two-thirds of the numner of ver sions ito be elected when MOM than 0110 an, to be chos en; they shall he compensated only by ill.] salaries, to be paid by said county; nod shall exorcise such jurisdiction, civil anol criminal, eN.Cert as Herein prOVided, as IS now exercised by abietllleto, SIII;j01,1 (10 such changes, not in volving au increase of civil jurisdiction M . ...ul.•eriog pa- Mi.' duties, as nosy be made by law. In Philadelphia the Wilco of alderman is abolished. f3Ec.l3. All fees, fines, and penalties in said courts shall be paid into the emuity treasury. :7,1`. 14 In all eases of sumnairy conviction in this Com monwealth or of judgment in suit for a penalty I Ohre a magistrate, or Court tint of record; either party may ap pea Ito such court of !venni as may I. pi eseribeil I.y law, upon allowance of the appellate court or judge thereof; up on MU. , shown. SEc. 15. AU pains') required to be learned in the law, exmipt the judges cf the Supreme Court, shell be elected by the qualified elector. of the respective districts over which they are to preside, and shall bold their ufliree f r the period of ten years, if they shall so long behave them selves well; but for lacy reasonable cause, which shall not be sufficient ground for impeachment. the llovernor may remove any of them on tho address of two-thirds of each house of theGeneltil Assembly. _ . Sac. 16. Whenever two judg . tls of the Supreme Court are to I.e chosen Sro the same term of sus rice. each cotershnli rote for one only, and when flu's° arc to be chose's], he 4101 Vete for no mere then two ; cmulidatos highest in rote shall hialeelared elected. _ _ .EC. 17. Should any two er more Judges of the Supt emu Court, or any two or more judges of the Court of Common Pleas fur the same dirt riot I.e elected tt the time, Hwy Omni as aeon after 'he election as convenient. east lots for priority of commission, and certify the result to the Governor, who shall issue their commissions in accord ance therewith. SEC. Ito. The judges of the Supreme Court and the judg es of the several Courts of Common Pleas, and all other judges required to be loomed in the law, shall, at stated teceire t or their swill:ow 1111 adegnu If , compensation, which shall be fixed by law, nod paid by the state. They shall receive ow minor counts:onset ion, fees, or perqui3itoS of office fir their services from suoy source, nor hold toy otbwr office of profit under the United Stottes,thls State or any other State. Sec. 19. The judges of the Supreme Court, during their coetinuance fn office, shall reside within thin Oommon wealth ; and the other judges during their countinuance in office, shall reside w Main the district for which they shall law respectively elected. - . . SEC. 90. The seven (loans of Common Pleas, beanie• the powers herein conferred,vball bare and Imerrise with in their respective districts, eubject to each changes as may be made - by law, ouch chancery powent ea are new vested by law in the several Wads of CO/11111011 Plate of this Common wmilth, or as tuay hereafter be conferred upon them by Imv- Sec 21. No duties shall bo imposed by law upon the Su preme Com tor any • f thejudg. thereof, except such aa arepulicial, nor shall any of the Jot*oo thereof exercise any power of appointment, except as herein provided. 't he Court of NIA fans is hereby abolished, and no wart of original jurisdiction to be preekled over by any one or more of the judges of the Supreme Court shall be estab 11,hed. Sec. 22. In every county wherein the population shall waved one hundred and fifty thou:quid the General Amen,- lily shall, and in any other county may. establish a sep arate Orphans' Court. to consist of one or more judges who shall be learned in the law, which court shall exer cise all the jurisdiction and I.Wers maw rooted In, or which may hereafter be conferred want, the Orphans' Court., and the. cope the Jurisdiction of the judges of the Court of Common !Item within such county, in W.- 01.8' Court proceedinga, !NM re me and determine, is any county in whie.li n setrintto Orphans' Court shall to established the Register of Wills filiall be clerk of such Court, and cultject to its dilation in all marten; poi tainlng, to his office, he nosy appoint aselstant clerks, but only with the consent .d approval of said evert. All accounts filed with him as register or as clerk of the said repentte Or plumed' Court shall be audited by the Court without ex pense to parties. except where all parties In interest in a pcmdiug pnweeding shall nominate an auditor whom the court may, In itc discretion, appeiet. In every county Orphans' Courts shall pasta,. all the lowers and jariadit , Con of a Register's Court, and uointrate Registers' Courts are hereby abolished. S.. 2.1. The style of all process shall be ''The Common wealth of Pennsylvania." All prosecutions shall be ear tied on in the name and by the authority of the Con:anon wealth of Pennsylvania, and conclude against the Peres and dignity of the Rime_ . . . . . . gre. 7 24.1n all caw, of felonious limnicide, and in each other criminal allies as may be provld d for by law, the ac cused, after o , ,riviction and sentence, fluty remove the in dictment, records, and all proceedings to the Supreme Court for reVII.W. Sc e. 25. Any ratstney happening ty death, resignation. or olizerwise, in any court or recenl, shall be filed by ap poiatnent by the Governor, to mintinue till the Bret Mon day of January next streeeding the MU rrnernl election, which shall occur three er more months alter the happen ing of such vacancy. . . . . . goo. 26. All lawsrelnting to courts shall iM senora! and of uniform operation, and too organization, Jurisdic tion, and powers of all courts of the smile chow or grade, so .far as regulated by law, and the force and effect of the procere sod Judgmeuts Or/filth courts shall be uniform; Ind the GenritiXessemlily is hereby prohibited from creme Ming other r.sirte to exercise tho powers vested by this constitution in the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and Orphans' Courts. Sec. 27. The portiew, by agreement filed, may, in Roy civil case, dispeicw Milt trial l•y jury, and submit the deci- ion of emit ...ewe to the court havingjur:wliction there— of, and uncle court hear nod determine the mine ; and the judgment thereon shell Le suije•t to writ of error as in other cases. ARTICLE VI. Pt ,loa L The Home at Repreeentatives shall have the mole power of impachment. Sec. 2. All impeachment; shell be tried by the onnte; when Pitting fi.r that perp,se, the Senator,' shalt be upcm oath or offirmntiom no ',man sttntt Fe conrictcd without the concurrence of imethinis of the members most nt. Sec. The Governor and :di Other CiVil shall be liable to imptuchment for any misdemean or in oflico, but judgment in such eases shall not extend forth, than to c al from cflice and die qualification to ludd any office of trust or profit miller this Commonwealth; thoperoon accord win therconrictod orate tted, shall nevertheless be liable to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment accoortfing In la, Sec. 4. All officers sin!l hold their °MCI'S On the condi tion that they behave themselvw , well whit, in office, and shall be removed on conviction of miabohuvior ill OMOO Or of any infamous crime. . . . . Appointed officers other than judges of the courts of record end the