the Family circle. From the hew York Mirror. o, TO Tag =AD.' They said thy heart had ceased to beat; T./Agentle voiceirad ceased to sound ; They kid Me to thiawitikritritat, p.a..."l 4 l i pointed to this lowly mound. ...Pk Ole, iniAbsii sculptured lines 4 A 0 "1'101111114.11ktiehtge; thy - Virtu - es tell: :7,-*ittiniritoonslitatlOlniart Beelines • Ip s r that taars-ournever,quelL llb kbotdd it be—l could not brook . - Tleisrcidd about thy Intaglio see; • .I_couM not•bearahe elightestliook • ' That robbed nurof myrigPtloshes. - clArid-poptyand weak; and-worse than vain. • .4-IWedifill that strove to paint thy worth ; Ab ! what were now the loveliest-straki But mockery, from the.G(ls ofearth forth:sib Would be the burden, still, '; (The only note to jar mine ear.). The rest, though cro-vds enraptured .1 could not heed, could not hear. Enough ! enough ! since- thou art not. No more on earth I ask to know ; • I. hatint this desirtiptit, ..t 1, And dream ; of all thatubmps below. .ZIZ4TiI 07 LADS OPOTTs Shirailid at nine in the morMag, afteritaing ill • , the- two days--easy at last.. -I. arrived here late last night. Anne is worn out: r and has bad bpi • • terielui, .which-returned on ley- arrival. 1 ) 1 4 % itroken-accents were like those of a child,' ' langoige as well as the tones broken, but in the most gentle voice of submission. ".Poor mamma —never return again gone;: forever--a , better place." Then, when she crime to herself, she -spoke with sense, freedom and strength of mind, till herweakneas returned. it would have been inexpressibly moving to me as a -stranger-, .. what wan it, then, to the father and the husband? -For myself, I scarce knew , hdw I feel—some times as grin as the 'Bassßock, -sometimes as -weak as the water thathrealtd ; on it. I am as Alden atthinking and deciding as 'I ever was in . My life.' Yet, when I contrast what this place now is, with what it has been not long since, I '.thinic my heart will break. Lonely, aged: and deprived of my family—all but poor Anne! an impoverished, an embarraimed man, deprived of -the sharer of my thoughts and councils, who could always talk down my sense of the calamit ous apprehensions which break the heart that must bear them alone. Evert her foibles were of service .to me, by giving me things to think of -beyond my weary salt-reflections. I have seen • her. The figure I beheld id, and is not, my Charlotte—my thirty years' companion. There . is the same symmetry of forno, though thine limbs are rigid which wore 'once so gracefully elutick—but that yellow mask.• with pinched features, which seems tc mock life rather than t ~-emulate it, can it be the tae.eihat was once so full erlive‘ly et:Pre/skins ? I will not look on it a • , gain. Anne thinks her little changed, because. .the !mein idea she had formed of her mother is as she appeared under nirciimstances.of extreme „pain. Mine go bawl to a period of comparative • ease. df I. write long in this way, I shall write -down my resolution, which I should rather write - ,-up, if I could. I wonder h4v I shall do with the large portion of thoughts which were hem ferl thirty years.. I suspect they will be tiers yrit;' :Ow a-long time, at least. Out I will not blaze cambrick and crape in the publick eye, like a ' 'disconsolate widower, thatlmost affected of all characters. Last night, Anne. after. conversing with apparent ease, mopped soddenly down as she rose from the supper-table, andlay six or sev - "en minutes, as if dead.. Chirkson, however, has • no fear of these affections. i .. Another day, and a bright one to the external ' . Worldeugain opens on us; the air soft, and the r;- IhiWits smiling, awithe led es _glittering. They wa i . - enittiot refresh-bet-to 'id ~.. mild weedier was a ---,T. natant enjoymeoL Care ents of lead and wood : ' - already held her ; cold eat tit must have her soon. ~, , But it, is not my Charbattif, it is notthe bride of -• my youth, the mother of My ehildren, that will - .be laid among the ruins of Dry burg, which we hare so often visited in gaiety and pastime. No, - -, nu.. She is sentient and Conscious ofmy emu.- ,-, , lions somewhere-somehcip ; when, we Cannot 6 . tell ; haw, we cannot tell; ypt would I not, at this. moment, renounce themisterious, yet certain. hope, that I,nhall see her lb a better world, for all that this world can give me. The necessity of this rceperation, that noir...telly which rendered it even a relied; that and patience must be al , ~ - comfort, Ido not experience those - parozisms • of grief which others do on the same occasion,--; I cannot exert myself, and speak even cheerful ly with the pear gi•la. Bat alone, or if anything toadies me, the eheking_ sensation. I have been to her room ; there was no voice in it—no stir • ring; tbs. pressure of the coffin was visible op the bed, but it had been rernoiFied elsewhere ; all was nest, as she loved it, but all -was calm—calm as death. I remembered .this last sight of her; she raised herself io bed, and tried to tarn her eyes atter me; and said, with assort of smile, '• You all -have such: melancholly faees." These were the last words I ever heard her utter', and I harried away, foi she did not seem quite conscious of • what she said ; when I rethrned, immediately de parting, she was in a deep sleep- It is deeper now. This was but seven 'days since. They are arranging the clamber of death ; That which was long the apartment' a connubial happiness, and of whose arrangements (better than in richer Ironies) she was so proud. They are trending . ' fast and thick. For sleek; you could hive Wd. • fixot-balL—.Diary of Siri,Weiter. Scott. 4 ; % • riII:COMM airrativaimws. , ~.; Of ill tlic acts of folly and cruelty of which parental blindness can begnilty, there is none more to be lamented: (bait; that , which, from the • pride of displiti. M .even'the . more. generous de.