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Henry A. Paiisonb, Jn. . . Editor
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1878.
ILECTION PROCLAMATION.
OOV SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH.
Whrhfab, In and by the 18lh section of
the set of Genorcl Assembly of Pennsylva
nia, passed July 2d, 18U9, enlillcd "An
aot relating to the eleotions of the Common
wealth," it is enjoined on the sheriff of
every county to give notice of inch elec
tions to be held, nnd to enumerate in inch
notice what officers lire to be elected, in
pursuance thereof I, D. C. OYSTER, high
sheriff of tho county of Elk, do therefore
make known and give this public notico to
the electors of snid county of Elk that a
special election will be held in said county
on
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1873,
(it being the third Tuesday of the month),
for the purpose of
Submitting the Amended Constitution of
Pennsylvania to a vote of tho qualified
electors thereof, ar provided by the ordi
nance of submission adopted by tho con
stitutional convention.
And the qualified electors of the county
of Elk will hold their elections in tho sev
eral districts, as follows:
Benczette township, at the house of
Elizabeth Winslow.
Benzinger township, at the school house
on Michael street, near the Elk creek
bridge.
Eos township, at the Ccntreville school
Louse.
Highland township, at the bouse of Levi
Ellithorpe.
Ilorton township, at the school house,
near D. C Oyster's hotel.
Jay township, at the house of Alfred
Pcarsall,
Jones township, at the Wilcox tanning
and lumber company's office, in Wilcox.
Millstone township, at the house of
Henry Herr, at Dorr's dam.
Ridgway township, at the court house.
St. Mary's borough, at the town hall.
Spring Creek towoship, at the house of
etocicaaic, Downer & Co.
I also make known the provision of the
ordinance of submission adopted by the
constitutional convention relative to the
manner of voting, which provides that the
ballots shall be written or printed in the
following form: On the outside the words
"Now Constitution;" intlieiniiOefort.il
persons giving affirmative votes the words
"For tho New Constitution," and for all
persons giving negative votes the words
"Against the New Constitution."
A'so, in the 4th Bection of tho act of As
sembly, entitled "An act relating to elec
tious and for other purposes," approved
April 10th, 18C9, it is enacted that the
14th section shall be so construed as to
prevent any militia or borougli officer from
serving as judge, inspector or clerk at any
general or special election in this Common
wealth. Also, that in the Gist section of said act
it is enacted ''that every general or special
election shall be opened between the hours
of six and seven in the forenoon, and shall
remain without interruption uatil seven
o'clock in the evening, when tho polls shall
be closed.
No person shall be permitted t vote at
any election as aforesaid but a freeman of
the age of twenty-one years or more, who
shall have resided iu this State at least one
year, and in the election district where lie
offers his vote at least ten days immediately
preceding such election, and within two
years paid a State or county tax, which
shall have been assessed at least ten days
before tho election. But a citizen of the
United States, who has previously been a
qualified voter of this State, but removed
therefrom and returned, and shall have
resided iu the election district and paid
taxes as aforosaid, shall bo entitled to vote
after residing in this State six months:
Provided, thut the freemen, citizens of the
United States, who ate between the ages
ot twenty-one and twenty-two years, and
who have resided in the election district
ten days as aforesaid, shall be entitled to
voto, although they have not paid taxes.
Whereas, The fifteenth auicndmnnt of
the constitution of the United States is as
follows:
Sko. 1. The right of citizens of the
United States shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States on account
of race, color or previous condition of servi
tude. Seo. 2. That Congress shall have power
to enforce this article by appropriate legis
lation. And whereat, The Congress of the United
Slates, on the thirty-first day of March,
1870, pnssed an act entitled "An act to
enforce the rights of citizens of tho Uuited
States to vote iu the several States of Uie
Union, and for otho purposes," tho first
and second sections of which are as follows:
He it enacted, ke That all citizens of the
Unit id States who are or shall bo other
wise qualified to vote at any election by
the people of any State, Territory, district,
city, county, parish, township, school dis
trict, municipality, or other territorial sub
division, shall be entitled and allowed to
vote at all such elections, without distinc
tion of color, race or previous condition of
servitude; any constitution law, custom,
usage or regulation of any State or Terri
tory, or by or under its authority, to tho
contrary notwithstanding.
Seo 2. And be it further tnaeltd, That if,
by or under the constitution or laws of any
Slate, or the laws of any Territory, any act
is or shall be required to be done as a pre
requisite cr qualification for voting, and by
tiuch constitution or laws persons or officers
are or shall be charged with the perform
ance of duties in furnishing to citizens an
opportunity to perform such prerequisites
or to become qualified to vote it shall be
the duty of every buou person and officers
to give all citizens of the United States, the
same aud equal opportunity to perform
such prerequisite and to become qualified
to vote without distiuotion of race, color or
previous condition of servitude; and if any
such persons or officers shall refuse or
knowingly omit to give full effect to this
Bootiou. he shall tor every such offense for
leit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars
to the persons aggrieved thereby, to be re
covered by an action on the case, with full
costs and such allowance for counsel fees
as the co a ft shall deem just, and shall also
lor every such offence be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor, and shall on conviction there
of be fined not less than five hundred dol
lars, or to be imprisoned not lebs than one
month and not more than one year, or both,
at the discretion of the court.
