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

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! tlves according to its population, but no dis
! trlct shall elect more than four representa-
| tives.
Sec. 49, The General Assembly at its first
session after the adoption of this censtitu-
! 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 sxcept
| by bill, and no bill shall be so altered or
amended on its passage through either house
as to change its original purpose.
| Sec. 2. No bill shall be CONSIDERED unless,
referred to 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 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 voting in its favor.
! Sec. 5. No amendment to bills by one
! house shall be concurred in by the other
! except by a vote of a 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 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. 6. No law shall be revived, amended,
! or the provisions thereof extended con-
| ferred by reference to it's title only, but so
| Ur.sl,f Id
| 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 ont, opening, al
| tering, or maintaining roads, highways,
streets, or alleys;
| Relating to ferries or bridges, or incorpo-
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, OF villaG es, or
changing their charters;
For the opening and conducting of cleo
tions, or fixing or changing the place of
voting;
| Granting divorces;
Erecting new townships or boroughs,
changing township lines, borough limits or
school districts;
Creating offices, or prescribing the powers
and duties of officers in counties, cities, bor-
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, sheritfs
commissioners, arbitrators, 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 foes, or extending the
powers anu duties of aldermen, justices of
the peace, magistrates, or constables;
Regulating the management of public
schoo ls the building or repairing of school
houses, and the raising Of money for such
purposes
Fixing the rate of ipterest;
Affecting the estates of minors or persons
under disability, except after due notice to
all parties in interest, to he recited in the
special enactment
Remitting fines, penalties and fOrfeitures,
or refunding moneys legally paid into the
Treasury;
Exenpting 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 priyl-
lege or immunity or to any corporation, as
|
railroad track. Nor shall the General As
sembly Indirectly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of general law,
but laws repeating local or special acts may
| granting powers or privileges in any case
where the granting of snch powers and priv
, ileges shall have been provided for by gen.
| eral law, nor where the courts have iuris-
diction to grant the same or give the relief
} 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 i'll 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,
f and in the manner to be provided by law
the evidence of such notice having been pub
{ lished shall be exhibited in the General
5 Assem- bly, before such act shall be passed.
, SEC. 9. The presiding officer of each house
shall, in the presence of the house over which
no preSldeS, slBu all OlliS anu Joiut Iesoiu
tions passed by the General Assembly, after
their titles have been publicly read immedi-
D ately before signing, and the fact of signing
shall. be entered on the journal
SEC. 10. The General Assembly shall pre-
scribe :by law the number, duties and com
: penSation of the officers and employees OF
3 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
Z in pursuance of law.
I SEC. II. No bill shall be passed giving any
: extra compensation to any public officer
5 servant, employee, agent or contractor, af
= ter services shall have been rendered or con
e tract made, nor providing for the payment
! of any claim against the Commonwealth
$ without previous authority of law.
| SEC 70 All stationery, printing, paper
!, | - f,,aI ,,sad in tha legislative and othel