The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-08-16
Number Two.
\ JOINT RESOLUTION


Proposing an amendment to section
seven, article three of the Constitu
tion of Pennsylvania, so as to per-
nit special legislation regulating
labor.
Section l. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania in General Assembly met, That
the following is proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
in accordance with the provisions of
the eighteenth article thereof.
Amendment to Article Three, Section
Seven.
Section 2. Amend section seven,
article three of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as fol-
lows:-
Section Z. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special
law authorizing the creation, extern
sion, or impairing of liens:
Regulating the affairs Of coun-
ties, cities, townships, wards, bor-
oughs, or school districts:
Changing the names of persons or
places:
Changing the venue in civil or
criminal cases:
Authorizing the laying out, open
| ing, altering, or maintaining roads,
| highways, streets or alleys:
Relating to ferries or bridges, OF
incorporating ferry or bridge com
panies, except for the erection OF
bridges crossing streams which form
| boundaries between this and any
other State:
"Vacating roads, town plats
streets or alleys:
| Relating to cemeteries, grave
yards, or public grounds not of the
State:
authorizing the adoption or legi
timation of children:
Locating or changing county
seats, erecting new counties, ol
changing county lines:
incorporating cities, towns, ol
villages, or changing their charters:
For the opening and conducting
of elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting:
Granting divorces:
Erecting new townships or Dor
oughs, changing township lines, Dor
ougb limits or school districts:
Creating Offices, or prescribing
the powers and duties of officers il
counties, cities, boroughs, townships
election or school districts:
Changing the law of descent o.
succession:
Regulating the practice or juris
diction of, or changing the rules o
evidence in, any judicial proceeding
or inquiry before courts, aldermen
justices of the peace, sheriffs, com
missioners, arbitrators, auditors
masters in chancery or other tribun
ais, or providing or changing meth
ods for the collection of debts, or tn
enforcing of judgments, or prescrib
ing the effect of judicial sales of rea
estate:
Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen
justices of the peace, magistrates o
constables:
Regulating the management o
public schools, the building or repair
ing of school houses and the raisin
of money for such purposes:
Fixing the rate of interest:
Affecting the estates OF minors o
persons under disability, except afte
due notice to all parties in interest
to be recited in the special enact
ment:
"Remitting fines, penalties an
forfeitures, or refunding moneys leg
ally paid into the treasury:
"Exempting property from taxa
ton:
Regulating labor, trade, minin
or manufacturing
Creating corporations, or amend
ing, renewing or extending tn
charters thereof:
Granting to any corporation, al
sociation or individual any speci;
or exclusive privilege or immunity, {
to any corporation, association or IL
dividual the right to lay down a raj
road track.
Nor shall the General Assembl
indirectly enact such special or LOCI