And whereat, It is declared by the second
section of the VI artiole of the constitution
of the United States that "This shall be
made in pursuance thereof, shall be the
supreme law of the land
anything in tht constitution or lawi of auy
State to the contrary noiuithttanding."
And wh'reat, The Legislature of this
Commonwealth, ou the Oth ot April, 1870,
passed an act entitled "A further supple
ment to the act relating to elections in this
Commonwealth," the tenth section provides
as follows:
Sec. 10. That so much of every act of
Assembly as provides that only white free
men sbutl be entitled to vote, or be regis
tered as voters, cr as claiming to vote at
any general or special cleotion if this Com
monwealth, be and the same is hereby re
pealed, and that hereafter all freemen with
out distinction of color shall be enroled
and registered according lo the provisions
of the first section of the act approved ths
17th of April, lflli!), entitled -'An aot fur
ther supplemental to an aot relative to the
eleetions of this Commonwealth," and shall
when Otherwise qualified under existing
laws, bo entitled to vote at all general and
Jpeoial elections In. this Commonwealth.
No person shall be permitted to vote
whose name is not contained on the list of
taxable Inhabitants furnished by the com
missioners nrfcs be first produces a re
ceipt for the payment within two years of
State or county (ax, assessed agreeubly to
the constitution, and give satisfactory evi.
denoe either on his own oath or affirmation
of another that he has paid such tax, or on
failure to produce snob receipt shall make
oath of the payment thereof; if ho claims
to voto by being nn elector between the
ages of twenty -one and twonly two years,
he shall itotioso on oath or affirmation that
he has resided in tho State at least one year
before his application, nnd make proof of
his resilience within his district, as required
by the act, and that he does verily believe
from accounts given him, that he is of tho
ago aforesaid, and give such other evidence
as is required by tho net, whereupon tho
nnme of tho person so admitted to voto
shall be registered in tho alphabetical list
by the inspector, and a note made opposite
thereto by the word "tax," if he shall have
been admitted to vote by reason of having
paid tax, or the word "ngo." if he shall
have tcon admitted to vote by reason of
age, shall bo culled out lo the clerks, who
shall make like notes ou the lists kept by
them. '
In all cases where the name of persons
claiming lo vote is found ou the list fur
nished by the commissioners nnd assee
sors, and bis right to voto, whether found
thereon orjuot, is objected to by nny quali
fied citizen, it shall be the inspectors'
duty to ex'tmin such persons on oih s
to ..his qualifications, and if he claims to
have resided within the Slate for one venr
or moro, oath shall not be sufficiunt p'roof
thereof, but shall make proof thereof by
at least one competent witness, who shall
be a qualified elector, that bo as resided
within the district for the purpose of voic
ing therein.
Every person qualified as nforosaid, and
who shall make tho due proof, if qualified
of his residence and payment of taxes
aforesaid iu the township, ward or district
in which he shall reside.
If any person shall prevent, or attempt
to prevent, uny officer of any election under
this act from holding such election or uc
or threaten any violence to any such officer,
or shall interrupt or improperly interfere
(villi him iu the execution of his duly, or
shall block up the window or avenue to any
window where the same may bo holdiua,
or shall riotously disturb the peace at such
election, or shall use or practice nny in
timidation, threats, force or violence, with
design to influence unduly or overawe any
elector, or to prevent him from voting, or
to restrain the freedom of choice, such
persons on conviction shall be fined in any
sum not exceeding five hundred dollars,
and be imprisoned for anv time not Icjs
than oue month or more than one year;
and it be shown that tho person so offend
ing wa3 not a resident of tho city, wurd.
district or towuship where the said cil'ouee
was committed, and nut entitled to vote
therein, ho shall on conviction be sentenced
to pay a fine af not less tliau one hundred
or more thau one thousand dollars, and 1,?
imprisoned not less than six months or
more thau two years,
Whereas, By the act of the Congress of
the United Stales, entitled "An act to
amend the several acts heretoloro psssed
to provide for the enrolling aud calling out
tho national forces, and for other pur
poses," and approved March third, oue
thousand eight hundred and sixty -five, all
persons who have deserted the military or
naval service of the United States, and
who havo not been discharged or relieved
from the penalty or disability therein pro
vided, are deemed uud tukeu to have vol
untarily reliuquished and forfeited their
right to citizenship and their rights to be.
come citizens, and are deprived uf exercis
ing auy rights of citizes thereof;
And whereas, Persons not citizens of the
United utatcs are not, ui.der the constitu
tion aud laws of Pennsylvania, qualified
electors of this Commonwealth.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Semite and
House of Urprescntattresof tne Coinmouu-ealth
of Pennsylvania in (Jcneril Atscmblu met.
and be It hereby enacted by the authority of
the tame; mat in en elections hereafter lo
beheld in this Commonwe.il'h it shall be
unlawful for the judge or inspectors of auv
such election to receive any ballot or bal
lots from any person or persons embraced
in the provisions and subject to the disa
bility imposed by said act of Congress, ap
proved March third, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty five, and it shall he un
lawful for auy such persons to offer to votj
any ballot or ballots.
