Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-19
LEGAL NOTICES

THE CITIZENS OF THE COMMON
WEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL
OR REJECTION, BY THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMON
WEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. AND
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE
SECRETARY OF THE COMMON
WEALTH, IN PURSUANCE OF AR
TICLE XVIII OF THE CoNSTITU-
TION.
Number One.
JOINT RESOLUTION
one, article eight OF the Constitu-
ton of Pennsylvania
House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania In General
assembly met Taas 5hs 14Swi1s .;
Pennsylvania be, and the same Is here
by, proposed. in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof;@-,, o,r,.
which reads as follows:
Section l. Every male eisiTeG
the fSiiow,nE EeaTs aualicatons. % shaii be
entitled to vote at all elections. sub
Ject, however, to such laws requiring
and regulating the registration of cleo
First He shall have been a citizen
Second. He shall have resided in
the State one year Cor, having prevl-
ously been qualified elector or ma,
tive-born citizen of the State. he shall
have removed therefrom. and returned,
then six mol!ths) Immediately preced-
ing the election.
election district where he shall offer
70 vote at least two months inmedi-
ntely preceding the election.
Fourth. If twenty-five years OF
age and upwards he shall have paid
Within two years State or county
TAX. winch shail have been assessed at
month before the election" be amend
ed so that the same she'll read as fol-
Section 1. Every citizen. male or
female, of twenty-one years or age,
possessing the following qualifications.
shall be entitled to vote at all cleo
recurring and regulating the registra-
tion, of electors as the General AS
First. He or she shall have been a
citizen Of the United States at least
second. He or she shall have resid- i
previously been a qualified elector or
native-borh citizen of the State, he or
she shall have removed therefrom, and
ately preceding the election.
Third. He or she shall have resid-
ed in the election district where he or
tion.
Fourth. If twenty two years of age
and upwards, he or she shall have paid
tax, which shall have been assessed at
least least, two months and paid at least one
his" him. "eagEf' and "himself a Occur in
any section of article VII OF this Con-
as as II written !respectively. he or she, she;
self or herself"
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1.
ROBERT MrAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section
eight of article nine of the Constitu-
tion of Pennsylvania.
ssfe and J. esn be 1t Of by es
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in, General Assembly met. That the
meht tn hs Of the com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in accord
ance with the provisions of the eigh-
teenth article thereof
Amend section eight, article nine of
the Constitution OF the Commonwealth
Of Pennsylvania, which reads as fol-
Section 8: The debt OF any county,
or other municipality or incorporated
district except Poaas as herein provided
upon the assessed value Of the tax
able property therein, nor shall any
such municipality or district incur any
new debt, or increase its indebtedness
TO an amount exceeding two per centum
upon such assessed valuation of prop
eEty, without the t1ss assent o Of the electors
manner as shall be provided by law;
but any city. the debt of which. now
sessed Valuation, may be b autho%rized % by by
law to increase the same three per
centum. in the, aggregate. at any one
time upon such valuation, except that
any debt or debts hereinafter Incurred
by the city and county of Philadelphia
for the construction and development
of subways for transit purposes, or for
or the reclamation of land to be used
in the construction of a system of
wharves and docks. as public improve;
city and county of Phiiadeiphia, and
which shall yield to the city and county
excess of the interest on said debt or
debts. and of the annual installments
necessary for the cancellation of said
eertaining the power Of the city J" and and
county of Philadelphia to become 9TH
erwise indebted: Provided. That a
% shall Be G ESTABLISHED % and maintained" nah9tn"
so that II shall read as folIows:-
Section s.. The debt of any county,
city, borough, township, school district,
or other municipality or Incorporated
district, except as herein provided. shall
never exceed seven per centum upon
the assessed value of the taxable prop
erty therein, nor shall any such mu-
nicipality or district incur any new
debt, or increase its Indebtedness to an
amount exceeding two per centum upon
such assessed valuation of property,
without the consent of the electors
thereof at a public election in such
manner as shall be provided by law; but
any city, the debt of which on the first
day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and seventyfour, exceeded
seven per centum of such assessed VAL
uation, and has not since been reduced
to less than such per centum, may be
authorized by law to increase the same
three per centum in the aggregate, at
any one time, upon such valuation. The
city of Philadelphia,. upon the condi-
crease its Indebtedness to the extent of
three per centum in excess of seven
per centum upon such assessed valu-
alton for the specific purpose of pro-
viding for all or any of the following
purposes,-to wit: For the CONSTRUCT
nefs, railways, elevated railways, and
other transit facilities; for the con-
struction and Improvement of wharyes
and docks and for the reclamation OF
land to be used in the construction of
wharves and docks. owned or to be
however. shall only be, made with the
lie election, to be held in such manner
as shall be provided by law. In ascer-
tanning the borrowing capacity of said
city of Philadelphia, at any time, there
shall be excluded from the calculation
a credit, where the work resulting from
or more of the specific purposes here
inaboVe enumerated shall be Welding