• - ore for improvement, in my one to press on infancy the tasks fitte4-for youth; or demand : • from youth the -wisdom .4-manhood. It is rend ing and neattering,the bloisoms, in orrier to reach `the freitwhieh, if obtaimid, is immature, onnat. safe) and therefore nriplitisant ;it is the conduct -of an- -Egyptian task-manter. demanding a work . • without the material which fowl it,; an arraign- . . ing of the - wisdom and tirovidenceofGod, srbo i in rendering man the mat perfect of hie ' crea— .tures.lias -yet evidently made hiii progress the 'slowest towards the attikinmant of his powers. sTliatyillolence must be 4toqueked r d industry - elicited in children thcrsi is no de ping. Com, „OA recktation of Greek, treses at ten ylrial 011 t. the ..... pn* Opining dateulthnuilic At iiithtloy•fing. ~ imp* half grown, or '4 ,orthel wood -atoreaen and hear an much of...refiky a .bloornini - girl: for e yd the Vases that are hanis - the breath *that is shorteneli.4le appetite th is fled,the spine that is curveting, - the sumo Of oyfui !;iiitence whieli . , ..yt Tri...i- J 3 ,•: Q.A. ..- - . Air . ... ... • . 1... ' if ''.. 4 - butte ullikeea is vast' . er f Tam istli s' -. ...." 1 beet/wend win heattieittioverritpi ."--t •.; ..",- TS-7 , p , an r r, A ., t. .t,' , l v. Attits4 1 s r s t i kEdittaiiones-74 two mad ot z Amu iirrs , s7 ;zeir tr ities ;stout eeettiry* , eismity.iitiirising us - '7., Is .0 1440 ADINFOU . 4 our tg , , ,so demands agi 04- ?j lion' to tbe Other. ita ..intelbgebt ..s', /.stri ter* is the mostO independent end most - . i ,,_11 , insittips thellee If the egtb, as his ibiists - 1 , -; liy kept elestAinti bi otioervations eel ruse sod banners of likare costeet—he is gee. grail' fount) to be the iTistst Statymaa.-1). 4,.. tit* 1.41 : 4 `,e , raz i. CONErittOnOig COMMONWEALTH QF PENNSYLVANIA, AS LIMPED IT THE CONVENTION OF ONE TnotaAND &WUX lIVITDEED AND TIFLITY-ALVEN-' TIFIETVtIGIFE. ""VE,The People of the Couonotierehlth of Penn sylvania, ordain end estabhah thitCotkotitutiun tot its Govetament. ARTICLE I. Section I. The legislative power of this Common wealth shall be vested in a General Assembly, which shaltreonsist of a Senate and House of Repre sentatives. Section IL The representatives shall be chosen annually by the citizens of the city of Philadelphia and of etch county respectively on the Second Tues day of October. Section 1111.110 person shall be 'a representative who shall not have'attained the age of twenty-one years, and have been a citizen and inhabitant of the State three years next preceding hit election, and the last year thereof an inhabitant of the distrid in and for which he shall be chosen a representarire, unless be shall'have bees absent on the publicbusiness of the United States or of this State. . _ Section'lV. - Within' three- years after the first meeting of the'General Assenibly, and withirt every subsequent term of settn , years, an enumeration of the taxable inhabitants Shall be made in such man aer4agiftil..he directed - t aw . The number of tnnintehbilliest.thall, at the stverod periods of mak ibgiiiitCetntilie4-ation, be fixed by the Legislature, arldnirplittioned among the city of Philidelphia and the leventPktounties, according to the number of taxable inhabitants in each :Sind shall never be less than -sixty: nor greater than one hundred. Each emmtyshall have at Least one representative, but no county hereafter erected shall be entitled to a sera-. rate representation until a staticat a - gaudier of tax able inhabitants shall be - contained Within it, to entitle them to one representative agreeably to the ratio which shall then be establ6ised. Section V - . The 'senators shall be chosen for' years by the citizens of Philadelphia and of the several counties at the same time; in the Lime man ner, and at the same plates , where they shall vote for representatives. Section VI. The number of Senatorsilhall, at the several periods of making the enumeration before mentioned, be fixed by the Legislature-an.l appor tioned among the districts formed as hereinafter directeil, according to the number of taxable inhabi tants in each;. and shall never be less than one fourth, nor ;treater than one-third, of the number of representativeit. Section VII. The senators shall be chosen in df - trice', to be formed by the legislature; but no dis trict shall be so formed as tb entitle it to elect more than two senators, unless the .number of taxable in habitants in any city or county shall, at any lime, Pe such as to entitle it to elect more than two, but no city or county shall be entitled to elect more than four senators r when a district shall be composed of two or more •cotifitiesi,they shall be adjoining ; neither the city of Philadelphia nor soy county shall be divided in forming a district. Section 111. No person shall be a senator, who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years, and have been a citizen and inhabitant of the State four years next before his election, and the last year thereof an inhabitant of the district for which he shall be chusen, - unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States or of this State; and no person elect* as aforesaid, shall hold said (lice sfter he shall Übe rentoeedfrons such dis trict. Section IX. The senators who tuzy be elected at the first general eleition Wet the adoption of the amendments to the constitution, shall be divided by lot into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the first year ; cf r the second class at the expiration of the second year,/ and of the, third class at the as piration of the third year t so that thereafter one third of the utak atatiber of Senators may be chosen every year. The ritiators elected before the amend- menu to Ae constitution Mali be adopted, shill hold their offices during the terms for which they shall respectively Aaarbeen elected. Section X. The General Aesembly shall meet on the first Tueiday of January, in every year, unless Sooner convened by the Governor. Section .xe Each house shall choose its Speaker and other Officers} and OS Senate shall also choose :Speaker pro tempore, when the Speaker shall ex ercise the office of Governor. Section XII Each horse shall judge of the quAli ficatffins of its members. Contested elections shall .be determined by a committee to beielected, formed and regulated in such JI3aOFICS' as shall be directed by law. A majority or each louse shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authutized by law to compel the attendance ofabsent members, in such manner and under such 'penalties as may be provided.,_. '..,ffection XIII. F.ach house may determine the nil's.