. , A ~' , ;* Q' - (- - C-r.. /` - ' - e . .m-. . • . 4 t D , . . . THE . , , . . ~ MONTROSE EMOC ,',.. AT. E. B HAWLEY & Co., Proprietors: VOLUME 30. SELECT POETRY. MYSTERY. —o-- Wonder II oak and maple, Willow and elm anci all, Are stirred of bean by the coming ot the day that leaves must fall. Do they think of the yellow whirlwind, Or know of the crimson spray That shall be when chill November Beare all their leaves away Perhaps beside the water The willow bends. serene ' As when her young leaves glistened In the midst of golden green. ~ But the brave old oak is flushing To a wine-red, dark and deep, And maple and elm are blushing The blush of a chi') asleep. "If die we must," the leaflets Seem one by one to say, •• We will wear the cotofs of gladness Until we pass away. Bo eyes shall see us tatter ; And before we lay it clown. Well wear in the sight of all the earth, The year's most kingly crown." Bo trees of the stately fore t, • And trees by trodden Way, You are kindling into gluey This soft autumnal day. And we who gaze remember That MOM than nll they lost, To hearts and trees together Mir come through the ripening frost. MISCELLANEOUS READING TtLtT CLOCK. --o "You must hate forgotten to wind the clock last night, Roy, for it has stopped. Won't you wind it now, please, it is so much company fur me when you are awlvr St; Ray wound and set the clock, while his little wife went into the hall and got his overcoat ready, and then helped bun put it on—such a delicate tmdertaking requiring a little pull here and a little pat there, and always to he finished up by a knzs from the wearer. Well, to be sure it did take him a time to get started that morning, for after the u s ua l prolonge,! .o an unusual vent, he had gone out of the door, and as half war down the path to the gate, when-he lmird some one eallinq earnest lr, "Ray ! Ray 13. almond, dun t forget' What n was he was not to forget, was kSI in the noise of a cart going past, and be hail to return for the commission, and then of course he had to say good-bye again. At last he had got out of the gate, and it might reasonably have been infer• red that h; had really gone, when behold! 2 - n• came htirrying back to say, "Cora. don't forget Thomas' concert to night. What train will you come in on ?" `•Fire o'clock. I reckon. That is the most convenient hour. You'll go round arid WI Aunt Sallie we are coining to tea ?" "Yes, and I will try to meet you at the train, but if Ido not., you know the xr.ty to Auntie's, and it's nut far." "Nii,f can get there all right; good-bre!" with an amimpainment, •and oh! fl a y! don't forget to mail toy letter." Quickly flea the inoruit,g. while little Mts. nicninowd went mrrrilc about the housc. suigmg flay . , favorite i•ong,a, they bad not been married long. and the h , neytnoon was searc..ly over ; it was still a daily delight to Cont to "keep" here lit tle hirdti u. st of a home. After dinner she sat working in the cosy sitting n.um, and a methodical little woman that she was, she took a survey of the contents of her basket, that she might see how much could be dime that after. noon. "Let me see; I might to finish those wrist warmers for Ray, and braid the other Eh, ye ot mr 'cashmere &xcque before time to dress. Ido hope they will g:ve some Strauss' music to-night. Of course they will, though; why didn't I ask Ray for the programmer and she commenced braiding most vigorously. One, two, three, four, struck the little French clock in the dinning-room. and Mrs. Richmond sprang up. "Four o'clock already! My, hut I shall have to hurry if I'm in time for the five o'clock train."— And flying up stairs she came down again in an incredibly short time, looking be wiichinglv stylish in her fur-trimmed cloak, and turned up saucily velvet hat. As she walked toward the depot, she thought how convenient it was to live ea near to New York, where trains left al most every hour, three, four, five, and half past sir in the afternoon, and a ride of little more than half an hour hmtight one right into the city. So thinking, she reached the depot, bought her ticket, and Wa.9 soon flying toward the great metrop olis. Ray, was not there to meet her, but she did not think it strange, and it took lint a few moments walk to react; Aunt Sallie's. She had been seated in the family room bur a sh..rt time, telling auntie every th mg that had happened at the cottage dirrimi the last week. and listening to little Fre•ddie's eager, though incorherent, amount of the day's sport, when, looking at t h e hall clock. she paused, apparently struck dumb by a no.tiern Medusa. in the midst Of the recital commenced flu • etly enough of hay's odd ideas about line-keeping. "Chat is the Matter, child ? asked Anat Sallie, and even as she spoke the cork struck ponderonsly five. Why Auntie, that's impossible! It was fire o•i•hoek when f left it just cannot. h. fre tine," -0, nonsense, Cora- that el;.ek was never known to he wrong: you. - Lire made so--e mistake." No. I said Mrs; Cora. positively. Half Past five came, and then EIX, and a few im'aients after there was a sudden • sharp pelt at the hell, that• set it ringing as if fa r a fire alarm. "Merey on us," cried Aunt Sallie, fanning to the door herself in her excitement. '-What's the matte? . . Opening the door she was confronted Ray, his face pale to the very lips, and h:s voice husky with feelitte us he hastily tl , quaudedi"ls - Cora here?" "Yes," said Anl , t. Sallie. and was amazed to see him rush past her into the sitting room.where C,r e was met:ding Freddie's lines, and take her up in his arms, reins and all,kis sing her passionately. "If you only knew . my darling," he said, as he put her down again, breathless and startled, "what an unspeakable relief it is to me to see you satin safely here, when I feared you were—" and he stopped suddenly, at the mere memory of what he had reitea. There had heen an accidentereu in the half hones ride between New York and H—. and not more than two or three lives had been saved. Hay, going to the depot to meet Cora, heard only the hiwri• ble news of the accident, and, the impos. sibility of immediate action, ran over to Aunt Sallie's, in the blind hope that Cora had come by an earlier train. Well, they went to the concert, and en• joyed it, as no lover of pausic can fail to enjoy the "purtect oehestra r' and it was not na tit they were on the cars going home that night that Ray . finally asked, "Br the way, dear, what indac.d you to decide on the four o'clock train after all?" Cora shook her head; "I didn't decide on it at all, it was four o'clock when I went up stairs to dress, and that took me more than half an hour, and you know could walk to the depot in less than twenty minutes." "0, well! perhapi you don't know how to read time; 'ou thought it