poperintendent of Public Instreetion, may be removed at tho pie tent. of the power by which they shall have boon appointed. All OffiCerri elecW+l by the peo ple, exoept Governor, Lieutenant Governor, members of the General A•setaldy, and pulses of the MUM of rec ord, Yarned in the law, shall be removed by the Governor for reasonable rause, after due notice and fall booing, on the whirs. of two-Mints of the Nenate. ARTICLE VI I. SECTION 1. Senators and Iteprettentativea nod all Judi. clot, State, and county otlicent, emit, before entering on the duties of their commence enter, take and utibeenbe the following oath or affirmation: .1 do solemnly swear(or affirm) that I will eupport,obey„ and defend the Constitution of the United Ctat.o and the Constitution of this Commonwealth, and that I will dis charge the dutiea of my office with fidelity: that I 'have not paid or contributed, or promised to pay or oontri- Mate, either directly or iudirectly; any money or other val uable thing, to pnocure my nomination or election (or appointment), except for necessary and proper caponses ezuressly authorize.' by law; that I have not knowingly wended any election law of this Commynwealth, or procured It to be done by others to my behalf ; that I will not knowingly receive, directly or indirectly, any money or other valuable thing for the performance or non-per formance of any act or duty pertaioing to my office, oth er than the eompensation allowed by law .n The foregeing oath phut' be administered by some per ion authorized to administer oaths, and in the ca.e of State officers and Judges of tho Supremo Court, shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and iu the case of other judicial and county officers, In the office of the Prothonotary of the county in which the name is taken,• any person refusing to take said oath or affirma tion shall forfeit his office, and any IHISOII who shall be convicted of having sworn or affirmed falsely. or of having violated said oath or affirmation, shall be millty of perjury. and be forever disqualified from holdingany office of trust or profit within this Commonwealth. The oath to the members of the Senate and llonse'of Represent olives shall Lo catmint- tore.' by ono of the judges{ of the Supreme Court or of a court of Common Pleas, learned in the law, in the hall of the house to which the member shall be elected. ARTICLE yill SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS. SECTION 1. Every malo citleen tsrente.one years of poesessing iho Mllowing goal illmitiona, shall be entitled to vote et all elections: First. Ile elmd have been a citizen of the United Stales at b ast one month. Secouf. He shall have re,ided in tho SMte one year for if, having previously been a enalified elector or native born citizen of the State, he shall have 'moved therefrom and retested, then six months) immediately preceding the t Thin?. Ho :hall hrfie resided In the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immedi ately preceding the election. B.urllt If twenty-two ye wk., of ag c or upwArtl.4, Ike shall Live paid two yeti, a Stet, or county have beau thrtestett at least two !awaits and paid at leas one m o nth bofere the election. genertl 1:!ect!on slta!! be . )1e1..1 annul!.y on en the 'Cumin; next the fit Monday or Neilen- Ler. but the (le! . Ai,enitily may liy law fix a different day, two-thirds of all the menthe', of each hotwe colleted ing thereto. igne. 3. Al , election. for city, ward, borough, and town ship uniCer3, for regular term of service, said' be bold oe the third Tuesday of February. SEC. 4. All eiertions ha the ' Citizens •hull L•c by ballot. livery latlb•t voted shell be slumbered in theorder in which it shall i o t,ee.t.el. and the ri .er recorded try the elec tion I.IIiCIII. on tine li.t of ~ter, opposite the name orth, elector. win. p.eceeute the 1011.. Any elector may write hie name upwi hie nr l'allm/ the nano• to be written thereon and itteeetell by - u citizen et the district. - The election oEicere shall be sworo , net to disclose how any elector ,hail have voted utile,s re quirts' to do el.:te witnee•-es it, a judicial proceeding., Fled re rdoili in itiFt;;i;:roree'et nl3ll lirertelt otrdirety of t he pence, Le privileged from ar rest during their at tendanco elections and going to and tutu ruingAlyrefrotri. Er. 6. - {tit;enever any of the qualified elertors of this Commonwealth shall be in m•(enl military ...vice, 11:1110r requisition from the Prwsiilent of the United Staves or 6y the authority of thir Commonwealth, such °lemurs may exercise the right of SUlrrage in no electionS by the rit is Zell}, under sinch regulat bind 148 are er Shan be pr.rihed by law•, as fully as if they were present at their umal Places of ell, lion.. . Sm. 7. All Lowe regulating the holding of election. by the &lulu , or for the uegktration of elector,. shall be uni form throughout the Suite, but nu eleenirsitita ilopriveil of the iiriviloge of voting by re‘vion of hon 111.1!Ile not being regellered- SLC. e. Any person who shall give, or promise, or oiler to give to an elctor, any inoney, reward, or other valuable con-idea- ton for .his vote at an election; or far withholding the same, or who shall I,iVe or promise to glue Sll.ll Coll,livalt tiolll to any other person or party Par or tar the withholding th omit; anal any elector who shall receive or agree to receive, for himodf or for another. any money roultttl or other valuable confident Lott for his vote at au election or far withleildiag the spun,ball thereby forfeit the ibht, ' to vote at such election, mail any elector whose right to vote shall be challenged for such cease lie fore the el ici inn tinker shall be requirea to swear is: affirm that the matter of the challenge is untrue before ha vote shall ha received. SEC. 9. Any piimon who shall, while a etimlidate for beguilty litibery, frand,nr wilful v oltilton of any election Ina•, be forgive- diapialifie I froin °Mee of trust or profit in till. , I,tritnntiwealth; nairany person minvicte.l Uf wilful violation of the vlection laws, shall in aililition L, any peailltiai provided by law, he de prival of the right of suffrage alisidutely fir a term of foil! years._ . _ . — Foi. M. In trials of contcgted ebetint,and in pnweed illg4 for the investigation of clectionl. no person shall be permitted to withhold his testimony upon the ground that it may erinduate himself or subject him to public infamy; bat such testonony i shall not afterwards be used agalust him in any Judicial pruceediug, except fur pet i jory intrtatell te,timorty. . . Sec. 11. Townships and wards of cities or boroughs shall form or fe divided iteu election districts of compact and conliguous territory, In such manner as the bona of Quarter bleMons of the city 1 , 1"COUllty in which the same are located may direct; Imt districts in cities "f over one hundred thousand inhabitants shall be divided by the Courts of Quarter Sessions having jurmcliction therein whenever at the next preeedlug election more that. two hundred tun' fifty votes shall have been polled therein; and edict election cli,trlcts whenever the ...Art of the proper county shall be of opinion that the convenience of the electors and the public interests will be p, omoted thereby. 