PROCLAMATIONS BY THE GOVERNOR. In the Name and by Authority of the EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. PROCLAMATION. By virtue of the authority vested in me by Article IV, Section 12, of the Constitution, I, Samuel W. Pennypacker, Governor of Pennsylvania, do hereby convene the General Assembly of the Commonwealth in extraordinary session, to meet in the Capitol, at Harrisburg, on Monday, January 15th, A. D. 1906, at 2 o'clock p. m. of that day, to consider legislation upon the following subjects: First. To enable contiguous cities in the same counties to be united in one municipality in order that the people may avoid the unnecessary burdens of maintaining separate city governments. Second. To increase the interest paid by banks, trust companies. and similar institutions for the use of State moneys; to impose proper limitations upon the amount of such moneys to be held by each of such institutions; to make it a misdemeanor to pay or receive, to offer or request, any money or valuable thing or promise for the use of such moneys other than the interest payable to the State; and to adopt such other measures as may be necessary for the protection of the public moneys. Third. To reapportion the State into Senatorial and Represen tative districts. Fourth. To provide for the personal registration of voters. Fifth. To provide for the government of cities of the first class and the proper distribution of the power exercised by such munici palities. Sixth. To designate the amount to be expended each year in the erection of county bridges, and to take such other measures in regard to them as safety may require. Seventh. To abolish fees in the offices of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Insurance Commissioner. Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State, at the city of Harrisburg, this eleventh day of No (Great Seal.) vember, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the Commonwealth the one hundred and thirtieth. By the Governor: SAML. W. PENNYPACKER. ROBERT MCAFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealth. In the Name and by Authority of the COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. PROCLAMATION. Whereas, An extraordinary session of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has been called under authority of Article IV, Section 12, of the Constitution, to meet in the Capitol at Harrisburg, on Monday, January 15th, 1906, at 2 o'clock p. m. of that day. Now, Therefore, I, Samuel W. Pennypacker, Governor of the Commonwealth, do hereby designate the following additional subjects for the consideration of the General Assembly with a view to legislation at the said session with respect to them: First. To revise the laws relative to primary elections in such way as to provide for the holding of the primary elections of all political parties within the Commonwealth on the same day, at the same time, under the supervision of properly constituted officers, and to make such changes in, or additions to, these laws as may seem advisable. Second. To establish a civil service system, by means of which the routine officers and employments of the Commonwealth may be filled by appointments made after ascertainment of qualifi 'cations and fitness, and the incumbents of such offices may retain them during good behavior. Third. To designate the uses to which moneys may be applied by candidates, political managers and committees in political campaigns, both for nominations and elections, and to require the managing committees and managers of all political parties to file with some designated official at the close of each campaign a detailed statement in writing, accompanied by affidavit, of the amounts collected and the purposes for which they were expended. Fourth. To enable cities that are now or may hereafter be contiguous or in close proximity, including any intervening land, to be united in one municipality, in order that the people may avoid the unnecessary burdens of maintaining separate municipal governments. This fourth subject is a modification of the first subject in the original call, and is added in order that legislation may be enacted under either of them, as may be deemed wise. Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State, at the City of Harrisburg, this ninth day of January, (Great Seal.) in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Commonwealth the one hundred and thirtieth. By the Governor: SAML. W. PENNYPACKER. ROBERT MCAFEE, LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. No. 1. AN ACT To enable cities that are now, or may hereafter be, contiguous or in close proximity, to be united, with any intervening land other than boroughs, in one municipality; providing for the consequences of such consolidation, the temporary government of the consolidated city, payment of the indebtedness of each of the united territories, and the enforcement of debts and claims due to or from each. cities. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That wherever in this Consolidation of Commonwealth, now or hereafter, two cities shall be contiguous or in close proximity to each other, the two, with any intervening land other than boroughs, may be united and become one by annexing and con solidating the lesser city, and the intervening land other than boroughs, if any, with the greater city, and thus making one consolidated city, if at an election, to be held as hereinafter provided, there shall be a majority of all the votes cast in favor of such union. Ordinance. Petition. Section 2. The councils of either of said cities may by ordinance direct that a petition be filed in the court of quarter sessions of the county in which such cities are situate, or two per centum of the registered voters of either of said cities may present their petition to said court, praying that the two cities, and any intervening land other than boroughs, shall be united and become one city. Thereupon, the said petition shall be filed; and the court shall fix a time for the hearing thereof, not more than twenty days Hearing. thereafter, and direct that notice be given to the mayor or chief executive officer of each of the said cities, and the clerk of the councils of each of said cities, and by publicaton in one or more newspapers published in either of said cities, and such other notice as the court may deem proper, including notice to one or more of the officers of whatever may be the municipal subdivision of the State in which any in tervening land other than boroughs may lie. Notice. Publication. |