four when it was only three." "Ray Richmond! The idea! Besides, I' didn't look ; I heard it strike." "Then Ton counted." Cora said no more, bat shook her bead still unconvinced. • • • • "Nine o'clock! Why Cora, I shall be late at the office," cried Ray, as the two sat at the breakfast together the next morning. "What makes us so—" and he stopped short, as he and Cora both glanced up toward the mantel, for the dainty little clock whose silvery stroke had just counted nine, held its hands scarcely at eight. Mr, 'Richmond looked at his wife, Mrs. Raymond looked at her husband. "how did it (lappet, to come so, Ray ?" must. have got it wrong in setting it yesterday. I shall be grateful to the ac cident forever." "I think it was Providence," said Cora, gravely. IN Virginia City, Nevada, a gentleman has plactal on each side of the gravel walk leading from his front seat to his door, a handsome iron fence, top rail of which is made of gas pipes filled with small holes. Before he thus fenced his walk he was,much troubled by book agents. map peddlers, and other persistent people, but now all is lovely with him. When lie sees a man enter his gate with books un der his arm, fie simply turns a cock and instantly a thousand streams of water dart across the *hole length of the walk from side to side. The book peddler re treats to the gate, gazes wistfully up the walk for a time, concludes the man of the house does not want to see him, and then travels, wondering what sort of in fernal machines people will next invent for the discouragement of honest hulas. try. This beautiful and useful invention is not Detentes!. I offieka3 CONSTITUTION. -0- NE - w CossTrrtrrioN PROPOSED TO THE CITI ZENS OF TIM COLIIIONVEALTII FOR THEIR APPROVAL On lIMINL"noS, ay TILE CONSTI TUTIONAL CONVENTION. Published by order of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. in pursuance of the 4th section of an act of the Ger era! Assembly, entitled "An act to pro vide for calling a Courett non to amend the Constitution," approved the 11th day of April, A. D. 11372. PREAIIBLE. We, the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God her the ltaisinza of civil and religious liberty, and h :ml4 Invoking 'lie guidance, do ordain and establish this Constitution. ARTICLE L DECLARATION OP MOUT& That the general, great and essential princi ples of libeny and free government may be ree ognizee and unalterably established, we declare that— Szerbuiti 1. All men are town equally free and independent, nod have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of ac quiring., possessing and protecting property and ieputation, and of pursuing their own hap piness. Sec. 2. All power is inherent in the people, and all tree governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness. For the advancement of these ends they have at all times an inalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform or abolish their government In such manner as they may think proper. Sec. 3. All men have a natural and indefeasi ble right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; no man can of right be compelled In attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain ansiniinistry aFainst hts consent; no human atilliority can, an any . case whatever, control or interfere with the right of conscience, and no preference shall e'er be given by law to any re ligious establishment or modes of worship. Dec. 4. No person who acknowldges the bring of a God and a future state of rewards and pun ishments shall, on amount of his religious sen timents, be disqualified to hold any of or place of trust 0 , profit under this Common... wealth. Ste. L. Elect/nos shall be free and equal; and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to ravens the free exercised the right e.t satrap. &Er- G. Teal by jury shall be as heretofore, and the right thereof remain inviolate. Sec. 7. The printing pnse Mall be tree to er cry perwm eho may undertake to examine the -procect.wgsqf the iirislature or any branch of government, and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereat The free conimunica tion of thoughts and opinions is one of the in valuable rights of man. end every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, be. ing responsible for the abuse of that liberty. No conviction shall be Lad In any prosecution for the publication of papers. relating to the °tibial conduct of °inners or met in public capacity,or to any other matterrzopix for public Investiga tion or information where the fact that such publication was not maliciously or negligently made shall be established to the satisfaction of the jury and In all indictments for libels the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the Mete, under the direction of the court, as in other cases . _ SEC. & The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and possessions, from umeasonsble searches and seizures, and no war rant to seareb any place or seize any person or things, shall issue without dtaeribing them as nearly As may be. nor without probable cause, supported try oath or affirmation, subscribed to by the Want. tlec. D. Ip all criminal pthsecatione, the ac cused bath a right to behead by himself end his cmansel, to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him, to meet the witnesses face to face, to hare compulsory procesMor ob taining witnesses in his favor, and in prosecu tions by indictment-or Information, a speedy public trial by an „Impartial Jury of vicinage; he cannot bo compelledto Ore evidence against himself, nor cap bohe depriired.of his life, liter ib or property, uniess.by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land Ben. 10. No palm shall for any indictable TX , II. =TS .136.2.73:1 FLT.Ci-ST I OFICOM) ALIVE) 40P mr.vz, clenocrraimirrir. MONTROSE, SUSQUEHANNA. COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3, 1873. ofrense be proceeded against criminally. by in tOrUlatiOn. except In cases arising in the land or 1111Y4,1 forces, or In the militia, when in actual service, In time of war or public danger, or by leave of the court, for oppression or misdemean or in office. No person shall for the same of tense be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb ; nor shalt private property be taken or applied to public use without authority of law, and without just compensation being first made or secured. SEC. 11. All courts shall be open; and every man for an injury done him in his lands, goods. person, or reputation, skull have remedy by Inc course of law, and right and justice administer• eel without sale, dente!, or delay. Suits may be brought against the Commonwealth in such manner, in :atch courts, and in such e-ves as the Legislature may by lass direct. Sac. 11 No power 01 suspending laws shall