5..12. All elections by rem,. in a representative ca.. parity shell be rivl rocs. SEC 1.4... Fordm ptupose of voting, no person shall he deemed to have 'mined.. a tesirlenre by reason of ! is pres ence, or hot it by reason of hip ab,nee while emplostd in the service, either civil or military, of this Slate or of the United States, nor while engaged in the navigation at the waters of the St Ate or of the United States, or on the high seas, nor while a student of any institution of learning, MC. Chile kept in any poor bon, ur asylum sti polo lie expense, or Chile confined in public pri.on. SEC. 13. District election hoards shall consist of a judge ,adid twodmipectota. who shall Le chosen annually by Ito' . ' "• • - -•-" - - j.fizeilf;f7i:Acit elector shall hove the right to vote :r the judge and one Ite.peetor, and each inspector shall appoint One clerk. The firSt- eleet:on Isatrd for any new district shall be sdected, and eaeauc:esin election Instr. filled shall be pet of le lby law. Eferlion officers shall be privi leged from arrest upon days of election and while engaged in making up and ....lilting returw, except upon war rant of a court of record orjmige thereof for an election lintel, for felony, or for crouton I•rench of the peace. In cities they may claim exemption from jury duty during the' r t+•rmx of serviCe.. No person Phan be qualified to serve r.s na elec tion °nicer who shall hold, of shut within two months have held feny ollire, n ppoint !tient. or emplopnent in ur under the Government of the United States,or of thisStote, or of any city or . riiunty, or of .y mimicfpal }sled, com mission, or trust i r any cit , save only justisoo ilir pollee and aldertuco, notaries public, and persons iu the militia service of the :Stale : our shiffany el.:kis.. three le eligi ble to any civil stile to Le filled at an election at wlfOli he shall serve, save only to such suborffinateleipol or bi ral offices below he grade of city or county sAlleca as shall be designated by gametal law. Soo. 10 The Corwin of (kinsmen Pleas of the several counties of the fkiminotiweelth shall have power within tfieir respective jurisdictions to appoint oveneers of elcc dun to supervise the proceedings sit election officers, anti to nwke report to the court as troy be required; such ap pointments to be niade for any district in is city or county, upon petition or five citizens. lawful voters of such elec tion district, ertthig forth that such apptiftstment is a rea sonable precaution to Fertloo the purity end fairness of elections; overseers shall be two In number for an election district. shall be resideuts therein, and shell toe penions qualified to serve upon election boards, and in each case monibele of different political parities ; whonever the mem bens of an election board slo et! differ in opinion, he`over seers, if they shall lie agreed thereon, shall deciiie the quration ofdifferonro ; in appointing overseers of elec tion, all the law judge • of the proper court, able to act at the nine, shall concur in the appointments See. 17. 'rho trial and dett ruination of contedwl elec tions of electors of President and Vire President, members of the Gene; al Assembly, and of all dublfe office., whether State, judicial, nisinlciptl. or lona% shit 1 lie by the courts of law. or by one or more of the law judges thereof; br General Assembly shall, by general law, designate the courts and judges by whom the s venal classes of e keti m , contests sisal' toe tried, and regulate the mannerof trial end all matters incident thereto; but ito such law assigning jurisdiction, or regulating its exercise, +hall apply to any oontest arising out of an election held before its passage. ARTICLE IX. SEMON 1. All taxes Pall be uniform open the same class of subjects within the territorial limits of tbe author ity levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general lama; but the general Assembly may, by general laws, exempt from taxation public property used for pub lic purposes, actual places of religious worship, places of burial not used or held tbr private or corporate profit, and institutions of purely public charity. Sec 2. All laws exempting property fr to .xation, eth er than the property above enumerated, shun be mid. Sec. 3. The power to tax corporations and corporate property shall not not be surreudel calor enspended by any contract or grant to which the State shall be a party. Sec. 1. No debt shall be created by or on behalf of the State, except to supply mond deficiencies of revenue, re-' pet invasion, suppress insurrection, defend the State in war, or to pity existing debt, and the debt created to top ply deficiencies in revenue shall never exceed in the ag gregate at any one time one million of See. a. All laws authorizing the borrowing of money by and on behalf of the Stole shall specify the purpose f which the money is to he card, and the money SO borrowed shall be used for the prrirse specified and no other. " • - roc. O. The credit of the C . :immune - E.:oth shell not be pledged or loaned to any individual, company, corporation, or association , nor Shall the Ootonwowealth hecome ajoint owner or etockholder in any company, association, or cor poration. tine. 7. The General Assembly shall net anthoriro any county, city. brimngh, township or incorporated district to become a stockholder in tiny company, association or cor pora*, or to obtain or lipproprinte money for or to loan its credit tunny oorporation, anitadation, institution or in dividual. . . SEC. S. The debt of any county, city, borough, township, school district, or other rannicipality, or IncorporWed dir trict, except as heroin proviiiwt, shall never exceed wren Per rentnm upon theavvessed twine of the taxal.le proper ty therein, nor shall any such municipality or ilivtriet in cur any new debt, or increase. its indebtednenito an amount exceeding two per rent'am upon such eseessod valuation of property withont the asscut of the eleetors thereof, nt a public election, it, such manner av shall he provide•' by law ; boy ally city, the debt of which non exceeds wren per century' "ranch valuation, may be authorized by law to Increase the wile three per raft'. (in the rig , greante at any one tune) in.' such valuation. SEC. 0. The Oininion wealth shall not assottle the delit, or any part thereof, of any el y, county, borough or town ship. utile...Heil debt shall hare been contnteteil hi enable the St,nta to repel Invasion, suppress domestic ineurrechon, defend itself itt ,Limo of Arai, or tt assist the State in the discharge of any polio of its present indebtedeesn. Sec. IS Any county. township, 'school district. or o th er nnideipnlity interring a y indebtedness. shall at or before the time of to seine, provide fee tee eel. 'notion of annual tsx sn9teieot I. pay the interest and tint the principal thereof within thirty yen es FRO 11. To p °vide fir the plyinent th'e preneSt State t and way additional debt contracted as afore said the Genera. sesmbly shall continue and m•i•,- tsin the ainking fund enflie Pet to ray the gemming interest on each debt, and annually to reduce t.e prin cipal they of bv a sum tint toss than two hundred and (My thnuaand doll , T 8 Reid einking tutri shell consist of the prece di of the sales of the public" work, or any part thereof end of the income or pro coeditor the sale of any eiocke caned by the Cot.