The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-08
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 /. Be 1t 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-
tows:-
"Section z. The General Assem-
bly, shall not pass any local or spe-
cial law authorizing the creation, ex-
tension, or impairtng Of liens:
Regulating the affairs Of counties,
cities, townships, wards, borougha.
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:
"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 Dor
oughs, changing township lines, Dor
ough limits, OF school districts:
Creating offices, or prescribing The
powers and duties of officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
ton OF school districts;
Changing the law of descent ol
succession:
Regulating the practice or juris
diction of, or changing the rules O
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 TO
the collection of debts, or the en-
forcement of Judgments, or prescrih
ing the effect of judicial sales Of rea
estate:
Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen
Justices Of the peace, magistrates o
constables:
Regulating the management O
public schools, the building OF re
pairing of school houses and the rails
ing of money for such purposes:
"Fixing the rate of interest:
Affecting the estates of minors o
persons under disability, except a
ter due notice to all parties in il
terest, to be recited in the specia
enactment:
"Remitting fines, penalties and fol
FIXTURES, or refunding moneys legall
paid into the treasury:
''Exempting property from taxi
ton.
Regulating labor, trade, minin
or manufacturing:
Creating corporations, or amenC
ing, renewing OF extending the cha
I ters thereof:
: Granting to any corporation, ass
citation Or individual anV snecfal n
exclusive privilege or immunity, or