be exercised unless • by the Leg6lature or by its authority. SEC. 1l Excessive bail shall not he reqkired,nor excesilvellnes imposed, nor cruel punishments inflicted. SEC. 14. All prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient tturetiet. miless for capital offenses, when the proof is evident or presumption great; and the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when the ease of rebellion or invasion the public safety may re quire it. Sec. I& No comni•sion of oyer and termlner or Jail delivery shall be isssued. SEC. 18. Tits person of a debtor, where there is not strong presumption of fraud, shall not he continued in pnson after delivering up his estate for the benefit of his creditors, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. SEC. 17. No ES POST vsyro law, nor any law impairing the obligation of con t. acts.or inking irrevocalde any grant of special prirtleg, or immunities, shall be passed. SEc. 18. No person shall be attainted of trea son or felony by the Legislature. ScE. 19 No attainder shall work corruption of blood, nor, except during the life of the of fender.fhrfeiture of estate to the Cotnmon wean the estate of such persons as shall destroy their own lives shall descend or rest as in cases of natural death, and if any person shall he killed by casualty; them shall be no forfeiture by ma son thereof Saw. 20. The'citizens have a right in n peace able manner to assemble together for their com mon good.and to a apply to those invested with the powers of government for redress or grit-v. abets or other proper purposes, by petition, ad drePs or remonstrance. ' Sec. 21. The right of citizens to bear arms in defiunte of themselves and the State shall not be quest toned. Sea 22. No standing nrmy shall, in time of peace, be kept tip without' the consen: of the Legislature and the military 011111. in nll roses, and at all times, be in strict subordination to the civil power, Sec. 2.3. No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house nithont the comsmt of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to he prescribed by la w See. 24. The Legislature shall not erant any title of nobility or henslitary distincth at, nor createany office the appointment of witielt shall be for a longer term than during maal behavior. Sec. 2:1. Emigration from the State shall not be priMittited. See. 20. To guard aeainst transerecsions of the Web powers which we have delegated, we declare that everythi-g in this article is except ed out of the general powers of government, and *Mall forever rem.tin inviolate. ARTICLE 11. I=l Srvrtosr 1. The legislative power of this Conumonweabh shall be ve-de , l in a General Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Reprc,eniatives. SEC. 2. Members of the General Assembly shall be chosen at the general election every second year. Their term of service shall begin on the'llrPtlearc or December n'nt alter t h eir election. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in either House, the presitl.ng officer thereof shall issue a writ of election to fill such VAVADC3' for the remainder of the Irma SEC 3. Senators shall be elected for the term of lour years and Representatives for the term of two years. The General Assemlsly shall meet at twelve o'clock noon, on the first Tu e sday of :lanuary every strand year, and at other lino" when convened by the Goventot. but shall hold no atijourrtml annual session utter the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight. In case ot a vacancy in the office of United States Senator from this Cononottnesßli, in a recess between ses—sion4, the Governor shall convene the two houses by proclamation on notice not carts:ding sixty days to till the same. . SEc. S. itsmators shall be at least twenty-five years of age, and Representatives twenty-one years of age. They shall have he , •n citizens anti inhabitants of the State four years, and ir.halti tants of their respective districts one year nest before their election (unless absent on time public business of the United Si.itcs or of this Statejanti shall reside in their respective districts during their terms of service. Sic. 6. No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil Mike muter this Commonwealth, and no member of Con gress or other person holding any office (except of attorney-at-law or in the militia} under the United States or this Gotuntotrwealth shall be a member of either house during his continuance in office. Sec. 7. No person hereafter convicted of em bezzlement of public moneys, britwrv, perjury oniother infamous crime. shall be tlikible to the General Assembly, nr capable of boltl:ne any race of trust or profit in this Commonwealth. SEc. 8. The members of the General ASSCIII bIy shall receive such salary and meleage for regular and special sessions as alma he [hod by law, and no other compensation whatever, whether for servie, upon committee or other wise. No niemlser of either house shall, during the term for which he um have been elected, receive any Increase of salary, or mileage,under any law passed during such term_ SEC. 9. The Senate stimi,at the beginning:lnd close wt each regular session and at such other times as may be necmtsary.elect one of its mem bers ptesident pro tempore, who shall perform the duties of the Lieutenant Governor, In any case of absence or disability of that otlicer, anti whenever the said office of Lieutenant Gover nor shall be vacant. The House of Itepresenta lives shall elect one of its members as Speaker. Each house shall chooseits other offi - ers, and shall judge of the election and qualithattions of its members. S. 10, A majority of each House shall con stitute n quorum, but a smaller number ratty ail fours front day to day, and wattled the attend coca of absent members. Sec. 11. EMIL) loose shall Wive power to de. termitic the rules of its Droceedinga and punish its members or other persona for contempt or disorderly heliacior in its presence, to enforce obedience to its process-to protect its - members against violence, or offers of Mines or private soileitation, and With the concurrence of two. thirds,to expel a member, but not a second time for the same eauseand shall have all other pow ers necessary Mr the legislative of a free State. tt member expelled for corruption shall not thereafter be eligi,le to either houseand meet for contempt or disorderly behavior shall not bar an indictment for the same offense. St . ..c. 12, Each house shall keep a journal of its promedings and from time to tune publisu the same. except such parts as require secrecy, and the yeas end nays of the members on any question shall. at the desire of any two of them, he entered on the journal. Sac. 13. The sessions of each house and of committees of the whole shall be open, unless