- - wealth, together with nthee funds ...d rem. tit..., that may he dethgneted by law, and shall be from time to time by assigning to it any part ot the taxes or o'her revenues of the State not requir,d for lbw or dinary and current expeneee of governmunt; and un less in C.no of war. Myesion or insurreetiity, eu yard of the mid sinking fend ehall be used or spilled other mice than in the evincuishment of the unb is debt FRO 12. The moneys of the State. ove- it-:d above the Dees/vary reap rye. shell be used In the pay moat of the debt of ihe State. either directly or the ugh tl e sinking fund, and the moneys of the tinning fund shall set., I,e to d in or Maned upon the mcurity of anething except the bomb; of tbe United States or of th la State. • The money,' held ea necesraryrenene •ball be limited y lee to the mount required by current expenses, and shall lie to-cared and kept exmay be pro vided by law Mon irly elatemente shall be published sh.dving the am not alma. moneys, where the same an d pelted • d ra-w 'enured. Ste it. The making of profit not of the public me neys, or twin' th same for any purpose not nuthor iseo by law, by any officer of tse St. to or cnomb-r or officer of - he Genefal Venembly, n all he a allele meaner. stud trash be punished fte may he provided by law. bet part of such punishment shell i.e a dl.gnalifi e•tinnto bold office fora period of not lee than Ore years ART OUR X. 811CStost i , The General Assembly shall prevlie f^r the frivintettanee and Fla] porter a thorough and effi cient Pylteln of pnt.lic schools. "thereto all Ole cliff dren of this emomot.weal h, rve the ageof tux years may be .dueat.d and Anil epprop..iate et least one dailarn.-ach •ear for that purpose. f•tac. 2 N , , to fury relent for I, sup,. tof the psi, tic schools of the Common ., oelth shaft be appropriated 01 or wet for the support of any seetatt school Sr 0. 3. W0n3.11 tire./ one rears of age and onwards she! be 1 . 11,41 c Any ofiko of e ntrol or mauage went tattle. the aelt,to! Men of this elate ARTICLE XI PllOrlna 1. The ryPerlll.l) of thisflnmmonwealth.eball he artned, nrginieed a; d tintelp , tued f r ir• defence when and in mich manner an nil , d 'reef dby The General ensembly OWE provide for raiiiiitatotnir th • Militia by appr priati 1.1 from the 'rrent•nry of th, Coto 1111 l nwonti h and m.ry Pilnpc trout nillttaiy Pl.rlrlCP perll havingcuuseionLieua scruples &goblin bearing arms. A RTICL 11 XII. FMTVON 1. All t ffiners whom. selection is not provid ed for in tbis cons , notions. all be elects.' or appoillt;tl 113 mar be directed by law. " • • .• Fac 2 , No member ot Corms.. from this Stat., nor an, ',Prim holtlicir or exerci-ing any office app .itit meat of frost or refit wider tho ITnitadt etnt Pt t'e samo tint. hol.l or .xelcire any • Ince in this State to which '4 .whey. foos or percpiaiten abali be attached, The gcnoril Asteenb.y may by law declare whatonice- are incornp:tildf....... . :Pte. 3. Any person aball flgbt aZuel or aer.d a ehaPenge in that pornoes. or bo alder or abettor in GOV ing n .1...ha1l be deprived of the right .•f hold ing ot , q ails.. of h.., or or prdl in this !tote and way be Olin wise puulabed s 9 alma be prescrited by law. ARTICLE VIII. Seettew 1. No new county shall be established which -ball reduce any county to less then four hun dred square miles, er to IP. than twenty thousand inha , )kantc; tr shall any comity be formed of less are, or c ut.ining a less vpulntion, nnr shall scy line thereat pass •-ithin ten miles of the county s st of sty county prop,sed to be divided ARTICLE. Xl{', COUNTY O:FICHRS SECT!. 1. County oilcan+ ehnll c .neist of rheriffe. prothouoto, ccis•ors of wife. , r.corcir re of i1,c147 Conon;ssinners: ti;ssurers. surveyors sod, tors or controllers. clerk. of the courts. dis . rict attor neys. and au ;It others as nt.tv front time t.; time he 0.- tab.ighed by law ; and to; sheriff or treasurer shall he e'itc;ble for the term nett stcceetting the one for which he tot. l.e elee;ed. Sao 2. Conntv officere shall he elect,' at the general electi,me. and ah dl held their nCieea fur the t-rm of vbr. e yearn. beginning on the Met Olonduy f January neat alter netr election, and until their su-c..queirs shall le duly qualified ; all vacaucies not otherwise provided for nh• II 1 e filled in each manner as nifty be pr, vided by law. Sec 3 in person ehnlli eappointed to any office with in any county who shall nut eve u a ci. in-, and iuluintaut tnereof one year n ett bef ve hie appoint ment. i the county elle!! have becu au le g erected. but if it MD4I not have been to long erected. then with., •ha litnit, of the c -.linty or ounti.a out of whieb it shell hurt: been taken. tie c 'I. Vrathoootsries, cl , iks or the courts. record ers of deeds. registers of wt.'s, coon ty surveyors, and ehs,ll p Their offic..l go the ..tinty the county in which thee n-epeltively shell be officers. _ _ _ _ SE, 5. The c0mp...4,1nm of county I 'Me •cc shall tu tegoisled t.v law. and all county • filters wheat, or m , y re ealaried shall pay a , l feei which they mty be au ther;a•d to receive jab, the treastry I f tb- county or rtate, ce may be di rc,t••d by law. Is coat.tivs cen tral:flog over one but.dred tel li lily thou-and inhabi tnute al. county offiters shall te paid by salary, ....li the sa art of a, each officer and his atria heretofore pal.] by lees• shall nor exneed the egg ,gate amount or f ea e timed clutiog his term sod collected by or for hint sro b. Tb' Gemara! Araembly shall provi:o by NW for the iitrict iliiv of A I county. iown.bio and a ii:ough wel l for tern which may be coti-ct.ti by tarot ftri feral/ public or nian,ci pa/ moneys wbich may bn paid to tbren :ICC Three county corn:xi-winners and three couaty Pudi torn shall in elected In tw. .ty trnere suet offi •ele are cho-en, in tee year one thousand eight hundred eel lereeety•fille, end every third rat thereafter; and in the &eat.e of said office.s tech qualified &tater will rote for ill mon, than two pe sotto, and the three perpono hariug 'he hivh , st nuns b-r shall e elected; any casual vacancy in the office of county room le, loner or ceunty auditor Owl led be the Court of tietrelroa 1,,t of the count, in which , -uch vacancy abet/ f.cenr. by the Api:tumor= of en ele:tor of the proper county fir ho ahaii h , ve voted trr the cenunissioner or auditor whose paten is to be led. ARTICLE NV SFCT:ON j. (r.ties mu be chartered wbenerer,a ma jority of the e • wore of env wan or borough baideg a ',elvation e - At i net ten 6 4 / 1 1.L. , 1 eha.l v.to at soy g verlf e ertion in tztonrof the same. 8&c LI. No debt shad se. contrected or In curred by AU Clttn rife( Cmo eX,Pt twee °fen apps , ',Hatton previotedy male theref ,r by .he mo.", governo , ent. nd . . _ Sac Kver3 city shall create a slaking cued, WA shah he inatonib y Wedged fur the payment of ita funded debt ARTICLE XVI: Ili 'ME CORPOR,IOSS, SctTIMI I. All ex is tiug chseera, or grants of *pre iat or selueive privi/igre, under ohi.h a bonafide orrron iro ion tlm!