Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-20
Constitutional Amendments.

The following proposed amendments
to the state Constitution are being ad-
vertised by the secretary of the Com
monwealth.
Amendment No. Providing - for
the consolidation of the courts of Com
mon Pleas of Philadelphia and Alle-
gheny counties, and to give the gen.
eral assembly power to establish
separate court in Philadelphia county,
with criminal and miscellaneous juris-
diction.
No 2--Proposes an amendment to
the Constitution allowing counties,
cities, boroughs, townships, school dis
tricts, or other municipal or incorpor-
ated districts to increase their indebt.
edness, never to exceed ten per cent.
upon the assessed value of the taxable
property therein.
No. 3--Designating the change in
which the governor shall make APP
pointments and fill vacancies.
No. designating the change in
the terms of state officers so that the
state treasurer shall be elected at the
same time with the secretary of state,
secretary of internal affairs, etc.
No. 5-Designating that the general
state election hereafter shall be held
bi.annually instead of annually, in the
even numbered years.
No. designating the dispensing
with the spring election, and provid-
ing that the local municipal officers be
voted for in the odd numbered years in
November.
In 1910 the municipal election shall
be held as usual in February, but all
officers chosen &C that election to any
Office for two years, and also all elec-
that election shall serve until the first
Monday of December, 1911. All Off
GERS chosen at that election for four
year terms shall serve until tho first
Monday of December 1913.
All justices, magistrates and alder
men chosen at that election shall serve
until the first Monday of December,
| 1915.
| All terms of Office after 1919 of city,
ward, borough, township and election
division officers shall begin on the first
| Monday in December in the odd num-
! ber years.
All offices of any kind whose term
may expire during the year 1911, as at
present provided, shall continue to
| hold their offices the first Monday of
December of that year.
All judges ofthe court and all coun
ty officers whose term may expire in
the year 1911, shall continue in office
until the first Monday of January, 1912.
No. S-Giving the general assembly
authority to make laws providing for
the appointment of election boards,
when not elected bi-annually.
No. designating that all offices
whose election is not provided for in
! the Constitution shall come under the
new provisions.
No. 10-Stipulates that county off,
I GERS shall be elected at the general
elections and shall hold Office for a
term of four years beginning. on the
first Monday of January next, after
their election instead of three years,
as at present.
No. 11--Indicates that in order to
carry these changes in the Constitution
into complete operation, it is hereby
declared all terms of office, as at pres
ent, with an odd number ofyears, shall
be heightened one year.
This extension OF official term shall
not effect officers elected at the gen.
eral election in 1908 nor any city, ward,
borough or township, or election divis-
ion officers, whose terms would expire
! in 1910