The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-22
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to section
seven, article three of the Consti-
tuition of Pennsylvania, so as to
permit special legislation regulat-
ing labor.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
Of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva-
mia 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. 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 Z. The General Assem-
bly, shall not pass any local or spe-
cial law authorizing the creation. ex-
tension, 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 compa-
pies, 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 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, OF school districts:
"Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers in coun-
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, cleo
ton 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, mas
ters in chancery, or other tribunals,
or providing or changing methods for
the collection Of debts, or the en-
forcement 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 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 interesti
Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except af-
ter due notice to all parties in in,
terest, to be recited in the special
enactment:
"Remitting fines, penalties and for.
FIXTURES, or refunding moneys legally
paid into the treasury:
"Exempting property from taxa
ton:
Regulating labor, trade, mining
or manufacturing:
Creating corporations, or amend
ing, renewing or extending the char
ters thereof:
Granting to any corporation, asso-
citation or individual any special or
exclusive privilege or immunity or to