Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-09-06
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Number Two.
A 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 l. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
Of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof. Amend
ment to Article Three, Section Seven.
Section 2. Amend section seven,
article three of the Constitution Of
Pennsylvania, which reads as fol-
lows:-
Section T. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension, or
impairing of liens
Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, 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 compan-
les, except for the erection of bridges
crossing streams which form bounda-
ries between this and any other
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 vii
lagos, 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 coun-
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec-
tion 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, commits
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
In chancery, or other tribunals, 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 repair
ing Of school houses and the raising
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:
Renting fines, penalties and for
FIXTURES, or refundng moneys legally
paid into the treasury:
"Exempting property from taxation:
Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing:
Creating corporations, or amend
ing, renewing or extending the chart
ere thereof:
~0ranting to any corporation. asso-