* of its proceedings, punish its members for ins - orderly beim viJur, and with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member, but not a second time fur the same cause t and shall have all other powers necessary for a branch tif the legislature Of a (see State. Section XIV. The legillntore shall not have power to enact laws u...;uttling lheApatrarl of marriage in any ease u-here, by law, (hi courts of this Common wealth are or may hereafter be empowered to decree & divorce. Section XV. E..ch howie shall keep s jounial of its proceedings, and publish there'weekly, except such parts as may require secrecyr and the yeas and nays of the membee on any question shall, at the desire of aity.two of them, be entered on the journals. Section XVT. The &stirs of each house and of hommittees of the whale shall be open, unless, when the business shall be suchas ought to be kept secret. Section XVII. Neither house shall; without the consent of the other,sulonrn for more than three days., nor to any other p ace than that in which the two houses shall be sitting. Srctidn XVIII. The Senators and representatives shall receive r s compensation for their services t o be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth. They shall in all cases, ex cept treason, felotiy,and''breach 9r surety of the peace, be privileged front arrest during their at tendance at' the session, of their respec tive , houses, and in going to and returning from the came. And . for any speech or debate: in either house, they shall' not be questioned in atiy otherplace. Section XIX. No Sestor or representative shall, during the time fur which he shall have been elect ed, be appointed to any Civil-office under this Com monwealth which 'ball , have: bee*. created, or the emoluments of which jarail have 'been increased durinf such time r "and :no member of CAngNss or other person boiling art} other (except hf aitotney ' arbor a nd tbemilitia) under the United States or. this Commonwealth,. Shalt-be a member of tither - house during his,cantinuance in Congress or -in Section XX. When , . preaneles-lasTonee in either honse„.the Speaker shall issue writs of election - - Olt such vacancies: „Section /CM. ion sing revenue ,shall" °right:LW hi the Notiliebeirsiiiis' enlativesbuf the SinatiMiayirropossineinidusentsssin other bills. Section XXII. No money 'Shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequepce of appropriations made by law. " Section XXUL Every MU which Will lave pashed both houses shills be presented' to' the G. verool. If be approve,' he shall irgu it, but if he shall not approve he 'shall return it with his objet= dons to the - house hi w.f. havelwiginated, `Whoattall enter the obetiblus,at large upon their journals ana proceed re-consider it. If, after aach;repirliideisatiork, terckitird44 that:Muse shall • agree to t shall besent With the oh." hroggh het accOnt: • • ...Relined 4Wliale.olll. : REFINED whale Oil. is a_ad bole. 'Re male by 81114 ER & HAGGERTY. Net 18 394an0 ~, ,-{ •27, . , • PC al i 0Y TUE puagERS? JO Minos .to the: other. bum, which Jiketwisti it Shall be ire:cotiskkrred, and i approved. tly ,ivra a l th thirds of that boom, it shall be a law. Burin such eases the 'votes of both houses be detenttine& by yeas Mid nays, and then of persons toting for or against the DM - shill be tereil on OM jottr oats of etch house respeetiVel . If any bill Shall not be Mturited'hy the - Golfe in' within ten ys ' (Sundays, excepted) after it I have been l ie settled whim, stsliell be a law in likeitnannei be_had signed it, unless the Dena Assembly, their adjeurnment, prerenhils ', in which it shall be a lays . nukes back within days after their next meeting. liectMil XXIV: Evili mac ;resolution 'or' to which the concurrence of . ,th bums may necessary (except on a cues of adjourn' • shall be presented to the Go r, and befo shill take effect, be ap i prt . z7i tun, or being approved, shall he re two-thirds of • . Wines according to the rules limitations scribed in case of a tall. Section XXV . , No corporate hodyshill be /wren treated, rename, or extended, With banking or 'counting privileges without Six months pr public notice of the intended) application for same is such manner as shall prescribed by Nor shall wilt charter for the poses of - crlnontv granted for a longer period th twenty years, every such charter shall coil n a clause r . to the legislature the power to er, revoke or the same whinweer in their onion it may be i rivets to the citizens of the erdth, in manner' owever thallso injus 'et shall be done t corporalors. No law hereqftre enacted, shall cr renew or extend the charter of paore than one co ration. ARTICLE !H. . Section I. The Supreme Executive power of Commonwealth shall be va in a Guvernor. Section If. The Governor s all be chosen o. second 'Tuesday of October, , y the citizens o aelCommonwealth, it the pl where they shat speetively vote for represerifives. The re. ( .t of every election for Govern r shall be seal-. up and transmitted to the seat of ; government; di • ted to the Speaker oNtthe Senate,' who shall open and publish them in fhb presen of the membe of both houses of th e licgulatu The person . ing 4, t highest niumber of v shall be Gove ..r. t-g , nig more shall be ual and high in 1r ' a of, HAM than be inen Governor b the joilt„ • AIM JiMpbers ' 1 both 'houses. .n -44f, tested Atiiiiiihtillite'dete hied by a Committee to be selected fiord 'ltorti - ses of the legislature, and fortned and regulatid in such manner as shall