October, net ensuing, and a summary of the bids shall be included by the mayor in the budget. Provided further, That if it is determined in accordance with the provisions of this section to have any such work performed by contract, a reasonable time, not exceeding six months shall be allowed the contractor or contractors thereunder to secure the necessary equipment to perform such contracts, and to begin the performance thereof.

Section 6. Any such city shall have the power to contract for materials, supplies or work to be supplied to or performed for said city, subject to the provisions of section five of this article, during one or more years, and the city council may by ordinance authorize such contract without the necessity of making an appropriation therefor, beyond the current year. Such contracts shall be enforceable notwithstanding the provisions of Section ten, Article seventeen hereof. When the term of any such contract exceeds four years there shall be inserted in the contract a clause reserving to the city the right to terminate the same at its option at any time after the expiration of four years, without liability to the contractor for damages for the loss of profits, which would have been realized had the contract not been terminated. If the term of any such contract exceeds one year, a reasonable time, not exceeding six months, shall be allowed the contractor thereunder to secure the necessary equipment to perform such contract and to begin the performance thereof.

ARTICLE XXI

Construction of This Act.

Section 1. If any provision of this act should for any reason be declared invalid by the courts the intention of this act is hereby expressed that all other provisions shall nevertheless be sustained and enforced.

ARTICLE XXII

Schedule.

Section 1. In order that no inconvenience may be suffered by putting into effect the changes provided in this act, all officers and employes of such cities in office at the date of the approval of this act shall continue in office until superseded by the appointment or election of their successor as herein provided.

Section 2. This act shall go into effect on the first Monday of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, except as herein provided.

Section 3. Article sixteen relating to the city council shall go into effect so far as regards the election of councilmen upon the approval of this act. The terms of all councilmen in office and the terms of employment of all officers and employes of the council or councils in such cities shall cease and determine on the first Monday of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

Section 4. Article seventeen, relating to finance, shall go into effect one month after the approval of this act. All matters and things therein required to be done by the council shall, until the first Monday of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, be done by the council or councils now in office, but the detailed consideration of the financial program may be delegated to a committee of such council or councils.

Section 5. Article eighteen, relating to indebtedness, shall go into effect one month after the approval of this act. All matters and things therein required to be done by the council shall, until the first Monday of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, be done by the council or councils now in office.

Section 6. Article nineteen, relating to the civil service shall go into effect one month after the approval of this act, except that provisions therein, relating to the establishment of the civil service commission shall go into effect on the first Monday of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty. All matters and things therein required to be done by the civil service commission and by the council shall until such date be done by the civil service commission and by the council or councils now in office. The term of all civil service commissioners in office of such cities shall cease and determine on the first Monday of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

ARTICLE XXIII.

Repealer.

Section 1. The following acts or parts of acts of Assembly are hereby repealed as respectively indicated. Wherever any provision of this act is intended to supersede or take the place of any act or part of an act hereby repealed, such repeal shall not take effect until the effective date of such provision. The repeal of the first section of an act shall not repeal the enacting clause.

The last four paragraphs of section two and all of sections four, seven, eight, nine, fourteen, fifteen, twenty-seven, forty-two, forty-six, forty-seven, forty-nine, and fifty-one, of an act, entitled "A further supplement to an act, entitled 'An act to incorporate the City of Philadelphia,'" approved February second, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four (Pamphlet Laws twenty-one), absolutely.

Sections three, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one and twenty-four of an act, entitled "A supplement to the act Consolidating the City of Philadelphia," approved April twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five (Pamphlet Laws two hundred and sixty-four), absolutely.

Sections fourteen, fifteen, twenty-two, twenty-six, twenty-nine and thirty of an act, entitled "A further supplement to the act consolidating the City of Philadelphia," approved May thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six (Pamphlet Laws five hundred and sixty-seven), absolutely.

Sections five and seven of an act, entitled "A further supplement to the act incorporating the City of Philadelphia," approved April twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight (Pamphlet Laws three hundred and eighty-five), absolutely.

An act, entitled "A further supplement to an act to incorporate the City of Philadelphia," approved March twentyfirst, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one (Pamphlet Laws one hundred and sixtyfive), absolutely.

Sections one and two of an act, entitled "A furthr supplement to the act incorporating the City of Philadelphia, relative to certain offices," approved March eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three (Pamphlet Laws one hundred and forty-three), absolutely.

Section three of an act, entitled “A further supplement to an act to incorporate the City of Philadelphia," approved March twentyninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four (Pamphlet Laws. one hundred and eleven), absolutely.

An act, entitled "A further supplement to an act to incorporate the city of Philadelphia," approved April nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four (Pamphlet Laws four hundred and ninety-one), absolutely.

Section one of an act, entitled "A further supplement to the act to incorporate the city of Philadelphia, relative to filling vacancies in Councils," approved April twenty-seven, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four (Pamphlet Laws six hundred and thirty-eight), absolutely.

Sections three and four of an act, entitled "A further supplement to the act to incorporate the city of Philadelphia," approved May twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four (Pamphlet Laws nine hundred and eleven), absolutely.