Sec. 2. That if any suchjudire and in
spectora of ellection, or any oneoftheui,
bhall receive or consent to receive any such
unlawful ballot or ballots from any such
disqualified person, he or they so offndin"
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof iu any couit of quarter
sessions of this Commonwealth he shall for
each otleuce be scnten.-eJ to pay a lino of
not less than one huudrcd dollars, ami to
undergo an imprisonment in the jail of the
proper cuumy tor not less than suty days
tone, a. mat :l auy person deprived of
citizenship, and disqualified as uforcsaid
shall, at any election Iiereatter to beheld
in this Commonwealth, vole or tender to
the officers there and offer to vote, a ballot
or ballots, any person so offending shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof in any oourt of quarter
sessions of this Commonwealth shall, for
each oflence, be punished in a like mauner
as is provided iu the pieucdiug section of
this act in tho case of officers of election
rcoeiving such unlawful ballot or ballots,
Sec. 4. That if any person shall here
after persuade or advise any person or per
sons deprived of citizenship and d s jualified
as aforesaid, to offer auy ballot or ballots
to the officers of any election hereafter to
be held in this Commonwealth, or shall
persuade or advise auy such officer to re
ceive any ballot or ballots from uny person
deprived of citiicuship and disqualified as
aforesaid, euidi person so offending shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convic
tion thereof iu any court of quarter cessions
of this commonwealth shall be punished in
a like manuer as is provided in the second
section of this act iu the cute of officers of
Buch election receiving such unlawful ballot
or ballots.
Pursuant to the provisions contained in
the 4th section as aforesaid the judges of
the aforesaid districts shall reepectably
take charge of the certificates or returns of
election to their rcspsutivo districts and
produce- them at a meetimg of one Judge
from each district at the Court House, in
the twonship of Ridgway, on FRIDAY,
THE 19TH DAY OP DECEMDER next,
then and there to perforu the duties re
quired by law ot said Judges; also where
a judge by sicknesi or unavoidable acci
dent ii unable to attend such meeting of
judges then a certificate as aforesaid shall
be taken in charge of by one of the inspec
tors or clerks of the election of said dis
trict who shall do aud perform the duties
of said judgo to attend; and the return
judgbs of the said districts aforesaid are
requested to meet in Ridgway the county
seat of said county, on Friday after the
tbird Tuesday of December next, then aud
there to discharge the duties required by
law.
Given under my band at Ridgway, the
18ihdayof November in the year of our
Lord one thousand, eight hundred and
seventy-three, and of the independence of
the United States the ninety -seveutn.
D. C. OY8TUR, Sheriff.
Sheriffs Office, Nov. 18th, '73 lw.
CONSTITUTION.
NEW CONSTITUTION PROPOSED TO
THE CITIZENS OB THIS COMMON
WEALTH FOR THEIR APCTOVAL OR
REJECTION, BY THE CONSTITU
TIONAL CONVENTION.
Published by order of the Secresary of
tho Commonwealth, in pursuance of
the 4th section of an act ot the Gen
eral Assembly entiled "An act to pro
Tide for calling a Convention to amend
the Constitution," a p probed the 11th
day of April, A. D. 1872.
PR15AMBLB.
Wc, the people of the Commonweolth
of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty
God fur the blessings of civil and reli
gious liberty, and humble invoking His
guidance, do ordain and establish this
Constitution.
ARTICLE I.
DECLARATION OP RIGHTS.
That the general, great aud essential
principles ot liberty and free govern
ment may be recnguized and unalterably
established, we declare that
Section 1. All meu are born equally
free and independent, and havo certain
inherent and indefeasible tight, among
which are those of enjoying and defend
ing life and liberty, of acquiring, pos
sessing aud protecting property and rcp
ututiott, aud of pursuing their own hap
piness. Sec. 2. All power is inherent in the
people, and all free governments are
touuded ou their authority and institu
ted for their peace, safety and happi
ness. For the advancement of these
ends they have at nil times an inalieua
ble a tjd indefensible right to alter, re
form or abolish their government in such
manner as they may think proper.
Sec. 3. Ail men have a natural and
indefeasible right to worship Almighty
God according to tho dietutcs of their
own consciences; no man can of right
be compelled to attend, erect or support
auy place of worship, or to maintain any
ministry against his consent; no huniau
authority can, in any caso whatever,
control or iuterfere with the rights of
conscience, and preference shall ever be
given by law to uny religious establish
ments or modes of worship.
