PAGE SIX
THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER ig, 19 13.
Lesson XII. Third Quarter, For
Sept. 21, 1913.
JHE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.
Text of the Lesson, Ex. xxxli, 15-20; 30
35 Memory Verses, 19, 20 Golden
Text, I John v, 21 Commentary
Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns.
Wo inuy summarize Ex. xxv to xxxl,
Inclusive, as tlio Lord's Instructions to
Moses concerning tho tabernacle, of
wlilcli tlio principal vessel was the ark
of tlio covenant containing tho two
tables of tbo law. Wo cannot think of
Israel ns a nation without a taberna
clo or temple,' and when finally restor
ed we shall see a fulfillment of Ezok.
xl to xlvlii.
The reason why of tlio tabernacle is
seen In Ex. xxv, 8, "Let them make me
a sanctuary that I may dwell among
them," and concerning the temple that
Is yet to be we read in Ezek. xllil, 7,
"Son of man, tho place of My throne
and the place of tbo soles of My feet,
where I will dwell in tho midst of the
children of Israel forever, and My holy
name shall the house of Israel no moro
defile." Compare Rev. xxl, 3-5. Tho
section concerning Moses with God In
tho mount ends with theso words:
"And Ho gave unto Moses when lie had
made an end of communing with niin
upon Mount Sinai two tables of testi
mony, tables of stone, written wiU
tho finger of God" (Ex. xxxl, 18).
Today's lesson gives us tho sad, sin
ful, earthly sldo of tho story while
Moses was absent scarcely six weeks.
Tho people who had seen tho lovo of
God to them and His power on their
behalf In Egypt, at tho Red sea, in the
giving of the manna and quails and
water from n rock, nnd had heard Ills
voice out of the midst of the fire, could
not llvo an ordinary, uneventful life
for forty days without wondering what
bad become of God and of Moses, their
leader.
If we see special providences, spe
cial indications that God is working
for us, handfuls of purposo dropped
for us (Ruth IL 1C), manifest tokens of
Ills loving care, we are ready Co sing
and praise; but, if weeks or months or
even days como and go and thero Is
nothing out of tho ordinary, do wo
give Illm occasion to say of us,
"BlcssOd are they that havo not seen,
yet havo believed," or "O yo of llttlo
faith?" When they camo to Aaron
with their complaint concerning the
absence of Moses nnd their request for
something visible to worship, what a
splendid opportunity Aaron had to
stand for God to remind them of tho
command they had just heard out of
the midst of tho flro not to bow down
to tho likeness of anything, to call
their attention to the dally manna as
an evidence of tho constant care of
Johovah and to insist that they wor
ship tho Lord their God and servo Him
only.
It seems as if Joshua would have
done so, or a man like Daniel or his
friends. How can wo account for
Aaron's listening to them, nsking for
their gold earrings, melting them Into
the form of a calf and deliberately fash
ioning it with a graving tool? (Verse
4.) When Moses rebuked Aaron for
his great sin, hear part of his reply:
"Thou knowest the people, that thevy
are set on mischief, for they said unto
mo, make us gods which shall go be
foro us. I asked for their gold,
so they gave it to mo; then I cast it
Into tho fire, and there camo out this
calf (verses 22-24).
Then just think of the death of tho
3,000, for which he was responsible
(verso 2S). This is called a temperance
lesson, nnd if used as such it seems to
mo that the harm brought to many by
tho misconduct of one comes in here
very strongly.
But what shall bo said of preachers
who, to plcaso tho people and keep
their position, either keep back the
truth or teach what is not truth? All
who stand before others as leaders
should remember Gal. i, 10; I Thess.
li, 4.
Notico how Moses stood with God
in his showing them by a most strik
ing object lesson how they had broken
the law, In his grinding tho calf to
powder and making them drink it, in
his call for those on tho Lord's sldo to
slay even tholr own kindred if guilty
of worshiping tho idol. Tho rcsponso
of Levi is referred to in Mai. ii, G-7,
some of tho words being "the fear
wherewith he feared Mo nnd was afraid
beforo My name; Ho walked
with Mo in peaco and equity and did
turn many away from iniquity."