when the business is such as ought to be kept acme. Sac: 14. Neither house shall, without the con sent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting. Sac. 15. The members of the General As sembly shell In all cases, except, treason, felony violation of their °sat of office, and breach or surety of Mit peace, be privateged from arrest during their attendance at the sessions of their respective houses, and in going to and return ing Anal the same; and for any speech or de• bate in either house, they shall not be ques tioned in any other place. See. 10. The State shall be divided into fifty Senatorial districts of compact and contiguous territory, as nearly equal in population as may he, and each district shall be entitled to elect one Senator. Each county containing one or more ratios of population shall be entitled to one Senator fur each ratio, and to an additional Senator for a surplus o: population exceeding three-flails of a ratio; but no county shall form a separate district unless it shall contain four fifths of a ratio, except where the adjoining counties are each entitled to one or more Sena tors, when such county may be assigned a Sena tor on less than four-fifths, and exceeding one half of a ratio, and no county shall be divided unless entitled to two or more Senators. Nu city or county shall be entitled to sedarate rep resentation exceeding one sixth of the whole number of Senators. No ward, borough, or township shall be divided in the formation of a district. The Senatorial ratio shall be Weer tamed by dividing the whole population of are State by the number fitly. Ser. 17. The members of the House nt Rep rcscntatives shall he appointed among the see end counties, on a ratio obtained by dividing the population of the State as ascertained by the most recent United States census by two hundred. Every county containing less than flue ratios shall have one representative for ev cry full ratio, and an additional representative when the surplus exceeds half a ratio; but each county shall bare at least one representa tive. Every county containing flee ratios or more shall have one representative for every full ratio Every city containing a population equal to a ratio shall elect separately its proportion of time representatives allotted to the county in which it is located, Every city entitled to more than four representatives, and every county having over one hundred thousand inhabitants, shall he divided info districts of compact and contiguous territory, each district to elect its proportion of representatives according to its population. but no district shall elect more than tone representatives Sec. 18. The General Assembly at its first session alter the adoption of this constitution, and immediately after each. United States de cennial census, shall apportion the State into S n dorsal and Reprcsentative districts Hg-ree ntey to the provisions of the two next preen (lit% SeCtiOnn. ARTICLE EL LEG isLATION. Sec. 1. No law shall he passed except by bill, and no hill shall be so altered or amended on its int.ssace through either house as to change its original purpose. Sc.E i. No bill shall he considered unless re ferred to a committee, returned therefrom, and Printed for the use of the members. 3. bill, except general appropriation bills, shall be passed, containing more than one subject, %%Melt shall be clearly expressed in its Sac 4. Every hill shall be read at length on three different days in each house; all amendments made thereto shall he printed for the ace of the members before the final vote is taken on the bill, and no bill shall become a law unless on its final passage the vote be taken by yeas and nays, the names of the persons vot ing for and against the same be entered on the journal,atul a majority of the members elected to each house be recorded thereon as voting in its favor. No amendment to bills by pne house shall be concurred in by the other. except by a vote ofa maturity alike members elected there to taken by yeas and nays, and the names of those voting for and against recorded upon the journal thereof; and reports of committees of cottivrear'' shall he adopted in either house only by the rote of a majority of the members elect ed thereto, taken by yeas and nays, and the names of those voting recorded upon the jour nal. tir.c. 6. No law shall he revived, antended, or the provisions thereof extended or conferred by reterence to its tine only, but so much there of as Is revived, amended, extended, or conferr ed. shall be re-enacted and published nt length. Fee. 7. The-General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law : Authorizing creation, extension or im pairing of liens; • Regulating the atriirs of enunties,eities,town ships, wards, boroughs, or school districts. Clanigine the'imines of persons or plates; the. venue in civil or criminal cases Authorizing the laying nut, opening, altering, Or maintaining roads,highways,streets or nlleys; Relating to ferries or bridges,ur incorporating terry or bridge eempanies, except for the erec tion of lir4;es crossing streams which form houLibtries between this and any other State; Vacating roads, town rdats,slieets or alleys Relating to cemeteries, graveyards or public grounds hot or the State; Authorizing the adoption or legitimation of children: Locating or changing county vitals, erecting new count or changing county lines; incorporating cities, town, or villages, or changing their charters: For the opening, and conducting of elections, or fixing or changing the place of voting; Granting divorces; Erecting new townships or boroughs, chang ing township lines,borough limits, or school dis tricts; Creating offices,or nrescribing the pormrs and duties of officers in counties, cities, boroughs, townships, election er school districts; t. ranging the law of decent or succession; Regulating the practice or jurisdiction ot, or changing the rides of evidence in any judicial proceeding or inquiry before courts, aldermen, justices of the peace, sheriffs, commissioners, ar bitrators. auditors, masters in chancery, or oth er tribunals, or providing or changing methods for the collection of debts, or the enforcing of judgments, or prescribing the effect of judicial sales of real estate; Regulating the fees, or extending the powers and duti,,4 of aldermen, justices of the peace, magistrates, t r constables; Regulating the management of public schools, the building or repairing of school houtuai, and the raising of money for owls purposes; Fixing the rate of interest; All'etting the ftdzte of minors or persons tin der disability. except after due notice to all par ties in intercst,to be recited in the special enact ment ; Remitting fines, penalties and forfeitures, or refunding moneys legally paid Into the