/ not have t..keu pace and I manesa th•en commenced in ;rood fait, at the time of the adoption Of col.wil ail., o.ha / then niter have .11 v.;41,y . _ . . Site '2. The Geoeta' Asseinh'y ehali not Tema the fors Jeiture of the chalter of any corporation now existing. oral er or amend the BIVIIC, 4 r pa.s aty other geoersl or special hiss for the benefit of sash corpecatiou, ex c• pt upon the cowl' Lion that Mlch corporation lib,/ th tesiter bo d its charter to ject to the prov,ions of this con•titutio I nro. 3. The exercise et the right of erni..eut domain shalt hewer be sbririged or co coostru.qi as to prevent the tietteral asectob y rr m taking the prop rty end Iran Mr... of iocoriorated companies. and sub j ectimi them b. put.io IMO, the risme co the iiro,erey 1.1 ini.l. •.durne tot tha exercise tithe ptlice power tithe 'M.A.!a if never be a I tied r w constru. d a. to pr cm', serpent, i nos to conduct their ous.ness in each manner as t (~Triage the eq ix/ rights of Jodie iduale or the get era' 11-b Ing 01 the State go. I. In &i u'ecti..n; fur oirrctura or ma,agari of a curpmatints s.• ch m-mbar or abare-hutder may cast the whet, bomber oc b. vote. fur OWe candidate, or distri ute them up..n tau or mo.e candidates, as he may prrfer. . . . . . . j. 5 No tory:4,n enrpnritioll shall rig any buren , se 111 albs State without having one or more known platen of hoeinent end no leth•als d •s. nt or agents in the same. Ili:T whoa, p^res4 may be e.rved. • . SikO 6. NO c••rporatiuu 61.11 engage ill:11.ey 1 ogjo.o, otha•• than that expreaaly authorised in its charter nor ahalli , take or hold Any reel relate. except etrih as may be ueeassary and prup.ar n,r-its 1. g•timate into, Rte. 7. No corporation rhall lotus stocks or boa's • nee. t for motley. Intew done or money er proton,' actuatly reeeored; nod all flotilla.. iticr-aen of nook or Jude. teduess Anil be veld; the .trek and iodelited• arse of corpolatlons Altail not be increen .1 except in pursuance general law, nor without the C 011114.1 1, of the persons h .;ding the lar.er amount in value of the e oak first oblainei et a nio Ling to tie halt after elk!y days' notice given io p ursuance f law. - gar.. 0 Municipal end other corporations and i ndL yidnala inverted with the privilege of taking private properly fur pub le use shall make just comeensm ion fur property taken, is jeled, or .lestroyed by the COO et•net or. nlargement of their works. highways, o: improvements, which compensation than he pail or secured before such taking. injury. .r deatructmo The General aeeem• ly ber+.l y prohibited from de priving coy person of au appeal from any preliminary ass...a:went of damages against any such corporation. or individuals made by viewers or otherwise; and the amount el ouch damages, in all I...uee of appeal shall, on toe d-mand of either party, be det. g ained by &ju ry according to the 0011144 of the common law. " •' Tau e. r.;ery t linking law shall proeid+ iur the reg. istry aLd counterslaning, by an office of the Stator. of all outer or bide desiar•ed for circulation. and that ampi,iecci.try to the fell amount 'thereof shall be euiroaited with the auditor treneral for the redenitiou of such note or bills. ....: 1 ;710 - 6;;16;IPral A pAentbly obeli hem the power io alter, revoke, or. annul any charter of in corporation now exieeteog and revocable at the edor tit•e of this to et•tutino, or any the may hereafter be created, whenever in their opinion it way be tojuri. out to the cites no of this Commonwenitb. In mach manner. however, that uo ;kinetic. ' , hail e done to The corporator'. Nee leer here: fter enacted shall cre ate tearer, or extend the charter of more than one co. emotion. . . . ' " 81 . 0 It. No corporate body to pox,ee banking and d srountingprivil gee shall be crested or organiz.d iu purrusoce of imy law without this*: month.; plevi us public notice at tl.e place 01 the iute - ded f the entente n to apply fur such privileges. to 'web mcu n~raeshrub. pre.cribed by Isnot, ehall a charter or sash pri•ilegge be granted for a longer period thou riveuty yearn. . . . 12 Auy arsociretion or corporation orgArthed for the purpore, or any it.d.riethal, shall bar - the right to con.truct sod m,intain lines of telegrnph witnth thin -tale. d to connect the name with other inen a.' the ti•leereel Aeon... I.ly shall, 1.7 ge.ueral herr 01 uniform operation, provide rra-onnble regtentionn to giro lull tll , ect to thin e<ction No telegraph c ropony .11.1' co. .*late rich .•r hold et cthtthll.ng int res, in the stock ue hoods of at y trher telegraph o .neproly emetlng w competing i.e.l or acquire. I y purch...e or othei wise .Im, , other Conipetie PIT exc. 13 The trnn ..00rporation,' , as usual in thin &rife 4., gbh] 1 he cnuarlo4l to incqide ail joint otoch ouniparlien or 1114Rocintions haying any of the I.IIWYYS ur pr of corporeal.n& uut.po,sesen3 by ioiltehluale or partuership, ARTICLE XVII SEOTIOS 1. All railroads; and canals shall to public higlswoest. and all railroad and cat:nl cornpanies .bail be coodnon merrier. Any pettectatien or eorporatssep on:110.dd fur the purp to Anil have the right to Cont. struct and operate a railroad betwden any joints with. in this state oat to Conn ct at the tn. out with re lien..., of other States. Every relYnad company a It bar• the right with is road, to intersect. CUI2IIcCIGNt ith or cro.os any other railreat, au t envl re solve sod thopport each the t , th,•rs' paPsergers, ton• IS to. and cart, lusted or empty, wsthuut Privy or diectinain s cion ;.;to 2 Every railroad and eanni corporation organ ised in thin o tate shal I maintain au thee therein, where tray nferis of an atonic shall be made, and where its book. alnalloe kept for inapection.hy any stockholder or ouch corporation, in which shall o le_ cord. d the amount of capital track subscribed °Timid in and by whom. the names of the owners of •tock and olio lemmata owned by /twin relipectively. the tr.inatera of and a ark. and the names and places of residence ..r its offlcern . . . • Sao 3 All individayle nrinciat one, and corpnrn tinne have I‘lllll rights to have pinions and property try imp toed over railroads mid canals a d no undue or toomutmably discriminrtion libel' be made in charm, fur or in lycilities for trausportation or freight nr pays., gore within the Efate. or Coming irom or going to any other State Pe/sous and prop erty traimporkil over any railomd abaft t+ delivered at any Malmo at Surges not exced.ng the ch wpm for transpurtatiosof peivitore and peppery of the Yaks class in the same direction to any noire ditant statine; but excursion comunktion ticketo may Defamed atspecial rates, . ex(' 4. No railroad carat, or other eorpuration,nor the it SP.n pureh..a,a, or m. nag ra of any railroad or ea.! corporation, . hall counolidate the .lock, proper ty. er fro.y chine of such corporation with. or lease • T purchase the warn or franchisee of, or in any way eon .l soy *,thee rni road m causl emporntion awning or bay in ender its controls parallel or competing liar, our shall any Mile, of such railroad or calms corpora thin act as an officer af any Other railroad or can al car potation owning or bath g the coutral of a pmallel or emanating liar, and the quention whether railroad* , ar Cana a are p.mllel or mn. eth.g liana *,hall. when de manded by th- p•rty comniaioaut, be deeidrd by ajar, as in othrr eiv I intim& . . . is. Nu iocorporsfed coinpsny doing the business of a emumuucarrier shall, I ingatly or indfreot y. pros, route tar engage in alining ur mina( souring articles for traiiv trt,thin i m works, nor shall such sow pans, direct y or indirectly, enuige in any other bus -1U0,54 than that of COMM, carriers. or hold or acquire Ist, s. fr.