The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-08-23
Number Two.
4 JOINT RESOLUTION


Proposing an amendment to section
seven, article three of the Constitu
ton of Pennsylvania, so as to per-
NIT special legislation regulating
labor.
Section / 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 7. 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, or
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, or
changing county lines:
incorporating cities, towns, or
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 bor-
oughs, changing township lines, bor-
ough limits or school districts:
Creating Offices, or prescribing
the powers and duties of officers in
counties, cities, boroughs, townships,
election or school districts:
Changing the law of descent or
succession:
Regulating the practice or juris-
diction 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 tribun-
ais, or providing or changing meth
ods for the collection of debts, or the
enforcing of judgments, or prescrib,
ing the effect of judicial sales of real
estate:
Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen
justices of the peace, magistrates oil
constables:
Regulating the management o.
public schools, the building or repair
ing of school houses and the raising
of money for such purposes:
Fixing the rate of interest:
Affecting the estates of minors ol
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties in interest
to be recited in the special enact
ment:
"Remitting fines, penalties ant
forfeitures, or refunding moneys leg
ally paid into the treasury:
"Exempting property from taxa
ton:
Regulating labor, trade, mining
or manufacturing.
Creating corporations, or amend
q ing, renewing or extending thu
charters thereof:
"Granting to any corporation, as
ISOLATION or individual any specia
or exclusive privilege or immunity, o
: to any corporation, association or in
! dividual the right to lay down a rail
0 road track.
Nor shall the General Assembl
indirectly enact such special or loca