be directed by law. i Section 111. The Govemon shall hold his office during three years from the third Tuesday of Janu ary next ensuing his electibn, and shall not be capable of holding it longer Ilan six in any term of nine years.' Section I". He shall be at least thirty years of age, anditave been a -years and an inhabitant of j this State seven ea nes before his election ; unless he shall have been inept on the public business of the United Stat or of this State. Section V. No member Congress or 'person holding any office under the United States or this State shall exercise the Mike of Governor. Section VI. The Govern° shall at stated times receive for his services aco pensation, which shall he neither .increased nor imiuished during the period for which he shall h been etteted. i Section VII. He shall be' Mmander-in-chief of the army and riavy of this ommonwealth, and of the militiA, except when th y shall be called into the actual tetvtce of the United St ates. _ . Section VIII. lit shall appoint a Secretary of the Comnionrceeti/h during pleadere, and he shall nomi nate and by and with the advice and consent if the Senate appoint all judicial officers of courts of record, unless °the:lcier pro ded for in this Cond i !titian. lie shat re power to fill all' vacancies that may happen in such jadicial offices,during the recess of the Senate, by granting cmuussions which sholl:e.rpire al the tad of th eir neil se tio!S : Pro .vidi .1, that in acting on erendive nominations the Senate shall sit with open doers. and in confirming or rejecting the nontination4 of the Governor, the rote shaU be taken by yeas add nays. Section IX. He shall bar* power to remit fines end forfeithres, and grantreprieves and pardons, except in cases of impeachment. Section X. He may requirelinformntion in writing, from the officers in the , exectitive department upon illy subject relating to the duties of their respec tive offices. Section XI. He shall, fruits time to time, give to the General Assembly inforrnation of the state of idle Cummonweslih, and reebrumetid to their con sideration such measures as hr shall judge expedient Section XII. Ile tri.y, on 'eh traordinmy °tensions, convene the General Assenibly i and in case of disagreement between tbe,tesio houses, with respect to the time of ,Lijournmegl,;adj..iurn them- to such ime as he shall think proper, out exceeding tout .nunths. Section XIII. Ile shall s t ate tare that the laws be faithfully executed. , .. , Section 3iIV. to Case of t . is de a th en. resihreatiee of the Governor, or of his moral - Spar o ffi ce, the Speaker of the Senate sha t exercise, the office of Governor, until another t' vernor shall be duly qualified; but in such case ' , Another Governor that. be chosen at the nen annual 'election of representa tives, unless such death, resignation Or removal, shall occur within three %end= num:he immedi ately preceding such next eat election, in which case a Governor shall be &nen at the second sue feeding annual election of :representatives. And if the trial of a contested erection shall continue longer than until the third Monday of January next ensuing the election of Governor, the Govemot of the last year or the Speaker of the Senate who may be in the exercise of the eicecutir anthority, shall Continue therein until the determination of such contested election, and until a Governor shall be duty gisafified as aforesaidl Settion XV. The Secretory of the rommantonath shall keep-a fair register of ell the official acts and proceedings of the Governess and shall, when re quired, lay the same .and 11 ripen, minutes and vouchers relative thereto, - fore either branch of the, legislature, and shall 'pe own such other duties asikall be enjoined him by aw. ARTICLE (IL --) Section I. In elections by he citizens every white freeman of the age of twenty-one years, having re sided in this date one pan t and in the election die_ !rift where he offers to vote , . ten days immediately prareding such election, ail within trio years paid a - Stale or County tar, ichtich shall hare bein as sessed dl !cast ten days Wore the election, shalt enjoy thetrights of an elector. 841 citizen of the United States who-had preciously a qualified rotes'''. this Sate, and resumed therfrons andieturnai, and mils shall hare resided in I election district, and .Imsfici tares us (Aforesaid, shed be entitled to vote, 4 pa rending in'thestate six months. Provided, that white freemen, citizens of the Udited States, between hie ages of twenty-one and Maoist y-IWO yen's, arid ha- - int resided in the State one 'yed,truisn the election !amid ten days as aforattite le entitled to tafie,,anhoughlhey shalt moil paid taxes .teithsii It. MI aketions'shill be by ballot, ex ceilidh/me by perOSOA . its then representative capa cities, who shall vote-viva lions rep resentative . ... - ;Section 111. Electors shill in all cases, except Meteor!, felony, and breach 'pr surety of the peace, belosivileged ,Inorn arrest,rring their attendance oil elections, 'ihil. In phi to gild returning from them. :: ,•... , • • • ARTICLS, IV. : ,L .r Satire J. The House t f -Representatives stoat tutya the ale power of im hing. - fi: Seetjon IL AU amen nts shall be tried Lir the Senate; when satin f ur tttat purpose, the .. _— .. 