The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-20


State or of the United States, or on the
high seas, nor while student of any in
stitution of learning, nor while kept in
any poor house or other asylum at pub
lie expense, nor while confined in public
prison.
Sec IA District election boards shall
consist of judge and two inspectors,
who shall be chosen annually by the
citizens. Each elector shall have the
right to vote for the judge and one in
spector, an6 each inspector shall appoint
one clerk. The first eleetion board for
any new district shall be selected, and
vacancies in election boards filled as
provided by law. Election officers shall
be privileged from arrest upon days of
election and while engaged in making
up and transmitting returns, except
upon warrant Of q court of record or
Judge thereof for an election fraud, for
felony, or for wanton breach of the
peace. In cities they may claim ex-
emption from jury duty during their
terms Of service.
Sec Is No person shall be qualified
to serve as an election officer who shall
hold, or shall within two months have
held any office, appointment, or employ
ment in or under the Government of
the United States, or of this State, or of
any city or county, or of any municipal
board, commission, or trust in any city,
save only justices Of the peace and al
dermen, notaries public, and persons in
the militia service of the State; nor
shall any election officer be eligible to
any civil Office to be filled at an election
at which he shall serve, save only to
such subordinate municipal or local Off
GERS below the grade of city or county
officers as shall be designated by general
law.
SEC l6 The Courts of Common Pleas
Of the several counties of the Common
wealth shall have power withins..their
respective Jurisdictions to appoint over
seers of election to supervise the pro-
ceedings of election officers, and to
make report to the court as may be re-
quired; such appointments to be made
for any district in city or county, upon
petition of five citizens, lawful voters Of
such election district, setting forth that
such appointment is a reasonable pre-
caution to secure the purity and fairness
of elections; overseers shall be two in
number for an election district, shall be
residents therein, and shall be persons
qualified to serve upon election boards,
and in each case members of different
political parties, whenever the members
Of an election board shall differ in opin-
ion, the overseers, if they shall be
agreed thereon, shall decide the question
of difference; in appointing overseers Of
election, all the law judges Of the proper
court, able to act at the time, shall con.
cur in the appointments made.
Sec II The trial and determination
Of contested elections of electors of
President and Vice President, men,
beIs of the General Assembly, and of
all public officers, whether State, judi.
cial, municipal, or local, shall be by the
courts of law, or by one or more of the
law judges thereof; the General Assem-
bly, shall, by general law, designate the
courts and judges by whom the several
classes of election contests shall be tried,
and regulate the manner of trial and all
matters incident thereto; but no such
law assigning jurisdiction, or regulating
its exercise, shall apply to any contest
arising out of an election held before
its passage.
ARTICLE TX.
TAXATION AND FINANCE.
SECTION l. All taxes shall be uni
form upon the same class of subjects
within the territorial limits of the au-
thority levying the tax, and shall be lev
led and collected under general laws;
but the General Assembly may, by gen
eral laws, exempt from taxation public
property used for public purposes, &C.
tual places of religious worship, places
of burial not used or held for private or
corporate profit, and institutions of
purely public charity.
Sec 2. All laws exempting property
from taxation, other than the property
above enumerated, shall be void.
SEC 3. The power to tax corpora
ton and corporate property shall not be
surrendered or suspended by any con-
tract or grant to which the State shall
be party.
Sec f. No debt shall be created by
or on behalf of the State, except to sup
ply casual Deficiencies Of revenue, repel
invasion suppress insurrection, defend
the State in war; or to pay existing debt,
and the debt created to supply defc-
iencies in revenues shall never exceed in
the aggregate at any one time one mill
ion Of dollars:
[ SEC 5. All laws authorizing the bor-
rowing of money by and on behalf of the
State shall specify the purpose for which
the money is to be used, and the money
so borrowed shall be used for the purpose
specified and no other.
Sec 6. The credit Of the Common
wealth shall not be pledged or loaned to
any individual, company, corporation, or
association, nor shsllthe Commonwealth
eoome join. owner or stoet-holder in
any company, association, or corpora
ton.
| SEC 7. The General Assembly shall
not authorize any county, city, borough,
township or incorporated district to be-
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