ADVERTISEMENTS. I=;1= TO ALL CONCERNED. IN TOWN COUNCIL, May 7, 1838. WHEREAS, the Borough accounts for the year 1837, as presented and aucited by the late Town Cleek. and Council, presents only an exhibit of monies actually revived and expend ed, without showing what amount of debts there aro outstanding and unpaid; and Whereas, it is well ascertained that thereis a considerable 'amount of such debt now remaining unpaid, the amount of which it is necessary that the present Council should know to enable them to judge what amount of Tax it may be necessary to assess fur the ; pre sentycsr,-- Therefore, Resolved, That all persons having outstanding claims against the 13orouglittf Gettys burg that remain unpaid and of kflin't prier to tie 7th rf May, 1e.:48, be requested and notified to present the same to the Town council, ireme eiately. for liquidation, anAllttibi jirpose,shove mentioned; Iruid that the clerk give notice thereof by advertisement for three weeks successively, in two newspapers in the Borough. A true extractfrom the minutes. JOHN SLENTZ, President. Attest, D. M. Smvsma, Clerk pro tern. May 8, 1838. 3t-C, • 51 - allE Subscriber, residing in the Borough o' Gettyitprg, lereby gives notice to all per. sons indebteit Wale 'Estate of JOHN NEWCOMER, [formerly of the vicinity of Tailey.Town, Md.) late attic! Borough of Gettysburg, Adams Co., Pa. deceased, to c.all and make immediate payment, and those having claims against said Estate. will present, them-without delay, properly authen ticatedi for Bottle nient. . • DANIEL CULP, Adner. May 8, 108. Gt-G rVi, e_46.400e CITIZENS OF PHILADELPHIA! Two short years have scarcely elapsed since I opened my present office at Iti9 RACE STREET,for the bale of the Vegetable Universal Medicine, known by the name of BRAND. BETH'S PILLS. Conscious of its superiority over every other medicine then in use. I praised it in the most unqualified terms,and thereby pre. wiled on a majority of my follow citizens to test is powers. Subsequent events hnvo shown that I did not exaggerate its virtues. You generously depended on my recommendations, and judging for yourcelves, gave the medicine a trial, and found it deserved all - my encomiums: It is a source of much gratification to me to reflect that in no one instance where the pills have been pur. chaied it my Race street office, have they failed in pl. - educing the most beneficial effects; but, 1/I1 the contrary,they-have cured many and relieved all. The pleasure arising from the above happy state of things in this city, is much alloyed by the' knowledge that this health restoring remedy is counterliiited in every part of the Union. From tho New England States to New Orleans, and from St. Louis to the Atlantic, do counterfeiters abound; and to such an extent have some allies() persons pushed their contemptible calling, that ono of the fraternity has an office publicly in Now Yorli,dovoted exclusively to the sale of the coon. terfiiit- article; and another one is about being opened in Baltimore for the same vile purpose. Our own good city is, as yet, comparatively free from these heartless impostures. How long it may remain so, depends, my fellow citizens, on you: If you still continue,as beretofore,stcadily refusing to encourage any and every kind of irn posture, no matter by what barefaced effrontery it may -be attempted, you will serve the cause of morality,as well as minister to your own welfare, by obtaining the medicine in its original purity Boston, Now York, Cincinnati, Louisville, New Orleans, Baltimore, &c. all teem with counterfeit Brandreth Pills. Philadelphia alone is uncon taminated, and the old established RACE STREET office still stands as a Beacon light to guide the valentudinatian to the port of safety.— Awake, citizens: and drive the prowling caitiffs from your doors. Tell thern,Philadelphians never have, and never will, encourage impostures, and that,in this city,there IS no abiding place for them. By those means, their nefarious and murderous designs, directed against your health, will be de. foaled, and the character of our city, for honesty and good faith be preserved. CAUTION.—Great care should be Limn to purchase of regular appointed agents, who will, In all cases, have a certificate signed by the Gen oral Agent, Mr. William Wright. The following aro some of the regular appoint.. ed egents; and are provided with certificates duly endorsed by the above - Mr. William Wright. (the General Agent.) Dr. JESSE GILBERT, Gettysburg, Adams co. Who hasjut.t received a fresh supply of the GENUINE ARTICLE. Dr. Benjamin Ziegler, York - , York co. Mr. Henry Sidle, Ddlsburg„ York county. Mr. Wm. Gilmore, Chainbersburg, Franklin co. Mr. Jahn Slttrimer, Lancaster, Lancaster county. Remember Dr. Brandroth's General Office for the sale of the medicine, wholesale and retail, is at IG9 Race street, and 43 Chesnut street, Phila delphia. April 3,1838. Dr. Peters' Vegetable Pills. ri? I IHE immense and increasing popuhaity o these pills is another proofol the infallibili ty of the old adage that "truth is powerful and will prevail." Other pills are only putled,but Dr. Peters' aro ?urcbasod and praised, & recommend. ed until the demand for thorn has become almost universal. Dr. Peters would impress this fact upon the public, that his pills are not a quack niedicine,but a scientific compound of simpios which has bean the result of many years intense application to a profession in which ho was regularly bred, and hence it is as popular with the regular faculty as with the peoplo at largo. One of the many peculiar virtues of tho Vegeta ble Pills is, that while very powerful in its °tracts, it is particularly mild and gentle in its action.