- hold or I. asehold. directly or Indirect y, wrest.? such as shall I. necessary for eat eying n its busts as: but any mining or notrufacturimr compsny may carry the pr, Mime of its mines sod UM] tirovtwitgs n ifs railroad or canal not exceeding pity miles in length c , s.: 6. No prioldsnt. d irector. officer. agent. or em ploye of may mile ..d or C• 1110 0 um iny shell be inter ested, direetl or cod, rectlr, in the furnishing ma terial or supplies to such emnpauy u, in the business of transportation as a common carder of freight or pass ncers neer tho works owned, leased, controlled or worked by such compsny risk, discrinunstlon io chorcos or ticillilos for vs.,soneation shall b. male b-twoen trnos•.rte. lion Cc.napartl,r sn•l or in f tvor of either, fy o!. tom ist. duierbick,nr ..therwlse, a. d no c.ilr..ad for carol any to tae insosge., or mop oyo theroof. s.•oil innke soy preferences in furnishing. irs or no.tive tom- r rec. S IC° rat !read. ratter y. or othor trao-portatino compact' a!,atl grant troo p.m. a or in ISSPX at a thoconnt L+ 10,..3r pereol.l exce,.t officers or clop ea of the com pany. Ste 9. Pfn atrr.t parssnaer shalt be con , uctvd io , hs limits of any city, torough. or low ship w Mout ehe c.•naent of •t.. In •al authorities . Site 10. N.I cro•al, or oth.r.ratypertation company, in exist , nee at the time of th.- adopt on thin .Irtiele ph,ll have lb. bemPt or an. future lonia- I, ion toy vuersal or tp csal laws. oxe.-pt on condi on of e molt /0 acerptanc4 of all the provisions of this S 7 C 11. The exix•ing and &tried of the Aud itor (inners. In retard to th, raiir ads. coma's, and othor transports ion enmpaniea. except unto their sc. ono. ta. are lo•retoy re.c.er•rred to th.• eacretary et In. tercel tv,o ei - a II have a cenersi auperei-ion ne r them sal:dent o ati , l3 rectth‘tio..s 'and alterstim as he provided l y lase; and in addition t • the stmnal reports now n 4,0 ,, to le made, add Cent-. ta , y mry r.quire r, ports at Any t ime opou s. y sub j ct re lating to the I uaioes+of said companies tram any officer or facers ther.nr. ARTICLE XVIII. Snerrna 1 Any ainendmont or anvnimenta to tbis commit Intl.!' to y be pr. pod in tbe Sensto or noose of Itepre,ntati,o, end i I the sume shall be agreed to by rnajori.y of the. niernbera elected to each bowie, such propoavd anotobtont er aniendnienta vbEVI be en to red on their j inmate, with the :ream and nava taken th. moat. end tne crelary of the Commonwealth shall c use the/tame to be pahltshed three m belong the next genentl election in at least two newspapers in ever. e.amty in which soca newepepets thou be pub , ' bed: and if. in the General Assembly next allemande chasm, such pa-nursed amendment or an-u•menta shall b.• agreed to ly a insjetity of the mem. ere elect. 0 to each hone, the Seen-tatty of the Commonwealth stintl cause the mime attain to t e pub lished in the inflamer aforesaid. nod such eroptestd amendment or amehchnents shall be submitted to th-. qual:II -•I eleomr. 01 th., state in each a nrot.ner. and at such time. nt lesst three montas efter being Ito itgreed to by lb,' two hoot-c. As the General assem by shall presc.ibei in.cl tfe.ch amendment or amend inert athall ne approved bre& majority of flume rat ing thereon. such amendment or atnemitnehtte shall become a part of the mostitution but no amendment or mu , (intente s' - .al be subm tied oftener than ones in Gm yearei w,en two or in .re nmerdenente shall be submitted they shall be voted upon separately SCHEDL;LE. That no inconvenience may arise from the changes is the constitution of the Comm onweal'h. awl id order to cart y the same into complete operation. it is hereby declared that: Samtos I This constitution shall take e'rect on the first day of Jmittary, to the year one thousand eklit intudrer awl seventy-four. loran purposes net otherwise provided for therein. SEC 2. All laws in force in this run...wealth at the time Pf the adoption of this constitution not inconslsteut therswith,and all rights. action.. Pro , eentions, anti contracts shall wuniti ate as if this cow stitution had not bent :Wooled site. 3. At the general eleeihn in the years one thousand eight hundred and seventy - -four and one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five Senators shall be elected in :ill districts where there shall he 1,1.1111.1 e, Those elected in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven•y-four shall serve for twin years, and those elect.' in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-live shall serve for one sear. Senators now elected. and t hose whose terms are unexpired. shall represent the districts in which they reside until the end of the terms for which they were elected. six: 4. At the general e'ection in the year one thousand eight hundred and sevent,y.slx, senators shall be elected from the °Yen numbered districts to serve tor two years, and from odd main bered dis h lets to serve for four years Sue 0 . The first elcition of Governor under this cl ti ustittion Anil be at the I:oriel:II election in the year one thousand eight hundred tr , d seventy-live, when s Governor shall be elected for three years; and the term of the Governor elected ha the year One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight and of those thereafter elected shall he for four years, accordinti•to the provisions of this constitution. :sue. 6• At the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-foor a Lieu tonant Governor sits II I> eiected, according t o the. provisions of this constitution. Sec 7. The secretary • I internal Affairs shall be electkd at the first general election after the adoption of this constitution; and wires the •said• officer shall be duty &coed and qualified. the °nice Of Survivor General shit II be aholishettand the sur veyor General In office at the t nue of the adopticn of this constitution shalt ccni hate in.filtee milli Elie expiration of the lel in for watch he was elected. See. 8: When the Stperintmdent of Public In stil etion shall he duty nualih.d.the office of Super infrinlen t Of Ceinnion Octls An !I cease.' see. 9. Nothing contained in MI: isoistaution shall be construed to render ace oers'al now ho,l - any State of for a first official term ineliglb.e for re-election atthe end of such term. _ . SEQ. 0. The judges of the Ottpreme Court In of fice when this constitution shall take effect shall continue until theft . Commissions severally expire. Two Judges in addition to the number now compos ing the said court shall be elect d at the first yen al election after the adoption of this constitu tion. _ . . . . Sgo. 1I All courts of tecord and all existing courts which are not specified in this constitution shall continue in ehistence until the first day of De cember,in the Year one thousand eight hund7ed and seventy-five. without abridgement their . Present. jurisdiction, but no longer. The Court of First Crio.inal Jur d ton f o r the counties of Schuylkill, Lebanon and Dauphin is hereby abolished: and all cans, andproceedings pending therein in the comity of Sehuyik ill shall be tried and disposed of in r e Courts of Oyer and Temlner and Quarter SessiOn4 of the Peace 4 said county Sue 12. The registers' courts now in existence• shah be abolished on the first day of Jalallarl next succeeding the adoption of this constitutioo. SEC. I. . The. General Assembly shall, •at the next session after the adoption of this constitution, designate the several Judicial districts as required by this constitution. The