SEC. 9. Every banking law shall provide for the registry and countersigning, by an officer of the State, of all notes or bills designed for cireta tion, and that ample security to the full amount thereof shall be deposite with the Auditor General for the redemption of such notes or bills.

SEC. 10. The General Assembly shall have the power to alter, revoke or annul any charter of incorporation now existing and revokable at the adoption, of this Constitution, or any that may hereafter be created, whenever 7 their opinion it may be injurious to the citizens of this Commonwealth, i such manner, however, that no injustice shall be done to the corporators No law hereafter enacted shall create, renew or extend the charter of me than one corporation.

Sre. 11. No corporate body to possess banking and discounting privileg shall be created or organized in pursuance of any law without three months previous public notice, at the place of the intended location, of the intent to apply for such privileges, in such manner as shall be prescribed by t nor shall a charter for such privilege be granted for a longer period th twenty years.

SEC. 12. Any association or corporation organized for the purpose, or any individual, shall have the right to construct and maintain lines of thes graph within this State, and to connect the same with other lines, and General Assembly shall, by general law of uniform operation, provide reas able regulations to give full effect to this section. No telegraph comp shall consolidate with, or hold a controlling interest in the stock or hob of, any other telegraph company owning a competing line, or acquire, by [~chase or otherwise, any other competing line of telegraph.

SEC. 13. The term "corporations," as used in this article, shall be me strued to include all joint-stock companies or associations having any of t powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partier ships.

ARTICLE XVII.
RAILROADS AND CANALS.

SECTION 1. All railroads and canals shall be public highways, and railroad and canal companies shall be common, carriers. Any association corporation organized for the purpose shall have the right to construct a operate a railroad between any points within this State, and to connect the Stateline with railroads of other States. Every railroad company sh have the right with its road to intersect, connect with or cross any out railroad; and shall receive and transport each the other's passengers, toun and cars loaded or empty, without delay or discrimination.

SEC. 2. Every railroad and canal corporation organized in this State sta maintain an office therein where transfers of its stock shall be made. where its books shall be kept for inspection by any stockholder or credid of such corporation, in which shall be recorded the amount of capital st subscribed or paid in, and by whom, the names of the owners of its 4 and the amounts owned by them, respectively, the transfers of said stock. the names and places of residence of its officers.

SEC. 3. All individuals, associations and corporations shall have e right to have persons and property transported over railroads and canals. no undue or unreasonable discrimination- shall be made in charges for. in facilities for, transportation of freight or passengers within the Ste+ coming from or going to any other State. Persons and property transport over any railroad shall be delivered at any station at charges not ex* * ing the charges for transportation of persons and property of the same cass in the same direction to any more distant station; but excursion and i mutation tickets may be issued at special rates.

SEC. 4. No railroad, canal or other corporation, or the lessees, purcla~~ or managers of any railroad or canal corporation, shall consolidate the sta property or franchises of such corporation with, or lease, or purchase the words or franchises of, or in any way control any other railroad or eve poration owning or having under its control a parallel or competing Bl

or shall any officer of such railroad or canal corporation act as an officer f any other railroad or canal corporation owning or having the control of parallel or competing line; and the question whether railroads or canals re parallel or competing lines shall, when demanded by the party comlainant, be decided by a jury as in other civil issues.

SEC. 5. No incorporated company doing the business of a common carrier hall, directly or indirectly, prosecute or engage in mining or manufacturing rticles for transportation over its works; nor shall such company directly or directly engage in any other business than that of common carriers, or old or acquire lands, freehold or leasehold, directly or indirectly, except ch as shall be necessary for carrying on its business; but any mining or anufacturing company may carry the products of its mines and manufacries on its railroad or canal not exceeding fifty miles in length.

SEC. 6. No president, director, officer, agent or employee of any railroad r canal company shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in the furnishing f material or supplies to such company, or in the business of transportation s a common carrier of freight or passengers over the works owned, leased, ontrolled or worked by such company.

SEC. 7. No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation shall made between transportation companies and individuals, or in favor of ther, by abatement, drawback or otherwise, and no railroad or canal cominy, or any lessee, manager or employee thereof, shall make any preferences furnishing cars or motive power.

SEC. 8. No railroad, railway or other transportation company shall grant ee passes, or passes at a discount, to any person except officers or employees the company.

SEC. 9. No street passenger railway shall be constructed within the mits of any city, borough or township, without the consent of its local uthorities.

SEC. 10. No railroad, canal or other transportation company, in exist ice at the time of the adoption of this article, shall have the benefit of y future legislation by general or special laws, except on condition of comete acceptance of all the provisions of this article.

SEC. 11. The existing powers and duties of the Auditor General in regard › railroads, canals and other transportation companies, except as to their counts, are hereby transferred to the Secretary of Internal Affairs, who all have a general supervision over them, subject to such regulations and terations as shall be provided by law; and, in addition to the annual reports w required to be made, said Secretary may require special reports at ay time upon any subject relating to the business of said companies from any ficer or officers thereof.