Treasu ry; Exempting property from taxation ; Regulating labor, trade, mining, or manufac turing; Creating corporations. or amending,renewing or extending the charters thereof; Granting to any corporating, association, or individual anyspecial or exclusive privilege or immunity or to any corporation, asset - Milan or individual the right to lay down a mil:brad track. Nor shall the General Assembly indirectly enact such special or local law by the partial repeal of a general law, but Laws repealing local or spec. lal acts may he passed. Nut shall any law be passed granting powers or privileges in any case where the grunting of such powers and privileges shall have been provided for by gen eral law, nor where the omits have jurisdiction Co grant the stone or give the relief asked for. See. 8. No local or special bill shall be passed unless notice of the intention to apply therefor shall have been published in the locality where the matter or the thing to be affected may he situated, which nutlet-shall be at least thirty days prior to the introduction into the General As sembly of such bill, and in the manner to ho provided by law-, the evidence of oath notice having been published, shall he exhibited in the General Assembly before such act shall be pass ed. Site. 9. The presiding officer of each hong* shall. in the presence of the house over which be presides, sign all bilis and Joint resolutions passed bv the General Assembly, after their ti tles have; been publicly read immediately before signing, and the fact of signing shall by entered on the Journal. SEC. 10. The General Assembly shall prescribe by law the number, duties and compensation of the officers and eMployeis of each house, and no payment shall be made from the State 'Treasury, 'r be in any way authorized to any person, ez 'rept to an acting officer or employee elected of appointed in pursuance of law. SEC 11. 110 bill shall be passed giving any extra compensation to any pubile officer, sir. vant, employee, agent or contractor, after ser vietat shall have been rendered or contract made nor pr;wided for the, payment of any claims against the Commonwealth without previous authority of law. SEC.II2. All stationery, printing, paper, and fuel used In the legislative and other depart ments ,11" government shall be furnished, and the printing, binding, and distributing of the laws, Journals, department reports, and all oth er printing anti binding, and the repairing and furnishing the halls and rooms used fur the meetings of the General Assembly and its com mittees, shall be performed under contract, to be given to the lowest responsible bolder below such maximum price and under such regula tions as shall be prescribed by law ; no mem ber or officer of any •department of the gov ernment shall be in any way interested in such contracts, and all such contracts shall be sub ject to the approval of the Governor, Auditor General and State Treasurer. Sec. IS. No 13W shall extend the term of any public officer, or Increase or diminish his salary or emoluments alter his election or ap pointment. SEC. 14 All hills for raising revenue shall' originate in the Musa of Representatives, but the Senate may propose amendments as in oth er bills. SEC. 15. The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations lot the ortlivary expenskn of the executive, legb tive and judicial pepartments of the common wealth, interest on the public debt, and for public schools; all other appropriations shall be madety separate bills, each embracing but one subject. SEC. 16. No money shall be paid out of the Treasury except upon appropriations made by law and on warrant drawn by the proper offi cer in pursuance therea SEC. 17. No appropriation shall he made to any charitable or educational institution not under the absolute cnntrol of the Commonwealth other than normal schools established by law for the professional training of teachers to the public schools of the State, except by a vote of twut-birds 01 all the members elected to each house. SEC. 18. No appropriations except for pen sions or gratitudes for military services shall be made for charitable. educational or benevalant purposes, to any person or community, nor to any denominational or sectarian insututiun,cor poration or association. SEc. 19. The General Assembly may make anpropriations of money to institutions where in the widows of soldiers are supported or as sisted or the orphans of soldiers are maintain ed and educated; Inn such appmpriation shall be applied exclusively to the support of such widows and orphans. Sec. 20. The General Assembly shall not delegate to any special commission. private corporation or association, any power to make, supervise or interfere with any notnicipal im provement, money, property or effects, whether held in trust or otherwise, or to levy taxes or perform any municipal function whatever. Sec. 21.. No act of the General Assembly shall limit the amount to be recovered for in juries resulting In death, or for injuries to per sons or prOperty, sad in case of death such in jiirit.T., tile right of action shall survive, and the General Assembly hall prescribe Tor whose benefit such actions shall he prosecuted, no act shall prescribe any limits ions of time within which suits may be brought against corpora tions for Injuries to persons nr property, or for other causes different from those fixed by gen eral laws regulating actions against natural persons, and such acts now exiging are avoid ed. Sec. 22. No act of the General Assembly shall authorize the investment of trust funds by executors, administnitors, guardians, or other trustees, in the bonds or stock of any private corporation, and such acts now existing are avoided saying investments heretofore mad.. Sec. '23. File power to cnange the venue "in civil and criminal cases shall be vested in the courts, to be exercised in such manner 'as shall be provided by law, Sec. 24. No obligation or liability of any rail road or oilier corporation, held or owned by the Commonwmith, shall ever be exchanged, trans ferred, remitted, postponed, or in any way di miniAed by the General Assembly, nor shall such liability or obligation be released, except by payment therm! ir.to the State Treasuay. - See. 25. sVben the General Assembly s.tuill be eonvened in .speci%l session, there shall be no legislation upon subjects other than thttsedis;ig. noted in the proclamation of the Governor, cal. ling such session. Sire. 20. Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the eoneurremv or boo, houses may be necessary (except on the question of adjourn ment) shall he presented to the Governor, and before it shall take effect be 'approved by him, or being disapproved, shall be repassed by two• thirds of both houses, according tot he rules and limitations prescribed in case of a bill. SEC. 27. No State office shall be continued or created for the inspection or measuring of any merchond:se, manuiliettue or commodity, but any county or munici - Jality may appoint such officers when authorized by law. SEC. 28. No law changing the location of the capitol of the State shall be valid until the same shall have been submitted to the qualified elec tors of the Commonwealth, at a general election, and rattitied and approved by them, Sec. 29. A.moulier of the General Assembly who shall solicit, demand, or receive, or consent to receive. directly or indirectly, for himself or for another, lions any company, corporation or person, any money, offlee.appointinent, employ ment, testimonial, reward, thing of value or en joyment, or ret personal advantage or promise thereof, for his vote or official influence, or for withholding the smite, or with an understand. Ing, expressed or implied, that his vote or °M ehl action sbull be in any way influenced there by, or who shall solicit or demand any such money or other advantage, matter, or thing .aforesaid for number, as the consideration of his vote or official influence, or for withholding the same, or shall. give or withhold his vote or influ ence In consideration of the porner e or promise of such money. advantage, nuttier, or thing to another, shall'be held guilty of .bribery within the meaning of this Constitution, and shall in cur the disabilities provider} thereby, lot said of fense,nd such additional ipunishment as la or shall be provided by law. See, 20. Any person who shall. directly or in directly, offeri give, or promise any money, or eldmg of value, testimonial, privilege, or Person al advantage, to any executive or judicial MU cur or member, of the General Assembly, to in fluence him In' the performance of any of his I public or official dutics,sball be guilty of bribery, and be punished In such manner as shall be ' prOvided by Inv. • Sec. 31. The offense of corrupt solicitation of members of the General Assembly or-of public officers of tbeigate, or of any municipal divis , ion thereof, aid any- occultation or practice of solicitation of inch members or officers, tortilla , . once their official action,shali be defined by law, and shall he punished byllneantl imprisonment; EEC. 32. Any person may he compelled to [ta r tify In any lawful investigation or Judicial pro ceeding, spinet any person who may Vet charg ed with having committed theoffenseof bribery or corrupt solicitation, or practices of snlicita- • don. and shallnot be permitted to withhold his testimony upon the ground that It may crimi nate himself o' subject !Ifni to public infamy but such testimony shall not afterward be used against him hi any judicial proceeding, except for perjury in giving such testimony, and-any person convicted of either of the offenses 'tram 'said, studios Part of the nunlsbment therefor, be disqualfiletiTiom holding any office or • posi tion of honor, gust, or profit in this Common.- Sgc. 33. A member who: has a personal or private intemst in any measure or bill proposed or pending before the .General Assembly shall disclose the fact to the hereto Rl' which he- is a member and shall not vote, ereon. ARTICLE ; rim Exszorvs. Stenos: t The Executive Depart ment of this Commonwealth shall consist of a Governor. Lleatenant GoVernor, Secretary of the Commonwiralth, Attorney General, Auditor General, State , Treasurer, Secretary of Internal Terms 1 irly, :Mt: ILIZATI:eT3 A Dvant Affairs, and a Superbacetident of Publin Instate tion. SEC. 2. The supreme executive power shall be vested in the Governor, .who shall take care that the laws be Litiouily—exemiteili he shall be elitism& on the day of the genotal elec tion by the qualified electors of the Gommoo wealth, at the places where they shall vote for Representatives. The returns of every elec tion for Governor shall be cealtti up and trans mitted to the seat of government directed to the President of the Senate, who shallopen and publish them in the presence of the members of both houses of the General Assembly. The person having the highest number of votes shill be Governor, but it two or more be equal and highest In votes, one of them shall be chosen Governor by the Joint vote of the members of both houses. Contested elections shall he de ten-Mimi by a committee, to be seleeted trim both homes of the General Assembly, and formed and regulated iu such manner as shall be directed by law, SEC. 3. The Governor shall hold his office during four years from the third Tuesday of January next ensuing 111.9 election, and shall not he eligible to the office for the next succeed leg ten" SEC. 4. A Lieutenant Governor shall be chosen at the same time. In the same man ner, for the same terms, and subject to the same provisions as the Governor; he be presi dent of the Senate, but shall have no vote un /M9 they be squally divided. F.C.S 5. No person shall be eligible to tite office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor except a citizen of the United, States, who shall have attained the age of thirty years. and, bare been seven years neat preceeding, his election ar inhabitant or the State, unless he shall have been absent on the public business ut the Unit ed States or of this State. SEC. 6. No nietntwr of Congress or person holding any of under the United States or this State shall oxereige the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor. SEC. 7. The Govrrnor shall be com mander-in-cider of the army and navy of the Commonwealth. and of the militia,extept when they shall be called Into the actual fiervice of the 13nited Statt.. SEC. S. Re shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of two-thirds of all the members of the Senate, appoint a Secretary of the Commonwealth and an Attorney Genet , al during pleasure, a Superintendent of Public Instruction for four years, and such other offi cers of the Commonwealth as he is or may be authorized by the constitt,tion nr by law to ap point; be shall have power to fill all vacancies that null , happen in offices to which lie may appoint during the recess of the Senate by grunting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session ; be shall have pow• er to fill any Vacancy that may happen during the recess of the Senate, in the office of Audi tor General, State Treasurer. Secretary of to. ternal Affairs or Superintendent of Public In struction, in a judicial office, or in any other elective office which he is or Way be authorized to fill : If the vacancy shall happen during the ses sion of the Senate, the Governor shall nomin ate to the Senate, before their. final adjournmet, a prop?r person to fill said vacancy. But in any such case of vacancy, in an elec tive office., a