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
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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 ""
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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■
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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.,
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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;
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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.
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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
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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.
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' — 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.
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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
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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..
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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_
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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THE 'THIRD O DECEMBER.
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