4 4i or i . T Senators shill be apotetailt efarritatlint: 144; per toe , shall be 'convicted 14 ut the concurrence of tans-ddrds L _ of the memben4esent, larellon lIL The Gove , and alll other eivil c officers under this Commo n ealth, shall be liable to t s, r itepeachment forasny • einesnour in office ; but jaftm_ eat, fo sunk allt.not extend fur th er thin.,to removal front , and disottalificthun to 114dd,, any offer of 1106011; tor profitounder, this Cnienbonwealthr T he , whether convicted or i ALE . PINE /OW iod fir sale a few • Pijoe Apple RA Jan 20 = Asp s i y., Sectio* The judicial tpoWer; 'Of this Common wealth, be ves ted, * Supreme Court, in Courts ofTersuul Te ' wind* General JailjDe livery, in a i Court pf Cenuohn Pies, Orphans' Court,. Register's] Court, and a _Court of Quarter Sessions 'of the Peace, for ea& tzt i 'in i ustieet of the: Peace" and in such othe r . as the legislature ntay Insmltime to time es blialt,i.. , • , Section IX. The judges . the StqwenteSourt, of the setswo Courts of P/eas,"Mui :of such ether Coin* of Record asPrMor shall be established Bylaw, *hat be nominated bit the Governor, and by and With the consentqf Senate appointed and commissiiiiisl . -by hum judges of the , Supreme 1 4 Court shall, hold, , for the term of Album years if they shall se bcfsaSe themselves well. The president judges ciiheisereral Courts of Common ^Rens and of sulk other Courts qt „Record as are or shall be established by la totiretad al/ *literbulges re quired to be learned in theibmr — shalt hold Misr offices for the term of ten years ,ythe r ahhli so long behave themselves well. The Assisciate judgvspf the Courts, ./ Common Pleas shall. hold their offices fqrithe term . of jive years (f they shall 's° lonii-tellore thejeselres• well. But for lawr le cause which sllbllnot, ab he su ffi cient ground V i pcarhatent, the, Governor may remove any-of the m' the address of Iwo-thirds ,t 1 each branch of the legiitatisre. The judges of the Supreme 'Court- and the iprisidents of the several Courts of Common Pleas , at stated times receive for their-services an • , , e ,compensation to be Axed by taw, which shall of be diminished during their continuance in offs , but they shall rereire nc Ws or Peetjuisites of of • . nor hold any other offer , .f profit Under this C• • Iced& .. Section 111. Until e alive - lid by law. th 'ourts of Common Pleas 1 continue as ar pres , ri •stablishiti Not more th five counties shall at an ',me be innluded in one udicial district organic e. for said Courts. Section -r:. The •ju sdittion of the Suprem 'ourt shall extend over ithe State: and the Jule% hereof, shall by virtue if cheir offires, he ju.tiet .1' Dyer and Teftnintr atil generAt Jail Delivery, i he several counties. I i . . Section V, The judgeS of the Court of Cnmmui i Pleas, in each county,' shall ty virtue of Viet deices, dices, he.justices of Oy r and Terminer and Lem al Jill belivery, for th trial of capital and othe ; ,sh I be a quorum : gut the flenders therein any wo of the sail judges, th .resident heinglue dial! nut hold a court o , oyer'and terminer, or jai t delivery, in any count , When the judges of th 4upreme Court, or any them, shall he sitting .ii' he same county. Th party accused, as well a he Commonwealth, ma. , under such regulations a hall be prescribed by w, remove the iodic:mei. and proceedings, or' a uscript thereof, into th. up.eme Court. 4 Sec:ion.V I. The Supreme COurt, and the severs - sorts of common plea. 4, shall, beside the rowel• lut teretofore usually ese *Sed ~by them, have th. Aower of a court of Ch neer)", id far as relates 1. he perpetuating of te, timonv. the obtaining of aidetice from places ni.t Nithiu the State, and th. rate of the persons and estates of those who ar, non computes mouths. (And the legislature shalt vest in the said courts such other powers to g.an . &der in equity, as shall be found necessary : an may, from time to time, enlarge or diminish those t , powers or vest them in 4 e h other courts as they shot :udge proper. for the du administration of justice. S,r_ti.in VII. The jut es of tic- CUll4 tof common .ileas of each county,aiiy two of whom shall he : l uoruni shall compose I the court of Quarter Se..- ,ions the register of sills, td;getter with the said judges or any two of them, s iall--cbmpose the register's court of e .ch county. I . ' •• . . Section VIII. The jars tir the courts of common pleas shall, within the to five counties, have the like powers with the judges of the Supreme Ves Court, to woe writs of Icertiorati to the j • of. the peace, and to rinse their proceedin to be brought before them, ditd • the like right an justice to be ddne. Section IX. The president of the cook in each circuit within such circuit, and the judges of the court of common pip within their respective counties, shall be jus of the peace, so far as trs relates to criminal mat rri. • Section X. A registe 's. office, for the probate of wills end positing le • of administration ' and an office for the recurdin of deeds, shall be kept in each county. - . . Section XL The st le of allprocia shall be " The Commonwealth 1 Pennsylvissia." All prose• cutions shall be ca ' on in the name and by the aurhority of the ealth of Pennsylvania, atureohclude a against peace and dignity of the same.” Altild,E VT. te t Section I. Sheriffs OM coronem all, at the times and places of ekction of rep tatives, be chosen by the citizens f each county. One person • shall be chosen for offwe,who Mal be•Costimis timed by the Gave nr. They !shall hold their offices for three years, • they shall,so long behave . . natives well, and until a staxessor be duly qualified ; but he shall be twice chosen or appointed sheriff, in an teem of Mt years. Vacan i• mes in either of the s td offices Mall be fi lled by an apptim• Unent, to • inide by Me Goveiimr, to continue until then • t gen'eral electitin;and until a successor shall be chpseu and qnslibed as afore said. Section 11. The frefernen of this commonwealth Mali .be armed, area/Lea and Oise:Waned for iti defence, when and in /Itch manner as may be directed by law. Those who epnscientiously scruple to bear arms, shalt not be co 'impelled to do so, but shall pay an equirileot for persdnal service. ,' Section 111. Prolhonotaries of Me Supreme Court shall be appotinted by the said Court fur Me term of three ygars if 114 so long behave ' thenutekes well. Prat/ono:arm and clerks of the several other awes, tieeorders of deeds, and Re gisters of wills, shall at thi times and places of election of represent4ives, be elected by the qua& fied &dors of each kouniy, or Me &skids over which the juradidiai of said war& extends,.cmd shalt be amunissionixl by Me Governor. Thzy t ea shall hold their' o