the same, or with an understanding, expressed or implied, that his vote fficial action shall be in any way influenced thereby, or who shall solicit or and any such money or other advantage, matter or thing aforesaid for anr. as the consideration of his vote or official influence, or for withholding same, or shall give or withhold his vote or influence in consideration of the nent or promise of such money, advantage, matter or thing, to another, shall eld guilty of bribery within the meaning of this Constitution, and shall incur lisabilities provided thereby for said offense, and such additional punishment sor shall be provided by law.

SEC. 30. Any person who shall, directly or indirectly, offer, give or promise, money, or thing of value, testimonial, privilege, or personal advantage, to executive or judicial officer, or member of the General Assembly, to influhim in the performance of any of his public or official duties, shall be y of bribery, and be punished in such manner as shall be provided by law. SEC. 31. The offense of corrupt solicitation of members of the General mbly or of public officers of the State or of any municipal division thereof, any occupation or practice of solicitation of such members or officers to ence their official action, shall be defined by law, and shall be punished ne and imprisonment.

SEC. 32. Any person may be compelled to testify in any lawful investigaor judicial proceeding against any person who may be charged with having nitted the offense of bribery or corrupt solicitation, or practices of solicitaand shall not be permitted to withhold his testimony upon the ground that ay criminate himself or subject him to public infamy: but such testimony not afterwards be used against him in any judicial proceeding, except erjury in giving such testimony, and any person convicted of either of the ses aforesaid shall, as part of the punishment therefor, be disqualified from ng any office or position of honor, trust or profit in this Commonwealth. SEC. 33. A member who has a personal or private interest in any measure All proposed or pending before the General Assembly shall disclose the to the House of which he is a member, and shall not vote thereon.

ARTICLE IV.

THE EXECUTIVE.

SECTION 1. The Executive Department of this Commonwealth shall consist Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Attorney ral. Auditor General, State Treasurer. Secretary of Internal Affairs and a rintendent of Public Instruction.

SEC. 2. The supreme executive power shall be vested in the Governor, who take care that the laws be faithfully executed; he shall be chosen on the of the general election, by the qualified electors of the Commonwealth, at daces where they shall vote for Representatives. The returns of every elecfor Governor shall be sealed up and transmitted to the seat of government, ted to the President of the Senate, who shall open and publish them in the nce of the members of both Houses of the General Assembly. The person g the highest number of votes shall be Governor, but if two or more Jual and highest in votes, one of them shall be chosen Governor by the vote of the members of both Houses. Contested elections shall be deter1 by a committee, to be selected from both Houses of the General Assembly, formed and regulated in such manner as shall be directed by law. SEC. 3. The Governor shall hold his office during four years from the Tuesday of January next ensuing his election, and shall not be eligible e office for the next succeeding term.

SEC. 4. A Lieutenant Governor shall be chosen at the same time, in the manner, for the same term, and subject to the same provisions, as the rnor; he shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote unless be equally divided.

SEC. 5. No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor or Lieutenant rnor except a citizen of the United States, who shall have attained the of thirty years, and have been seven years next preceding his election an

inhabitant of the State, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States or of this State.

SEC. 6. No member of Congress or person holding any office under the United States or this State shall exercise the office of Governor or Lieutena Governor.

SEC. 7. The Governor shall be commander-in-chief of the army and niy of the Commonwealth, and of the militia, except when they shall be called it ́« the actual service of the United States.