Skc. 4. No person who acknowledges
the beiug ot a God and a future atato oi
rewards aud punishments shall, on ac
count of his religious sentiments, be dis
qualified to hold any office or place oi
trust or prout unucr tins Common
wealth.
Sec. 5. Eloelions shal! be fico nnd
equal; and no power, civil or military
shall ut an? time interfere to prevent
tlio free exercise ui the right ol r-ul-fmse.
acc. o .trial by jury shall be as
heretofore, w the rij;ht theteot remain
inviolate.
Sec. 7. 1-j printing press shall be
free to every person who may uudertake
to examine the proceedings of tho Leg
islature or any branch oi government,
and no law hail ever bo mude to restrain
the risht thereof. The free communi
cation of thoughts and opinions is one of
tee iuvuluable rights of man, and every
citizen tnav freely fpealf. write aud print
ou auy subject, beiug responsible for the
abuse of that liberty Io conviction
shall be hud iu prc-ccutiou fur the pub'
licatiou of papers relating to the official
conduct of officers or men in public oa-
pacity, or to any other matter proper for
public investigation of luformutiou
where the fact that such publication was
not maliciously or negligently mad
shall bo established to the satisfaction of
the jury; and in ull indictments for
libels the jury shall. have tho right to
dotcrmiue tho law and the facts, under
the direction of the court, as in other
cases.
Sec. 8. The people shall be secure in
their persons, houses, papers and pos
sessions, ircm unreasonable searches and
seizures, and no warrant to search any
place or to seizd auy person or things,
snail issue wanout uesoriuing tuern as
nearly as may be, nor without probable
cause, supported by oath or affirmation
subscribed to by the arliaut.
tEC. y. in ull criminal prosecutious,
the accused hath u right to bo heard by
himself uud his counsel, to demand the
nature ana causa oi tlio accusation
against him, to meet the witnesses face
to face, to have compulsory process for
obtaining witnesses in his favor, aud in
prosecutions by iudictuieut or infornia
tion, a speedy public trial by an impar
ttal jury of the vicinage; he cannot be
compelled to jjive evidence aguiust him-
belt, nor can he be deprived of his hi
liberty or property, uuless by the judg
merit ot his peers or the law ot tb
hind.
Sec 10 No person shall for any in
dictuble offense be proceeded against
criminally, by luioruiauoo, except in
cases arising iu the land or naval forces
or in the uiilitu, when iu actual ser
vice, in tiuio of war or public danger, or
by leave oi tao court, tor oppression or
uiisdtmeanor in office. No person shall
for the same offense be twice put in
jeopardy of lifo or limb; nor shall pri
vate property be tukeu or appliod to
public use without authority oi law, tud
without just compensation being first
made or secuied.
Sec. 11. A.11 courts shall be open, and
every man for an injury done him in his
lands, goods, person or reputation, shall
have remedy by clue course of latf, and
right and justice administered without
sale, denial or delay. Suits may be
brought against tho Commonwealth is
such mauner, in such courfe, and in
such courts, and in such oises as tbe
Legislature may by law dirett.
Sec. 12. No power of suspending laws
shall be exercised unless oy the legis
lature or by its authority. '
Sec. lo. Excessive bail shall not be
required, nor excessive Sues imposed,
nor cruel punishments irflieted.
Sec. 14. All prisoue'S shall be baila
ble by sufficient sureties, uuless for
capital olleuses, when tbe proof ia evi
dent or presumption great; aud the
privilege of the writ ot habeas corpus
shall not be suspended, unless when in
case of rebellion or Uvasion the publio
safety may require it.
Seo. 15. No coniuisson of oyer and
terminer or jail deivery ahall be issued.
Seo. IG. The pet sod of a debtor,
where there is uot strong presumption
of fraud, shall not be continued in prison
after delivering up his estate for the
nenent ot nis creditors, in buch manner
as shall be prescribed by law.
Seo. 17. No eX tost facto law,
nor any law impairing the obligation
ot eontract,or making irrevocable any
grant ofspecial privileges or immunities,
shall be passed.
Seo. 18. No person shall be attainted
of treason or felony by the Legislature.
Sec. 19. No attainder shall work
corruption of blood, nor, except during
the life of the offender, forfeiture of
estate to the Commonwealth; the estate
of suoh persons as shall destroy their
own lives shall descend or vest as in
cases of natural death, and if any person
shall be killed by casualty, there shall
be no lorleiture by reason thereof.
bEC. M. I be citizens have aright
in a peaceable manner to assemble to
gether for their common good, and to
apply to those invested with tbe powers
of goverotffent for redress of grievances
or other proper purposes, by petition,
address or remonstrance.
Sec. 21. The right of citizens to
bear arms in defense of themselves and
the Slate shall not be questioned.
CEO. ZZ. JNo standing army shall, in
time of peace, be kept up withoat the
consent of the Legislature and tbe
military shall, in all cases, and at all
times, be in strict subordination to the
civil power.
bec. 23. No soldier shall in time of
peace bo quartered in any house without
tho consent of the owner, nor in time
of war but in a manner to be prescribed
oy law.