— Unlike the generality of modicines,its application is never attended with nausea or griping. For sale it the Drug Store of Dr. J. GILBERT, Agent. Gettyabusg ,Jan. 5, 1838. - 9m-40 HERNIA, OR RUPTURE, CURED BY HULL'S TRUSS. Ihas been ascertained, beyond contra: AL diction, that persons can be cured per. menently and effectually of Hernia or Rupture by the use of Hull's Truss. Numerous certificates could be productid from Gentlemen of the lust respectability that have been cured by wearing them. It is not only the easiest to wear of any Truss ever invented; but it keepstlie Hernia per fectly reduccd,so that the person can ride or labor, as well as if he was not thus afflicted. A trial of this, instrument would at once convince every person of its superiority over any other article that could bo offered for the same disease. ILTA supply of the Genuine cuticle is just re calved and for sale of the DrUg Store of Dr. J. GI L BERT, Gettysburg Pa. April 10, te-2 ARANDRETIPS i ILLS. ,FREW/ oupply of the above Pills bas just . been received by Dr. J. GILBERT, Agent. THE NEW CONSTITUTION. VIE CONSTITUTION COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, AS AMMIDED BY THE CONVT.NTICI:f or wir THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTy-SEVEN TIIIIITV-EIGIII. WP., The People of the Comm - hillerllth of Penn sylvania, ordain and establish .this Constitution for its Government ARTICLE Section J. The legisLitive power of this;CoMmOn tdealth rh.ill be vested in t General Assembly, which shalt consist of a Senate and House of Repre sentatives. Section H. The represmtativey shall he chosen annually by the citizens of the city of Philadelphia and of each county respectively on the second Tues day of l )ember. Section 111. No person shall he a representative who shall not have attained the age of twenty-one and have been a citizen and inh ihitint of the State three years next preceding his election, and the last year thereof an inhabitant of the district in and for which he shall be chosen n repreNentalire, nnlecs he shall hare been absent on the public busineas of the United State, or of this State. Section IV. Within three - years after the.first tneeting of the General Aisembly, and within evoiy subsequent torn of seven years, an enumeration of the taxable inhabitants shall he made in such man lier as shall he direeted by law. The number of retne.ent..tives shill, at The several periods of rrrik -44; such -enumeration, he fixed by the Legislature, and apportiniedrimitter the city of Philadel;:lita and the aerording to the number of taxable inhabitants in each: and shall never he less thin sixty nor etre:ter than one hundred. F... 1611 county shall have at least one representative, but no cannty hereafter elected shall he entitled t,. a sepa rate repreyentation until a sinfleient.numlar of tax ;IMP /010 . /4 , 110S shall he contained within it, to entitle them to one representative at to the ratio which :.hall then he estahlkhed. Section V. The :amatory shall he chosen for three years by the citizens of Philadelphia and of the several counties at the same time, in the came man ner, and at the same places where they shall vote for representatives. Section VI. The number of Senators shall, at the several periods of makiiig the enumeration before ruentioned, be fixed by the Legislature and appor tioned among the districts formed as hereinafter directed, according to the number of taxable inhabi tints in each; and shall ue:. er be less than one fourth. nor greater than one-third, of the number of representatives. Section VII. The senators shall be chosen in dis tricts. to he loaned by the legislature; but no dis trict shall. he so formed as to entitle it to clert more than two senators, unless the number of ta.rable in habitants in any cif,' or rounry , it any time. be such as to entitle it to elect more than two, Ind no city or county shall be. entitled to elect more than 'our senatdrs ; when a district shall he composed of two or more counties, they shall be adjoining ; neither the city of Philadelphia nor any county shall be divided in forming a district. Section V fII. lid person shall be a senator, who shall not have attained the age of twenty-live 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 chosen, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States or of this State ; and no person elected as aforesaid, shall hold said office after he shall hare removed front such dis trict. Section IX. The senators who may be elected at the first general election after the adoption of the amendments to the constitution, shall be divided by Ins into three 'dosses. The seats of the senators of the first c 105.7 shall he vacated at the expiration of the first year; of the second class at the expiration of the second year ; and of the third class at the ex piration of the third year ; so that thereafter one third of the whole number. of senators may be chosen every year. The senators elected before the amend ments to (he constitution shall he adopted, shall hold their offices during' the terms for which they shall respectively have been elected. Section X. The General Assembly shall meet on the first Tuesday of January, in every year, unless sooner convened by the Governor. Section XI. Each house shall choose its Speaker and other officers; sad the Senatishall also choose a Speaker pro tempos, when the Speaker shall ex ercise the ollice of Governor. Section XII. Each house shall judge of the quali fications of its members. Contested elections shall be determined by a committee to be selected, formed and regulated in such manner as shall be directed by law. A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized by law to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as may be provided. Section XIII. Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behaviour, and with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member, but n. t a second time for the same cause; and shall have. all other powers necessary for a branch of the legislature of a free State. Section XIV. The legislature shall not have power to enact laws annulling the contract of marriage in any case where, by law, the courts 11 this Common wealth are or may hereafter be empowered to decree a divorce. Section XV. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and publish them weekly, except such parts as may require secrecy: and the yeas and nays of the members on any question shall, at the desire of any two of them, be entered on the journals. Section XVI. The doors of each house and of committees of the whole shall be open, unless, when the business shall be such as ought to be kept secret. Section XVII. Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days. nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting. Section XVIII. The Senators and representatives shall receive a compensation for their services to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth. They shall in all cases, ex cept treason, felony and breach or surety of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their at tendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same. And fur any speech or debate in either house, they shall not be questioned in any other place. Section XIX. No Senator or representative during the time for which he shall have been elect ed, be appointed to any civil office under this Com monwealth which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such time : and no member of Congress or other person holding any office (except of attorney at law and in the militia) under the United States or this Commonwealth, shall be a member of either house during his continuance in Congress or in office. • Section XX. When vacancies happen in either house, the Speaker shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies. Section XXI. AU bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives, but the Senate may propose amendments as in other bills. Section XXII. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations tnade by law. Section XXIII. Every bill which shall have passed both houses shall be presented to the Go vernor. If he approve he shall sign it, but if he shall not approve he shall return it with his objec tions to the house in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large upon their journals and proceed to re-consider it. If, after such te-consideration, two-thirds of that house shalt agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent. with the ob jections to the other house, by which likewise it shall be re-considered, and if approved by two thirds of that house, it shall be a law. But in such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined' by yeas and nays, and the names of persons voting fur or against the bill shall be entered on-the jour nals of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been pre- - sented to him, it shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it; unless the General Assembly, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall be a law, unless sent back within three days after their next meeting. Section XXIV. Every order, resolution or vote to which - the concurrence of both houses may - be necessary (except on a , question of adjournment) shall be presented to the Governor, and before it shall take effect, be approved by him, or being dis approved, shall be repassed by two-thirds of both houses according to the rules and limitations pre- • ibed in case of a bill. Section XXV. No corporate body shall be hereniter created, renewed or extended, with banking' or dis molting yrivikgrA, tin'tkotet six mimat previous THE NEW CONSTITUTION. public notice of the intended application for the same in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. Nor shall any charter for the purposes aforesaid, he granted for a longer period than twenty years, and every such charter shall contain a clause reserving to the legislature the power to (slier, revoke or annul the same whenever in their opinion it may . he inju rious to the citizens of the commonwealth, in such manner however that no injustice shall be done to the corporator& No law hereafter enacted, shall create, renew or extend the charter of more than one corpo ration. ARTICLE IT Section T. The Supreme Executive power of this Commonwealth shall be vested in a Governor. Section 11. The Governor shall be chosen on the second Tuesday of October, by the citizens of the Commonwealth, at the place^ where they shall re spectively vote for representatives. The returns of every election for Governor shall be sealed op and transmitted to the <eat of government, directed to the Speaker of the Senate, who shall open and publish them in the presence of the members of both houses of the legislature. The person having the highest number of votes shall be Governor. Rut if two or more shall be equal and lii4liest in votes, - one of them shall be chosen Governor by the joint vote of the members of both houses. Con tested elections shall be determined by a Committee to be selected from both houses of the legislature, and formed and regulated in such manner as shall be directed by law. Section 111. The Governor ;that] hold his office during three years from the third Tuesday of Janu ary next ensuing his election, and shall not be capable of holding it longer than sit in any term of nine years. Section IV. He shall he at least thirty years of age, and have been a eitiren and an inhabitant of this State seven years next before his election unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United states or of this State. Section V. No member of Congress or person holding any office under the United States or this State shall exercise the office of Governor. Section VI. The Governor shall it stated times receive for his services a compensation, which shall be neither increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have Ewen elected. Section VII. He shall be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of this Commonwealth, and of the militia, except when they hall be called into the actual service of the United States. Section VIII. He shall ,ippaint is Xecsetnry al the Commonwealth daring pleasure, and he shall nomi nate and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate appoint all judicial officers of courts of record, units; otherwise provided for in this Consti tution. He shall have power to Jill nil rironries that may happen in such judicial offices during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their nout smision : Pro vided, that in acting on executive nominations the Senate shall sit with open doors, and in coojirmiog. or rejecting the nominations of the Governor, Ili rote shall be taken by yeas and nays. Section IX. He shall have power to remit line, uni forfeiture, and ;fruit icprici and pa,it,in except in cases of impeachment. Section X. lie may require information in writing, from the officers in the eNcentive department upon any subject relating to the duties of their respec tive offices. Section XI. He shall, from time to time, give to the General Assembly information of the 9tnte of the Commonwealth, and recommend to their con sideration such measures as he shall judge