An act entitled "A further supplement to the act consolidating the City of Philadelphia, defining the amount of money to be borrowed on temporary loan," approved April fifth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven (Pamphlet Laws eight hundred and thirty-one), absolutely.

An act, entitled "A further supplement to an act to incoroporáte the City of Philadelphia, relative to incompatibility of members of council to office," approved March eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine (Pamphlet Laws three hundred and seventeen), absolutely.

An act entitled "A further supplement to an act act to incorporate the City of Philadelphia, relative to incompatibility of members of council to office," approved April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy (Pamphlet Laws one thousand and eighty-three), abso lutely.

An act, entitled “A further supplement to an act to incorporate the City of Philadelphia, relative to the election of members of common

council," approved March twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two (Pamphlet Laws four hundred and sixty-five), absolutely.

An act, entitled "An act relating to the office of notary public in the City of Philadelphia," approved January twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three (Pamphlet Laws one hundred and three), absolutely.

An act, entitled "An act to regulate the manner of increasing the indebtedness of muncipalities; to provide for the redemption of the same, and to impose penalties for the illegal increase thereof," approved April twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and seventyfour (Pamphlet Laws sixty-five), insofar as it relates to cities of the first class.

An act, entitled "An act conferring upon the councils of certain cities of this Comminwealth the power to re-organize the municipal departments thereof," approved May nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four (Pamphlet Laws two hundred and eighteen), insofar as it relates to cities of the first class.

Sections three, four, seven and eleven, and the first two paragraphs of section five, of an act, entitled “An act dividing the cities of this State into three classes, regulating the passage of ordinances, providing for contracts for supplies and work for said cities, authorizing the increase of indebtedness and the creation of a sinking fund to redeem the same, defining and punishing certain offences in all of said cities, and providing for the incorporation and government of cities of the third class," approved May twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four (Pamphlet Laws two hundred and thirty), insofar as they relate to cities of the first class.

An act, entitled "A supplement to an act to regulate the manner of increasing the indebtedness of municipalities, to provide for the redemption of the same and to impose penalties for the illegal increase thereof, approved the twentieth day of April, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-four, amending the sixth section thereof," approved April twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and seventyfive (Pamphlet Laws forty-six), insofar as it relates to cities of the first class.

An act, entitled "An act to revise and amend an act, entitled 'An act dividing the cities of the state into three classes, regulating the passage of ordinances, providing for contracts for supplies and work for said cities, authorizing the increase of indebtedness and the creation of a sinking fund to redeem the same, defining and punishing certain offences in all of said cities and providing for the incorporation and government of cities of the third class,' approved May twenty-third, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, fixing the sinking fund tax of the respective cities of this Commonwealth," approved March twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven (Pamphlet Laws thirty-five), insofar as it relates to cities of the first class.

An act, entitled "An act to authorize cities of the first class to levy and fix a tax rate, to fix the time of opening and closing the tax

duplicates, to regulate the appropriations and expenditures of said cities and prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act," approved June eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine (Pamphlet Laws one hundred and thirty), absolutely.

An act, entitled "An act to authorize cities of the first class to fund their present floating indebtedness and to refund existing loans by creating loans therefor, and to provide for the redemption of the same," approved June eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine (Pamphlet Laws one hundred and thirty-seven), absolutely.

An act, entitled "An act to provide for the better government of cities of the first class in this Commonwealth," approved June first, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five (Pamphlet Laws thirtyseven), absolutely.

An act, entitled "An act supplementary to 'An act to provide for the better government of cities of the first class in this Commonwealth,' approved June first, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, suspending the operation of section three of ar ticle twelve of said act until the expiration of sixty days from the first Monday of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, also suspending the operation of part of section one. article three, of the same, for sixty days from said first Monday in April, and exempting at all times hereafter the subordinate officers, clerks and employes of the department of city treasurer and receiver of taxes from the operation of said section three of article twelve, and vesting the power of appointment and removal of said subordinate officers, clerks and employes, exclusively at all times hereafter, in the city treasurer and receiver of taxes respectively." approved April sixth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven (Pamphlet Laws eighteen), absolutely.

An act, entitled "An act to amend section first, of article fifteen, of an act, entitled "An act to provide for the better government of cities of the first class in this Commonwealth,' approved the first day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five," approved May eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eightyseven (Pamphlet Laws one hundred and twenty-four), absolutely.

An act, entitled "An act to provide for the commencement of the terms of office of councilmen, constables and school directors in new wards when erected in cities of the first class, under existing laws, and where the several wards constitute separate school districts, to provide for the supervision of the public schools in such new wards until the organization of the board of school directors of the new school section, and to provide for the term of councilmen and constables already elected by the voters of the old ward," approved February twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine (Pam phlet Laws three), insofar as it relates to the election and terms of councilmen.

An act, entitled “An act to empower county controllers of cities of the first class to deputize a clerk to countersign warrants drawn in payment of salaries," approved April fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one (Pamphlet Laws nineteen), absolutely.