person shall be chosen to said of fice at the nekt general election, unless the va cancy shall happen within three calendar months immediately prececding such election, in which case the election for said (dire shall be held at We second succeeding general elec tion : In acting on Executive nominations, the Senate shall sit with open doors, and In confirming or rejecting the nominations of the Governor, the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays, andshall be entered on. the journal. SEc. 9. He shall Love power to remit fines and forfitutes, to grant reprieves, (men iutwatluirei or :actitence awl pardon., except• in crises of impeachment, but no pardon shall t).) grunted, norsentenee commuted, except upon the recommendation in writing ofthe Lieu count Governor, Secretary of the Commonwealth, At torney General and Secretary of Internal Affairs. of any three of them, after full hearing, upon due public notice and in open session, nod suet. recommendation, with the reasons therefor at length, shall Le recorded and filed in the office of the Secretary of the Coaunnwealth. SEC. IQ. ne may tx-rittire information in writing from the officers of the Executive De partnient,upnei any subject relating to the duties or their rospective SEC. 11. He shall, from time to tint , . give to the General Assembly information of the state of the Commonwealth, and recommend to their consideration spelt measures as he mar Judge expedient. Sec. 12. He may. nn extraordinary oc eavions, convene the General assembly, and in case of disagreement between the two houses, with respest to the time of adjournment, adjourn them t^ such time as he shall think proper, rim exceeding (bur months. fie shall have power to convene gm Senate in extraordinary session. by proelamationjor thetrunsuction of executive businevs. SEC. 13. In case of the death. conviction on impeachment, failure to quarry, resignation, or other disability Of the Governor. the powers. duties, and emuluments of the office for the re mainder of the term,or until the disabillity be motored, shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Goy. Sec. 14. In case of A rilettlley in the office of Lieutenant Governor, or when the Lieu tenant Governor shall be impeached by the House of Ilepresentativen, or shall be unable to exercise the duties of his oftice.the powers, duties, and emoluments thereof for the remainder of the term, or until the disability be remover shall devolve upon the President rno TEXYCILIE of the Senate; and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall in like manner become Governor if a vacancy or disability shall occur in the office of Govern or; hissistt as Senatorshall become %mains when ever he shall become Governor, and shall ho filled by election canny other vacancy in the Senate. Sec. 15. Every bill which shall have passed both hinises shall be presented to the Governor; if he approve, he shell sign it; but if he shall not approve, be shall return it with bil.objections to the house In which it shall have originated, which Wiese shall enter the objec tions at large upon their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. after such reconsideration,two thirds of all the members elected to that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent 'with the objections to the other house, by whicklike wise, It Shall he reconsidered, and II approved by two.thires of all the members elected to that house, it shall be a law ; but In such e des the votes of both louses ahall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the members voting tor and against the hilt shall he entered on the journals of each house respecilvtly. If any bill shell not - be returned by the Governor %rialto ten days niter It shall have been presented to - him, the sable shallbe a law in like manner as if be bad signed it, unless the. General Assembly, by their adjournment, prevent its return, In which case it shall be a law, unless he shill- file the eanie, with his objectons, in the office of the.. Secretary of the Commonwealth, and give no. tics thereof by public proclamation within %hit.. ty days.after such adjournment. Sec. Pi. The Governor shun have power to disapprove of any hem or items of ars frith matting appropriations of money, embnleing I distinct items, and the part or parts of the bfl aPProvcd.shall be the law,and the item or items of appropriation disapproved shall be void, less repassed according to the rules and limita thous prescribed for the p;lsage or other bills Over the executive veto. , Sec. - 17. The Chief Jottice of the Su -1 preme Court shall preside upon the trial of any contested election of Governor or Lieutenant Governer, andahall decide questions regarding the admissibility of evidence, and shall, upon request of the committee, pronounce nom ion upon other questions of law Involvedfl• the trial. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor. shell exercise the duties of their respective ()tir eel until their successors shall be duly qualified: SEC. 18: The Secretn.i. - of 'the Coni mouwealth shall keep a remid of all official acts NUMBER 48. and pt ccedings of the Governor, and when re quinal lac the same, with all papers, minutes and cnocilera relating thereto. before either branch of the General Assembly. and perform such other duties as may be enjoined upon him by law. Sic. 19. The Secretary of Intern t 1 Af fairs shall exercise all the power* and perform all the duties or the Surveyor General, subject to such changes as shall be made by law. His department shall embrace a bureau of !talus• trial 3141 t iStiCl.l3flll he shall discharge such duties relating to corporations,to the charitable Inati• Unions. the agricultural, manufacturing, min• ing, mineral. timber and oilier material or be• slums interests at the State as may beprescrih nt by law. tie shall annually, and at such other times as tally be required by law, malt,, report to the General Assembly. Scr, 20. 'l'h.• Sttpertia .wielif of Pab• lie instruction'sball exercise all the powers and perthnn all the duties of the Superintendent of Common Sehools.subject to such changes as shall be made tsv law. Sec. 21. The term of the Secretary of Internal Affairs shall he four yeas, of the - Au. Sitar General, three years, and of the State Treasurer two years, These officers shall- las ehosen by the qualified electors of the State at genera) elections. No person elected to the or. flee of Auditor General or StateTressnretaball be capable of holding the same race for two consecutive terms. S. 22. The preeent Great Seal of Pennsylvania shall be the Peal of the State. I.: All commissions shell be in the name and by authority of th. Commonwealth of Penneylca nia ant be sealed with the Sun* seal anoisigt4- cd by the Governor. ARTICLE V. TIIE St:DICIABY. • SECTION 1. The jodiciai Fewer nt. this Commonwealth shall be rested in the Su- preme Court, in courts of common pleas, courts of oyer and tprmlner and general jot[ Jellvery. courts of quarter session of the peace, orphan: Courts, magistrates' courts, and in such mho: courts as the General Assembly may from time to time establish. SEC. 2. The Supreme Court shall Con gist or seven judges. vri.o shall be elected by the qualified electors of the State at large.