Their faithfulness that day is re
ferred to by Moses in theso words:
"Who said unto his father and to his
mother, I havo not seen him; neither
did ho acknowledge his brethren nor
knew his own children" (Dcut. xxxlll,
0). This is part of what it means to
bo on tho Lord's side, not simply giv
ing n testimony in meeting, but stand
ing against our dearest ones if they
stand against God, even as our Lord
said, "IIo that loveth father or mother
more than Mo is not worthy of Me,
and ho that loveth son or daughter
more than Mo is not worthy of Me"
(Matt, x, 37-30).
ConsidcD tho pleading of Mosos with
tho Lord beforo ho camo down from
tho mount, for up thero tho Lord told
him of Israel's sin nnd how they had
corrupted themselves and turned aside
quickly out of tho way (verses 7-14).
Consider also his request to bo blotted
out of God's book rather than not havo
Israel forgiven (verses 31, 32), and
think of tho Lord Jesus being actually
made sin for us.
TUBERCULOSIS EMBLEM
STANDARDIZED.
Double Red Cross of Samo Propor
tions will bo Used by all Anti
Tuberculosis Organizations.
A special committee of The Na
tional Association for tho Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis, of which
Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs of Baltl
moro is chairman, announces to-day
the exact proportions ot the double
red cross, the international tuber
culosis emblem, which has been
adopted for use In the United States.
Every organization or institution
dealing with tuberculosis will be
urged to use the emblem in its cor
rect proportions.
Although the double red cross was
adopted for use In the United States
in 1906 as the symbol' of tho crusade
against tuberculosis, no effort was
made to standardize tho shape or
proportions, with the result that
hundreds of differently formed em
blems are now being used in this
country. After a year of study of
tho history and artistic merits of all
of tho desiens available, the National
Association has finally chosen one "in
which all of the arms are pointed,
the two cross-arms being of tho same
length. The width of the cross is
taken as tho unit in determining the
proportions. Tho length of the low
er leg is 7 units; the arms are 3
units on either side; tho point above
the arms, 2 units. These measure
ments hold good for any size.
Tho double red cross was first
adopted as tho symbol of the Inter
national Anti-Tuberculosis Associa
tion in Berlin, in October, 1902.
Tho proposer of the symbol was Dr.
G. Sersiron of Paris, who is now As
sociate Secretary of L'Associatlon
Centrale Francaise Contro la Tuber
culose. To-day tho emblem is being
used by anti-tuberculosis workers in
every part of tho world, oven in Ice
land, India, South Africa, Labrador,
Japan, China and the Philippines.
The double red cross is similar in
shape to a cross used frequently in
the Greek Catholic Churches, and
also to tho Lorraine Cross of France.
In tho United States over 1200
anti-tuberculosis associations and
committees, nearly 550 sanatoria and
hospitals; '400 dispensaries and
about 200 open air schools, besides
a number of other organizations, aro
using tho double red cross as their
emblem. Whereever it is seen, it
means war against tuberculosis.
PItE-AD AMITE IDEA OF
DR. R. A. TORREY. DISPUTED,
Evangelist's Published Theory of
Second Creation of World Chnl-
enged by Ministers.
Was Adam tho first man? For cen
turies mankind has believed he was
Adam and Evo were tho father and
mother of tho human race. This is
tho 'Biblical record, and men havo
accepted It from time Immemorial.
Now tho Rev. Reuben A. Torrey,
the evangelist, comes forword with a
new theory. Ho says Adam was not
the first man; that Adam and Eve
were created by God after the exist
ence of a pre-Adamltq race, whoso
sins brought down a catastrophe up
on this planet, causing it to bo laid
wasto.
Following that catastrophe, Doctor
Torrey says, God proceeded to ro-cro-ate
tho earth in six days, as describ
ed in Genesis, and made Adam and
Eve to start the human race anew.