fur thitiyitairs if they shall so long behave wello and nail their successors sha ll be ly qual ifi ed • • fine tins': /a hire sha ll provide b tam the ntiniber Of Ina in- each county whol shall held : - said offices, and hole many and sa ' o f said offs* ma be held V in any of Me said of raararb7ftlied wain:meats to be made the Governor, to mac until the next gene ral election, and • trueeessars shall be' elected and qualified as afotkiaid. s • Section IV. Prcithodotaries, cletis of the peace and orphans' courts, *corder* of deeds, registers of wills, and Sheriffs, Mall keep Mbir offices to the; county town of the kounty in which they, respec tively, shall be office*, unless when the .Governor It shtl for special s, dispense therewith,. for any term not exceedi . five years after the county shalt hate been env Section V. All Lesions shall be in the name and by the authority 1 the Corhmbnwealth of Penn- • sylvania, and be seallid with the State seal, and sign ed by the Goventor4 I, 1 • Section VI. A State Treasnrie Shall be dented annizally,by joint v4e of both britnehcs of Me legis lature. I section VII. .hp of cie peace Or aldermen sisal be dialed in he several jamas, Ithronghs; and townships at 1&e of the election of eon s:asks 1:4 the ' voters , ' thereof, in such nuMber as •• du ed by law, and shall be amanissisareg by „ Governor for a term of five yeas 1 bill 'no toiti , P, wardlor borough sha t / 4* more than. *nstiees of the peace or alders 'll i* t aiki l d Ike . of a nnjorilkof the quo. -API driers toith Such township, ward arlo-- rough- ''-- . i Item • line • - Hellion yin. . a to ele cti o n or ak p. dntnsnd is not , ..• , - liven this constitution, • /be eketed or ''pointed is shall be directed • EESE.--lastreeefilif re pfyery super* old ARD & STRAUCH. . . ,•• . . 1 • Ell EMESI 'BIAXIAL', avid Fed Oat. aid • :ea arid IF mils by • S..BANNAN. - „ 25 HURCHILL Fasts, jut re sprit 4 , _.~ - EMI 111•1 Ma MEI inj kw, No peram shalt oe aisposictea to any 4. lee fiAirghs any. q . WA° ihtali not have been a citizen and an, tnAatietafsl ltsera." one Var nest before kii appainlttef tire *laity mai/Aare been to long erected ; ' but tra AK nig have loan so long e x act, . : then • within the Emits , I ftlir county or evuntie out of which it shall have ban. taken. No member of CoAgnettfroni, thl slate, 'or any person holding or exercising any office 4 appoint - tient-of trust or erviss As..a. the United Sates, shall at Me same trais-holder:t?' grni office in this state, tte:wksek B. 4 . 1 4 • 0 * " ifw 6r ' perquisites are by 'haV, ansikszlit; and the tegisks ih lure may by law declare . eidw i 'Sfate qfficacare i - to nipatibk. ~, 116 en of thi-Senatl. or oft e house of *preleislativailhall be appointed by t e' Governor tiaity RAO Wuri,tw)ke_tenst*#Y• he shall have been elateg. --:* , , • ,_ ,• . Section IX. All ,cyficXXs fir - t,a les= of years shall hold their offices ,for Pee ,leriii:respectively specified, only on the condition that they so Ifni; behave thenudves we ll : and shall be ren""ed MI convictiois . of misbehaviour in o ffi ce or of any in *mom . ._ . _.** Secti6n X. . 9- Any• perlon who shall, after. tke adoption, of the amendments proposed by that Convention to the Constitution, fight a duel or send a challenge for that purpose, or be aider or abettor. in fighting a duel, shall be deprived of the right of hi kb* any office of lot or pr:ofit ill -this State, and shall be punished otherwise in spell manner as is, or may be prescribed by law l.), all the executive may remit. the said offence and all its disqualificattons. • • , A ItTlgr.E 11/1.- . . T Sectionl. The ,IctiSlatate shall, as soon. as con veniently may be, provide by law, for the establish ment of scbools thieughout the State, in such manneithaf the poor may be ;aught Krati.}. Section IL'Vhe arts" and sciences shall be. pro moted in one or more seminaries of learning. Section 111. The rights, privileges, immunitift and estates of religious societies and corporate bp dies, shall reinsin alif the constitution of this State had not been altered 4r:ime44 4 k : Section IV. The kgialature shall not intent any . "7 corporate body or individual with the privilesr 1 : of Inking P P ** ProPettrforl?tibiktire , without requiring such corporation or ividUal to make , j compensation to the °woo x . o said property . . or , give adequate itcrurify there or, before such pro- ind poly ghat/ be taken. . : ARTICLE VIII Members of the General Assembly, and all,etrl cers, executive unit judicial, shall be bound by oath pt affirmation, to 'support the censtinstion of thi - Commonwealth arkl.So perform the dillies of thei respectivcoffices with fidelity,- A lITICILE That theveneral, great and essential principles of, liberty and free government may be recognised and . Imalterably established, WE DECLARE, THAT Section I. All men are •born equally free and in dependent,and have certain inherent and indefeasifile rights, among which are those ,of enjoying and ele fending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessiug and proticting.property and reputation, and of pur suing their. own happiness. - - Section 11. All power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their au.. thority, and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness ; For the advancement of these ends; they have, at all times, in unalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reforni or abolish their government, in such manner is they may think proper. Section 111. All men have a natural and indefea sible right to worship Almighty God, according to the dictates of their own consciences t no man can, . of right, be compelled 'to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent; no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience ; and 'no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishments - VC modes or wors hip. Section IV. No person tne mg of a God and a future state of rewards and pu nishments, shall on account of his. religious senti ments be