The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-12-05

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new debt. or increase its Indebtedness an amount
! exccodin, two per centUm upon such assessed val
ua ion property without tho assent of the elect
shall be provided by law hut any city the debt of
| which exceeds seven per centum of sach as
sessed valuation, may be authorised by law to in
crease the same three per ccntum in the aggregate
/ at any one time upon such valuation
/ SEC. Q. The Commonwealth shall not assume the
debt, OF any part thereof of any CITY, county bor-
ough or township unless such debt shall have been
contracted to enable the State to repcl invasion,
suppress domestic insurrcctiOn. defend itself in
time OF war; or to assist the State in the discharge
! OF any portion of its present indebtedness.
SEC 10. Any county township, school district, or
/ other municipality incurring any indebtedness,
the collection Of an annual tax sufficient to pay the
interest and also the principal thereof within thry
SEC. II. To provide for the payment of the pres;
cnt state debt and any Sddlton2l deht Gontractcd
as aforesaid. the General Assembly snail continue
and maintain the sinking fund sufficient to pay the
the accruing interest such debt, and annually TO
reduce the principal thereof by sum not less than
two hundred and htty thousand dollars the said
sinking fund shall consist of the proceeds of the
sales OF the public works OF any part thereof, and
of the income proceeds of the sale of any ocks
/ owned by the Commonwealth, together with other
( fun's and resources that may be designated by
I law and shall be increased from time to time by
assigning to it any part of the other reve-
of the State not required for the ordinary and
current expenses of government and unless in
of war inv sion, or .nsurrecon, part of the sail
sinking fund shall be used or applied otherwise than
in the extinguishment of the public debt
the necessary reserve, shall be used in the
Of the debt of the State either directly or
fand shall never be invested in or loaned upon the
security of anything except the bonds of the United
SEC. Is. The moneys held as necessary reserve
shall be limited by law to the amount required for
! current expenses. and shall be secured and kept
may be provided by law. Monthly statements
shall Re published showing the amount of such
moneys, where the same are deposited, and how
SEC. IL The making of profit out of the public
pr ISin he q m for Al NOT ON
thorized by law, by any officer of the State or men,
Der officer of the General Assembly, shall be a
misdemeanCT, and shall be punished as may be pro
vded by law, but part of such punishment shall be
disqualification to hold office for period of not
less than five years.
ARTICLE Y.
EDUCATION
SECTION !. The General Assembly shall provide
for the maintenance and support Of thorough
and efficient system of public schools wherein all
the children of this Commonwealth above the age
pirate Mt least one million dollars each year for
SEQ 2. No money raised for the support of the
public schools of the Commonwealth shall be ap-
proprated to or used for the support of any secta
SEC. 3. Women twenty-one years of age and up
wards shall be eligible TO any office Of control or
management under the school laws of this sState.
ARTICLE XI
MILITIA.
SECTION l. The freemen of this Commonwealth
shall be armed ized and disciplined for its de-
/ tense when and in such manner may be directed
| by law The General Assembly shall provide for
me ne militia by apPropriations from the
from military service persons having conscientious
scruples against bearing arms.
ARTICLE XII
PUBLIC OFFICERS
SECTION l. All officers whose selection is not pro
vtded for in this constitution shall be elected or D.
pointed as may be directed by law
SEC. 2 No member of Congress from this State
nor any person holding exercising any office OF
States shall the same time hold or exercise any
Office in this State to which salary fees perdu
sites shall be attached The General Assembly may
by law declare what offices Incompatible.
SEC: B. Any person who shall fight duel or send
in fighting duel shall be deprived of the right oi
holding any Office of honor or profit in this State
4 ana nay be otherwise punished as shall be pre-
ARTICLE XIII
NEW COUNTIES.
SECTION !. No new county shall be established
hundred square miles, or to less than twenty thou
sLnd inhabitants; nor shall any county be formed
oil less area, or containing n less population. mol
shaIL any nc thereof pass within ten miles of the
county seat OF any county proposed to be divided
= ARTICLE XIV.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
D SECTION l. County officers shall consist of sher
IFS coronerS, prothonOtares registers of wills,
coricrs o. deeds, commissioners treasurers sur
district attorneys, Ond such others as may from
/ time to time be established by law and no sheriff
. ceeling the one for which he may be elected
( SEC. 2. County officers shall be elected at tn
general elections and shall hold their offices 70
J: the term of three years, beginning on the mrs
4 Monday of January next after their election an,
: until their successors shall be duly qualified al
= vacancies not otherwise provided for shall be file,
y in such manner as may be provided by law.
! SEC. No person shall be ppointed to anv offic
within any county who shall not have been citizeI
: and an inhabitant therein year next before hi
erected, but if it shall not have been long erect
. ed then within the limits of the county countie
: out OF which II shall have been taken.
( SEC T. Prothonolaries, clerks of the courts, re
eGTders OF deeds registers of wills county survey
Crs ana sheriiis shall keep their Offices in the cOun
" Town oI the county in which they respectivel.
- ne regulated by law, and all county sificcrs witt
are or may be salared shall pay all fees which he
e may be authorized to receive into the treasury 0
- the county or State, may be directed by law. Il
counties containing over hundred and fft,
= thousand inhabitants all county officers shall b
l. paid by salary and the salary CT any such office
ana h,s clerks heretofore paid by fees, shall
n ing his term and collected by for him.
~ SEC: Q. The General Assembly shall provide b
n law for the s,rict accountability of all county
which NAV be collected by them ~ for G All i',T tbIi
" or municipal moneys which may be paid TO them
II SEC. Z. Three county commissioners and thre
: where such officers chosen. in the year on
o thousand eight hundred and seventy FIVE and ever
=: t9iId year thereafter; and in the election of sai
than two persons alid the three persons having tn
/; ual vacancy in the office of county commissioner
q county auditor shall be filled by the Court of Con,
n mon Pleas of the county in which such yaconn
/ shall occur. by the appointment of an ecctor of h
o proper county who shall have voted for the com
% missioner auditor whose place is to be filled
n ARTICLE XIV
rc CITIES AND CITY CHARTERS
IL SECTION l. Cities may be chartered whenever
L. maj 'r,ty OF the electors of any town or bornn o.
% having 4 population of at least ten thousand sb9i
vote a; any general election in favor of the same
SEC ?. No debt shall be contracted or iabiIit
\, incurred by any municipal commission except i
~ ~ P%urs % uanGe oi an appropriation previously mad
y ~ thsretor by the municipal government.
er SEC. B. Every city shall create. a SINKING fund
which shall be involabIy pledged for the pavmen
" of its Saaded debt ~ ~ 20! i--o Il
as ARTICLE XVI.
4 PRIVATE CORPORATIONS
u SECTION l. All existing charters or grants =
10 Special or exclusive privileges under which hon
y nee organization shall not have taken place an
x business been commenced in good faith at the tim
oil the adoption Of Shis constitution shall theraa
ter have no validity. -