Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-12-03

boards filed as shall be provided by law. Elec-
tion officers shall be privileged from arrest upon
days Of election and while engaged In making up
and transmitting returns, except upon warrant Of
. court Of record or judge thereof for an cleo
tion fraud, for felony, or for wanton breach OF
the peace. In cities they may claim exemption
from jury duty during their terms of service.
SEc. is. No person shall be qualified 10 serve
as election officer who shall hold, or shall within
two months have held any Office, appointment, or
employment In or under the Government Of the
United States, or Of this State, or of any city or
county or Of any municipal board. commission
or trus, In any city, save only justices Of the
peace and aldermen, notaries public, and persons
In the militia service Of the State nor shall any
election officer be eligible to any civil Office to be
filled at election at which he shall serve, save
only to such subordinate municipal local office,
below the grade Of city or county Offices as shall
be designated by general law.
SIC. 10. The Courts Of Common Pleas OF the
several counties Of the Commonwealth shall have
power within their respective jurisdictions TO ap-
point overseers Of election TO supervise the pro-
ceedings OF election officers, and 10 make report
70 the court asmay be required such appoint
ments 10 be made for any district In city or
county upon petition Of Eve citizens, lawful vot-
ers Of such election district setting forth that
such appointment is q reasonable precaution
to secure the purity and fairness Of elections
overseers shall be two In number for an election
district, shall be residents therein, and shall be
persons Qualified to serve upon election boards.
aud in each members Of different political
parties whenever the members Of an election
board shall differ in opinion, the overseers, IL they
shall be agreed thereon, shall decide the question
Of difference in appointing overseers Of election,
all the law judges Of the proper court able to act
at the time, shall concur in tho appointments
made.
sgc. II. The trial and determination Of con-
tested elections Of electors of President and Vice
President, members Of the General Assembly and
of all public officers, whether State Judicial, mu-
ncipa, or local, shall be by the courts OF law, or
by one or more Of the law judges thereof; the
General Assembly shall, by general law, design,
the conrts and judges by whom the several class
Of election contests shall be tried, and regulate
the manner Of trial and all matters incident
thereto but no such law assigning jurisdiction,
or'reguating its exepcisc, shall apply TO any con-
test arising out Of an election held before its
passage.
TAXATION AND FINANCE.
SEcrroS I. All taxes shall be uniform upon the
same class Of subjects within the territorial limits
Of the authority levyng the tax and shall be levied
and collected under general laws; but the General
Assembly may, by general laws, exempt from tax
alton public property used for public purposes,
actual places Of gous worship, places Of burial
not used or held for private or corporate profit
and institutions of purely public charity.
ssc. 2. All laws exempting property from tax
alton, other than the property above enumerated,
| shalt be void.
SIC. 3. The power to tax corporations and cor
porate property shall not be surrendered or sus-
pended by any contract or grant TO which the
State shall be party.
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half Of the State, except to supply casual def
ceneies Of revenue, repel invasion, suppress in
surrcction, defend the State in war;, or TO pay
listing debt, and the debt created to supply def
ccncies in revenue shall never exceed in the ag-
gregatc at any one time one million Of dollars.
SEc. s. All laws authorizing the borrowing Of
money by and on behalf Of the State shall specify
the purpose for which the money is to be used,
aud the money so borrowed shall be used for the
purposs specified and no other.
| SEC. 9. The credit Of the Commonwealth shall
not be pledged or loaned to any individual, com
pany, corporation, or association, nor shall the
Commonwealth become joint owner or stock
holder in any company, association, or corpora
ton.
Sac. 7. Tho General Assembly shall not au-
thorise any county, city, borough, township or
incorporated district TO become stakeholder in
any company, association or corporation, or to
obtain or appropriate money for or to loan its
credit to any corporation, association, institution
or individual.
SEC. 8. The debt Of any county, city, borough,
township, school district, or other municipality.
incorporated district, except as herein provided,
shall never exceed seven per centum upon the as
sessed value of the taxable property therein, nor
shall any snch municipality or district incur any
new debt or increase its Indebtedness to amount
exceeding two per ccntum upon such assessed val
uation Of property without the assent Of the elect
al
shall he provided by law, ut any city, the debt of
which now exceeds seven per ceutum Of such as
sesscd valuation, may be authorized by law to in
crease the same three per centum In the aggregate
at any time upon such valuation.
SEc. Q. The Commonwealth shall not assume
the debt, or anpart thereof, Of any city. county.
borough or township, unless such debt shall have
been contracted to enable the State to repel uva-
sion suppress domestic nsurrcction, defend itself
In time Of war, or to assist the State In the dis
charge Of any portion Of its present indebtedness
SEC 10. Any county, township, school district
or other municipality incurring any Indebtedness,
shall, at or before the time Of so doing, provide
for the collection Of al annual tax sufficient to pay
the interest and also the principal thereof within
thirty years.
Src. IL. To provide for the payment OF the
present State debt and any additional debt con J..
tracted as aforesaid. the General Assembly shall
continue and maintain the sinking fund sufficient
TO paw the accruing interest on such debt, and
annually to reduce the principal thereof by SUN
not less than two hundred and 6fty thousand dol
lars; /; the said sinking fund shall consist Of the
proceeds Of the sales Of the public works or any
part thereof and Of the income or proceeds Of the
salo of any stocks owned by the Common wealth,
together with other funds and resources that may
be designated by law, and shall be increased from
: time to time by assigning to II any part Of the
lakes or other revenues Of the State not required
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m.nt aud unless in case Of war, invasion, or in
snrrecton. part Of the said sinking fund shall
be used or applied otherwise than In the extin-
guishmcnt Of the public debt. ntfE
Sxc. ". The moneys of the State, over and
above the necessary reserve, shall be used in the
payment Of the debt Of the State, either directly
or through the sinking fund, and the moneys OF
the sinking fund shall never he invested in or
loaned upon the security OF anything except the
: bonds of'the United States or OF this State.
SEC. 13. The moneys held as necessary reserve
: shall be limited by law 70 the amount required
for current expenses, and shall be secured and
: kent ~ may be provided BY law. Monthly state
Q ments shall be Published showing the amount Of
such moneys, where the same arc deposited, and
|, how secured.
sso. H. The making Of profit out OF the pub
. lie moneys cruising the same for any purpose not
authorized by law, by any officer OF the General
. Assembly. shall be misdemeanor, and shall be
i punished as may be provided by law, but part ol
: such punishment shall be q disqualification 70
hold Office for period Of not less than fyeyears
: ARTICLE X.
spucAros.
= sKcrroS I. Tho General Assembly shall PRO.
vide for the maintenance and support OF n thor
q ough and efficient system Of public schools who're
o in all the children OF this Commonwealth, abov,
i the age Of six years, may be educated, and shal
II appropriate at least one million dollars each yeai