expedient. Section Xll. lie may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the General Assembly; and in case of disagreement between the tmvo houses, with respect to the time rd• adjournment, adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper, not exceeding four tnonths. Section XIII. He shall take care that the law, be faithfully executed. Section XI V. In case of the death or resignation of the Governor, or of his removal from office, the Speaker of the -Senate shall exercise the office of Governor, until another Governor shall be duly qualified ; but in 541C11 case another Governor shall be chosen al the next 0171410 d elution of representa tives, unless such death, resignation or removal, shall Occur within three calendar nun/he immedi ately preceding such next annual election, in which case a Governor shill be chosen al the second cur reeding annua/ election of representatives. And if the trial of a contested election shall continue. longer than until the third Monday of January next ensuing the election of Governor, the Governor of the last year or the Speaker of the Senate who may be in the exercise of the executive authority. shall continue therein until the determination of such contested election, and until a Governor shall he duly qualified as aforesaid. Section XV. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall keep a fair. register of all the official acts and proceedings of the Governor, and shall, when re quired, lay the sane and all papers, minutes and vouchers relative thereto, before either branch of the legislature, and shall perfotru such other duties as 'shall be enjoined hint by law. ARTICLE 111 Section I. In election's by the ritizens every white freeman of the age of twenty-one years, having re sided in this state one year, and in the election dis trict where he offers to rote, ten days immediately preceding such election, and within two years paid a State' or County tar, which shill hare been as sessed at least ten days before the electson, shall enjw, the rights of an elector. But a citizen of the Unite,' States who had previously been a qualified voter of this State, and removed therefrom and returned, an: who shall have resided in the election district, an.' paid taxes as aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote, after residing in the state sir months. Provided, that whit , freemen, citizens of the United Slates, between th, ages of twenty-one and twenty-two years, and har ing resided in the State one year, and in the electio, district ten days as aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote, although they shall not have paid tares. Section 11. All elections shall be by ballot, ex cept those by persons in their representative capa cities, who shall vote viva vote. Section 111. Electors shall in all cases, except reams n. Ivlnnv, and !welch or surety of the ;wart. be privileged from arrest, during their attendance on elections, and in going to and returning from them. ARTICLE IV Section 1. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeaching. Section 11. All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate; when sitting for that purpose, the Senators shall be upon oath or affirmation. No per son shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present. Section 111. The Governor, and all other civil officers under this Commonwealth, shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanour in office; but judgment, in such cases, shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honour, trust or profit, under this Commonwealth: The party, whether convicted or acquitted, shall nevertheless be liable to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment according to law. ARTICLE V Section I. The judicial power of this Common wealth shall be vested in a Supreme Court, in Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail De livery, in a Court of Common Pleas, Orphans' Court, Register's Court, and a Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, for each county; in Justices of the Peace, and in such other Courts as the legislature may from time to time establish. Section 11. The judges of the Supreme Court, of the several Courts of Common Pleas, and of such other Courts of Record as are or shall be established by law, shall be nominated by the Governor, and by and with the consent of the Senate appointed and commissioned by him. The judges of the Supreme Court shall hold their offices for the term of fifteen years if they shall so lung behave themselves well. The president judges of the several Courts of Common Pleas and of such other Courts of Record as are or shall be established by law, and all other judges re quired to be learned in the law, shall hold their offices for the term of ten years if they shall so long behave themselves well. The Associate judges of the Courts of Common Pleas shall hold their offices for the term of five years if they Mall salting behave themselves well. But for any reasonable cause which shall not be sufficient ground of impeachment, the' Governor may remove any of them on the address of twa r thirds qj each branch of the legislature. The judges of the Supreme Court and the presidents of the several Courts of Common Pleas shall at slated limes receive for their services an adequate compensation' to be fixed by law, Which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office, but they shall receive no fees or perquisites of office, nor hold any other office of profit under this Commonwealth. Section 111. Until othei-toise directed by law, the Courts of Commu•t Pleas shall continue as at present established. Not inure than fire counties shall at any time be included in one judicial district organized for said Section IV. The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court shall extend over the State; and the judges thereof, shall by virtue of their offices, be justices of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, in the evvet::t cramtics. THE NEW CONSTITUTION. Section V. The judges of the Court of Common Pleas, it. each county, shall by virtue of their offices, be justices of Oyer and Terminer and Gene ral Jail Delivery, for the trial of capital aid other offenders therein ; any two of the said judges, the president being one, shall be a