Sec. 24. The Legislature shall not
grant any title of nobility or hereditary
distinction, nor create any office tho
appointment of which shall be for a
longer term than dutinggood behavior.
Sec. -0. Emigration from tho State
shall not be prohibited.
Sko. 2.G. To guard against transgres
sions ot the bign powers which we
htve delegated, we .declare that every
thing in this article is excepted out of
the general powers of government, and
shall forever remain inviolate.
AIICLK II.
TBE LEGISLATURE.
Section 1. The legislative power of
this Commonwealth shall be vested iu a
Generul Assembly, which shall consist
of a Senate and a House of Representa
tives.
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 first day
of .December next after their election.
Whenever a vacancy shall occur iu
either House, the presiding officer there
of shall issue a writ ot election to fill
such vacancy for tho remainder of the
term.
Sec. 3. Senators shall be elected for
tho term of four years and Ileprescnta
tives for the term of two years.
Sec i. Jhe General Assembly shall
meet at twelve o'clock noon, on the first
Tuesday of January every secoud year,
auu at other times when conveued by
the Govcrner, but shall hold no ad
journed annual session after the year
oue thousand eight hundred and seventy
eiifht. In case of a vacancy in the
office of United States Senator from
this Commonwealth, in a recess between
sessions, tne lovernor snail convene the
two houses ly proclamation on notice
uot exceeding sixty days to fill the same.
Sec. 5. Senators shall be at least
twenty-five jfears of age, and Represen
tatives tweuy-one years of age. They
shall have teen citizeus aud iuhu'uiiants
of tbe Statt four years, and inhabitants
of their respective districts oue year
next befor their election (uuless absent
on the piblio business of the United
States ort this State), and shall reside
iu their rspective districts during their
term ot service.
Sec. C No Senator or llepresenta
live shall during the time for which he
shall hac been elected, be appointed to
any civl ouiee under this Common
wealth, iind no member of Congress or
other ptrson holding any office (except
ot attoraej-at law or in the militia)
uuder the Lnited States or this Com
monwealthshall be a member of either
house duriig his continuance in office
Sec. 7. Wo person hereafter convieted
ol eiubczileiuent of publio uioueys
bribery, pt-jury or other infamous crime
shall be tli;ible to the General Assembly
or capablejf holding any office of trust
or pront latnis Commonwealth.
Sec. 8. The members of the General
Assembly hall receive such salary and
mileage fa regular and special sessions
as bhuil I fixed by law, and no other
couipensuton whatever, whether for
service uion committee or otherwise.
No membirof either house shall, during
the term or which he may have been
eleeted, rccive any increase of salary,
or mileage under any law passed during
such term
CEO. x lne beuate shall, at the
beginning and close of each regular
session anl at such other times as may
be uecessiy, elect ono of its members
president ro tempore, who shall per
form the dities of the Lieutenant Gov
ernor, in aiy case of absence or disa
bility of that officer, and whenever the
said fffico ot' Lieutenant-Governor shall
be vacant. Tbe House of Representa
tives shall elect one of its members as
Speaker. Each House shall choose its
other officers, and shall judge of the elec
tion and quaiinouions of its members.
SEC 11). A majority ol each House
shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller
uuuiber may adjourn from day to day
and compel the attendance of absent
me nili era.
Sec 11. Each bouse shall have
power 'o determine the rules of its pro
ceeding aud punish its members or
other persons tit contempt or disorderly
behavior, in its presence, to enforce
obedience to its process, to protect its
members tgainst violence, or offers of
bribes or private solicitation, and with
lUo oonourretce of two-thirds, to expel
a member, but not a second time lor the
slnie oauso, and shall have all other
powers necessary for the legislature of a
nee State. A member expelled for
irruption shall not thereafter be eligi
a to either bouse, aud punishment for
J.otempt or disorderly behavior ehall
wot car an indictment tor tne same ot-
IcDSC,
Seo. 12. Each house stall keep
journal of its proceedings and from time
to tiruo publish the same, exoept such
parts as require eecreoy, and the yeas
and Days of the members on any ques
tion shall, at the desire of any two of
them, be entered on the journal.
Sec. 13. The sessions ot eaon bouse
and of committees of tho whole shall be
open, unless when the business is suoh
as ought to be kept seoret.
Seo. 14. Neither bouse snail, with
out the consent ot the other, adjourn for
more than three days, uor to any other
place than that in which tho two houses
shall be sitting.
Seo 15. Tbe members ot tbe Uen-
eral Assembly shall in all oases, except
treason, felony, violation ot their oath
of office, and breach or suroty of the
peace, be privileged from at rest during
their attendance at the sessions of tbeir
respective houses and in going to and
returniug from the same; and for any
speech or dobalt in either house, they
hall Dot be questioned in any other
place,
Seo 16. lne estate snau De aivraea
iuto fifty Sentoriul districts of compaot
and contiguous territory, as nearly equal
in nonulation as may be, and each dis-
tnct shall be entitled to elect one oena
tor. Each county containing one or
more rations of population shall be en
titled to one Senator or for each ratio,
and to an additional Senator for a sur
plus of population exceeding threc-fifthB
of a ratio; but no county snau iorm
separata district unless it Bhall contain
lour-filtns ot a ratio, except wnere tno
adjourning counties arc each entitled to
one or more Scnatois, wben such oounty
may be assinged a Senator on less than
four-filths, aud exceeding one-half of a
ratio, and no county shall be divided un
less tntitled to two or more Senators.
