The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-11-20

ifs 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
from time TO time be established by law; and no
sheriff or treasurer shall be eligib for the term
next succeeding the one for which he may be
elected
SEC 3 County Officers shall he elected at the
general elections and shall hold their offices fo
tthe term of three years, beginning on the first
Monday of January next after their election, and
Iantil their successors shall be duly qualified all
vac ancies not Other wise provided for shall be filed
lin such manner as may he provided by law.
/ SEC 3. No person shall toe appointed To any
office within any comfy who shall not have been
a citizen and an inhabitant therein one year next
before his appointments, if the eounty shall have
been so long erected but if it shall not have been
so loug erected, then within The limits of the
county or counties ont of which it shall have
been taken.
i SEC A. Prothonotaries, clerks of the courts,
recorders of deeds, registers of wills, county sur
veyors and sherifis shall keep their offices in the
-lcounty town of the county in which they respec-
lively shall be officers.
! SEC 8. The compensation of county officers
shall be regulated by law, and all county officers
who are or may be salared shall pay all fees
which they may be authorized 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 officers shall be paid by salary, and the
salary OF any such officer and his clerks, hereto
fore paid by fees, shall not exceed the aggregate
amount of fees earned during his term and
: COLLECTED by or for him.
). SEC g. The General Assembly shall provide
by law for the strict accountability of all county
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n fees which may be collected by them as for al
y public municipal moneys which may be paid
to them.
,el SEC Z Three county commissioners and three
county auditors shall be elected in each county
&c where such officers are chosen in the year ONT
Thousand eight hundred and seventy five, anC
e every third year ,hereafter and in the election
e of said officers each qualified elector shall vot
70 for more than two persons, and the three
ie persons having the highest number Of votes shal
be elected any casual vacancy in the office o
y county commissioner or county auditor shall b,
o filled by the Court of Common Pleas of tn
10 county in which such vacancy shall occur b.
~ the appointment of an elector of the prope
a county who shall have voted for the commits
e soner auditor whose place is to be filled.
ARTICLE XIV
d CITIES AND CITY CHARTERS.
D SEC. |. Cities may be chartered Whenever ma
a jority OF the electors of any town or borough hav
ing population OF at least ten thousand sha
n vote at any general election in favor of the same
n SEC. 2. No debt shall be contracted or liabit
he incurred by auy municipal commission, except
Al pursuance OF an appropriation previously mad
n therefor by the municipal government.
bs SEC 3. Every city shall create sinking funt
in which shall be invioable pledged for the pay men
y, of its funded debt.
n ARTICLE XVI
al PRIVATE CORPORATIONS.
Sur xistIn CHI rfar tsofsu
exclusive privileges under which bona tde organ
zaon shall not have taken place aud business bee
To- commenced in good faith at the time of the adopo
of this constitution shall thereafter have no val
~ SEC 2. The General Assembly shall not remit IL
or forfeiture OF the charter corporation exs
II ing, alter amend the same, pass any 9th,
d. general special law for benet such corpor
on, except upon the condition that such porto
shall thereafter hold its charter subject to the provi
SIC g. The exercise of the right of eminent domai
in shall lie abridged constructs pteveI
st the General Assembly from taking the property
franchises of incorporated companies and subIectn
them 60 public use the same as the property of ind
he viduals the exercise of the police power Of Il
rt State shall never be abridged construed
permit corporations to their business in
III nanner infringe the equal rights OF individual
by or the general well being OF the State.
SEc 4. In all elections directors managers of
he corporation each nomber shareholder may Il
n whole number of his votes Ter one candidate distr
ali fer
III s No foreign corporation shall do any busne
in this Stale without having one or more known place
he of business and authorized agents IN
he same, upon whom process may be served
ng Skc g. No corporation shall engage in any busine
other than that expressly authorized in cha rer
shall II take or held any real estate, except such
be necessary and proper for its timaIe busnes
all SEC T. No corporation shall issue stocks bond
mt except Tor money abor done or money Or property
ro ually received and all fictitious stock
ed indebtedness shall be void the and tudebtedme
ne of corporations sha be increased except purs
ance of general law, without the consent the pc
holding the larger amont in value of the stock Dir
obtained nj meeting held after days 81
or len in pursuance of law.
a $40 Municipal and other corporations and ndivi
VI tax inv
on ery for public shall make just com pensation fl
property taken, injured destroyed by the constru
provements, which compensation shall be paid
cured before such taking injury, destruction TT
ne General Assembly is hereby prohibited from deprivir
Us any person OF an appeal from any preliminary
s meni of damages against any such corporations
DO vduas, made by viewers otherwise and the
OIL OF snch damages, in all cases appeal, SHALL the
mand OF either party, be determined by jury
he ing to the course of the common law.
SEC. Q. Every banking law shall provide for the regi
q TRY and countersgnng by officer of the State
70 bills designed for circulation, and that am
security to the full amount thereof shall be deposit,
nd with the Auditor General for The redemption of
- notes or bills.
Oi SEC TO- The General Assembly shall have the pow
lls to alter revoke annu charter of incorporate
now existing and revocabe "a; the adoption of this CO
sttution, any that may hereafter be created whe
ever in their opinion it may be injurious TO the ctzs
of this Commonwealth, in such manner, however, tn
enacted shall create extend cha
its ter of more than one corporation
discounting privileges shall lie created or srganized
pursuance OF any law without three months prevoI
public notice at the place the intended location of Il
nd Intention TO apply Tor such privileges such MANN
no shall be prescribed 10y law, shall charter
such privilege be granted for longer period than
SEC H. Any association or corporation organized f
the purpose any individual, shall have the right
- State and connect the with other lines Al
TO- the General Assembly SHALL by general law unifor
'p operation provide regulations to give
effect to This section No telegraph company shall CO
te solidate with or hold controlling interest in the sto