disqttalified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth. Section V. Elections shall be free and equal. Section Yl..Trial. by, jug shall be as heretofore, and the right thereof 'remain inviolate. • , Section VII. The printing presses shall be free to merry person who undertakes to examine the pro ceedings of the legislature, or shy branch of go-• vernment: And no law shall.ever be made to re strain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinions ie one of the invaluable 'rights of roan ; and every citizen May,freely speak, write and print op any subject, tieing responsible for the atinse of that liberty. In - propeentions for the publication 'of 'Papers investigating the o~cial conduct of niffearkot men in a IrtAblic capacity, or where the Miller published Cs proper for public in formation, the truth thereof may be given in evi dence: And in 01 indictments for libels the jury - shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, ro b in other cases. Section VIII. The people shall be secure in their' persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unrea sonable searches and seizures: And no warrant to search any place, or to ;elan any person or things, shall issue, without describing them of nearly as may be, nor without probable cause supported by oath or affirmation. Section I.K. In criminal prosecutions, the ae msed a riginto tie heard bylilinielf and. his counsel, to demand ' the nature and cause , of the ae cusatifm against him, to meet the Wittleinefl face to face, to have commiliory process for obtaining wit nesses in his favour, and, In Muiecutioni by meat or information ' a speedy public trial, by an Impartial jury of .the Vicinage be cannot be cam ' pellet to give evidence against himself, nor can, he. be deprived of- his life, liberty, or property, unlesi by the judgment of his peers or the law of , the lands Section X. No " non Shall, for azrY indictable offence, be proceeded against criminally by infor.na tion, except in, cases arising in the land or naval fortes, or in the militia when in actual service in time of war or ,public danger, or by leave of the 'court, for oppression and misdemeanour in office...„.. No person shall, for the same offence-, be twice p i to jeopardy of life os, limb ; nor shall any man's Pro perty be taken or applied to public Use, without the consent of his representatives, and, without just compensation being made. Section XI. All courts shall be open, and every ' man for en injury dope him in his lands, gociMp;pero son or reputation, shalt have rentiedy by the ' due course of law, and right and justice administered, withoutiale, denial or delay. Suits may be brought i against the Commonweal th n.stich Ramer, in such courts, and in such cases u 'the legislature may by law direct Section XII. No power of4usPel . ding laws sha ll be exercised, Unless by the. iegislature, or its 'au thority. , Section ' XIIL Excessive bail.shall not. be re quired, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel pii nishments indicted. .. Section XIV. All prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for caphal otfenpumi, when i . the proof Ii evident or presumption great ; and the; ptivilege, pf. the writ of habeas empus shall not Del suspended, unless when, in ask of rebellion or in- , tremor' the public safety may require it, Section XV. No commission of Over Mill Terntine/ milli delivery shall be issued. , I . S•ectlori XVi: The,petion of a debtor, wheiel them ii not dtrong presumption of haul, shall no be continued in prison, after defiverfognp hitestat i for the benefit of hie'creditors, in sneh Manner-4i ' Ir 'shall be prescient by •law: 1•.,' .- , , ~,,, ..4" ; • : Section XVII. No ei post facto law; nor.tuy la impairing contracts shall.luf made: ''..gi••• .-1 - Suellen XVIII: No .persori shall 1:10 sttaintel - **won or felony by the - legislature. 'i 4',- 'i: 4 itetior . f XIX - Sid *Mundt'. shill vinalc•soimip •, . - iif bldtidi dor, except duringthWlift of-Ilse Aim* - forfeiture, of estate, to the..Mtnoe'Vt.csakr, the, •• • tales-of- : such-.persons as shall _pet 4—theii 9 lives shall descend Fa Testtis ut of ratty '," OWLETrilliitei* - reeelve4 .ftwind kii t • - 4j; BANNAN4, jan 94 S. death ; 'Lid if' any casualty. I , here shall thereof:: Section I - The t able -r, to assenn good, and appl s y to Section The. govern nt for n yPeoPe.r P Moses, by stnince. .. theism XXI. The 'in defei of %erase! question _ Section XX.II.- No' i 'of peace, kept tip W, gislatnrr and the mil I at all times. be in sMiisl power. I .-"':' ' Sectidn XXIII. N, be quatl 2 . e in any' 'owner. in time prescri by. law. • Secti XXIV. Tln any title of nobility create an office the for a lon r term iltal Seclio XXV. Etni not be p hibited. , Sectin XXVI. To , g ai.., ... 'gains, , .osgression i of the hi h powers which we have delegated, WE DECLN E, that every thing in: this article is ,x. cepted bu of the general powers of government, and shall for ver remain inviolate. . i - . ' . ,AII.TICLEI,X. dvien.t or aniesungs to this reetstau, be proposed in the e or House of Re rtes, and if the same shall be agreed to by y of the members elerted toatrh house, sari meat Or amendments hhail be entered journals, with the': rheas emit nays,taken the Secretary , ithe-Consuitimeattel that! • lobe published three months before the tion, in at least One , Trspapr: ix every Any at e i lion mly presental a aaajori proposed on their thereon. cause .4 next . . . . county,' which a newspaper shall be published; and if in tb egislature twit afterwards chasm such pro. ,Posed •• . • . or aman4speras shall be agreed to by a mai rity of the .members elected to earls house, the Scree ary of the Cantinantrealth Mall cause the same a ,in to be plibtisfiest r in manner aforesaid, and such pr , , amendment or - arsendmente - shat/ be itl to the people ih such manner and. at tune I time, al• t three nulaths. after being so agreed. to by the I . o houses as the legiilature shall. prescribe ; and if e people