No city or county shall be entitled to
separte representation exceeding one-
sixth ol the whole number ot senators
No ward, borough, or township shall be
divided in the formation oi a district.
The Seotorial ratio shall be ascertained
by d.vidiug the whole population of the
State by the number ntty.
Seo 17. ibe members ot the House
of Representatives shall be apportioned
anion 2 the several countie? by a ratio
obtained by dividing the population ot
the State as ascertained by the most re
cent United States census by two bun
dred. Every county containing less
than five ratios shall have one representa
tive for every full ratio, and an additi
onal representative when the surplus ex
ceeds half a ratio; but each county shall
have one repieseutative for every full
ratio, and an additional representative
when tbe surplus exceed half a ratio;
but each county shall have at least one
representative. Jivery county eontain
mg five ratios or more shall have one
representative for every full ratio,
Every city containing a population e
equal to a ratio ehall elect separately its
proportion ot tbe representatives allot
ted to the connty in which it is located,
Every city entitled to more than four
representatives, and every county hav
- . .
iog over one hundred thousand inhabit
ants, 6b 'til be divided into districts of
compaot and contigous territory, each
district to elect its proportion of repre
sentatives aocordiog to its population,
but no district shall elect more than lour
representees.
Sec Is. I he Uencral Assembly at
its first session after tbe adoption of this
constitution, and immediately after each
United States deccnuial census, shall ap
portion the State into Senatorial and Re
presentative districts agreeably to the
provisions of the two next preceding sec
tions.
ARTICLE III.
LEGISLATION.
Section 1. No law shall be passed
exoept by bill, and no but (ball be so
altered or amended on its passage
through either house as to change its or
lginal purpose,
See 2. No bill shall be considered
unless referred to a committee, returned
therefrom, and printed for the use of
tbe members.
Sec 3, No bill, except general ap
propiation bills, shall be passed, contain
ing more than one subject, which Bhall
be clearly expressed iu its title.
Seo 4. Every bill shall be read at
lenght on three different days in each
house ; all amemdments made thereto
shall be printed for the use or the mem
bers before the final vote is taken on the
bill, aud no bill shall become a law un
lesE on its final passage the vote be takeu
by yeas and nays, tbe names of tbe per
sons voting for and against the tame be
entered ou the journal, and a majority
oi the members elected to each house
be recorded therein as voting in its fa
vor.
See 5. No amendment to bills b;
one house shall be concurred in by th
other, except by a vote of a majority of
the members elected thereto taken by
yeas and nays, and the names
of those voting for and against recorded
upon the journal thereof; aud reports of
committees ot conference shall be
adopted iu either house only by tbe vote
ot a majority ot the members electe
thereto, taken by yeas and nays, and the
names of those voting recorded upon the
journal.
Seo G. No law shall be revived
amended, or the provisions thereof ex
tended or conferred by referenee to its
I title only but so much thereof as is re
vived, amended, extended, or conferred
shall be re-enacted and published
lenght.
Seo 7. The General Assembly shall
not pass any local or special law;
, Authorizing the creation, extension or
impairing of hens;
Regulating the aDairs of counties.
cities, towdsnips, wards, boroughs or
school districts;
Changing the names of plaoes or per
sons;
Cbauging the venue in civil and crim
inal oases;
Authorising the laying out, opening,
altering, or maintaining roads, highways.
streets, or alleys.
Relating to terries or bridges, or in
oorporating lerry or bridge companies,
except for the ereotion ot bridges cross
ing streams which form boundaries be
tweeo this and any other Street.
Vacating roadg, town plats, streets or
alleys;
Relating to cemeteries, graveyards or
publio grounda not of the State;
Authorizing the adoptbn or legitima
tion of chlildren;
Locating or changing county -scats,
erecting new couuties, or cnangiog
county lines;
Incorporating oitie. towns, or vnages,
or changing their charters;
For the opening and conducting ot
elections, or fixing or changiug the place
of voting ;
Granting divorces;
Erecting new townships or boroughs,
chancing township lines, borough limits,
or school distriois;
Creating offioies, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers in counties,
cities, boroughs, townships, election or
school districts;
Changing the law of descent or suc
cession;
Regulating the practice or jurisdiction
of, or changing tho rules of evidence in
any judicial proceeding or inquiry be
fore courts, aldermen, jus tees of the
peace, sheriffs, commissioners, arbitra
tors, auditors, masters in chancery, or
other tribunals, or providing or chang
ing methods lor the collection ol deots,
or the enforcing of judgments,, or pre
scribing the eflect of judicial sales of
real estate!