quorum : ttut they shall not hold a court of over and terminer; - or jail delivery, in any county, when the judges of the Supreme Court, or any of there, shall be sitting In the same county. The party accused, as ; Well as the Commonwealth, may, under such regulations as shall be prescribed by law, remove the indictment and proceedings, or a transcript thereof, into the Supreme Court. Section VI. The Supreme Court, and the several courts of common pleas, shall, beside the poWed heretofore usually exercised by them, have .the power of a court of Chancery, so far as relates-to the perpetuating of testimony, the obtaining of evidence from places not within the State, and thi3 care of the persons and estates of those who 'are non compotes mentis. And the legislature shall vest in the said courts such other powers to grant relief in equity, as shall be found necessary: and may, from time to time, enlarge or diminishAhose powers or vest them in such other courts as the'l shall judge proper, for the due administration of justice. Section VII. The judges of the court of common pleas of each county, any two of whom shall he a quorum, shall compose the court of Quarter Ses sions 0: the peace, and orphans' court thereof ; and the register of wills, together with the said judges, or any two of them, shall compose the register's court of each county. Section VIII. The judges of the courts of common pleas shall, within their respective counties, have the like powers with the judges of the Supreme Court, to issue writs of certiorari to the justices of the peace, and to cause their proceedings to be brought before them, and the like right and justice to be done. Section IX. The president of the court in each circuit within such circuit, and the judges of the court of common pleas within their respective counties, shall he justices of the peace, so far as relates to criminal matters. Section X. A register's office, for the probate of wills and granting letters if administration, and an office for the recording of deeds, shall be kept in each county. Section XI. The style of all process shall be " The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." All prose cutions shall be carried on in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and conclude against the peace and dignity of the tame." ARTICLE VI Section T. SheriilS and coroners shall, at the times and places of election of representatives, be chosen by the citizens of each county. One person shall be chosen fur each office, who shall be commis sioned by the Governor. They shall hold their offices for three years, if they shall so long behave themselves well, and until a successor be duly qualified ; but no person shall be twice chosen or appointed sheriff, in any term of six years. Vacan cies in either of the said offices shall he fillet by an appointment, to be made by the Governor, to continue until the next general election, soil u n til a successor shall be chosen and qualified as afore said. Section 11. The freemen of this commonwealth shall be armed, organized and disciplined for its defence, when and in such manner as 'nay I,e direct"! by law. Those who conscientiously senility to tear arms, shall not be compelled to do so, but shall pad• an equivalent for personal set vice. Section In. Prot/nitwit:ries of the Nupreme Court shall be appointed by the said Court for the ferns of three years if "tlwy an long behave ihemselves well. Prothorsotaries and clerk., of the several other courts, Recorders of deeds, and Re gisters of wills, shall at the limes and place's if election of representatives, be elected by the quali fied electors of each county, or tla districts over which the jurrsdiction fl said courts extends, mid shall he commissioned by the Governor. They shall hold their offices far three years if they shall so long behave themselves well, and until their successors shall he duly prettified. The legisk lure shall provide by law, the number tf persons in each county who shall hold said offices, and how many and which of said offices shall be held by one person. Vacancies in any of the said gy: flees shall be filled by appointments to be made by the Governor, to continue until the n ext gene ral election, and until successors shall be elected and qualified as aforesaid. Section IV. Prothonotaries, clerks of the peace and orphans' courts, recorders of deeds, registers of wills, and sheriffs, shall keep their offices in the county town of the county in which they, respec tively, shall be officers, unless when the Governor shall, for special reasons, dispense therewith, for any term not exceeding five years after the county shall have been erected. Section V. All commissions shall be in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania, and be sealed with the State seal, and sign ed by the Governor. Section VI. A State Treasurer shall he elected annually, by joint vote of bath branches of the legis lature. Section VII. Justices of the peace or aldermen shall be elected in the several ?cards, boroughs, and townships at the time of the election of con stables. by the qualified rulers thereof, in such number as shall he directed by law, and shall be commissioned by the Governor for a term of fire years; but no township, ward or borough shad elect more than two justices of the peace or tibia.- men without the consent of a majority of the qua lified electors within such township, ward or bo- rough. Section VIII. All officers whose election or ap pointment is not provided for in this constitution, shall be elected or appointed as shall be directed by law. J person shall be appointed lo any of fice within any county who shall not have Len a citizen and an inhabitant therein one year next before his appointment, if the county shall hoc, been so long erected ; but if it shall riot have been so long erected, then within the limits of the county or counties out of which it shall hare hero taken. No member if Congress from this .date, or any person holding or exercising any office or appointment of trust or profit under the United States, shall at the same time &N or exercise any office in this state, to which a salary is, or fer,N or perquisites are by law, annexed; and the legisla ture may by law declare what Slate offices are in compatible. No member of the Senate or of