Pennsylvania ArchivesSamuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, George Edward Reed, William Henry Egle, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban J. Severns & Company, 1902 - History A collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records," which contain the Minutes of the Provincial council, of the Council of safety, and of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 99
Page 8
... Legislature will devise some method for a simpler and juster allotment of these burdens . I shall urge upon the General Assembly the passage of legislation necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of the Constitution of the ...
... Legislature will devise some method for a simpler and juster allotment of these burdens . I shall urge upon the General Assembly the passage of legislation necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of the Constitution of the ...
Page 12
... Legislature , and they have been receiving compensation almost without authority of law , and by the sufferance of the accounting officers . The Assembly at its last session , though prolonged beyond precedent , and at great expense to ...
... Legislature , and they have been receiving compensation almost without authority of law , and by the sufferance of the accounting officers . The Assembly at its last session , though prolonged beyond precedent , and at great expense to ...
Page 23
... Legislature should not hesitate about what to do in these and similar The public service should not be made attrac- tive because of its emoluments . Extravagant salaries breed an office - holding class , inspired not by patriot- ism and ...
... Legislature should not hesitate about what to do in these and similar The public service should not be made attrac- tive because of its emoluments . Extravagant salaries breed an office - holding class , inspired not by patriot- ism and ...
Page 26
... Legislature . Coming from such a source , and prepared at the public expense , it is to be regretted that it was not acted upon by former Legislatures before whom it has been , even though their attention was directed to it by my ...
... Legislature . Coming from such a source , and prepared at the public expense , it is to be regretted that it was not acted upon by former Legislatures before whom it has been , even though their attention was directed to it by my ...
Page 27
... Legislature comes to some determina- tion upon the general bill . The subject is an import- ant one , and what is done should be done thoroughly and systematically . The fragmentary character of much of our legislation is a matter to be ...
... Legislature comes to some determina- tion upon the general bill . The subject is an import- ant one , and what is done should be done thoroughly and systematically . The fragmentary character of much of our legislation is a matter to be ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
act to provide Allegheny Allegheny county amend amount Anno Domini appropriation Auditor authority BEAVER borough cent charity Cherry Run citizens city of Philadelphia Coal Coal Regions commissioners Commonwealth of Pennsylvania CONFORMITY WITH LAW Constitution corporations courts day of April debt disapproved district Domini one thousand dred duly elected duty enactment entitled An act erection Executive Chamber Executive Department expenses FILE HEREWITH Gentlemen Governor Harrisburg hereby to nominate HEREWITH FILE honor hereby Hospital House bill institutions insurance companies JAMES judges June legislation Legislature Luzerne county ment monwealth named National Guard OBJECTIONS Oil Company PATTISON payment persons Petroleum Petroleum Company Proclamation purpose regulating repeal revenues ROBERT E ROBT salary Schuylkill county Seal Secretary Senate bill Senate Nominating session Sinking Fund statute thereto thousand dollars thousand eight hundred tion township Treasurer twenty votes wealth withhold my approval
Popular passages
Page 764 - ... that in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the State, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from such election district; and the Legislature shall have power to provide the manner in which and the time and place at which such absent electors may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election districts in which they respectively reside.
Page 803 - The general assembly shall not pass any local or special law regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts...
Page 764 - State one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county, and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere...
Page 633 - The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the Commonwealth, interest on the public debt, and for public schools; all other appropriations shall be made by separate bills, each embracing but one subject.
Page 764 - For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States ; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State or of the United States, or of the high seas ; nor while a student of any seminary of learning, nor while kept at any almshouse or other asylum at public expense ; nor while confined in any public prison.
Page 420 - No appropriations, except for pensions or gratuities for military services shall be made for charitable, educational or benevolent purposes, to any person or community, nor to any denominational or sectarian institution, corporation or association.
Page 922 - States, and especially to consider whether it would be wise and practicable for the State of New York to invite the other States of the Union to send representatives to a convention to draft uniform laws to be submitted for the approval and adoption of the several States, and to devise and recommend such other course of action as shall best accomplish the purpose of this Act.
Page 175 - No law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended, or conferred by reference to its title only, but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended, or conferred, shall be reenacted, and published at length.
Page 426 - An act to consolidate, revise and amend the penal laws of this Commonwealth...
Page 986 - Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this Seventeenth day of September, AD 1866, and of the Independence of the United States of America the Ninety first.