Trustees of Mothers' Assistance Fund Mrs. Eveline S. Gundy, Mrs. Calvin M. Hayes, Miss Annie B. Moore, Mrs. Olive S. Rooke, Mrs. John P. Ruhl, Miss Mary E. Butler, Miss Jessie C. Herr. Trustees of Mothers' Assistance Fund. -Mrs. Thomas Nesbit, Mrs. Jesse H. Wilson, Mrs. W. Raymond Cross, Mrs. Julia E. Diem, Mrs. Mary R. Dickey, Mrs. Ruth R. Philip, Mrs. Edith H. Corrin. Trustees of Mothers' Assistance Fund -Mrs. Emma D. Chrisman, Mrs. Lizzie E. Hawkey, Mrs. Daisy P. Wood, Mrs. Gertrude Cumming, Mrs. Anna Henderson, Mrs. Gertrude F. Greenlund, Mrs. Lelia Messenger. Trustees of Mothers' Assistance Fund -Mrs. Frank Fish, Mrs. Homer H. Grace, Miss Sue Jewett Johns, Mrs. Theodore M. Byers, Mrs. John C. Judson, Mrs. Carey A. Sprowls, Mrs. Hannah Work Black. Trustees of Mothers' Assistance Fund 1-Mrs. Isabel C. Donnelly, Mrs. D. H. Stoner, Mrs. John S. Duvall, Mrs. Harry Dovard, Mrs. Carrie O. Daum, Mrs. Sarah M. McConnell, Mrs. Minnette K. Barrett. R. 1928 1,500 Henry W. Rhody, D. 1928 1,500 182 1928 1,200 Trustees of Mothers' Assistance Fund 1-Mrs. J. Schall Smith, Mrs. H. S. Weidner, Mrs. Gertrude D. Hogue, Mrs. Salome Baker Stauffer, Mrs. Marían W. Ross Showalter, Miss Rose Blaine Gillespie, Mrs. Josephine N. McClellan. ACT CLASSIFYING THE CITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA1 AN ACT Dividing the cities of this State into three classes with respect to their population, and designating the mode of ascertaining and changing the classification thereof in accordance therewith. any city of the second or third class has attained a population entitling it to an advance in classification as herein prescribed, it shall be the duty of the Governor, under the great seal of this Commonwealth, to certify the fact accordingly, which certificate shall be entered at large upon the minutes of the councils of such city, and recorded in the office for recording Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That for the the deeds of the proper county. At the munipurpose of legislation, regulating their municipal election occurring not less than one month cipal affairs, the exercise of certain corporate powers and having respect to the number, character, powers and duties of certain officers thereof, the cities now in existence and those hereafter created in this Commonwealth shall be divided into three classes: Those containing a population of one million or over shall constitute the first class. Those containing a population of one hundred and twenty-five thousand and under one million, shall constitute the second class. Those containing a population under one hundred and twenty-five thousand, shall constitute the third class. Section 2. The classification of said cities respectively shall be ascertained and fixed by reference to their population according to the last preceding United States census, and whenever it shall appear by any such census that 1 By the Acts of May 28, 1907, P. L. 268, and May 13, 1915, P. L. 306, cities of the third class shall be chartered whenever a majority of the electors of any town, township, or borough, or any two or more contiguous towns, townships, or boroughs, situate within the limits of the same county or situate in two or more contiguous counties, and having together a population of at least ten thousand, according to the last preceding United States census, shall each separately vote at any election in favor of the same; and by the Act of July 22, 1919, P. L. 1113, a method is provided whereby cities of the third class may surrender their charters and become boroughs. after the date of such certificate, the proper officers shall be elected to which the said city will become entitled under the change in classification, and upon the first Monday of April? next ensuing, the terms of all officers of said city then in office whose officers are superseded by reason thereof shall cease and determine, and the city government shall be duly organized, and shall thereafter be controlled and regulated by the laws of this Commonwealth applicable to the same under the classification hereby fixed and appointed. (Act of June 25, 1895, P. L. 275; as amended by Act of May 24, 1921, P. L. 1064.) CITIES CLASSIFIED. FIRST CLASS CITY: Philadelphia. ton. THIRD CLASS CITIES: Allentown, Altoona, Bethlehem, Bradford, Butler, Carbondale, Chester, Clairton, Coatesville, Connellsville, Corry, DuBois, Duquesne, Easton, Erie, Franklin, Harrisburg, Hazleton, Johnstown, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lock Haven, McKeesport, Meadville, Monessen, Monongahela, New Castle, Oil City, Pittston, Pottsville, Reading, Sharon, Sunbury, Titusville, Uniontown, Washington, Wilkes-Barre, Williamsport, York. 2 By the Act approved March 2, 1911, P. L. 9, the terms of all city officers begin on the first Monday of January in even-numbered years succeeding their election. FIRST CLASS TOWNSHIPS OF STATE (By the Art of July 14, 1917, the townships of Pennsylvania having a population of three hundred or more to the square mile are made townships of the first class, all other townships being classified as townships of the second class). The following is the list of Townships of the First Class to January 1, 1926. ALLEGHENY COUNTY: Baldwin, Braddock, Collier, Crescent, East Deer, Elizabeth, Harrison, Jefferson, Leet. Mifflin, Mt. Lebanon, Neville, North Versailles, O'Hara, Penn, Reserve, Ross, Scott, Shaler, South Fayette, South Versailles, Springdale, Stowe, Union, Wilkins. BEAVER COUNTY: Borough, Patterson. CAMBRIA COUNTY: Stony Creek. DAUPHIN COUNTY: Swatara. |