— They shaft bold their offices for the term of twenty-one years, if they en long behave them. selves well, but shall not be again eligible. Tim Judge whose volDlIASSi01) shall first expire shall be chief justice, a n d thereafter each judge whose comml .sion shall first expire shalt In turn he chief fusiim. SEo. 3. The joriSdmtion of the Su preme Court shall extend over the State. and the judges thereof shall, by virtue of their oil)- des, he justices of flyer and' terminer and gen eral jail doneery in the serend counties; they shalt mitre origmni jurisdiction in cases of in junction, and where it coffneat'on is a party de fendant, of habeas corpus. of starrosXtra to Courts of inferior jurisdiction; and of Qto WAIIIIAITTO as to nil oilicers of the Common• wendh whose jurisdiction extends over the State. but shaft not exercise any other original jurisdiction; they shall bare appellate jurisdic tion by al.real. CERTIoIIAni or writ of errors in nii eases, as is now or may hereafter by provi ded by law. Sr.or 4. rutil otherwise by ditecfrd lAty the courts of common pleas shall continue es at present established, except as herein champ. ed; nut more thou four months shall, at any time. be included in one judicial district organ ized for said courts. Sic. 5, Whenever a county eltall Con • tato forty thonsenti inhabitants it shall consti tute a separitte judicial district, and shall eledt one juiltre learned In the law; and the Geneva: Assembly shall provide for additional Judges,as the business o the said districts suay require.— Counties •tontntning a population less than Is sufficient to constitute separate districts shall be formed into convenient single districts, or, necessau. nosy be sttucbed - to tontigtums d;s- Oa; Geor•ral Assembly may provide.— The Office of assortate judge, not learned in the,. law, is abolished in counties forming separato districts; " ut the several associate judges lo miiire when this constitution shall be edGpteLl shall serve fur their unexpired terms. SEC. G. In the emu' led Philatlelph:ts and Allegheny. all the jurisdiction and power' now vested in the District Courts and Courts of Commou Picas. subject to such changes as may be made tiy this constitution or by law. aballlia in Philadelphia vested in lour,and in Allegheny in two distinct and ; separate courts of equid nod co ordinate juriiiirtion, comprised of slim s judges curb ; ~ tire tee courts In Philadelphia shall be designated respectively as the Coon of Common Pleas number one, number two, num ber three and number four, and in Allegheny sa the Court of Common Pleas - number one and number two, but the number of Said CUIIII► may be by law iocrensed, from time to time, and shall be in like manner desigdated by coßive numbers; the number of juclges,in env of said courts, or in any county where -the e.- iablislinient of an additional court may be all• Unitized by law, may be itiracosal from time to time; nun wit :never such increase shall amount in the wht le to three, such three, judges shall comprem a distinct and separate court as afore said; which shall be numbered as aforesaid. In Philadelphia all suits shall be institute_ in tine Said Courts of Common Pleasovithont designs ling the number of said court, and the severl, Courts shall distribute anti apportion the Dual. , news among them in such manner as shall bs provided by rules of wart, and each court to which any suit shall be thus assigned shall have exclusive jurisdiction thereof, subject to chango of venue, as oh tit lie provided by law. In At. legbeny earl, court shall have exclusive jab. diction of all proceedings at law and In equity Commenced Mervin. subject to change of venue as may be provided by law. SEC. 7. For .Philatlelphis titer , shall bo one Prothonotary's office, and one iorall,saldcourts, courts, to be apptinted by thejudgra or sail courts, and to hold °Mee for three years, :•anitject - to removal by a majority or the sail judges; the said Prothonotary shall appoint such assistants as may be necessary and a uthotiz ed by said courts, and he and hlsassistantsshall receive hied salaries, to be determined by law anti paid by said county; all fees collected in said office. except such ns may be by law ulna to the Commonwealth, shall be paid by the; Pm thonotary into the county treasury. Each court shall have hs separatedockets, except the Jong. meet docket. which shall contain the judgemnt a and liensot all the said courts, as is or may be directed by law. -' . , SEC. 8. 'rite said courts in the counties or Philadelphia and Allegheny respectively shall. 'from time to time, in torn; detail onem more of their judges to hold the courts of Over and Terminer and tho marts of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of saki - counties In such manner as may be directed by law. SFO. S. Judges of the Courts of Com mon Pleas loaned In the law shall bejudges of the courts of. Oyer and Terminer, Quarter 13es - sinus or the Peace, and General Jail Delivery, and of thc Orphans Court, and within their re spect ire districts shall be justices or the meet's to criminal matters.-- - SEc. ID: The indaert nr the Courts Of Common Plees, within theirrespectiveroanties, Anti have power to issue writs nr 1111:111101tAIII to lustiees or the peace and other inthrioreourti not of record. and means° their proceeding to be brought before them and right endjuatiee to be done; it. Exc e pt 10 Otherwise provided In this CoUstitution, Platers. of tiro pears or aldermen shall be elected In the several wards, districts: boroughs and townships at the time of the election nr coustahlo, by the qualified elec tors theienf. In such manner as shall he directed by law and shall be ctimmissioned by the Gov ernor Cur a term of 'lye years.' No township, ward, diitriet or borough shall elect mute than two justices of timpearo or- ablerman without the consent of a majority of the qualified else. tors 'within such township,ward or humugh ; ; no person shalt bedewed to such office unless be shall barn resided within the townshlps,borounh Ward or til.trict for one roue next preceding his election. In eitieseonta filing over filly thottsand inhabliants, nut mom Wan ono alderman shall be elected in each ward or district. ICoottedsd on routtb Pagel
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