The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-11-21


district TO elect its proportion of representa-
tves according to its population, but no dis
trict shall elect more than four representa-
tives.
Sec. 18. The General Assembly at its first
session after the adoption of this constitu-
| 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 be passed except
| by bill, and no bill shall be SO altered or
| amended OF. its passage through either housa
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. 3. No bill, except general appropria-
! ton 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
be recorded thereon as voting in its favor.
| Sec. 5. No amendment to bills by one
| house shall be concurred in by the other
except by vote of a majority of the mem
| 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 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. s. No law shall be revived amended,
or the provisions thereof extended or CON
ferred by reference to its title only, but so
a IS reN-i iyn1 nIa1
| tended, or'conferred, shall be re-enacted and
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 names of persons or 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 or bridges or inco-T71-
| 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 graveyards 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 elec-
tlons, or fixing OF changing the place of
voting;
Chanting divorces;
Erecting new townships or boroughs
changing township lines, borough limits, or
| school districts;
| ind 1ffiC
and duties Of officers in counties, cities bor-
J. 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, oFother tribunals or pro-
wiling 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, or constables;
Regulating the management of public,
schools, the building or repairing of school
t 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 10
all parties in interest, to be recited in the
2 special enactment
Remitting fines, penalties and forfeitures,
2 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, or extending the charters thereof
9 Granting TO any corporation, association,
or individual any special or exclusive privi-
t lege or immunity or to any corporation as
sociation or individual the right to lay down
a railroad track. Nor shall the General AS
sclnbly indirectly enact such special or local
/ law by the partial repeal of a general law,
but laws repeating local or special acts NAV
e be passed. Nor shall any law be passed
n granting powers or privileges in any case
i ! where the granting of such powers and priv
g ileges shall have been provided for by gen
T eral law, nor where the courts have juris-
diction to grant the samu 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
y locality where the matter or the thing to be
Il affected may be situated, which notice shall
: be at least thirty days prior TO the introduc
: ton into the General Assembly of such bill
f and in the manner to be provided by law
3 the evidence of such notice having been pub
{ lished, shall be exhibited in the General
s Assembly before such act shall be passed
, SEC. 9. The presiding officer of each house
: SHALL in the presence of the house over which
2 he rresides, sign all bills and joint resolu
Q mons passed by the General Assembly after
: their stiles have been publicly read immedi
0 ately before signing, and the fact of signing
b shall be entered on the Journal.
. SEC. 10. The General Assembly shall pre-
Q scribe by law the number, duties and com
: pensation of the officers and employees o
o 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
f ing officer or employee elected or appointed
q in pursuance of law.
!. SEC IL No bill shall be naSsed ri WING
: extra compensation to any public officer
9 servant, employee, agent or contractor, af
: ter services shall have been rendered or con
g tract made, nor providing for the paymen
n of any claim against the Commonwealth
s without previous authority of law.
N SEC. II. All stationery, printing, paper
Y and fuel used in the legislative and othe
il departments ofgovernment shall be furnish