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SELECT POETRY.
MYSTERY.
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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.
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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
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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.
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