The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-08

any corporation, association or indf |
vidual the right to lay down rail-
road track:
"Nor shall the General Assembly |
Indirectly enact such special or To-
cal law. by the partial repeal OF a,
generalklaw; but laws repeating local
or special acts maybe passed:
Nor shall any law te passed
granting powers and privileges in
any case where the granting of such
powers and privileges shall have
been provided for by general law,
nor where the courts have jurisdic-
ton to grant the same OF give the
relief asked for,"--so as to read as
follows:-
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 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 OF bridge compa-
MES, 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, 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 viz
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,
election or school districts:
Changing the law Of descent or
, succession:
!, Regulating the practice or jurisdic-
) ton of, or changing the rules of evi-
dence in, any judicial proceeding or
, inquiry before courts, aldermen, Jus
tices of the peace, sheriffs, commits
, sioners, erbitrators, auditors, masters
in chancery or other tribunals, or
providing or changing methods for
. the collection of debts, or the en-
forcing 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 pub
lie schools, the building or repairing
,, 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 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 taxation:
: Regulating labor, trade, mining OF
manufacturing; but the legislature
I may regulate and fix the wages OF
, salaries, the hours of work or labor
and make provision for the protec
ton, welfare and safety Of persons
! employed by the State, or by any
\ county, city, borough, town, town
, ship, school district, village, or Other
civil division of the State, or by any
contractor or sub-contractor perform
ing work, labor or service for the
State, or for any county, city, Dor
, ough, town, township, school district
p village or other civil division thereof;
Creating corporations, or amending
renewing OF extending the charters
. thereof:
!, Granting to any corporation, asso
:, citation OF individual any special o.
exclusive privilege or immunity, o.
, to any corporation, association, o.
. individual the right to lay down I
railroad track:
Nor shall the General Assembl.
e indirectly enact such special or loca
, law by the partial repeal Of gen
eral law; but laws repeating local o
special acts may be passed:
?, Nor shall any law be passed grant
. ing powers or privileges in any cas-
where the granting of such power
- and privileges shall have been pre-
vided for by general law, nor wher
8 the courts have Jurisdiction to gran
b the same OF give the relief asked fol
A true copy OF Joint Resolution
- No. 2.
+ ROBERT McAFEE.
l. Secretary of the Commonwealth
70 Number Three.
p. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.
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