Ministers in Philadelphia, says the
Ledger, were astonished, when they
learned of Doctor Torrey's theory
and, without exception, they de
nounced It. Had tho author of the
pre-Adamite raco theory been a lib
eral theologian, they would not havo
been surprised but coming from Doc
tor Torrey, who has been regarded
as a strong conservative in Biblical
interpretation, they were amazed.
Doctor Torrey's statement concern
ing the pre-Adamite race appears in
a little volume for the instruction of
Sunday school teachers entitled
"Tho" Gist of the Lesson; a Concise
Exposition of tho International Sun
day School Lessons for 1913." Un
der tho caption "Tho Rehabilitation
of the Earth to Become the Abode
of Man," Doctor Torrey says:
"In verso 2 (Genesis), wo aro told
th'e earth was (or became) 'waste'
and 'void.' Tho lvords translated
'wasto' or 'void' are used in tho Blblo
to express God's judgment upon sin.
The words translated 'confusion' and
'omptlness' in Isaiah 44:11 are the
samo words used hero.
"One Hebrew lexicographer gives
'ruin' as tho proper meaning of the
word translated 'waste.' Further
more, isaian tens us in so many
words that God did not originally
creatb tho world 'wasto' (Isa. 45:18).
It is plain therefore that in the begin
ning of verso 2 we havo tho descrip
tion, not of the creation of the earth,
but of a judgment that came upon
tho earth after its creation (presum
ably because of the sin of some pre
Adamlto inhabitants). What follows
then is not the steps of tho original
creation, but of tho rehabilitation of
the earth to become tho abode of
man. '
"If this view of the passago is
correct, thero never can bo any pos
sibility of any conflict between any
thing geology may discover In tho
record of tho rocks and that which
is hero recorded, not as tho stops of
creation, but as tho steps in the re
fitting of the earth."
Several ministers denounced Doc
tor Torrey's teaching concerning the
pre-Adamito race.
"Doctor Torrey's explanation is
visionary," declared the Rev. Dr.
Georgo T. Wobb, secretary of peri
odicals of the American Baptist Pub
llcatlon society. "What ho teaches
is evidently the attempt of a literal
1st to adapt Scriptural teaching to
present scientific theories, and to,
avoid the commonly accepted view
that tho earth was created in six
days. Torrey's opinion in this mat
ter will bo found to coincide with
some of the theories in Pemberton's
book, entitled 'Earth's Earliest
Ages.' "
"I disagree with Doctor Torrey
and so do tho Bible commentators,"
said tho Rev. Dr. William Henry
Roberts, of the Presbyterian church.
"Adam and Evo aro merely generic
titles for the first man and woman.
'Adam' means 'red earth,' signifying
the clay from which Adam was
created. Geology has no discoveries
which can refute the account of tho
world's creation In Genesis, because,
in my opinion, tho 'days' mentioned
in the Bible were extended periods
possibly of 100,000 or C00.000
years each. I am surprised that
Doctor Torrey should entertain the
idea of a pre-Adamite race."
NAUTICAL KNOTS AND MILES;
THE DIFFERENCE IN THEM.
A nautical knot and a nautical
mllo aro two different things, al
though they are frequently con
founded by landsmen.
The length of a nautical knot is
fifty feet eight inches, while that of
a nautical mile- varies from the ex
treme length of G.107 feet 10 Inches,
to tho shortest, 6,040 feet. This var
iation in the length of a nautical milo
is duo to the fact that it must con
form to a lino measuring one minute
of arc of the earth's surface at sea
love1, and as the earth is not a per
fect circle tho radii differ, and so
must tho arc.
To avoid confusion, however, the
length of a standard nautical mile
has been fixed by the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey at 6,
080 feet 3 inches, that being the
length of one minute of arc of a
great circle of a true sphere, whose
surface area is equal to that of the
earth.
Tho method of determining tho
distance sailed by a ship at sea In
the early days of navigation was by
means of a process called "heaving a
log." Tho three-cornered board
with lead attached, so as to float on
its edge that it might not bo drag
ged through the water, was attach
ed to a long line and when the log
was thrown into the water as the
vessel sailed away from it the line
was drawn out of the vessel by the
log, which remained stationary in the
water.