the hmtse of representatives shall be appointed by the Governor to any office during the term for which he shall hare been elected. . . . Section IX. All officers for a term of years shall hold. their offices for the terms respectively specs t l e , only on the condition that they so long behave I mselves well ; and, shall be removed 071 CM 'idi n of misbehaviour in office or of any in f MOU rime. S io X. Any person who shall, after the adopt the amendments proposed by This Con Hot, to the Constitution, fight a duel or send a challenge fir that purpose, or be cider or abettor in fighting a duel, shall be deprived of the right of holding any office of honour or profit in this State, and shall be punished otherwise in such annex as is, or may be prescribed by law ; but Me executive may remit the said offence and all its disqualifications. ARTICLE. VII Section I. The legislature shall, ns soon ns con veniently may be, provide by law, for the establish ment of schools throughout the State, in such manner that the poor may be taught gratis. Section 11. The arts and sciences shall be pro moted in one or more seminaries Of learning. Section 111. The rights, privileges, immunities and estates of religious societies and corporate bo lilies, shall remain as if•the constitution of this State - "ffad not been altered or amended. Section Iv. The legislature shall not invest any corporate body or individual with the privilege if taking private prOperty for public use, without requiring such corporation or individual to make compensation to the owners of said property, or give adequate security therefor, before such pro perty shall be taken. ARTICLE VIII Members of the General Assembly, and all offi cers, executive and judicial, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support the constitution of this Commonwealth, and to perform the duties of their respective offices with fidelity. ARTICLE IX That the general, great and essential principles of liberty and free government may bd recognised and unalterably established, WE DECLAIM, THAT Section 1. All men are born equally free and in dependent, and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are these of enjoying and de- Sending life and liberty, of acquittnq, possessing THE NEW CONSTITUTION. and protecting property and reputation, and of pur suing their own happiness. Section If. All power is inherent in the people, and all free governments arc founded on their au thority, and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness •, For the advancement of these ends, they have, at all times, an unalienable and Indefeasible ' right to alter, reform or abolish their governrient, in such manner as they may think pro Per. • Section 111. All men have a natural and indefea sible right to worship Almighty Grid, according to the dictates of their own consciences ; 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 religions establishments or modes of worship. Section IV. No person who acknowledges the be ing of a Cod and a future state of rewards and pu nishments, shall on account of his religious senti ments be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth. Section V. Elections shall be free and equal. Section VI. 'I chit by jury shall be as heretofore, and the right thereof remain inviolate. Section VII. The printing presses shall he free to every person who undertakes to examine the pro seedings of the legislature, or any branch of go vernment: And no law alma ever he made to re strain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man ; and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on -any subject, being responsible tor the 'abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official -.conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public in formation, the truth thereof may be given in evi dence: And in all indictments for libels the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the.dimetion of the court, as in other cases. Section VIII. The people shall be sere. , in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unrea. sonable searches and seizures: And no warrant to search any 'place, or to seize any person or things, shall issue, without describing them as nearly as may be, nor without probable cause supported by oath or affirmation. Section IX. In all criminal prosecutions, the ac cused bath a right to be heard by himself and his counsel, to demand the 11:441ff, and cause of the ac cusation against him, to meet the- witnesses face to face, to have cotnpulsorytoms for obtaining wit nesses in his favour, aMI, :prosecutions by indict mentto or information, a 81)44: public trial, by an impartial jury of the virinage . 4:he cannot be com pelled to give evidenre agoinse-himself, nor can he be deprived of his life, liberty, off-,property,unless by the judgment of his peers +The law of the land. Section N. No person shall, for any, indictable offence, be proceeded against criminally by,inforrna thin, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual 'service in time of war or public danger, or by leaS.C.tif the cuurt, for oppression and misdemeanour in office. No person shall, for the same offence, be twice put En jeopardy of life or 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 an injury done him in his lands, goods, per son or reputation, shall have remedy by the due course of law, and right and justice administered, without sale, denial or delay. Suits may be brought against the Commonwealth in such manner, in such courts, and.in such cases as the legislature may by law direct. Section XII. No power of suspending laws shall he exercised, unless by the legislature, or its au thority. Section XIII. Excessive bail shall not be re quiver], nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel pu nishments inflicted. Section XIV. All poisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for capi al offences, when the proof is evident or presumption great and the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or in vasion, the public safety may require it. Section XV. Ni, commis , ion oft iyer and Terminer or jail deliver• shall be issued. Section XVI. The person of a debtor; where there is not strong presumption of fraud, shall not be continued in pi ison, after delivering up his estate for the