SEC. 12. The General Assembly shall enforce by appropriate legislation e provisions of this article.

ARTICLE XVIII.

FUTURE AMENDMENTS.

SECTION 1. Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be roposed in the Senate or House of Representatives; and, if the same shall e agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each House, such proosed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals with he yeas and nays taken thereon, and the Secretary of the Commonwealth hall cause the same to be published three months before the next general lection, in at least two newspapers in every county in which such newspapers hall be published; and if, in the General Assembly next afterwards chosen. uch proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of he members elected to each House, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall ause the same again to be published in the manner aforesaid: and such roposed amendment or amendments shall be submitted to the qualified electors f the State in such manner, and at such time at least three months after ing so agreed to by the two Houses, as the General Assembly shall prescribe;

and, if such amendment or amendments shall be approved by a majority of those voting thereon, such amendment or amendments shall become a par of the Constitution; but no amendment or amendments shall be submitte oftener than once in five years. When two or more amendments shall le submitted they shall be voted upon separately.

[ARTICLE XIX.]

REGISTRATION OF LAND TITLES.

[SECTION 1.] Laws may be passed providing for a system of registerinz, transferring, insuring of and guaranteeing land titles by the State, or by the counties thereof, and for settling and determining adverse or other clair to and interest in lands the titles to which are so registered, transferred insured, and guaranteed; and for the creation and collection of indemnity funds; and for carrying the system and powers hereby provided for into effe by such existing courts as may be designated by the Legislature, and by the establishment of such new courts as may be deemed necessary. In matters arising in and under the operation of such system, judicial powers, with righ of appeal, may be conferred by the Legislature upon county recorders and upon other officers by it designated. Such laws may provide for continu the registering, transferring, insuring, and guaranteeing, such titles after the first or original registration has been perfected by the court, and provisi may be made for raising the necessary funds for expenses and salaries officers, which shall be paid out of the treasury of the several counties,19

SCHEDULE FOR THE CONSTITUTION.

That no inconvenience may arise from the changes in the Constituti of the Commonwealth, and in order to carry the same into complete vje tion, it is hereby declared, that:

SECTION 1. This Constitution shall take effect on the first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, for all purp not otherwise provided for therein.

SEC. 2. All laws in force in this Commonwealth at the time of the ad tion of this Constitution, not inconsistent therewith, and all rights, actions prosecutions and contracts, shall continue as if this Constitution had not bee adopted.

SEC. 3. At the general election in the years one thousand eight hundr and seventy-four and one thousand eight hundred seventy-five Senators sh be elected in all districts where there shall be vacancies. Those elected the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four shall serve for tw years, and those elected in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven five shall serve for one year. Senators now elected and those whose ter are unexpired shall represent the districts in which they reside until the end of the terms for which they were elected.

SEC. 4. At the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, Senators shall be elected from even numbered districts i serve for two years, and from odd numbered districts to serve for four years

SEC. 5. The first election of Governor under this Constitution shall be at the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventyfive, when a Governor shall be elected for three years; and the term of the Governor elected in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight ab' of those thereafter elected shall be for four years, according to the provisions of this Constitution.

SEC. 6. At the general election in the year one thousand eight hundre and seventy-four a Lieutenant Governor shall be elected according to the provisions of this Constitution.

19 [Article XIX] is a new article; it was proposed and adopted by the legislature of 1913, re-adopted by the legislature of 1915 and ratified at the election of Nov. 1915. No article or section number was assigned to this amendment and it has be placed here for convenience.

SEC. 7. The Secretary of Internal Affairs shall be elected at the first eral election after the adoption of this Constitution; and, when the said er shall be duly elected and qualified, the office of Surveyor General shall abolished. The Surveyor General in office at the time of the adoption of Constitution shall continue in office until the expiration of the term for ch he was elected.

SEC. 8. When the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be duly lified the office of Superintendent of Common Schools shall cease.

SEC. 9. Nothing contained in this Constitution shall be construed to render person now holding any State office for a first official term ineligible for lection at the end of such term.

SEC. 10. The judges of the Supreme Court in office when this Constitution Il take effect shall continue until their commissions severally expire. Two ges in addition to the number now composing the said court shall be elected the first general election after the adoption of this Constitution. SEC. 11. All courts of record and all existing courts which are not specified his Constitution shall continue in existence until the first day of Decemin the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, without abridgt of their present jurisdiction, but no longer. The court of first criminal sdiction for the counties of Schuylkill, Lebanon and Dauphin is hereby lished, and all causes and proceedings pending therein in the county of uylkill shall be tried and disposed of in the courts of oyer and terminer quarter sessions of the peace of said county.