As soon as the knot passed out
over tho rail or stern of the vessel
a half-minute sand glass was turn
ed to show tho time, and tho sand
carefully watched until the last grain
had dropped into the lower bulb, and
the log line was then instantly stop
ped at the rail. Tho distance was
measured on the lino as it was haul
ed in from where it stopped at the
rail to the knot beforo mentioned.
As a half-minute glass denoted the
one hundred and twentieth part of
an hour, so the log lino was a one
hundred and twentieth part of tho
distance a vessel would sail in an
hour.
In order to mako tho computation
moro easy, knots were placed on the
log line every one hundred and twen
tieth part of a mile of 0,080 feet,
which placed tho knots 50 feet S In
ches apart and the number of theso
knots which tho vessel sailed in half
a minuto were, therefore, equal to
the number of miles that the vessel
would sail an hour if she continued
at tho same rate of speed.
NINE BATTLESHIPS TO CRUISE.
Others of Fleet to Remain For Duty In
Mexican Waters.
Only nine battleships of tho Atlantic
fleet will make tho Mediterranean
cruise planned for this fall, and they
will not bo accompanied by the tor
pedo flotilla, as tho original program
proposed.
Secretary Daniels has announced
that it has now been determined that
it would bo incurring an unnecessary
risk to have the destroyers make tho
return trip across the Atlantic in mid
winter and that they would be sent to
the Mediterranean nt a more favornblo
season.
It had been intended to send a larger
number of battleships on tho cruise,
but four of the big vessels aro being
kept In Mexican waters, and four oth
ers are held in readiness to relieve
them at stated intervals. Tho ships will
leave Hampton Roads, Vn., Oct. 25.
Tho destination of the nine battle
ships will bo as follows: Tho Wyom
ing (flagship), Rear Admiral Badger,
commander in chief, Malta; the Ver
mont nnd the Ohio, Marseilles; tho Ar
kansas and tho Florida, Naples; the
Utah and the Delaware, Villefranche,
France.
SHOW RAILROAD EXPENSES.
Reports From 159 Carriers Aro Re
ceived by Commerce Commission.
Nearly 3,000 miles wero added dur
ing tho year closing Aug, 21 to the
roadway of steam railroads of tho
country, earning less than ?1,000,000 n
year, according to a statement Issued
by tho interstate commerce commis
sion at Washington. Reports were re
ceived from 100 railroads, nnd theso
show that tho average number of
miles operated during tho year was
203,095, compared with 200.0SO for the
corresponding period of tho year pre
vious. Tho total operating expenses wero
reported to bo $2,823,555,873 for tho
year ns against ?2,543,782,711 last year.
Tho net revenue per mllo is given as
f4,2S0 as against ?3,044 last year.
New Record For Gulllaux.
Maurice Gulllaux, tho French avia
tor, who flow from Biarritz to Brack
el, Germany, Aug. 23, has been award
ed tho single day record of 859 miles.
This beats tho record for a straight
courso mado last Juno by Marcel G.
Brlndpjone des Moulinais, who flow
from Paris to St Petersburg, by two
and one-half miles.