judges in commis-Um when such designation shall he made shall continue during their unexpired terms judges of the new dis triets Iu widen they reside. But when there shall be two judges residing in the wtme district the president lunge shall elect to which district he shall he assigned and the additional law judge shall be assigned to the other district _ . Sic .D. The general Assembly shall, at the next succeeding session after each decennial census, and not oftener.designate the several judicial districts as required be this constitution. Sac. IS. Judges learned In the law of any court of record ho , ding commissions in force at the adop , tine of this constitution shall hold their respective offices until the expiration of the terms for which they were commissioned, and until their successors shall be duly qualified The Governor shall com mission the president judge of the Court of First Criminal Jurisdiction for the counties of Schuylkill Lebanon and Dauphin as a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county fur the unex pired term of his office. Sea 16. After the expiration of the term of any president judge of any Court of Common Pleas in commission at the adoPthin of this constitution, the judge of such court learned in the law and oldest in commission shall be the president judge thereoLand when two or more judges are elected at the same' time in any judicial district they shall decide by - lot which shall be president judge; but when the president judge of a court shall be re-elected lo; shall continue to be president judge of that court. Associate judges. not learned in the law, elected af ter the adoption of t - is constitution, shall be com missioned to hold their offices far the term of five years from the first day of January next after their election. — Sia - 11. The General Assembly at the first ses• stun after the adoption of thisconstitntion shall fix •end determine the compensation of the judges of the Supreme Court and of the judges of the several judicial Olt:Hints of the Commonwealth. and the provisions of the fifteenth section of the article on Legislation shall not he deemed inconsistent here. with. Nothing contained in this constitution shall he held to, reduce the compensatlon now paid to any law judge of this Commonwealth now in commis sion IS. The Courts of Common' Pleas to the counties of Philadelphia nisi Allegheny shall - he composed of the president judges of the district Court and Court of Common Pleas of said counties until their others shall severally end, and of such other judges as may from time to tlme he se leved For the purpose of first organization in Phila. delphia theinfiges of the Court number one shall be Judges Ili-on, Pierce and Paxson; of the Court number two, Judges Hare. Mitchell and one other judge to b, elected; of the Court lumber three, Judges Ludlow Tit letter and Lynd. and of the Court number four. Judttes Thayer, Briggs and one other judge to be elected Judgo first named shall be the president judge of said comets respectively, and thereafter the president judge shall be tine judge oldest in com mis-do"; but any president Judge re-elected he 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 in the same manner as he two additional Itidg es of the Supreme Court. and they salt 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 and seventy.tive. . . file county of Allegheny, for the pur. Pose of first organization under this constitution the Jude, of the Court of Common Pleas at the time of the adoption of this Consiitution shall he the Judges of the Court number one, and the Judg es of the District Court at the same date shall be the Judges of the Common Pleas number two. The president judges o f the i7oinmon Pleas and District Courts shall he president judges of said Courts number one and two respectively until their offices shall end. and thereafter the judge oldest in commission shall be president Judge: but any pres ident Judge reelected in the same court or district shall continue to be president judge thereof See. 20 • The organization of the Court of Coin - mon Pleas.'nuder t his (most ituthin for the min ties iv Philadelphia and Allegheny. shit' I take effect ou the first :Monday it January, one eituusand eight hundred and seventy-live, and existing coortil in said counties shall continue wi h their present powers and 'Jurisdiction until that date but no new sults shall tie instituted lathe. Courts of Nisi Prigs after the adoption o f this constitution.. SEC 21. Toe causeitnnd peoeeedings pending In the Court of Nisi Prins. Court of Collinion Pleas. and DiStrlct Cowl in Plilladelohla shall ho il and disposed of in the. Court of Common Pleas - I he records and dockets of said courts shall he transferred to the Prothonotary's Ake of said gounty fr. SEC. 22. The causes and proceedings pending In the Cowl of Common Pleas in the county el Alle. gheny shall be tried and disposed of in the court number 050: and tile causes and proceedings pend ing in the District Court shall be tried and disposed of in the court umber Two. SEC. 23. The Prothonotary of the Court of Com mon liens of Philadelphia shall be first appointed by the Judges, of said COWL on the Snit Monday of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred slid seventy-lire; and the present Prothonotary of the District Court lit said county shall be the Pr, thrmotary of the said Court of Common Piens until said date. when his commis.sion shall expire, and the present Clerk of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and quarter Sesrlens of the Peace in Philadelphia shall be the clerk of such court until the expiration of Ins present commission on the Scat Monday of NO. 47. December in theyear one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five Sec. 24. In cities containing over fifty thousand Inhabitants (except Philadelphia) all aldermen in office at the time of the adoption of t his constittulon shall continue in office until the expiration of their commissions, and at the election tar city and ward alders in the year 'toe thousand eight hundred and seventy.five one alderman shalt he elected in each ward. us provided in this constitution : 4 EC 2.. In Philadelphia magistrates in lieu of al& men. shall be clueten mt required i a this const tut ion at the election in said city for city and ward tatters in the year one thousand eight hundred and seveor their term of office cum , commence On the tirst Monday ef April suce,eding their elec. lion. terms of office of aldermen Is said city,-hold- Inc or entitled to cominiasioos at the time of the adop•ion of this constitution shall not be affected thereby SEe. 2, All persons in °Mee in this Common. wealth at the thne - of the adoption of this constitt, t ion. and at the first election under it. shall hold their respective offices until the term for which they have been elected 'it. apt'odoled shallot' ire, and un til their succeSsors shall be duly quali fi ed, unless ot he rw 1, provided In this enlist fin' lon Sac. 27. The seventh article°, this constitution pre,eribing on oath of ofilee, shall take effect on , anti after the fist day of January, one tho..saud eight hundred and seventy-five. Stu; 28. The terms of office orbountr commis sioners and county mull ors chosen prior to the year ore thou and eight hundred and seventy-tive, which shall not have