The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-22

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
general law; but laws repeating local
or special acts may be passed.:
Nor shall any law he 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 or give the
relief asked for, 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 or 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:
or public grounds not Of the State:
Auth 1n o1nnfinn or 1nOiti.
nation of children:
Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties or changing
county lines:
Incorporating cities, towns or vii
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-
ouglfs, changing township lines, bor-
oughN 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 OF jurisdic-
ton of, or changing the rules of evil
dence in, any judicial proceeding or
inquiry before courts, aldermen, JUS
tees 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 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:
EXemptipg property from taxation:
Regulating labor, trade, mining OF
manufacturing but the legislature
may regulate and fix the wages or
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
village or other civil division thereof:
Creating corporations, or amending
renewing or extending the charters
thereof:
Granting to any corporation, asso.
citation or individual any special or
exclusive privilege or immunity, OF
to any corporation, association, or
individual the right to lay down a
railroad track:
Nor shall the General Assembly
indirectly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal Of a gen.
eral law; but laws repeating local OF
special acts may be passed:
Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers or privileges in any case
where the granting Of such powers
and privileges shall have been pro
vided for by general law, nor where
| the courts have Jurisdiction to grant
the same or give the relief asked for
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 2.
ROBERT McAFEE.
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Number Three.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.