Amendment Six-To Article VIII, Section 3.

268 Section 7. Amend Section 3 of Article VIII, so as to read as follows:-All judges elected by the electors of the state at large may be elected at either a general or municipal election, as circumstances may require. All elections for judges of the courts for the several judicial districts, and for county, city, ward, borough and township officers for regular terms of service, shall be held on the municipal election day; namely, the Tuesday next following the first Monday of November in each odd-numbered year, but the General Assembly may by law fix a different day, two-thirds of all the members of each house consenting thereto. Provided, That such election shall always be held in the odd-numbered year.

Amendment Eight-To Article XII, Section 1.

269 Section 9. Amend Section 1, Article XII, so as to read as follows:-All officers, whose selection is not provided for in this constitution, shall be elected or appointed as may be directed by law. Provided, That elections of state officers shall be held on a general election day, and elections of local officers shall be held on a municipal election day, except when, in either case, special elections may be required to fill unexpired terms.

Amendment Nine-To Article XIV, Section 2.

270 Section 10. Amend Section 2 of Article XIV, so as to read as follows:-County officers shall be elected at the municipal elections and shall hold their offices for a term of four years, beginning on the first Monday of January next after their election, and until their successors shall be duly qualified; all vacancies not otherwise provided for shall be filled in such manner as may be provided by law.

Amendment Ten-To Article XIV, Section 7.

271 Section 11. Amend Section 7, Article XIV, so as to

read as follows:-Three county commissioners and three county auditors shall be elected in each county where such. officers are chosen, in the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven and every fourth year thereafter; and in the election of said officers each qualified elector shall vote for no more than two persons, and the three persons having the highest number of votes shall be elected; any casual vacancy in the office of county commissioner or county auditor shall be filled by the court of common pleas of the county in which such vacancy shall occur, by the appointment of an elector of the proper county who shall have voted for the commissioner or auditor whose place is to be filled.

Schedule for the Amendments.

272 Section 12. That no inconvenience may arise from the changes in the constitution of the commonwealth, and in order to carry the same into complete operation, it is hereby declared that:-In the case of officers elected by the people, all terms of office fixed by act of Assembly at an odd number of years shall each be lengthened one year, but the Legislature may change the length of the term, provided the terms for which such officers are elected shall always be for an even number of years.

273 The above extension of official terms shall not affect officers elected at the general election of one thousand nine hundred and eight; nor any city, ward, borough, township or election division officers whose terms of office, under existing laws, end in the year one thousand nine hundred and ten.

274 In the year one thousand nine hundred and ten the municipal election shall be held on the third Tuesday of February, as heretofore; but all officers chosen at that election to an office the regular term of which is two years, and also all election officers and assessors chosen at that election, shall serve until the first Monday of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven. All officers chosen at that election to offices the term of which is now four years, or is made four years by the operation of these amendments

or this schedule, shall serve until the first Monday of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirteen. All justices of the peace, magistrates and aldermen, chosen at that election, shall serve until the first Monday of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifteen. After the year nineteen hundred and ten, and until the Legislature shall otherwise provide, all terms of city, ward, borough, township and election division officers shall begin on the first Monday of December in an odd-numbered year.

275 All city, ward, borough and township officers holding office at the date of approval of these amendments, whose term of office may end in the year 1911 shall continue to hold their offices until the first Monday of December of that year.

276 All judges of the courts for the several judicial districts, and also all county officers, holding office at the date of the approval of these amendments, whose terms of office may end in the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven, shall continue to hold their offices until the first Monday of January, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

Street Railways-Acts of 1909. See paragraphs 298-301.

277 Act of 1909, 458.-Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., that street passenger railway companies and railroad companies, heretofore and hereafter incorporated, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to connect their tracks and to interchange their cars, whether passenger or freight, and the continuous movement thereof between and over said tracks: Provided, That the consent of the local authorities of the several cities, boroughs, and townships, through or within which any street passenger railway and any railroad company may desire to exercise the said rights and privileges, or any of them, conferred by this act, shall be first obtained: And provided further, That such consent shall be revocable, at the discretion of the said local authorities, after any term of ten years, from time to time, on conditions as the then local authorities may impose: And provided further, That the motive power used for the hauling of the cars of any railroad company shall be

the same motive power as that in general use by the street railway company, in the hauling of its own cars over the same tracks: And provided further, That such consent and authority may be revoked by said local authorities after a period of ten years from the time of commencement of operations thereunder.

278 Act of 1909, 457.-Section 1. Be it encated &c., That the right and privilege to transport and carry all kinds of freight and property upon, along, and over all street railways, and to charge and collect a reasonable compensation therefor, is hereby extended to and conferred upon all street railway companies, including every kind of street railway, suburban street railway, or interurban street railway, whether their lines of railway are to be and are maintained either at the surface or above or below the surface of the earth: Provided, That the consent of the local authorities of the several cities, boroughs, and townships, through or within which any street railway company, lessees or operators thereof, may desire to exercise the rights and privileges, or any of them, conferred by this act, shall be first obtained: And provided further, That said consent and authority may be revoked by said local authorities after a period of ten years from the time of commencement of operations thereunder: And provided further, That such consent shall be revocable, at the discretion of the said local authorities, after any term. of ten years, and may be extended for similar terms, from time to time, on conditions as the then local authorities may impose.

Bonds and Indebtedness-Acts of 1909.

(For prior legislation see paragraphs 152 to 184).

279 Act of 1909, P. L. 135.-Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That section five of an act, entitled "An act providing for the acquiring of water plants or systems by municipalities, from corporations, firms, or individuals, and the manner of ascertaining and arriving at the value of the same, out of the revenues of said plants," approved the thirty-first day

of May, Anno Domini nineteen hundred and seven, be amended to read as follows:

280 Section 5. For the purpose of said purchase the municipality may issue bonds, which shall be secured solely by such water-works, systems, and property, and the revenues thereof, and without other liability whatever of said municipality thereon, to an amount not exceeding the appraisement of the value fixed by said appraisers of the court. The proceeds of the sale of such bonds shall be used exclusively for the purpose of making payment for the property so acquired. 281 Section 2. That section six of said act, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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282 Section 6. The municipality shall provide adequate sinking fund for the receipts and revenues derived from said water works or systems, for the payment of the interest on such bonds and for redemption. The bonds shall be payable within thirty years from the date of their issue, and shall be redeemed at such earlier period as the municipality may by ordinance provide, and shall bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the municipality, not exceeding six per centum per annum. The bonds shall be exempt from taxation for any purpose.

283 Act of 1909, P. L. 317.-Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That section one of the said act of June ninth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, which amended act of April 20th, 1874, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:-The indebtedness of any county, city, borough, township, school district, or other municipality or incorporated district, in this Commonwealth, may be authorized to be increased to an amount not exceeding seven per centum, upon the last preceding assessed valuation of the taxable property therein, with the assent of the electors thereof, duly obtained at a public election to be held in the said district or municipality. Whenever the corporate authorities of any county, city, borough, township, school, or other municipality or incorporated district, by their ordinance or vote shall have signified a desire to make such increase of