The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-02


special acts may be passed:
Nor shall any law be passed
granting powers and privileges in
any case where the granting of
such powers, and privileges
shall have been provided for by gen
eral law, nor where the courts have
jurisdiction to grant the same or give
the relief asked for, 50 as to read
as follows:--
Section Z. The Cen a. Arsenbly
shall not pass any local or special
law authorizing the creation, extern
sion or impairing of lines:
Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, DorOughs,
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, tsreets or alleys:
Relating to ferries or bridges, or
Incorporating ferry or bridge COM
panies, except for the erection of
bridges crossing streams which form
boundaries between this and any 9TH
er State:
Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public grounds not of the State:
Authorizing the adoption, or legiti-
nation of children:
Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties or changing
county lines:
Incorporating cities, towns or viii
lagos, by changing their charters:
For the opening and conducting
of elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting:
Granting divorces:
Erecting new townships or bor-
oughs, changing township lines, bor-
ough limits or school Districts
Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers in coun-
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, cleo
tion or school districts:
Changing the law of descent or
succession:
Regulating the practice or juris-
iction Of, or changing the rules of
evidence in, any judicial proceeding
or inquiry before courts, aldermen,
justices of the peace, sheriffs, com
missioners, arbitrators, auditors,
masters in chancery or other trib-
unals, or providing or changing
methods for the collection of debts,
or the enforcing of judgments, or
prescribing the effect of judicial sales
of real estate:
Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
Regulating the management of
public schools, the building or re-
pairing of school houses and the rails
ing of money for such purposes:
Fixing the rate of interest:
Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties in interest,
to be recited in the special enact
ment:
Remitting fines, penalties and for
'itures, or refunding moneys legally
paid into the treasury:
Exempting property from taxation:
Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing but the legislature
may regulate and fix the wages or
salaries, the hours of work or labor,
and make provision for the protec-
tion, welfare and safety of persons
county, city, borough, town, town
ship, school district, village, or other
civil division of the State, or by
any contractor or sub-contractor per-
forming work, labor or services for
the State, or for any county, city,
borough, town, township, school dis
trict, village or other civil division
thereof:
Cheating corporations, or amend
ing, renewing or extending the
charters thereof:
Granting to any corporation, asso-
citation or individual any special or
exclusive privilege or immunity, or
to any corporation, association, or
individual the right to lay down a
railroad track:
Nor shall the General Assembly in
directly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a gener-
al law; but laws repeating local or
special acts may be passed:
Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers or privileges in any case
where the granting of such powers
and privileges shall have been pro-
vided for by general law, nor where
the courts have jurisdiction to grant
the same or give the relief asked for.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 2.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.
PronOsing an amendment TO section