Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-16

G.. Willis Hartman
Prohibition
G.. Willis Hartman
Socialist
Amos Groff.
Socialist
REPRESENTATIVES, IN THE GEN
IcRAL AsSEMaLY-Second
District
(Vote for Two)
Republican
d. j. Bechtold
Republican
Ira T.. Ulsh
Democratic
William Il. Bottomley
Prohibition
William i. Bottomley
Democratic
Charles w. Mccoy
Prohibition
Charles w, Mccoy
w. Waller Shreffier
Charles e. Weldner
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION
A cross (X) marked In the square
at the right of the word Yes" tndi-
Gates a vote for the Amendment.
a cross (x) marked in the square
at the right of the word NO" indi-
Gates a vote against the Amendment
PhOPOSED AMEN DMENI IO The
CONSTITUTION NO.
Shall Section -Four of Article Nine of
the Constitution lie Amended SO as
to read as follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of the State. eX-
cept to supply casual deficiencies of
revenue, repel invasion, suppress In
surrection. defend the State in war, or
to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deficiencies in rev.
enue shall never exceed in the ag-
lSregate, at any one time. one million
dollars: Provided. however. That the
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 high
, ways of the Commonwealth.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION No.
Shall Section Eight of Article Nine of
| the Constitution be Amended SO as
to read as follows:
| Section s. The debt of any county
city, borough. township school dis
| trict, or other municipality or in
corporated district, except as provid-
ed herein, and in section fifteen OF
this article. shall never exceed seven
| CO' per centum upon the assessed
value of the taxable property therein
but the debt of the city of Philadel-
phia may be increased in such amount
! that the total city debt of said city
shall not exceed ten per centum O0)
upon the assessed value of the tax
able property therein, nor shall any
such municipality or district incur
any new debt, or increase it's indebt-
edness to an amount exceeding two
! 20 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. In ascer-
| tanning the borrowing. capacity OF
the said city of Philadelphia, at any
time, there shall be excluded from
! the calculation and deducted from
such debt SO much of the debt of said
city as shall have been incurred, ano
the proceeds thereof invested, in any
public improvements of any character
which shall be yielding to the saiC
city an annual current net revenue
The amount of such deduction shal
! be ascertained by capitalizing the
| annual net revenue from such i'm
provement during the year immedi-
ately preceding the time of such as
| certainment; and such capitalization
shall be estimated by ascertaining
the principal amount which would
yield such annual, current net rev
and sinking-fund charges payable
upon the Indebtedness incurred by
said city for such purposes, up to the
ltime of such ascertainment. TIL,
method of determining such amount
so to be deducted. maybe prescribed
by the General Assembly. In incur
ring Indebtedness for any purpos,
the city of Philadelphia may issu,
it's obligations maturing not late
than fifty (50) years from the dat,
thereof, with provision for sink