The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-12-09

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shall be deprived Of the right of holding
and may be otherwise punished as shall
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-lrf, r. ARTICLE XIII, afslf.sh .edI.0
t.. Nea0 Counties. "a s.,. r.
Sec. 1. No new county shall be estab-
lished which shall reduce any county to less
than four hundred square miles, or to less
than twenty thousand inhabitants nor
shall any county be formed of less area, or
containing less population; nor shall
any line thereof pass within ten miles of the
county seat of any county proposed to be
divided.
r1 .l. ARTICLE XIV. t+....
County officers. .. t....
Sec. 1. County officers shall consist of
sheriffs, coroners, prothonotaries, registers
of wills, recorders of deeds, commissioners,
treasurers, surveyors auditors or controllers,
clerks of the courts, district attorneys, and
such others as may be from time to time be
established by law; and no sheriff or treas
urer shall be eligible for the term next sue
ceeding the one for which he may be elect
ed. a- .t uF.r 10
Sec. 2. County officers shall be elected
at the general elections and shall hold their
offices for the term of three years, begin
after their election, and until their success
sors shall be duly qualified ; all vacancies
not otherwise provided for shall be filled in
such manner as may be provided by law
Sec. 3. No person shall be appointed TO
any office within any county who shall
not have been citizen and an inhabitant
therein one year next before his appointment
if the county shall have been so long erect
ed but if it shall not have been so long erect
ed, then within the limits of the county or
counties out of which it shall have been
taken. .r.. r...
Sec. 4. Prothonotaries, clerks of the
court, recorders of deeds, registers of
wills, county surveyors and sheriifs, shall
keep their offices in the county town of
the county in which they respectively shall
be officers.
| Sec. 5. The compensation of county
officers shall be regulated by law, and all
county officers who are or may be salaried
shall pay all fees which they may be author
lied to receive into the treasury of the
county Or State, as may be directed by law.
In counties containing over one hundred and
fifty thousand inhabitants all county Off
GERS shall be paid by salary, and the salary
of any such officer and his clerks, hereto
fore paid by fees, shall not exceed the ag-
gregate amount of fees earned during his
term and collected by or for him. H.
Sec. @. The General Assembly shall
provide by law for the strict accountability
of all county, township and borough officers,
as well as for the fees which may be paid
to them.
Sec. T. Three county commissioners and
three county auditors shall be elected in
each county where such officers are chosen,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five and every third year thereafter;
and in the election of said officer each
qualified elector shall vote for no more than
two PERSONS and the three persons having
the highest number of votes shall be elect
ed any casual vacancy in the Office of
county commissioner or county auditor
shall be filled by the court of Common
! Pleas of the county in which such vacancy
shall occur, by the appointment of an cleo
tor of the proper county who shall have
voted for the commissioner or auditor
whose place is to be filled. eg i
| lsn.f ARTICLEXV.
| Cities and City Charters.
| Section 1. Cities may be chartered
whenever a majority of the electors of any
town or borough having population of at
least ten thous and shall vote at any general
election in favor of the same.
Sec. 2. No debt shall be contracted or
liability incurred by any municipal COM
mission, except in pursuance of an appro-
priation previously made therefor by the
municipal government. 70 fsili. it 4I
Sec. 3. Every city shall create sinking
fund, which shall be inviolably pledged for
the payment of its funded debt.
r'slc ARTICLE XVI loiui.
PriUate Corporations. sil
Section l. All existing charters OF
grants of special or exclusive privileges,
under which bona fde organization shall
not have taken place and business been
commenced in good faith, at the time OF
the adoption of this Constitution, shall
thereafter have no validity. st
Sec. 2. The General Assembly shall moi
remit the forfeiture of the charter of any
corporation now existing, or alter or amend
! the same, or pass any other general or spe-
cial law for the benefit of such corporation,
except upon the condition that such corpo-
ration shall thereafter hold its charter sub
ject to the provisions of this Constitution.
Sec. 0, The exercise of the right OF EN-.
inent domain shall never be abridged or SO
construed as to prevent the General AS
sembly from taking the property and fran.
chises of incorporated companies, and sub
jecting them to. public use, the same as
property of individuals and the exercise
of the police power Of the State shall never
be abridged or 80 construed as to permit
corporations to conduct their business in
such manner as to infringe the equal rights
of individuals the general well-being Of
the State.
Sec. A. In all elections for directors OF
managers Of a corporation each member or
shareholder may cast the whole number
Of his votes for one candidate, or distribute
them upon two or more candidates, as he
4 may prefer.
Sec. 8. No foreign corporation shall dc
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