SEC. 8. He shall nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of two thirds of all the members of the Senate, appoint a Secretary of the Comp wealth and an Attorney General during pleasure, a Superintendent of Pa Instruction for four years, and such other officers of the Commonwealth as he is or may be authorized by the Constitution or by law to appoint; he shall Lavə power to fill all vacancies that may happen: in offices to which he may app during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expe at the end of their next session; he shall have power to fill any vacancy 1h3 may happen, during the recess of the Senate, in the office of Auditor Gener! State Treasurer. Secretary of Internal Affairs or Superintendent of Pa Instruction, in a judicial office, or in any other elective office which he is may be authorized to fill; if the vacancy shall happen during the session the Senate, the Governor shall nominate to the Senate, before their final journment. a proper person to fill said vacancy; but in any such cas vacancy, in an elective office, a person shall be chosen to said office on the eg election day appropriate to such office according to the provisions of this C stitution, unless the vacancy shall happen within two calendar months iza diately preceding such election day, in which case the election for said shall be held on the second succeeding election day appropriate to such of In acting on executive nominations the Seuate shall sit with open doors. in confirming or rejecting the nominations of the Governor, the vote shal taken by yeas and nays and shall be entered on the journal.3

SEC. 9. He shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures, to grant prieves, commutations of sentence and pardons, except in cases of impeachne but no pardon shall be granted, nor senteuce › commuted, except upon the re mendation in writing of the Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the Com wealth, Attorney General and Secretary of Internal Affairs, or any thre them, after full hearing, upon due public notice and in open session, and recommendation, with the reasons therefor at length, shall be recorded and in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

SEC. 10. He may require information in writing from the officers of Executive Department, upon any subject relating to the duties of their res tive offices.

SEC. 11. He shall, from time to time, give to the General Assembly in mation of the state of the Commonwealth, and recommend to their considera such measures as he may judge expedient.

SEC. 12. He may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the Genera! sembly, and in case of disagreement between the two Houses with respect the time of adjournment, adjourn them to such time as he shall think pr-e not exceeding four months. He shall have power to convene the Senate in extr dinary session by proclamation for the transaction of executive business.

SEC. 13: In case of the death, conviction on impeachment, failure qualify, resignation, or other disability of the Governor, the powers, duties a emoluments of the office, for the remainder of the term, or until the dis be removed, shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor.

SEC. 14. In case of a vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Governor, or win the Lieutenant Governor shall be impeached by the House of Representatives, or shall be unable to exercise the duties of his office, the powers, duties emoluments thereof for the remainder of the term, or until the disability f

3 Amendment proposed and adopted by the legislature of 1907, re-adopted by 'he legislature of 1909, and ratified on Nov. 2. 1909. There is a conflict between 14 section and section 25 of Article V as to filling vacancies in courts of record.

moved, shall devolve upon the President pro tempore of the Senate; and → President pro tempore of the Senate shall in like manner become Governor a vacancy or disability shall occur in the office of Governor; his seat as nator shall become vacant whenever he shall become Governor, and shall be ed by election as any other vacancy in the Senate.

SEC. 15. Every bill which shall have passed both Houses shall be presented the Governor; if he approve he shall sign it, but if he shall not approve he ill return it with his objections to the House in which it shall have originated, ich House shall enter the objections at large upon their journal, and prod to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of all the mem's elected to that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent with the ections to the other House by which likewise it shall be reconsidered, and if roved by two-thirds of all the members elected to that House it shall be a ; but in such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas I nays, and the names of the members voting for and against the bill shall be ered on the journals of each House respectively. If any bill shall not be arned by the Governor within ten days after it shall have been presented to , the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the eral Assembly, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it ll be a law, unless he shall file the same with his objections, in the office of Secretary of the Commonwealth, and give notice thereof by public proclamawithin thirty days after such adjournment.

SEC. 16. The Governor shall have power to disapprove of any item or as of any bill, making appropriations of money, embracing distinct items, the part or parts of the bill approved shall be the law, and the item or as of appropriation disapproved shall be void, unless repassed according to rules and limitations prescribed for the passage of other bills over the cutive veto.

SEC. 17. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall preside upon trial my contested election of Governor or Lieutenant Governor and shall deride stions regarding the admissibility of evidence, and shall, upon request of the mittee, pronounce his opinion upon other questions of law involved in the The Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall exercise the duties of

r respective offices until their successors shall be duly qualified. SEC. 18. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall keep a record of all ial acts and proceedings of the Governor, and when required lay the same. 1 all papers, minutes and vouchers relating thereto, before either branch the General Assembly, and perform such other duties as may be enjoined n him by law.