expired before the first Monday of January. in the .year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.sha II expire on that day. SOc. 9. AII State. county, city, ward, borough, and township officers in office at the tine of the adoption of this CußStitlitimi, whose c pensalion 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. flee. . _ Sec. 30. All State and judicial officers heretofore elected, sworn. affirmed. or iu office when this con stitution shall take effect, shalt severally. within one month after such iulinitlon. take and subscribe an oath (or affirmation) to support this constitution. Six. 31. The General Assembly. at its first ses sion, or as soon as may be after the adoptlptv of this constitution , dial I pass such laws as may be neces sary to carry the same Into full force and effect. Six. 32. The ordinance passed by this convert. tion.entitled •an ordirance for submitting the amended csnstitution of Pennsylvania to a vote of the electors thereof.' shall be held to be valid for all tile purposes thereof. Sex. :r3 The words "County Commissioners" wherever used in this constitution. and in any ordt. mince aecoMpanying the same, shall be held to In chide the Commissioners for the city of Philadel phia. Adopted at Philanelphia. on the third day of No- yeinher. In the year of our Lord one .thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. OFFICE OP SECRETARY OP THE COMMONWEALTH, lisrentsnetto, Nov 13, 1873. I certify that to foregoing is a correct copy of the new Constil talon, proposed. to the people of the commonwealth ofrennsylvania. for their approval or rejection. us the stone appears of record In this office. 81. ii QUAY. secretary of eaVaincil;.4.iiih. AN ORDINANCE PENNSYLVANIA TO A V TE OP THE QUAIJFIED ELECTORS TUEREOP, AS PASSED SECONDREADING. Be it ordained by the Constitutional Convention of the akmmomcealth of Pennsylvania, as follows: 1. That the amended constitution prepared by this convention, be submitted to tne qualified elec tors of the Comnumwealth for their adoption or re jeetion, at an election to be held on the third Tues day of December next :except as hereinafter ordered and direc' ed. the said election shall be held and con ducted by the regular election officers in the several election dist' Icts throughout the Commonwealth, under all the regulations and provisiOns of existing, - laws relating to general elections: and the sheriffs of the several counties shall give at least tiv,lltY days notice of said eleet!oi i by proctor n at ion. 2 The seetelary of the Commonwealth shall: at least t wenty days before the said election. flattish to the Commissioners of each county, a sufficient num ber of properly prepared circulars of i• structionm.- The commissioners of the several counties shall cause to he printed at least M m ire times as many bal lots of affirative Votes as thereare voters in each toimty-and the same number of negative votes: nod the sold commissioners shall, at least ffife days before said election,catise to be fairly distributed to • the several election districts in their respective counties, the said ballots, tally-lists, returns circm lars of lost: uctlons. and such other books and pa• pets as may be necessary The ballots shall he printed or written in the following form: ffn the outside the words "New Constitution.' in the in side for all persons giving affirmative so*es the words: “For the New Constitution," • and ter all the giving negative votes the words - Against the New Constitution." 3. If it shall appear th•at a majority of the votes polled see for the new (7oustilution. then ftshall Ile the consl Hutton of the Commonwealth of Penosyl van aon sod after the first day of January. in the ye v a e n o t f y o .fo r u L r: o bdu t o nDeJ t . f shalt a ap pea reight a hu a d ma d j o a ri n t d y of the votes ladled were agala st the new constltu. flan, then it shall be rejected and he null and void. 4. Five Commissioners of Election viz: Edwin 11. Fitter Edward Browning. John P. Verree, Henry St: Hager, and John U James. are hereby appoint ed by thisconventioa who shall have direction of the electionripen tits amended constitution in the city of Philadelphia Thesaid commissioners shall be duly sworn or affirmed to perform their duties with impartiality andlidelity. They shall alsOutve vowel to fill vacancies in their own number It shall be the duty of saki commis-inners. or a ma jority of them and they shall have authority to make a registration of voters for the several election di visions of said city, and to furnish the fifties. made to the election officers of each precinct or dtvisbat ; to distribute the tickets for said rity in . . .sided for by [Lis ordinance to be used at the election; to ar. point a Judge and two inspectors for each e Mien division. by whom the election therein shall be held and conducted, and to give all new-wary instrUes tit,nv to the election officers regarding their duties in bottling the election and in making returns there of. No person shall serve as an election officer who would be disqualified under Section 15 Arti cle 8, of the new censt Dutton The general return of the election in the said city shall be opened.com pw ed and certified before the said comwissionete, and with their approval—which approval shall be endorsed upon the return. They shall make re pert. directed to the president of this eonvention,Of their official act len under this ordinance and con cerning the conduct of the said election within the said city. Ths judges aNI inspectors aforesaid shall eon duet 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 Each inspector shall appoint one clerk to assist the hoard in the performance of ire duties, and all the election officers shall be duly sworn or affirmed according to law, and shall po stets all the qualifications required by law of elec tion officers in this Commonwealth. At said eke tion ility duly qualified elector who shalt be unreg istered shall be permitted to vote upon making proof otitis right to the election officers, according to the general edection laws of this Commonwealth. Return inspectors alld their elm ks and an hourly count of the votes shall be dispensed with, but over seers of election may be selected for any precinet by said election .0114118400ent, whose duties and pow ers sha )1 be the same as those of overseers of elec tion In said city under existing election laws appli cable thereto. Returns of the election shall be made in said city as in the case of an election for Governor. buts triplicate general return for said city shall be made out and forwarded to the pm, Meet of this convention at Harrisburg. as is herein after provided in case 01 county returns. each of the counties of the Commonwealth, (except Philadelphia, I the returns of the election shall be made as in the case of an election for Gov ernor, but the return judges in each county ;hail make out a triplicate county return and transmit the same, within five days after the elco lon. ti irec t- NI to the presideut of this convention, at Harris , burg. Done in convention this Third day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. .tXO. H. WALKER. President. D. L. IMBRIE, clerk. A true copy of ordinance of submission. 31. !!. QUAY, Snreldrif 0" the Commonweatth. REMEMBER THE 'THIRD O DECEMBER. 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