benefit of his creditors, in such manlier as shall be prescribed by law. Section X VII. No ex post facto law, nor any law impairing contracts shall be made. Section XVIII. No person shall be attainted of treason or felony by the legislature. Section XIX. No attainder shall work corruption of blood, nor, except during the life of the offender, forfeiture of estate to the commonwealth the es tates of such persons as shall destroy their own fives, shall descend or vest as in case of natural desth ; and if any person shall be killed by casualty, there shall be no forfeiture by reason thereof. Section XX. The citizens have a right, in a peace able rintone to assemble together, for their common good, and to appl y to those invested with the powers of government for redress of grievances, or other proper purposes, by petition, address or remon strance. -Section XXI. The right of citizens to bear arms, in defence of themselves and the State, shall not be questioned. Section XXII. No standing army shall, in time of peace, be kept up without the consent of the Le gislature ; and the military shall, in all cases, and at all times, be in strict subordination to the civil power. Section XXIII. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner nor in lime of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. Section XXIV. The legislature shall not grant any title of inability or hereditary distinction, nor create any office the appointment to which shall be for a longer term than during good behaviour. Section XXV. Emigration from the State shall not be prohibited. Section XXVI. To guard against transgressions of the high poWers which we have Relegated, 1V B DECLARE, that every thing in this article is ex cepted out of the general powers of government, and shall for ever remain inviolate. ARTICLE X. Any amendment. or ante n - dawn's to this constitu tion may be proposed hi the Senate or House of Re presentatives, and if the same shall be agreed to by a 7TiejOr it y If the memhers elected to each House, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall cause the same lobe put dished three months before the next election, in at least one newspaper in every county in which a newspaper shall be published; and if in the legislature next afterwards chosen such pro posed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each house, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall cause the same again to be published in manner aforesaid, and such proposed amendment . or amendments shall he su'wnitted to the people in such manner and at such time, at least three months, after being so agreed to by the two houses as the legislature shall prescribe; and if the people shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments by a majority of the qua lified voters of this Stale voting thereon, such amend ment or amendments shall become a part of the con stitution; but no amendment or amendments shall be submitted to the people oftener than once - in five years ; Provided, that if more than one amendment be submitted, they shall be submitted in such. manner and form, that the people may vote for or against each amendment separately and distinctly. SCHEDULE. That no inconvenience may arise from the altera tions and amendments in the Constitution of this Commonwealth, and in order to early the same into complete operation, it is hereby declared and ordain ed, That, Section I. All laws of this Commonwealth in force at the time when the said alterations and amend ments in the said Constitution shall take effect, and not inconsistent therewith, and all rights, actions, prosecutions, claims, and contracts as well of indi viduals as of bodies corporate, shall continue as if the said alterations and amendments had not been made. Section H. The alterations and amendments in the said Constitution shall take elTect from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. Section 111. The clauses, sections, and articles of the said Constitution, which remain unaltered, shalt continue to be construed and have effect as if the said Constitution had not been amended. Section IV. The General Assembly which shall convene in December, eighteen hundred and thirty eight, shall continue its session, as heretofore, not withstanding the provision in the' eleventh section of the first article, and shall at all times be regarded as the first General Assembly under the amended Constitution. Section V. The Governor who shall be elected in October, eighteen hundred aiid thirty-eight, shall be inaugurated on the third Tuesday in January THE NEW CONSTITUTION. eighteen tilioured and thirty-nine, to t. the present executive term is hereby extended Section VI. The commissions of the judges of the Stipreme Court, who may be in office on the first day of January next, shall expire in the following man ner: 'The commission which bears the earliest date shall expire on the fir((t (lay of January, Anon Do milli one thousand eight.hundred and forty-two; LllO cousin ii,i4lfl text dated shall expire on the first day of January, At, Domini one thousand eight hun dred and forty-five ; the commission next dated shall expire on the tirst.iday of January, Anno Dotpini one thousand right hundred and forty-eight; the cmnmission next dated shall expire on the first day of January, Anon Domini one thousand eight bun and fifty .one ; and the commi4,ion last dated sit ii expi r e on the first day of January, AtintiDo mini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. Section VII. The commissions of the President judges of the several judicial districts and of the• associate law judges of the first judicial district shall expire as follows : The commissions of one-half of those who shall have held their offices •en years or more at the adoption of the amendment.; to the consti tution, shall expire on the twenty-seventh day of Fe bruary, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; the commissions of the other half of those who shall have held their offices ten pmrs or mom at the adop tion of the :imenilments to the constitution, shall expire on the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred arid forty-two ; . the first halt to embrace those whose commissions shall bear the oldest date. The commissions of all the remaining judges who shall wit have held their offices for ten years at the adoption of the amendments to the coll.