The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-11-20

Com onwealth.
receive such salary and mileage for regular and speca
sessions as shall be fixed by law, and other compen
fatlon Whatever whether for service upon comlntte
or otherwise Nomember of either house shall durn.
he term for which he may have been elected, rceevs
any OF salary or mileage, under any law passe
SEQ Q. The Senate shall, at the beginning ard close
OF each regular session and at such other times
6e necessary, elect of its members president pre-
tempere, who shall perform the duties OF the Lieuten
tat officer, whenever the said Office of Lieutensn
Governor shall be vacant The House of Representative
shail choose it's other officers and shall judge of tn,
lelection and qualifications of its members
SIC 10. A majority of each House shall constitute
lqnorum but a smaller number may adjourn from day
day. and compel the attendance of absent mem bers
$50 ii. Each House shall have power to determine
1.-THE rules of it's proceedings and punish it's members OF
other for contempt disorderly behaviour In
Iect it's members against Violence offers of brbes
private solicitation. and with the concurrence OF two
thirds. TO sxpel member but not second time fol
the cause and shall have all other powers neces
sary for the legislature OF free State member ex
PEELED for corruption shall not thereafter be eligible to
either house. and punishment for contempt or disor
derry behavior shall rot bar an Indictment for the same
ottense
Src. IL Each house shall keep journal of its pre-
eeedihgs and from time to time publish the same, e1
nays of the members on any question shall at the de-
sire OF any two of them, be entered on the Journal
q.
tees OF the whole shall be open, unless when the bus
mess is such osght to be kept secret.
SEC. a Neither house shall, withoutthe consent OF
the other adjourn for than three days nor TO any
other place than that in which the two houses shall
SEC. Is. The members ofthe General Assembly shall
in ali cases, except treason felony violation of their
privileged from arrest during their attendance at the
sessions their respective houses and In going 10 and
bate il either house. they shall not be questioned In
any other place
toraI districts of compact and contiguous territory
as nearly equal in population as may be, and each
couaty containing ore or more ratios of population
shall be entitled to Senator for each ratio and to
ceedns three -fths of ratio; but no county shall
form separate district unless 1t shall contain four
each entitled to more Senators, whom such
county may be assigned Senator on less tnan four
shall be divided unless entitled to two more Sen
ators No city county shall be entitled to separate
Der of Senators. No ward borough township shall
be divided In the formation of district The Sena
torai ratio shall be by divlslng the whole
of the State by the number fifty.
SEC. IT. The members of the House of Representa-
tves shall be appotioned among the several counties
ratio obtained by dividing the population of the
as ascertaned by the most recent United States
census by two hundred: Every county containing
than five ratios shall have represen
every full ratio, and additional representative
when the surplus exceeds half ratio; buteach coun
ty shall have at least one representative. Every
county containing five ratios more shall have one
representative for every full ratio Every city
taining population equal to ratio shall elect sep
arately its proportion Of tho representatives allotted
to the comfy in which it is located. Every city ent
tied to more than four Representatives, and every
county having hundred inhabitants,
shall he divided into districts of compact and cong
uous territory each district to elect its proportion Of
representatives according to its population, but no
district shall elect more than four Representatives
te adontinn of tb1. cnnsttnton and ;wmadi
stey each United States decennia census shall
appOrion the state into senatorial and Representa-
iyp tha 0t fpvO
next proceeding sections.
ARTICLE III.
LEGISLATION.
SEC l. No law shall be passed except bybill no
bill shall be so altered or amended on its passage
through either house as to change its original pur
pos'.
to committee, returned therefrom, and printed for
the use of the members.
SEC. g. No bill, except general appropriation bills,
shall be passed, containing more than subject,
which shall be clearly expressed ia its title.
different days in each house; all amendments made
thereto shall be printed for the of the members
shalt become law unless on its final passage the
be taken by and nays the names of the persons
voting for aud against the same be entered the
journal. and a majority of the members elected to
each house be recorded thereon voting in its favor.
concurred in by the other except by vote of a ma
jority of the members elected thereto taken by
and nays, and the names of those voting for and
against recorded upon the journal thereof; and
of committees of conference shall be adopted IN
elected thereto taken by yeas and nays and
the of those voting recorded upon the journal
provisions thereof extended or conferred by
its title only but much thereof as is revived
amended. extended, or conferred shall be reenacted
and published at length.
SEC. I. The General Assembly shall not pass any
local or special law;
Authorizing the creati n extension or impairing OF
liens;
wards. boroughs, or school districts;
Changing the names of persons or places;
Changing the venue in civil or criminal cases;
Authorizing the laying cut, opening, altering or
maintaining roads, highways, streets, or alleys;
Relating TO ferries or bridges or Incorporating fer
bridges crossing streams which form boundaries be
tween this and any other State:
Vacating roads, town plats, streets or alleys;
Relating cemeteries, grayeyards or public grounds
not OF the State:
Authorizing the adoption or legitimation of chill
dren;
Locating or changing county seats, erecting new
counties, or changing county lines;
Incorporating cities, towns or villages, or changing
their charters;
ing or changing the placs of voting;
Granting divorces;
Erecting townships or boroughs, changing
township lines, borough limits school districts;
Creating offices, or prescribing the powers and du
ties of officers in counties cities boroughs townships
election or school districts;
Changing the law of descent or succession;
Regulating the practice Jurisdiction OF, or chang
ing the rules OF evidences in any judicial proceeding
or inquiry before courts. aldermen. justices Of the
peace sheriHs commissioners, arbtrators, auditors
masters in chaDcery, other tribunals or providing
changing methods for the collection of or the
enforcing of judgments, prescribing the effect OF
judicial sales of real estate;
/ Regulating the fees, extending the powers and
duties OF aldermen justices OF the peace magistrates
or constatles;
Regulating the management of public schools, the
building repairing of school houses and the raising
of money for such purposes;
Fixing the rate of interest;
Affecting the estates Of minors persons under dis
ability except after due notice TO all parties In in
est, to be reeited in the special enactment;
Remtting fines penalties and forfeitures, refund
ing moneys legally paid int the Treasury;
Exempting property from taxation;
Regulating labor, trade, mining, or manufactur
ing;
Creating corporations, or amending, renewing, OIL
extending the charters thereof;
Granting to any corporation, association, or indi
vidua any special exclusive privilege or immunity
lor TO any corporation, association or individual TIT
right to lay down railroad track Norshall the Gene
raj Assembly Indirectly enact such special or local Law
lby the partial repeal of general law, but laws
peaIng special acts may DO passed Nor shat