SEC. 12. The registers' courts now in existence shall be abolished on the day of January next succeeding the adoption of this Constitution. SEC. 13. The General Assembly shall, at the next session after the adopof this Constitution, designate the several judicial districts as required this Constitution. The judges in commission when such designation shall nade shall continue during their unexpired terms judges of the new diss in which they reside; but, when there shall be two judges residing in same district, the president judge shall elect to which district he shall assigned, and the additional law judge shall be assigned to the other rict.

SEC. 14. The General Assembly shall, at the next succeeding session r each decennial census and not oftener, designate the several judicial ricts as required by this Constitution.

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SEC. 15. Judges learned in the law of any court of record holding comsions in force at the adoption of this Constitution shall hold their retive offices until the expiration of the terms for which they were comsioned, and until their successors shall be duly qualified. The Governor 1 commission the president judge of the court of first criminal jurisdicfor the counties of Schuylkill, Lebanon and Dauphin as a judge of the 't of common pleas of Schuylkill county, for the unexpired term of his SEC. 16. After the expiration of the term of any president judge of any 't of common pleas, in commission at the adoption of this Constitution, the e of such court learned in the law and oldest in commission shall be president judge thereof; and when two or more judges are elected at the e time in any judicial district they shall decide by lot which shall be ident judge; but when a president judge of a court shall be re-elected shall continue to be president judge of that court. Associate judges not ned in the law, elected after the adoption of this Constitution, shall be missioned to hold their offices for the term of five years from the first of January next after their election.

SEC. 17. The General Assembly, at the first session after the adoption his Constitution, shall fix and determine the compensation of the judges he Supreme Court and of the judges of the several judicial districts of Commonwealth; and the provisions of the fifteenth section of the article legislation shall not be deemed inconsistent herewith. Nothing contained his Constitution shall be held to reduce the compensation now paid to any judge of this Commonwealth now in commission.

SEC. 18. The courts of common pleas in the counties of Philadelphia a5: Allegheny shall be composed of the present judges of the district court a court of common pleas of said counties until their offices shall sever end, and of such other judges as may from time to time be selected. I the purpose of first organization in Philadelphia the judges of the court m ber one shall be Judges Allison, Pierce and Paxson; of the court number tw Judges Hare, Mitchell and one other judge to be elected; of the court number three, Judges Ludlow, Finletter and Lynd; and of the court number for, Judges Thayer, Briggs and one other judge to be elected. The judge trg named shall be the president judge of said courts respectively, and there after the president judge shall be the judge oldest in commission; but : president judge re-elected in the same court or district, shall continue to president judge thereof. The additional judges for courts numbers twofour shall be voted for and elected at the first general election after the aut tion of this Constitution, in the same manner as the two additional jus of the Supreme Court, and they shall decide by lot to which court they sa belong. Their term of office shall commence on the first Monday of Janet in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

SEC. 19. In the county of Allegheny, for the purpose of first organizata under this Constitution, the judges of the court of common pleas, at the of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be the judges of the court nu one, and the judges of the district court, at the same date, shall be the judg of the common pleas number two. The president judges of the common phe and district court shall be president judge of said courts numbers one two respectively, until their offices shall end; and thereafter the judge o in commission shall be president judge; but any president judge reek in the same court or district, shall continue to be president judge there SEC. 20. The organization of the courts of common pleas under this o stitution for the counties of Philadelphia and Allegheny shall take effer the first Monday of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventyand existing courts in said counties shall continue with their present po and jurisdiction until that date, but no new suits shall be instituted in courts of nisi prius after the adoption of this Constitution.

SEC. 21. The causes and proceedings pending in the court of nisi p court of common pleas, and district court in Philadelphia shall be tried disposed of in the court of common pleas. The records and dockets of courts shall be transferred to' the prothonotary's office of said county.

SEC. 22. The causes and proceedings pending in the court of common p in the county of Allegheny shall be tried and disposed of in the court t ber one; and the causes and proceedings pending in the district court be tried and disposed of in the court number two.

SEC. 23. The prothonotary of the court of common pleas of Philadel shall be first appointed by the judges of said court on the first Mouds December in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and present prothonotary of the district court in said county shall be the prot otary of the said court of common pleas until said date when his commis sion shall expire, and the present clerk of the court of oyer and terminer quarter sessions of the peace in Philadelphia shall be the clerk of such **) until the expiration of his present commission on the first Monday of The cember, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

SEC. 24. In cities containing over fifty thousand inhabitants, except Pt delphia, all aldermen in office at the time of the adoption of this Constitu shall continue in office until the expiration of their commissions, and at fise election for city and ward officers in the year one thousand eight hundr and seventy-five one alderman shall be elected in each ward as provide this Constitution.

SEC. 25. In Philadelphia magistrates in lieu of aldermen shall be chec as required in this Constitution, at the election in said city for city and v. officers in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five; their NT of office shall commence on the first Monday of April succeeding their elet