Regulatirg the fees, or extending the
powers and duties of aldermen, justices
of the peace, magistrates, or constables;
Regulating the management ot pub
lie schools, tbe building and repairing of
school houses, and the raising of money
for such purposes;
rixing tbe rate ot interest;
Affecting the estates of minors or per:
sons under disability, except alter due
notice to all parties in interest, to be re
cited in the special enactment;
Remitting fines, penalties and forfeit
ures, or the retundiLg moneys legally
paid into the Treasury;
Exempting property irom taxation;
Regulating labor; trade, mining, or
manufacturing.
Creating corporations, or amending.
renewing, or extending the charters
thereof;
Granting to any corporation, associa
tion, or iudividual'any special or exclu
sive privilage or immunity or to any
corporation, association or individual the
right to lay down a railroad track. Nor
shall the Geneial Assembly indirectly
enact such special or loeal law by the
partial repeal of a general law, but laws
repealing local or special acts may be
passed. Nor shall any law be passed
granting powers or privilages in auy case
where the granting of such powers and
privilages shall have been provided for
by general law, nor where the courts
have jurisdiction to grant tho same or
give the relief asked for.
Seo o. No loeal or special bill shall
be passed uuless notice of the intention
to apply therefor shall have been pub
lished in the locality where the matter
or tho thing tobo affected may bo situ
ated, whiUt tfotico shall be at least thirty
days prior to the introduction into the
General Assembly of such bill, and in
the manner to be provided by law; the
evidence of such notice having been pub
lished, shall be exhibited in the General
Assemble before such act shall be
passed.
SfO 9. The presiuing officer of each
house shall, in the presence of the house
over which he prescribes, sign all bills
and joint resolutions passed by tbe Gen
eral Assembly, otter their titles have
been publicly read immediately before
siguing, and the fact of signing shall be
entered on the journal.
Sec 10. The General Assembly shall
prescribe by law the number, duties and
compensation ot the officers nnd em
ployees ol each bouse, and no payment
shall be made from the State Treasury
or be in any way authorized to any per
son, except to an acting officer or em
ployee elected or appointed iu pursuance
of law.
Seo 11. No bill shall be passed giv
ing any extra compensation to any pub
lic omccr, servant, employee, agent or
contractor made, nor providing for the
payment of any claim against the Com
monwealth, without previous authority
o' law.
Seo 12. All stationery, printing,
paper, and tuul used in the legislative
and other departments ol government
shall be iurnished, 'and the printing,
binding, and distributing of tho laws,
journals, department reports, and all
other printing and binding, and the re
pairing aud furnishing the halls and
rooms used for the meetings of the Gen
eral Assembly and its committees, shall
be performed under oontract, to be given
to tne lowest cspoosiD:e bidder below
such maximum price and under such
regulations as shall be prescribed by law;
no member or officer ot any department
oi tne government shall be in any way
interested in such coutracts, and all such
contracts shi.ll be subject to the approval
ot the tiovoroor, Auditor General and
State Treasurer.
See 13. No law shall extend the
term of any publio officer, or increase or
diminish his salary or emoluments after
bis election or appointmeut.
bee 14. All bills for raising revenue
shall originate in the House of Repre
sentatives, but the Senate may proposo
amendments as en other bills.
Seo 15. The general appropriation
bill shall embrace nothing but appro
priations for the ordinary expenses ot
the executive, legislative and judicial de
partments of the Commonwealth, interest
on the publio debt, and for publio
schools; all other appropriations shall be
made by seperate bills, each embracing
but one subject.
See 1G. No money shall be paid out
of the Treasury except upon appropria
tions made by law and on warrant drawn
by the proper officer in pursuance
thereof.
Seo 17. No appropriation shall be
made to any charitable or educational
institution uot under the absolute con
trol of the Commonwealth, other than
normal schools established by law foi
the professional training of teachers for
the publio schools of the State, except
by a vote ot two-thirds ot all tbe mem
bers elected to each house.
Seo 18. No appropriations exeet for
pensions or gratutudes for military ser
vices shall be made for charitable, edu
cational or benevoleut purposes, to any
person or community, nor to any denomi
national or sectarian institution, corpora
tion or association.
Seo 19. The General Awctnblv mav
make appropriations of money to Institu
tions wherein tho widows of soldiers aro
supported or assisted or the orphans of
soldiers are maintained and educated;
but such appropriation shall bc applied
exclusively lo the support of such
widows and orphans.
Seo 20. 1 bo General Assembly shall
not dclrgoial to any tpccial commisHion,
private corporation or association, any
power to ruakj, supervize or interfere
with any munoipal improvement, money,
property or effects, whether held in
trust or otherwise, or to levy takes or
perform any muncipal function whaterer.
