The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1872-12-05
CsnsiiiutiOnOI Conyem tVOn

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CenstitutiOnOI C0nvemtlOn.
This body adjourned on the 27
nit, to meet again in Philadelphia
ON the first Tuesday, in January
1873.
We give below number of prop
positions submitted by members t.
be adopted in the new constitution
They will all 60 into the hands OF
committees, which will sift and then
report for against them:
Appointment Of judges by the
Governor during good behavior.
To prevent the Legislature to OK.
empt any property from taxation.
To extend the term of members OF
the Legislature to two years, Sena.
tors to four, and to provide for bien.
NAL sessions. .,
Voters TO reside in the districts
six months and pay tax thirty days
before voting.
To prevent all appropriations to
sectional and charitable institutions.
To abolish the Office of alderman
and justices of the peace and substi.
tute a minor judicial tribunal.
To prohibit the Governor and
members Of the Legislature from &C.
cepting free pass from railroads.
Topass nolawslimiting the amount
OF damages TO be awarded.
10 extend right of suffrage to all
persons being ninety days in on eloc.
ton district.
TO preserve the right of trial by
jury, and directing tho judgeto write
out all his charges deliverd to the
jury.
Prevent passage Of all laws extend
ing the payments of debts made by
contracts.
Preventing the sale of cemetery
lots or burying places.
20 provide for general system OF
free schools and compel attendance
Of scholars.
Levying tax on railroads and
other corporations. to be paid to the
common school fund; fixing the sea,
Of government at Harrisburg; that
no bank shall be chartered except
under the general banking law.
That courts shall be open to nj
mon, and allowing suits to bt
brought against the Commonwealth
To provide for the election Of one
person, who shall collect all taxes in
the various counties.
To annul the charters Of all private
banks and prohibiting the Legisla
ture from chartering banks hereafter
unless they be banks of issue
Prohibit the granting of all don.
tions to colleges and churches, and
provide for the faithful appropriate ,r
Of all funds donated to charitable in.
stitutions.
Abolishing all fees to public Of
ficers; also, to allow foreigner,
to vote after having been two year,
in the country, and declared their in
tention 10 become citizens.
A proper preamble for the Consti
t,tion acknowledging Almighty Goo
in the same. =,
Providing that verdicts Of juriei
shall be found by two.thirds. .
Prohibiting the acceptance Of gifts
To allow the truth to be given il
evidence in libel suits.
That no costs shall be paid by per
sons acquitted or against whom bill,
may be ignored
To exempt one thousand dollar,
from levy and sale 10 each debtor.
To compel all voters 10 attend
elections.
To ASCERTAIN what properties ar,
now exempt from taxation, and pre-
vent the exemption ofsny except b!
general laws.
Prohibiting judges to charge jur
les excepting on the law applying Il
the case before them.
To provide for the election of Q
Lieutenant Governor, and 10 empow
er the Governor TO i'll all vacancies
occurring in State Offices and il
either branch Of the Legislature.
TO protect the properly Of femalel
acquired before marriage and alst
after marriage and that her property
shall never be liable for the debts o
her husband,
To prohibit the Legislature from
granting power TO corporations h
control The rivers, creeks and streami
OF the Commonwealth.
To Ak the number Of Senators sl
80 md Of the General Assembly n
27S
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