SEC. 19. The Secretary of Internal Affairs shall exercise all the powers perform all the duties of the Surveyor General, subject to such changes hall be made by law. His department shall embrace a bureau of industrial istics, and he shall discharge such duties relating to corporations, to the ritable institutions, the agricultural, manufacturing, mining, mineral, timber other material or business interests of the State as may be prescribed by . He shall annually, and at such other times as may be required by law, e report to the General Assembly.

SEC. 20. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall exercise all the ers and perform all the duties of the Superintendent of Common Schools. ject to such changes as shall be made by law.

SEC: 21. The terms of the Secretary of Internal Affairs, the Auditor Genand the State Treasurer shall each be four years; and they shall be chosen he qualified electors of the State at general elections; but a State Treasurer, ted in the year one thousand nine hundred and nine, shall serve for three rs, and his successors shall be elected at the general election in the year one usand nine hundred and twelve, and in every fourth year thereafter. No son elected to the office of Auditor General or State Treasurer shall be able of holding the same office for two consecutive terms.4

Amendment proposed and adopted by the legislature of 1907, re-adopted by the alature of 1909, and ratified on Nov. 2, 1909.

SEC. 22. The present Great Seal of Pennsylvania shall be the seal of the State. All commissions shall be in the name and by authority of the Common "wealth of Pennsylvania, and be sealed with the State seal and signed by the Governor.

ARTICLE V.

THE JUDICIARY.

SECTION 1. The judicial power of this Commonwealth shall be vested it Supreme Court, in courts of common pleas, courts of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery, courts of quarter sessions of the peace, orphans' courts, magistrates' courts, and in such other courts as the General Assembly y from time to time establish.

SEC. 2. The Supreme Court shall consist of seven judges, who shall elected by the qualified electors of the State at large. They shall hold, their offices for the term of twenty-one years, if they so long behave themselves we but shall not be again eligible. The judge whose commission shall first expire shall be chief justice, and thereafter each judge whose commission shall fir expire shall in turn be chief justice.

SEC. 3. The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court shall extend over the State and the judges thereof shall, by virtue of their offices, be justices of oyer at terminer and general jail delivery in the several counties; they shall have or s inal jurisdiction in cases of injunction where a corporation is a party defend of habeas corpus, of mandamus to courts of inferior jurisdiction, and of warranto as to all officers of the Commonwealth whose jurisdiction exte over the State, but shall not exercise any other original jurisdiction: they s have appellate jurisdiction by appeal, certiorari or writ of error in all case as is now or may hereafter be provided by law.

SEC. 4. Until otherwise directed by law, the courts of common pleas si continue as at present established, except as herein changed; not more th four counties shall, at any time, be included in one judicial district organiz for said courts.

SEC. 5. Whenever a county shall contain forty thousand inhabitants shall constitute a separate judicial district. and shall elect one judge learned i the law; and the General Assembly shall provide for additional judges, as business of the said districts may require. Counties containing a populati less than is sufficient to constitute separate districts shall be formed into es venient single districts, or, if necessary, may be attached to contiguous tricts as the General Assembly may provide. The office of associate judge, 5/ learned in the law, is abolished in counties forming separate districts; the several associate judges in office when this Constitution shall be adopes shall serve for their unexpired terms.

SEC. 6. In the county of Philadelphia all the jurisdiction and powers vested in the district courts and courts of common pleas, subject to set changes as may be made by this Constitution or by law, shall be in Philadelpiz vested in five distinct and separate courts of equal and co-ordinate jurisi. tion, composed of three judges each. The said courts in Philadelphia shall designated respectively as the court of common pleas number one, number tw number three, number four, and number five, but the number of said cons may be by law increased, from time to time, and shall be in like manner desc nated by successive numbers. The number of judges in any of said courts ? in any county where the establishment of an additional court may be auther ized by law, may be increased, from time to time, and whenever such increas shall amount in the whole to three, such three judges shall compose a distin and separate court as aforesaid, which shall be numbered as aforesaid. I Philadelphia all suits shall be instituted in the said courts of common ples without designating the number of the said court, and the several courts she', distribute and apportion the business among them in such manner as sha'. provided by rules of court, and each court, to which any suit shall be thus -signed, shall have exclusive jurisdiction thereof, subject to change of venue, 29 shall be provided by law.

