Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1913-10-30

and duties of aldermen, justices OF the
peace, magistrates or constables: Reg
ulating the management of public
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 min
ors or persons under disability, except
after dues notice to all parties In In
terest, to be recited in the special en-
actment: Renting fines, penalties
and forfeitures, OF refunding moneys
legally paid into the treasury: Ex-
empting property from taxation: Reg
ulating labor trade, mining or manu-
featuring; but the legislature may reg
ulate and fix the wages or salaries. the
hours of work Or labor, and make pro-
vision for the protection, welfare and
safety of persons employed by the
State, or by any county, city, borough,
town, township, school district, village,
or other civil division of the State, or
any contractor or sub-contractor per-
forming work, labor or services for the
State, or for any county, city. borough,
town, township, school district. viii
4 lage or other civil division thereof:
| Creating corporations, or amending, re-
newing or extending the charters there
Of Granting to any corporation, asso-
citation or individual any special or ex-
| elusive privilege or immunity, or to
vidual the right to lay down a rail-
road track Nor shall the General AS
| sembly indirectly enact such special or
local law by the partial repeal of a
general law; but laws repeating local
or special acts may be passed: Nor
shall any law be passed granting pow
ers or privileges In any case where
the granting of such powers and privi-
leges shall have been provided for by
| general law, nor where the courts have
Jurisdiction to grant the same or give
the relief asked for.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION NO. 3.
Shall Section Three Of Article Eight
of the Constitution be Amended so
as to Read as Follows;
Section 8. All judges elected by
the electors of the State at large may
be elected at either a general or mu-
i nicipal election, as circumstances may
require. All elections for judges of
the courts for the several judicial dis
tricts, and for county, city, ward,
borough, and township officers, for
regular terms of service, shall be held
/ on the municipal election day; namely,
the Tuesday next following first Mon
day of November in each odd-numbered
year, but the General Assembly may
by law fix different day, two-thirds
of all the members of each House con-
senting thereto: Provided, That such
elections shall be held In an odd-num-
bered year. Provided further, That all
| judges for the courts Of the several ju-
dicial districts holding office at the
present time, whose terms of office
may end in an odd-numbered year,
shall continue to hold their office until
the first Monday of January in the next
succeeding even numbered year.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE
| CONSTITUTION NO. 4.
Shall Section One of Article Nine of the
Constitution be Amended SO as to
Read as Follows:
Section 1. ALI taxes shall be uni
form upon the same class of subjects,
within the territorial limits of the au-
thority levying the tax. and shall be
levied and collected under general laws,
and the subjects Of taxation may be
classified for the purpose of laying
graded or progressive taxes; but the
General Assembly may, by general laws,
exempt from taxation public property
used for public purposes, actual places
of religious worship. places of burial not
used or held for private or corporate
profit and institutions of purely public
charity.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION NO. 5.
Shall Article Nine of the Constitution
be Amended by Adding a Section to
Read as Follows:
Section 10. No obligations which
have been heretofore issued, or which
may hereafter be issued, by any county
or municipality other than Philadel-
phia, to provide for the construction or
acquisition of waterworks, subways
underground railways or street rail-
ways. or the appurtenances thereof,
shall be considered as a debt of a mu-
nicipality, within the meaning of Sec
ton eight of article nine of the Con-
stitution of Pennsylvania or of this
amendment, if the net revenue derived
from said property for a period of five
years, either before or after the acquisi-
tion thereof, or, where the same is con-
structed by the county or municipality
after a completion thereof, shall have
been sufficient to pay interest and sink
ing-fund charges during said period
upon said obligations, or If the said
obligations shall be secured by liens
upon the respective properties, and
shall impose no municipal liability.
Where municipalities or counties shall
issue obligations to provide for the con-
struction of property, as herein provid-
ed, said municipalities or counties may
also issue obligations to provide for the
interest and sinking-f fund charges ac-
cruing thereon until said properties
shall have been completed and in op-
Grafton for period Of one year; and
said municipalities and counties shall
not be required to levy a tax to pay
said interest and sinking fund charges
as required by section ten of article
nine of the Constitution of Pennsyl-
vania, until after said properties shall
have been operated by said counties
or municipalities during said period of
one year. Any of the said municipali-
ties or counties may incur indebtedness
in excess of seven per centum. and not
exceeding ten per centum, of the as
sessed valuation of the taxable property
therein, if said increase of Indebtedness
shall have been aSsented to by three
fifths of the electors voting at a public
election, in such manner as shall be
provided by law.
AND, do hereby make known
and give notice to the electors thereof,
that an election will be held in the
City of Scranton. in the said County OF
Lackawanna, on 4
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER a, 1918.
For one person to fill the office of
Mayor.
For three persons to I'LL the office of
| Councilmen.
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