The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-11-28


lowest responsible bidder below such maxi
mum price and under such regulations As
shall be prescribed by law; no member or
officer of any department. of the government
shall be in any way interested in such con-
tracts, and all such contracts shall be sub
Ject to the approval of the Governor, Audi
tor General and State Treasurer.
SEC. 13. No law shall extend the term of
any public officer or increase or diminish
his salary or emolunents after his election
or appointment.
SEC. IA. All bills for raising revenue shall
originate in the House of Representatives.
but the Senate may propose amendments as
in other bills.
SEC. 10. The general appropriation bill
shall embrace nothing but appropriations
for the ordinary expenses of the executive,
legislative and judicial departments of the
Commonwealth, interest on the public debt,
and for public schools all other apprOpria-
tions shall be made by separate bills, each
embracing but one subject.
SEC. 10. No money shall be paid out of
tho Treasury except upon appropriations
made by law and on warrant drawn by tho
proper officer in pursuance thereof
SEC. II. No appropriations shall be made
to any charitable or educational institution
not under absolute control of the Common
wealth, other than normal schools establish
ed by law for the professional training of
teachers for the public schools of the State,
except by vote of two-thirds of all the
members elected to each house.
SEC. 18. No appropriations except for pen
sions OF gratuities for military services shall
be made for charitable, educational or be-
nevolent purposes, to any person or commu-
nifty, nor to any denominational or sectarian
institution, corporation or association.
SEC. 10. The General Assembly may make
appropriations of money to institutions
wherein the widows of soldiers are support
ed or assisted or the orphans of soldiers are
maintained and educated but such appro-
PriatiOn shall be applied exclusively to the
support of such widows and orphans.
SEC. 20. The General Assembly shall not
delegate to any special commission, private
corporation or association, any power to
make, supervise or interfere with any mu-
nicipal Improvement, money, property or
effacts whether held in trust or otherwise,
or to levy taxes or perform any municipal
function whatever.
SEC. 81. No act of the General Assembly
shall limit the amount to be recovered for
injuries resulting in death, or for injuries
to persons or property, and in case OF death
from such injuries, the right of action shall
survive, and the General Assembly shall
prescribe for whose benefit such actions shall
be prosecuted no act shall prescribe any
limitations of time within which suits may
be brought against corporations for injuries
to persons or property, or for other causes
different from those fixed by general laws
regulating actions against natural persons,
and such acts now existing are avoided.
SEC. 22. No act of the General Assembly
shall authorize the investment of trust funds
by executors, administrators, guardians, or
other trustees in the bonds or stock of any
private corporation, and such acts now eX-
listing are avoided, saving Investments here
tOfore made.
SEC. 23. The power to change the venue
in civil and criminal cases shall be vested
in the courts, to be exercised in such man
shall he provided by law.
SEC. "a. No obligation OF liability of any
railroad or other corporation, held or owned
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changed, transferred, remittcd, postponed,
or in any way diminished Ivy the General
Assembly, nor shall such liability or obliga-
CATION be released, except by payment
thereof into the State Treasury.
SEC. IS. When the General Assembly
shall be convened in special session, there
shall be no legislation upon subjects other
than those designated in the proclamation
of the Governor, calling such session.
SEC. 26. Every order, resolution, or vote
to which the concurrence of both houses
may be necessary Except on the question
of adjournment) shall be presented to the
Governor and before it shall take effect be
approved by him, or being disapproved,
shall be repassed by two-thirds of both
houses according to the rules and limitations
presCribeII in case of a bill.
SEC. %. No State office shall be continued
or created for the inspection ur measuring of
any merchandise, manufacture or commo-
dity, but any co1nty municipality may
SEC. %. No law changing The location of
the capital of the State shall be valid until
the same shall have been submitted to the
qualified electors of the Commonwealth, at a
general election, and ratified and approved
by them.
SEC. %. A member of tbs General AS
sembly who shall solicit, demand, or receive,
or consent to receive directly or indirectly
for himself or for another from any colnpa-
nv corporation, or person, any money, Of
fice appointment, employment, testimonial,
reward, thing of value or enjoyment, of
personal advantage or promise thereof, for
his vote or official influence, or for withhold
ing the same, or with an understanding, ex-
pressed or implied, that his vote official
action shall be in any way Influenced there
by or who shall solicit or demand any such
money or other advantage, matter, or thing
aforesaid for another, as the consideration
of his vote or official influence, or for with
holding the same, or shall give or Withhold
his vote or influence in consideration of the
payment or promise of such money, advan-
tage, matter, thing to another, shall be
held guilty of bribery within the meaning of
this Constitution, and shall incur tie disa-
bilities provided thereby for said offense,
and such additional punishment is or
shall be provided hy law.
SEC. 80. Any person who shall, directly
or indirectly, offer, give, or promise any
money or thing of value, testimonial, privi-
lege or personal advantage to any execu-
tive or judicial officer or member of the Gen
eral Assembly, TO 1nnuencc MN In Lhe per
formance of any of his public or official
duties, shall be guilty of bribery, and be
punished in such manner as shall be provi-
dcd by law.
SEC. 81. The offeuse of corrupt solicitation
of members of the General Assembly or of
public officers of the State, or of any muni-
cipal division thereof, and any occupation
or practice of solicitation of such members
or officers TO influence iheir official action,
shall be defined by law, and shall be pun
i.hed BIZ fine and imprisonment
SEC. ~. Any person may he compelled to
testify in any lawful investigation or judi
cial pre- Ct sding, against any person who
NAV l.. charged with having committed the
offense OF bribery or corrupt solicitation, or
practices Of solicitation, and shall not be per-
mitted to withhold his testimony upon the
ground that il may criminate himself or sub
feet him to public infamy but such testi-
mony shall not afterwards be used against
him in any judicial proceeding, except for
perjury in giving such testimony, and any
person convicted of either of the otfenses