In the county of Allegheny all the jurisdiction and powers now vested in several numbered courts of common pleas shall be vested in one mit of common pleas. composed of all the judges in commission in said burts. Such jurisdiction and powers shall extend to all proceedings at law and equity which shall have been instituted in the several numbered courts, nd shall be subject to such changes as may be made by law, and subject to ange of venue as provided by law. The president judge of said court shall selected as provided by law. The number of judges in said court may be by w increased from time to time. This amendment shall take effect on the st day of January succeeding its adoption.5

SEC. 7. For Philadelphia there shall be one prothonotary's office, and one othonotary for all said courts, to be appointed by the judges of said courts, id to hold office for three years, subject to removal by a majority of the said dges; the said prothonotary shall appoint such assistants as may be necessary ad authorized by said courts; and he and his assistants shall receive fixed laries, to be determined by law and paid by said county; all fees collected in id office, except such as may be by law due to the Commonwealth, shall be id by the prothonotary into the county treasury. Each court shall have its parate dockets, except the judgment docket which shall contain the judg ents and liens of all the said courts, as is or may be directed by law.

SEC. 8. The said courts in the counties of Philadelphia and Allegheny, re ctively, shall, from time to time, in turn detail one or more of their judges hold the courts of oyer and terminer and the courts of quarter sessions of ? peace of said counties, in such manner as may be directed by law.

SEC. 9. Judges of the courts of common pleas learned in the law shall judges of the courts of oyer and terminer, quarter sessions of the peace and eral jail delivery, and of the orphans' court, and within their respective tricts shall be justices of the peace as to criminal matters.

SEC. 10. The judges of the courts of common pleas, within their respece counties, shall have power to issue writs of certiorari to justices of the ice and other inferior courts not of record, and to cause their proceedings to brought before them, and right and justice to be done.

SEC. 11. Except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, justices of the ice or aldermen shall be elected in the several wards, districts, boroughs or nships, by the qualified electors thereof, at the municipal election, in such nner as shall be directed by law, and shall be commissioned by the Governor a term of six years. No township, ward, district or borough shall elect re than two justices of the peace or aldermen without the consent of a maity of the qualified electors within such township, ward or borough; no son shall be elected to such office unless he shall have resided within the enship, borongh, ward or district for one year next preceding his election. In ies containing over fifty thousand inhabitants, not more than one alderman ill be elected in each ward or district.6

SEC. 12. In Philadelphia there shall be established, for each thirty thoud inhabitants, one court, not of record, of police and civil causes, with isdiction not exceeding one hundred dollars; such courts shall be held by gistrates whose term of office shall be six years, and they shall be elected general ticket at the municipal election, by the qualified voters at large: 1 in the election of the said magistrates no voter shall vote for more than o-thirds of the number of persons to be elected when more than one are to be sen; they shall be compensated only by fixed salaries, to be paid by said mty: and shall exercise such jurisdiction, civil and criminal, except as herein ovided, as is now exercised by aldermen, subject to such changes, not olving an increase of civil jurisdiction or conferring political duties, as may made by law. In Philadelphia the office of alderman is abolished.7

Amendment proposed and adopted by the legislature of 1909, re-adopted by the islature of 1911, and ratified on Nov. 7, 1911.

Amendment proposed and adopted by the legislature of 1907, re-adopted by the islature of 1909, and ratified on Nov. 2, 1909.

7 Amendment proposed and adopted by the legislature of 1907, re-adopted by the islature of 1909, and ratified on Nov. 2, 1909.