The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-11-28
EBENsBURG PA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 49, 1873

county having over one hundred thousand
Inhabitants, shall be divided into districts
of compact and contiguous territory, each
district to elect its proportion of representa-
tives according to its population; but no dis
trict shall elect more than four representa-
tives.
Sec. 49, The General Assembly at its first
session after the adoption of this censtitu-
ton, and Immediately after each United
States decennial census, shall apportion the
State into Senatorial and Representative
districts agreeably to the provisions of the
two next preceding sections.
ARTICLE III.
LEGISLATION.
Section l. No law shall he passed except
by bill, and no bill shall be altered or
| amended on its passage through either house
as to change its original purpose
Sec. 2. No bill shall be considered unless
referred TO a committee, returned therefrom,
and printed for the use of the members.
| Sec. B. No bill, except general appropria-
! tion bills, shall be passed, containing more
than one subject; which shall be clearly ex-
pressed in its title.
Sec. 4. Every bill shall be read at length
| on three different days in each house all
| amendments made thereto shall be printed
for the use of the members before the final
| vote is taken on the bill, and no bill shall
become law unless on its final passage the
| vote be taken by yeas and nays, the names
| of the persons voting for and against the
! same be entered on the journal, and a ma
jority of the members elected to each house
|
| Sec. 5. No amendment to bills by one
house shall be concurred in by the other,
| except by a vote of a majority of the men,
! bers elected thereto taken by yeas and nays,
| and the names of those voting for and against
| recorded upon the journal thereof and
| ports of committees of conference shall be
adopted in either house only by the vote of
| a majority of the members elected thereto.
taken by yeas and nays, and the names of
those voting recorded upon the journal.
| Sec. 6. No law shSll be revived amended,
! or the provisions thereof extended or con-
ferrsd by reference to its title only, but so
much thereof is revived, amended, ex-
tended, or conferred, shall be re-enacted and
| published at length.
Sec. I. The General Assembly shall not
pass any local or special law;
Authorizing the creation, extension or i'm
pairing of liens;
Regulating the affairs of counties, cities.
townships, wards, boroughs, or school dis
tricts;
Changing the names of persons places;
Changing the venue in civil or criminal
| cases;
Authorizing the laying out, opening, al
tering, or maintaining roads, highways,
streets, or alleys;
Relating to ferries OF bridges, or ineorpo-
rating ferry or bridge companies, except for
the erection of bridges crossing streams
which form boundaries between this and any
other State;
Vacating roads, town plats, streets or al
leys;
Relating to cemeteries grsveyards or pub
lie grounds not of the State;
Authorizing the adoption of or legitima-
ton of children;
Locating or changing county seats, erect
| ing new counties, or changing county lines;
Incorporating cities, towns, or villaS es, or
! changing their charters;
For the opening and conducting of cleo
tions, or fixing OF changing the place of
voting;
Granting divorces;
| ha
changing township lines, borough limits, or
school districts;
Creating offices, prescribing the powers
| and duties of officers in counties cities bor-
oughs, townships, election or school districts;
Changing the law of descent or succession;
Regulating the practice or jurisdiction of
or changing the rules of evidence in any
judicial proceeding or inquiry before courts
aldermen, Justices of the peace, sheriffs
commissioners, arbitrators, auditors, mas
ters in chancery, or other tribunals pro-
viding or changing methods for the collec-
tion of debts, or the enforcing of Judgments
= or prescribing the effect Of judicial sales OF
J real estate
Regulating the fees extending the
powers and duties of aldermen, Justices of
the peace magistrates, or constables;
Regulating the management of public
schools, the building or repairing of school
houses, and the raising of money for such
purposes
: Fixing the rate of interest;
Affecting the estates of minors or persons
under disability, except after due notice TO
all parties in interest, to be recited in the
: special enactment
Remittng fines, penalties and forfeitures,
or refunding moneys legally paid into the
Treasury;
Exempting property from taxation;
Regulating labor, trade, mining, or manu-
: facruring;
D Creating corporations, or amending, re-
newing or extending the charters thereof
9 Granting TO any corporation, association,
or individual any special OF exclusive privi-
{ lege or immunity or to any corporation, as
sociation or individual the right to lay down
: q railroad track. Nor shall the General AS
sembly Indirectly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of n general law,
| but laws repeating local or special acts may
e be passed. Nor shall any law be passed
4 | granting powers or privileges in any case
l where the granting of such powers and priv
g ileges shall have been provided for by gen.
r eral law, nor where the courts have juris-
diction to grant the same or give the relief
o asked for.
SEC. 8. No local or special bill shall be
passed unless notice of the intention to ap-
: ply therefor shall have been published in the
Z locality where the matter or the thing to be
q ! affected may be situated, which notice shall
: be at least thirty days prior 10 the iutroduc-
: tion into the General Assembly of such bill,
f and in the manner TO be provided by law
9 the evidence of such notice having been pub
{ lished, shall be exhibited in the General
s Assembly before such act shall be passed.
, SEC. 8. The presiding officer of each house
: shall, in the presence of the house over which
2 he presides, sign all bills and joint resolu-
8 tions passed by the General Assembly, after
: their titles have been publicly read immedi-
0 ately before signing, and the fact of signing
d | shall, be entered on the Journal
SEC. 10. The General Assembly shall pre-
E scribe by law the number, duties and COM
pensation OF the officers and employees OF
Q each house, and no payment shall be made
: from the State Treasury, or be in any way
authorized to any person, except to An act
Z ing officer employee elected or appointed
? in pursuance of law.
: SEC. II. No bill shall be passed giving any
: extra compensation to any public officer,
servant, employee, agent or contractor, af-
ter services shall have been rendered or con-
Q tract made, nor providing for the payment
, of any claim against the Commonwealth,