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

b district TO elect It's proportion OF representa-
tives according to its population, but no dis
trict shall elect more than four representa-
! tives.
! Sec. Is. The General Assembly at its first
session after the adoption of this censtitu-
! ton, and immediately after each United
/ States deCennial census, shall apporti0n 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 be 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 un,eSs
! referred to a committee, returned therefrOfn
! and printed for the use of the members.
Sec. 3. No bill, except general appropria-
! ton bills, shall be passed, containing more
/ than one subject, which shall be clearly e1-
pressed in its title.
/ Sec. 1. 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 the bill, and no bill shall
/ become a 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 ma
Jority of the members elected to each house
| be recorded thereon as voting in its favor.
! Sec. D. No amendment to bills by one
/ house shall be concurred in by the other
! except by vote of 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 re-
| ports of committees of conference shall be
| adopted i'll 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 shall be revived, amended,
| or the provisions thereof extended
ferred by reference to its title only, but so
min e iS -iI-a1 Tod
| tended, or conferred, shall be re-enactcd aud
| published at length.
Sec. Z. 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 Venue in civil or criminal
/ cases;
Authorizing the laying out, opening, al
tering, or maintaining roads, highways,
streets, or alleys;
| Relating To ferries or bridges, or incorpo-
rating ferry or bridge com pauies, 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, graveyards or pub
| lie grounds not OF the State;
Authorizing the adoption of or legitima-
| tion 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;
Erecting new townships or bornughs,
changing township lines, borough limits, or
school districts;
Creating Offices or prescribing the powers
and duties of officers in counties, cities bor-
oughs, towhships, 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, sheritfs,
| commissioners arbitTators auditors mas
ters i'll chancery, or other tribunals, or pro-
! viding or changing methods for the collec-
| tiOn of debts, or the enforcing of judgments,
| or prescribing the effect OF judicial sales of
| real estate
Regulating the fees, or extending the
| powers and duties of aldermen, justices of
! the peace, magistrates, 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 i'll the
| special enactment;
Remitting fines, penalties and forfeitures,
or refunding moneys legally paid into the
| Treasury;
Exempting property from taxation;
Regulating labor, trade, mining, or manu-
| featuring;
Creating corporations, or amending, re-
newing, extending the charters thereof !;
Granting to any corporation, association,
or individual any special or exclusive privi-
| lege or immunity or to any corporation, as
sociation or individual the right to lay down
a railroad track. Nor shall the General AS
sembly indirectly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a general law,
but laws repeating local or special acts may
be passed. Nor shall any law be passed
granting powers or privileges in any case
where the granting of such powers and priv
ileges shall have been provided for by gen
eral law, nor where the courts have juris-
dicton to grant the same or give the relief
asked for,
SEC s. No local or special bill shall be
passed unless notice Of the intention to ap-
ply therefor shall have been published in the
locality where the matter or the thing to be
affected may be situated, which notice shall
be at least thirty days prior TO the introduc-
| ton into the General Assembly OF such bill,
aud in the manner to be provided by law !;
the evidence of such notice having been pub
lished, shall be exhibited in the General
Assembly before such act shall be passed.
SEC. 9. The presiding officer of each house
shall, in the presence of the house over which
he presides, sign all bills and joint Tesolu-
tiaus passed by the General Assembly, after
their Jitles have been publicly read immedi-
ately before signing, and the fact of signing
shal, be entered on the Journal.
SEC TO- Tie General Assembly shall pre-
scribe by law the number, duties aud com
| nensation of the officers and employees of
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
ing officer or employee elected or appointed
in pursuance of law.
SEC IL No bill shall be passed giving any
extra compensation to any public officer,
servant employee, agent or contractor, at
! ter services Shall have been rendered or con-
tract made, nor providing for the payment
of any claim against the Commonwealth,
without previous authority of law.
| SEC. u All stationery, printing, paper,
ond fuel used in the legislative and other
| Jnn,rtments of government shall be furnish