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO
THE CONSTITUTION SUBMIT
TED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS
COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP
PROVAL OR REJECTION, BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL
VANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY OR
DER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSUANCE
OF ARTICLE XVHI OF THE CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article
nine, section four, of the Constitu
tion of tho Commonwealth of Ponn
. Eylvanla, authorizing the State to
issue bonds to the amount of fifty
millions of dollars for tho improve
ment of tho highways of tho Com
monwealth. Soctlon 1. Bo It resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of tho Commonwealth of Pennsylvai
nla in Ganoral Assombly met. That
tho following nmondmont to the Coni
Btltution of tho Commonwealth of
Ponnslyvanla bo, nod tho same la
hereby, proposed, in accordance with
the oighteonth article thereof:
That section four of article nine,
which reads as follows:
"Soction 4. No debt shall bo crei
ated by or on bohalf of the State,
aacopt to supply casual deficiencies
of revenue, repel invasion, suppress
insurrection, defend tho Stato in war,
or to pay existing debt; and tho debt
created to supply deficiency in reve
Hue shall never exceed, in the aggrej
gate at any ono time, one million of
dollars," bo amonded so as to read
as follows:
Section 4. No debt shall bo cre
ated by or on behalf of the State,
oxcept to supply casual deficiencies
of revenue, repel invasion, suppress,
insurrection, defend the Stato in war,
or to pay existing debt; and the
debt created to suppy deficiencies In
revenue shall never exceed, in tho,
aggregate at any ono time, ono mll
lion of dollars: Provided, howover,
That the General Assembly, irre
spective of any debt, may authorize
the Stato to issue bonds 'to the
amount of fifty millions of dollars for
tho purposo of improving and rebuild
ing of highways of tho Common
wealth. A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. L
ROBERT McAFEE.
Socrotary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section
sevon, article three of tho Consti
tution of Pennsylvania, so as to
permit special legislation regulat-
ing labor.
Sbction 1. Bo it resolved by tho
Qonato and House of Representatives
of tho Commonwealth of Pennsylva
nia in General Assembly met. That
tho following is proposed as an
amendment to tho Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in
accordances with tho provisions of tho
oighteonth articlo theroof. Amend
ment to Article Three, Section Seven.
Section 2. Amend soction seven,
articlo tliroo of tho Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads aa fol
lows: "Section 7. The General Assem
bly shall not pass any local or spe
cial law authorizing tho creation, ex
tension, or impairing of liens:
"Regulating the affairs of counties,
ottlos, townships, wards, boroughs.
ot Bchool districts:
"Changing tho names of persons
or places:
"Changing tho venue In civil or
criminal cases:
"Authorizing tho laying out, open
,1ns, altering or maintaining roads,
MBhYrayB, streets or alleys:
"Relating to ferries or bridges, or
Incorporating ferry or bridge compa-
Dies, except for tho erection of
bridges crossing streams which form
boundaries between this and any
other Stato:
"Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
"Relating to cemeteries, grave
yards, or public grounds not of tho
State:
''Authorizing the adoption or legiti
mation of children:
"Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties, or changing
county lines:
"Incorporating cities, towns, or vil
lages, or changing tholr charters:
"For the opening and conducting
of elections, or fixing or changing
tho place of voting:
"Granting divorces:
"Erecting now townships or bor
oughs, changing township linos, bor
ough limits, or school districts:
"Creating offices, or proscribing tho
powers and duties of officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
tion or school districts:
"Changing tho law of dosoont or
succession:
"Regulating tho practico or Juris
diction of, or changing the rules of
evidence in, any judicial procooding
or inquiry beforo courts, aldermen,
justices of tho peace, sheriffs, com
missioners, arbitrators, auditors, mas
ters in chancery, or other tribunals,
or providing or changing mothods for
tho collection of debts, or tho enforcement-
of judgments, or prescrib
ing the effect of judicial sales of real
estate:
"Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
"Regulating the management of
public schools, the building or re
pairing ot school houses and tho rais
ing of money for such purposes:
"Fixing tho rate of interest:
"Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except af
ter duo notico to all parties in in
terest, to bo recited in tho special
enactment:
"Remitting fines, penalties and for
feitures, or refunding moneys legally
paid into the treasury;
"Exempting property from taxa
tion: "Regulating labor, trade, mining
or manufacturing:
"Creating corporations, or amend
ing, renewing or extending tho char
ters thereof;
"Granting to any corporation, asso
ciation or individual any special or
exclusive privilege or Immunity, or to
any corporation, association or indi
vidual tho right to lay down a rail
road track:
"Nor shall tho General Assembly
indirectly enact such special or lo
cal law by the partial repeal of a
general law; but laws repealing local
or special acts may bo passed:
"Nor shall any law Ua passed
granting powers and privileges In
any case where the granting of such
powers and privileges shall havo
been provided for by genoral law,
nor where the courts havo Jurisdic
tion to grant the samo or givo tho
relief asked for," so .as to read as
follows:
Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special
law authorizing the creation, exten
sion or Impairing of liens: .