shall approre void 'ratify such amen or amendments by a majority of the glis oi :fled rot sof this State roll g therion;.ruch aniend. ' meat .at amendments shall come a pact of the con. ;stitution ; but no tuneful Coe' amendments dal/ be submit ted to the - people ofFener thani once in fire '; years i ' orided, that if snore than mfr amendment ibe submi ed, they shall be mitmitted in suck manner .and f that the people may rote for ori . agdinst each a idment separabOy and distinctly. - Sc • ' • nt* - .' ' i . That no inconvenience m y arise from the alter*- : dons and amendments in e Constitution of this Common e realth, and in ord to cam- the same into tcomplet Th operation, it is hereby declared and ordain ed, eit - Sectio;l I. All lows or thisiColutnonweallh in tome at the time, when the, paid a Iteretnens and amend , meats the said Constitution shall take effect, and not in ' intent therewiNmed all rights, actions, ' pros:: tons, claims, and contracts as, well of jade ' vidual 4of bodies. corporate , shall continue so if the 11 made. 1 1 C- - -e Sect on D. The elterationS and amendments in the_ . 1, ! maid C nE , tution . shalltake effect from the Inn day .lof Jan a , eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. ',, Sec 111. The clauses, ections, and articles of the said restitution, which remain unaltered, shall - .continuel to be construed bate effect as if the { Maid CcenstitulicM had not n amended.. Sectlo IV. The GeneriV Assembly which.shall 'convele ' December, eighteen hunda t aii:Lthirti 1 33 eight, hll continue its session, as. , Ar not ii arithst ding the provision' in th e eleventh hog Pot . the hist article, and shall jarall times be regaldet as the-host General Assembly_ under the imeridef I:;Consti ' don. ~,, ,.. .., Sect out V. 'The DoVeshor cOrho Shall be elected it e i , itl ,t Dctobe , ighteen hundred atid thirty-eight, shalrbi imago ea .on `",itie third, Tuesday in ! Jainuaj, ,eight n hundred and thirty-nine, to which time ithe pr s nt executive term is hereby extended. ,1 Secti VI. The commisskins of the judgo. of the r l Supre ' e Court, whet ma i be in office.= t* first day lot Jan a y ,nekt, shall extdme in the folloviing mat, inert , li .., cinninisiion . which bears th emailiest date 1 01 . }shall e ire on th e histLday cif 3anuary,Anno Do bnini 9 e thousand eight tin, ridred and forty-two; the crimmi - on next dated 0211' etipirt on the first di;y of Jane:sty, Anno Domini one thodreapd 4fight him- II dred. anffifortpavet the Commission next dated shalt l!expire on the. first day of i lanuary, Amnia Domini ;one thousand eight. hundred and forty-light; the „commiardon next dated shill expire on the first day Hof Jairusry, Arum Domini One thousandtight. Mubun klred fifty-one; suit the commission art-dated bshall sh.ll eXpire oh the trot, day of Jannary,; .nno Do,'. ins one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. 1= Section VII. Ttiel commissions of theyresident - judges of the several. judicial districts and of the "associate taw judges of the . first judicial dinriet sfiall i ' expire as follows a The eommissuens of ode-half of -1 those ho shill have held their offices tell years or Ilmore the adoption of the antendmepts M the consti; 1 - utt •on,; aAT , tll expl o re on the .twenty-seeenthitlay of Fe lintaryl, ne thohhand e % fi t litind'red and Unity-nine; lithe coin issicms of the other half of:those who shall l shave hel they offices hop years ot more el the adop tion of the nmeamenn to the conitit"on, shall tt ilexpirel on the twenty-selrenth day of Fe rnary, one ' thousand eight belndrist and forty-two i. the first hall tto embrace those. whose commissions shill bear tut - oldest-date.' The commissions of all the !remainin; judges who shall not have.held their offices for tel years, at the.adoption - of tbe amendments to the coo itstifuliOn shall eXpire rap the torezity4eventh day of { Febru ry next after the end of ten yawn from the !date o thhlr cointhistiont ffec , t l ori VIII. The Reitoideis bf the several /day- Ilors' Courts ; and other criminal-Courts in , Mil C 4 .m - ' monwdalth, Shall be appointed for the Same timeN. and id the same Manner, as the .preshit judges lot the several judicial distrifts ; 'of }hoenow m i office i lthe commissi n ohdcstra date ibalxpire on 1 the twenty-seven day! of February; on &emend i eight' hundred and ortfro, ne, and the o et , every. I two yeare Diethaft t according to .their: respective 1 ! dates. i Those olde r in date expiring" .• • Section IX. The legislature at its fits em as ter the amended co stitution,shall divid the other associate judge* of the fiats into four c . The p. awn sions Of those of the lust -elaSs expire on .twenty-serc t utti day of Febrtas „ e ighteen . hundr and forty ; of those of the Redid Class on the t enty4eventh day of Febristrk,e ' teen hour ilred aid forty-one ; of those Will* A class 02 I d the is enty:seventh day of •Vebnittp hair died and forty-two c.anl,,Of those,o the onrth clan on th' twenty.seventajlay ,ot.:F oeifffition hund and fuely r kiee. 4 ,,,The sag' • 'from the e t first the fourth - 401)v arrariged; 'g to the , ' seal.> ity of the chininnitons of the - kr faljodget S ' on X Ficithliiiiitarles; elerits'iifithe several courts (except of the Supreme 'Conit) fecordersef 1 deeds b pd registe riot wills, shill be first elected under i the: ended Constitution, at the election of repre sintativeti in the year eighteen bundre4 and thirty- I • • *-nine, In rsch manner as may be prescribed by law. . 1 ' t,ie**4 Wee elppekslilsg'power shill pmajo ff 1 here} ex tire depertnient shilttinitinue in the exercess -of • t c dutiel.'of eheli'merketlvi offices Oa the • lets slurs Shalk, ,Ips# . lneh.liws as mayb e trqu'''' by' 45 1 Alll'aeulson of the sixth article .of the tie flPernealeCliji.new appointments, or shah .: 5 7 fr n :ei sdti Suc abil b lffil laws .a l lu u n n tht less el : PP°P tb P4niik r i om eenn in m`t iss o'f i b2it oor th. 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