See Zl. JNo act ot tho uenerai As
fcmbly shall limit tho amount to be re
covered for injuries resulting in death,
or for injuries to persons or property,
or property, and in such case of death
srom snch injuries, the r'ght of action
shall survive, and the General Assembly
shall prescribe for whose benefit such ao
tions shall be prosecuted; no aot shall
prescribe any limitations of time within
which suits may bo brought against cor
porations for injuries to persons or prop
erty, or for other causes different from
those fixed by general laws regulating
aotions agaiust natural persons and
such acts now existing are avoided.
Seo 22. No act cf the General As
sembly shall authorize the investment of
trust funds by executors, administrators,
guardians, or other trustees, in the bonds
or stock of any private corporation, and
such acts now existing are avoided, Bay
ing investments heretofore made.
Seo 23. The power to change the
venue in civil and criminal cases Bhall
be vested in the courts, to be exercised
in such manner as shall be provided by
law.
Sec 21 No obligation or liability of
any railroad or other corporation, held or
owned by the Commonwealth, ehall ever
bfl exchanged, trunsferred, remitted,
postponed, or iu any way diminished by
the General Assembly, ner shall such
liability or obligation bo released, except
by payment thereof into the State Tresu
ury. Seo 25. When the General Assem
bly shall cfinvened in special session,
there shall be no legislation upon sub
jects other than those designated in the
proclamation of the Governor, calling
such session.
(Continued in the S? pphmrnt.)
BUSINESS CARDS
A. RAT II DUN,
Ridgway, l'a.
Attorncy-at-Uw,
2 2 tf.
HALL & M' VAC LET,
Attorneys-at-Liw.
Office in New Hrick
Ridgway, Llk Co., i"a.
Building, Main St
v3n2tf. J
W. BAILEY,
ATTORNEY-ATLAW.
vlnio1. Ridgway, Elk County, Ta.
Agent for the Traveler's Life and Atoi
dent Insurance Co., of Hartford, Conn.
TTCFUS LUCORU, Attorncy-at-Law,
X Ridgway, Elk Co., l'a. Office in
Hall's new Brick Building. Cluims for
collection proiuJtly attended to.
v3nlly.
1(3 EYNOLOS HOUSE,
JLV
BETOOLISVILLE,JEFFESCHCO, tA.
II. S. BELNAP, rnoPBiETOa .
JAMES A. FULLERTON,
Surgeon Dentist, having permanently lo
cated in Rigway, offers liis professional ser
vices to the citizens of Ridgway and sur
rounding country. All work warranted.
Office in Service Wheeler's Building, op
stairs, first door to the left, 73-n-32-ly
J. S. BOBS WELL, M. D,
Eclectio Physician and Surgeon, has remov
ed hia olT'ce from Centre street, to Main si.
Uidgwny, Pa,, in the second story of the
new trick building of John G. Hall, oppo
site Hyde's store.
Office hours: 8 to 0 a- ni: 1 to 2 p, m. 7
8. p. m. jan 9 7;i
(" G. ME'lSE
T Druggist i
MESSENGER,
Main and Mill streets, Ridgway, l'a. A
full assortment of carefully selected For
eign and Doinestio Drugs. Prescriptions
carefully dispensed at all hours, dny or
niglit. vln3y.
S.
HARTLEY, M. D.,
Physician ana Surgeon,
Ridgway, Ta. Office iu Walker's Building.
Special attention given to Surgery. Office
house Irom 8 a. ni. to 10 p, m. Residence
on corr.cr of South aud Court streets, op
posite the new School House. All sails
promptly attendod to. vln2yl.
(1UARLES HOLES.
J Watchmaker, Engraver and Jeweler,
Main street, Ridgway, Pa. Agent for the
Howe Sewing Machine, and Morton Gold
Pen. Repairing Watches, etc, done with
he same acouraey as heretofore. Satis
aotion guaranteed vlnly.
H'
YDE HOUSE,
Ridgwat, Elk Co.. Pa,
W. II. SCIIUAM, Proprietor.
Thankful for the patronage heretofore
so liberally bestowed upon him, the new
proprietor, hopes, by paying strict at
tention to the comfort and convenience of
guests, to merit a continuance ei the
same.
Oct 30 18G0.
T
M1H OLD BUCKTAIL'S HOTEL,
Kane, McKean Co., Pa
R. E. LOOKER, Proprietor.
Thankful for the patronage heretofore so
liberally bestowed upon him, the new pro.
prietor, hopes, by paying striot attention
to the comfort aud convenience of guests.
to merit a continuance of the same. The
only stables for horses in Kane and well
kept night or day. Hall attached to tha
Hotel. vlu23yl.
HALL. & BllO
Attorneys - at Law
ST. MARY'S,
ELE COTOTI FNNSYL7A2TIA.
JO.iao. HALL....... ................ .IAS. K. p. HALS
KERSEY HOUSE, '
CwiiaiviLLE, Elk Co., Pa.
John Collins, Proprietor.
Thankful for the patronage heretofore,
so liberilly bestowed upon hiai, tha n
proprietor, hopes, by paying strict at
tention to the oorufort and convenience
f guests, 1 1 merit a continuance of the
came.