Reeulatinpr the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
school districts:
Changing the names of persons or
places:
Changing tho venue In civil or
criminal cases:
Authorizing the laying out, open
ing, altering, or maintaining roads,
highways, streets or alleys:
Relating to ferries or bridges, or
Incorporating ferry or bridge compa
nies, except for tho erection of
bridges crossing streams which form
boundaries between this and any
other State:
Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or olleys:
Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public grounds not of tho State:
Authorizing the adoption, or legiti
mation of childron:
Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties or changing
county linos:
Incorporating cities, towns or vil
lages, by changing their charters:
For the opening and conducting of
elections, or fixing or changing tne
place of voting:
Granting divorces:
Erecting new townships or bor
oughs, changing township lines, bor
ough limits, or school districts:
Creating offices, or prescribing tho
powers and duties of ofllcors In coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships,
election or school districts:
Changing tho law of descent or
succosslon:
Regulating the practice or Jurisdic
tion of, or changing the rules of evi
dence In, any Judicial proceeding or
Inquiry before courts, aldermen, Jus
tices of tho peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
in chancery or other tribunals, or
providing or changing methods for
tho collection of debts, or tho en
forcing of judgments, or prescribing
the effoot of Judicial sales of real
ostate:
Regulating tho fees, or extending
tho powers and duties of aldermen,
Justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
Regulating tho management of pub
lie schools, tho building or repairing
of school houses and tho raising ot
monoy for such purposes:
Fixing tho rate of interest:
Affecting tho estates of minors or
persons under disability, excopt af
ter duo notico to all parties in in
terest, to bo recited In tho special
enactment:
Remitting flnos, penalties and for
feitures, or refunding moneys legally
paid Into tho- treasury:
Exempting property from taxation:
Regulating labor, trado, mining or
manufacturing; but the legislature
may regulate and flx the wages or
salaries, tho hours of work or labor,
and mako provision for tho protec
tion, welfare and safoty of persons
employed by the State, or by any
county, city, borough, town, towni
snip, school district, village, or other
civil division of the State, or by any
contractor or sub-contractor perform
ing work, labor or service for tho
Stats, or for any county, city, bor
ough, town, township, school district,
village or other civil division thereof:
Creating corporations, or amending,
renewing or extending the charters
thereof:
Granting to any corporation, asso
ciation or individual any special or
exclusive privilege or immunity, or
to any corporation, association, or
individual the right to lay down a
railroad tracks
Nor shall the General Assembly
Indirectly enact such special or local
law by tho partial repeal of a gen
eral law; but laws repealing local or
special acts may be passed:
Nor shall any law bo passed grant
ing powers or privileges in any caso,
whero tho granting of such powers
and privileges shall have been pro
vided for by genoral law, nor whero,
the courts have Jurisdiction to grant
the same or give the relief asked for.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 2.
ROBERT McAFEE.
Socrotary of tho Commonwealth.
Number Three.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
three of articlo eight of tho Consti
tution of Pennsylvania. .
Section 1. Bo it resolved by tho
House of Representatives of tho
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (It
tho Senate concur), That tho fol
lowing is proposed as an amend
ment to tho Constitution of tho Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, In ac
cordance with tho provisions ot the
eighteenth article thereof:
Section 2. Amend soction three of
article eight, which reads as follows:
"All judges elected by the electors of
the Stato at largo may bo elected at
either a general or municipal eleo
tion, as circumstances may require.
