The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-10-29
ELECTION PROCLAMATION.

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Whereas, In and by the act of the Gem
eral Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, entitled IAN Act to amend
the tenth section of an act entitled An
| Ict to regulate the nomination and cleo
uon OF public officers, requiring certain
expenses incident thereto to be paid by
the several counties and furnishing GER
tain offenses In regard to such elections"
! approved the 26th DAY of June, A. D.,
$40. 1t Is made the duties of the Sheriff
# every county within this Common
wealth to give public notice of the Gem
!. eral Elections, and in such to-
! l. Enumerate the officers to be elected
and give list of all the nominations
made as provided in this act, and to be
1 voted for in such county, and the full
| text of all constitutional amendments
| submitted to a vote of the people, but
the proclamations posted in each cleo
tion district need not contain the names
of any candidates but those TO be voted
for In such district.
II. Designate the place at which the
election is to be held.
III. He shall give notice that every
person, excepting Justices of the Peace,
who shall hold any office or appointment
or profit or trust under the government
| of the United States, or of this State, or
of any city. or incorporated district,
whether a commissioned officer or other
wise, a subordinate officer or agent who
is or shall be employed under the legis-
lative, executive or judiciary depart
ments of this State, or of the United
| States, or of any city, or incorporated
| district, and also that every member of
Congress and of the State Legislature,
and of the select or common council of
any city, or commissioners of any ncor-
porated district is by law incapable of
holding or exercising at the same time
the office or appointment of judge, in
spector or clerk of any election of this
Commonwealth, and that no inspector,
Judge or other officer of any such cleo
ton shall be eligible to any office to be
then voted for, except that of an cleo
ton officer
l, W. H. Hood, High Sheriff OF
the County of Forest, do hereby make
known and give this public notice to the
electors of the County of Forest that a
General Election will be held in said
County, on
Tuesday, November 4, 1913,
between the hours of a. m. and p. m,
at the several Election Districts.
The following are the officers to be
elected, and list of all the nominations
made therefor, and which shall be voted
for in the form in which they shall ap-
pear upon the ballots:
officers to be elected 49,,
Two persons for Judges of the Super
ior Court of Pennsylvania.
One person for District Attorney of
Forest County.
At the same time the qualified electors
will vote on the qu estlon of the adoption
or rejection of five proposed Amend
ments to the Constitution of the State of
Pennsylvania.
List of nominations
Judge of the superior Court.
James Alcorn, Nom Partisan.
Webster Grim, Non Partisan.
John j. Henderson, Non Partisan.
John W. Kpphart, Nom Partisan.
District Attorney.
M. A. Csrringer, Repu Washing
ton.
r. f. Ritchey, Democratic.
Homer Blair, Prohibition.
Proposed Amendments TO the Constitution.
Proposed Amendment to the Consti-
tuition No. |.
Shall Section Four of Article Nine of
the Constitution be amended so as to
read "a follows?
Section 4. No debt shall be created by
or on behalf of the State, except to supply
casual deficiencies of revenue, repel inva-
sion, suppress insurrection, defend the
State in war, or to pay existing debt; and
the debt created to supply deficiencies in
revenue shall never exceed, in the aggre-
gate at any one time, one million of dol
lars: Provided. however. That the General
Assembly, irrespective of any debt, may
authorize the State to issue bonds to the
amount of fifty millions of dollars for the
purpose of improving and rebuilding the
highways of the Commonwealth.
Proposed Amendment to the Consti-
tuition No. 2.
Shall Section Seven Of Article Three of
the Constitution be amended so as to
read as follows?
Section 7. The General Assembly shall
not pass any local or special law authoriz.
ing the creation, extension or impairing of
liens:
Regulating the affairs Of counties. cities
townships, wards. boroughs. or school dis.
jricts
Changing the names OF persons or places
Changing the venue IN civil or criminal
cases
Authorizing the laying out. opening. nj
tering. or maintaining roads, highways
streets or alleys:
Relating to ferries or bridges or incor
pornting ferry or bridge companies. OK
cep; fer the erection Of bridges crossing
streams which form boundaries between
this and any other State:
Vacating roads, town pIats. streets OF
alleys.
Relating to cemeteries. graveyards or
public grounds not of the State
Authorizing the adoption or legitima.
tion OF children
Locating or changing county-scats |
erecting new counties or changing county |
lines:
Incorpor ItinG cities towns or villages,
by changing their charters
For the opening and conducting or eiec-
tions. or fixing or changing the place Of
voting
Granting divorces:
Erecting new townships or boroughs,
changing township lines. borough limits
or school districts:
Creating Offices. or prescribing the pow
ers and duties of officers in counties.
cities boroughs, townships. election or
school districts:
Changing the law of descent or sue
cession:
Regulating the practice or jurisdiction
OF, or changing the rules Of evidence In,
any judicial proceeding or inquiry before
courts, aldermen, justices of the peace,
Eheriffs, commissioners, arbltrators, au-
ditors, masters in chancery or other tri-
bunals, 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 public
schools, the building or repairing oil
school houses and the raising of money |
for such purposes:
Fixing the rate of interest:
Affecting the estates of minors or per- |