• stitntion shall expire on the twenty-seventh (lay of February next after the end of ten years from the dam of their commissions, Section VIII. The Recorders of the several May ors' Courts, and other criminal courts in this Com monwealth, shall be appointed for the same time, and in the same manner, as the president judges of the several jinlicial districts; of those cow in office, the commission oldest in date shall expire on the twenty-seventh (tiny of February, (me thousand right hundred and forty-one, and the others every two years thereafter according to their respective dates. Those oldest in (late expiring first. Section IX. The legislature at its first session un der the amended coMnitution, shall divide the other associate judges of the State into four classes. The commissions of those of the first class shall expire on the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and forty; of those of the second crass on the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hun dred and forty-one; of those of the third class on the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hun dred and for ty-two; and of those of the fourth class on the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-three. The said classes from the first to the fourth shall he arranged according to the seniority of the commissions of the several judges. Section X. Prothonotaries, clerks of the several courts (except of the Supreme Court) recorders of deeds and registers of wills, shall be first elected under.i 4 the amended Constitution, at the election of repre4 sentatives in the year eighteen hundred and thirty' nine, in such manner as may be prescribed by laiw. Section XI. The appointingpower shall remain as heretofore, and all officers in the appointment of the . executive department shall continue in the exercise of the duties of their respective officei until the legislature shall pass such laws as may be required by the eighth section of the sixth article of the amended constitution, and until appointments shall be. made under such laws ; .unless their commissions shall he superseded by new appointments, or shall sooner expire' by their own limitations, or the said offices shall become vacant liy death or resignation, and such laws shall be enacted by the firSt legisla ture under the amended constitution. Section XII. The first election for aldermen find justices of the peace shall be held in the year eight een hundred and forty, at the time fixed fur the election of constables. The legislature at its firt session under the amended constitution shall pro vide for the said election and for subsequent similar elections. The aldermen and justices of the peace now in commission, or who may in the interim be appointed, shall continue to discharge the duties 14' their respective offices, until fifteen days after the day which shall be fixed by law for the issuing nt new commissions, at the expiration of which tune, their ColllllliSti shall expire. In testimony that the foregoing is the amended constituti m of Pennsylvania, as agreed to in convention, We the officers and members of the convention have hereunto signed our names at Philadelphia, the twenty-second day of Fehru ry, Atm° Domini one thouiand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the sixty-second. JOHN SERGEANT, President. Daniel Agnew, Ezra S. Hayhurst, Wm. Ayres, Wm. Hays, NI. W. Baldwin, Ephraim Hanks, :Trl. I tenderson, Y. liarclay, Wm. Hrndcrsuu, .Vaeol) rm1.1:1 r, Chas. A. Barnitz, William High, Andrew Hedlund, Jos. Hopkinson, S. Bell, Lune , : Biddle, Jitliez Hyde, LeMwo: , 1.. Bigelow, Charles .Luca Ingersoll, Saint. C. Bonham, Chas. Blown, JC:.II11.111 Brown, James Kennedy, Brown, Aaiun Kerr, Pierce Butler, Jos. firmigmacher, S,tituel Carey, Jacob kreb9, John Cummin, 11. G. Long, Thomas S. Cunningham, David Lyons, William Curl', ‘Vm. Darlington, George Chambers, W. M. Meredith,, John Chandler, James INlert ill, Jos. IL Chandler, Levi Merkel, Ch. Chauncey, \Vm. L. Miller, Nathaniel Clapp, James Montgomery, James Clarke, Christian Meyers John Clarke, William Clark, A. J. Cline, Lindley Coates, Pennypacker, 11. E. Cochran, James Porter, Thos. P. Cope, James Madison Porter, Joshua F. Cox, Saml. A. Puniance, Walter Craig, E. C. Reigart, Richt]. M. Crain, A. H. Read, Geo. T. Crawford, Geo. W. Biter, Cornelius Crum, Jno. Ritter, Ilenjn. Martin, 11. Gold Rogers, John J. M'Colien, Samuel Royer, E. 'l'. M‘Dowell, James M. Russell, James APSherry Daniel Saeger, Mark Darrah, John Morin Scott, Harmar Denny, Tobias Sellers, John Dickey, G. Seltzer. Joshua Dickerson, Geo. Serrill, Jacob Dillinger, Jas. Donagan, J. It. Donnell, Joseph M. Doran, Geo. Smith, James Dunlop, Wm. Smyth, Thomas Earle, Joseph Shively, D. M. Farrelly, Jno. B. Sterigere, Robt. Fleming, Jacob Stickel, Walter Forward, Ebenezer W. Sturdevant. John Foulkrod, Thomas Taggart, Joseph Fry, Jr. Morgan J. Thomas, John Fuller, James Todd, John A. Gamble, Thomas Weaver,. William Gearhart, Jacob 13. Weidman, David Gilmore, It. G. White, Virgil' Grenell, Gco. W. Woodward{, William L. Harris, R. Young. Thomas Hastings, (Attest,) S. Smelt, Secretary G. L. FAUS, J. WILLIADISj Assistant Secretaries SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HARRISDUIIO, FHBIttrAllY 28, 1838. t ' I certify, that the foregoing is an exact and literal, copy of " the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as amended by the Convention of ono• thousand eight hundred and' thirty-seven—thirty eight," deposited in this office on the 26th day of February, 1838 ; the amendments being in italic, and the retained portions at the present Constitu tion in roman letter. TllO. H. BURROWES, Sec'y of the Commonwealth. March 27, 1828. to-52' TO OUR CREDITORS. WAKE Notice that we have applied to the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County, for the benefit .of the Insolvent laws of this Commonwealth, and that said Court has appointed Tuesday the 29th of May next, for the hear.. ing of us and our creditors, at the Court. house in the Borough of Gettysburg, when, and where you may attend if you think. proper. PETER ANDREA.% WASHINGTON StigTH., April 24, IPS. :)},dk.4l A hm. 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