All the elections for judges of tho
courts for tho several judicial dis
tricts, and for tho county, city, ward,
borough, and township officers, for
regular terms of service, shall bo
held on tho municipal election day;
namely, the Tuesday next following
tho first Monday of November in
each odd-numbered year, but tho
General Assembly may by law flx a
different day, two-thirds of all tho
members ot each House consenting
thereto: Provided, That such elec
tions shall always bo held In an
odd-numbered year," so as to read:
Section 3. All Judges electod by
tho electors ot the Stato at largo
may be elected at either a general
or municipal election, as circumstan
ces may require. All elections for
Judges ot the courts for the several
Judicial districts, and for county,
city, ward, borough, and township
I officers, for regular terma jot eery-
noxt following tno first Monday
November in each odd-numbere
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xnat sucn elections shall bo held
ther, That all Judges for tho court
lr,t nmo 4 .1 .i
terms oi oiuce may ena in an oaa
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ing even-numbered year.
A true copy of Concurrent Resolu
uon No. 3.
ROBERT McAFEE.
Secretary ot the Commonwealth
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
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tutlon of Pennsylvania, relating
taxation.
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of the Commonwealth of Pennsvlvn
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tho following Is proposed as an
amondmont to the Constitution of tha
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eignteenth article thereof:
Section 2. Amend section ono of
article nine of the Constitution ot
Pennsylvania, which reads a3 foU
lows:
"All taxes shall bo uniform, upon
tho same class of subjects, within
tho territorial limits of tho authority
levying th'e tax, and shall bo levledj
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but the General Assembly may, by
general laws, exempt from taxation'
public property used for public pur
poses, actual places of religious wor
ship, places of burial not used or
held for private or corporato profit,
and institutions of purely publlo
charity," so as to read as follows:
All taxes shall bo uniform upon
the same class of subjects, within
the territorial limits of the authority
levying tho tax, and shall bo levied
and collected under general laws, and
the subjects of taxation may be clas
sified for tho purpose of laying graded
or progressive taxes; but tho Gen
eral Assembly may, by general laws,
exempt from taxation public property
used for public purposes, actual
places of religious worship, place3
of burial not used or held for pri
vate or corporato profit, and institu
tions of purely public charity.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 4.
ROBERT McAFEE.
Secretn.iV of tho Commonwealth.
Number Five.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to tho Con
stitution of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be It resolved by tho
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva
nia in General Assembly mot, That
the' following is proposed as an
amendment to tho Constitution of
Pennsylvania In accordance with tho
provisions of the eighteenth article
thereof:
Articlo IX.
Section 15. No obligations which
havo been heretofore issued, or'
which may hereafter bo issued,
by any county or municipality, other
than Philadelphia, to provide for tho
construction or acquisition of water
works, subways, under-ground rail
ways or street railways, orthoappuiv
tenances thereof, shall bo considered
as a dobt of a municipality, within
tho meaning of section eight of ar
ticlo nino of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania or of this amendment,
if tho not revenue derived from said
property for a period of five years,
either before or after the acquisi
tion thereof, or, whero tho samo is
constructed by the county or muni
cipality, after tho completion thereof,
shall havo been sufficient to pay In-'
torest and sinking-fund charges dur-
ing Bald period upon said obligations,
or if the said obligations shall be se
cured by Hens upon tho respectlvo
properties, and shall impose no mu
nicipal liability. Where municipali
ties or counties shall issue obliga
tions to provldo for the construction
of property, as herein provided, said
municipalities or counties may also
issue obligations to provide for tho
interest and sinking-fund charges ac-i
crulng thereon until said properties
shall have been completed and in op
eration for a period ot ono year; and
said municipalities and counties shall
not bo required to levy a tax to payi
said interest and sinking-fund
charges, as required by section ten
of article nino of tho Constitution
of Pennsylvania, until aftor said prop
erties shall have been operated by
said counties or municipalities during
said period of one year. Any of tho
said municipalities or counties may
incur indebtedness in excess of soven
per centum, and not exceeding ten
per centum, of the assessed valuation
of tho taxable property therein if
said increase of Indebtedness shall
havo been assented to by three-fifths
of tho electors voting at a publlo
election, in such manner as shall bo
provided by law. .
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 5.
ROBERT McAFEE.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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