Smull's Legislative Hand Book and Manual of the State of Pennsylvania

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Contents

Taxation of corporations
105
Form of application for charter of corporations under act of 1874
113
Legislation prohibited by the Constitution
116
Incompatible offices
123
Congressional districts 1873
125
Senatorial districts 1874
129
Representative districts
135
Judicial districts 1874
144
Domestic postages
145
Distributing post offices in the United States
147
Money order post offices in Pennsylvania
148
Post offices of Pennsylvania
151
Aggregate population of the United States by States and Territories
173
Aggregate population of Pennsylvania
174
White and colored population of Pennsylvania
176
Population and area of the several counties of Pennsylvania
179
Population of Philadelphia in 1870 by wards
180
Population of the principal cities and towns of the State
181
Number of taxable inhabitants in the several counties of the State
182
Time of meeting of Assembly
189
Presidents of the United States
190
Vice Presidents of the United States
191
The electoral vote of Pennsylvania for President and Vice President since 1789
192
Pennsylvania
195
Speakers of the House of Representatives of the United States from 1789 to 1877
198
Members of the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania 17741787
201
Proprietary Government 16811776
204
Presidents of the State in the Revolution 17771790
205
Lieutenant Governor under the Constitution of 1873
206
Popular votes of candidates for Governor since 1790
207
Secretaries of the Commonwealth
209
Auditors General of the Commonwealth
210
Land Department under the Province
211
State Treasurers of Pennsylvania
214
Attorneys General of Pennsylvania
215
Adjutants General
216
Former Speakers of the Senate of Pennsylvania
217
Former Speakers of the House of Representatives of Penn sylvania
218
Electoral College of Pennsylvania
219
Officers of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society for 1877
220
Trustees of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania for the year 1877
221
Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
222
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
224
Organization of counties
227
Public debt
245
Monthly receipts and expenditures for 1875
246
Educational growth in the past ten years
247
County tabular statement for the school year ending June 1 1876
248
County city and borough superintendents
251
Orphan school statistics
254
County officers of the State for 1877
255
Official vote for Governor 1872 and 1875 by counties
271
Vote for Governor in Philadelphia by wards 1875
273
Vote for Lieutenant Governor Auditor General and Sec retary of Internal Affairs by counties 1874
274
Vote for State Treasurer 1873 and 1875
277
Official vote of Pennsylvania November 7 1876 by coun ties for President of the United States
279
Vote for members of Congress 1876 by counties and Con gressional districts
281
Vote for Senators 1876 by counties and Senatorial dis tricts
287
Vote for members of the House of Representatives 1876
295
Returns of election in Pennsylvania for President Nov 7 1876 by wards boroughs and townships
306
Population of Philadelphia city and county since the foundation estimated and returned
370
Length of the sessions of the Legislature for the past one hundred years
371
Rules and regulations for the government of the Library adopted by the Joint Library Committees
374
Pennsylvania
378
Rules of the Senate of Pennsylvania
381
Decisions of the Senate
406
Decisions of the House
427
Chapter on Legislative Practice
456
Names of members of Congress from Pennsylvania since 1789 and their term of service
478
United States legations abroad
483
United States Government 1877
486
Members of the Fortyfifth Congress
487
Senators and Representatives from Pennsylvania in For tyfourth and Fortyfifth Congresses
494
Electoral Commission
495
Governmental and legislative directory
496
Members of the Senate of Pennsylvania
504
Directory of the Senate 18778
506
Officers of the Senate
508
Senate standing committees 1877
509
Members of the House of Representatives 18778
512
Directory of the House of Representatives
516
Officers of the House of Representatives
523
Standing committees of the House of Representatives 18778
524
Reporters and correspondents
531
Hotels and boarding houses
532
Analytical index to Constitution of 1873
533
Index to rules of Senate and House of Representatives
561
General index
571

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Page 30 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 54 - ... in case of disagreement between the two houses with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper not beyond the day of the next annual meeting of the general assembly.
Page 86 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the Senate or House of Representatives ; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two Houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals, with the yeas...
Page 1 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 73 - All taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of subjects within the territorial limits, of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws...
Page 34 - All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Page 13 - To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of congress, become the seat of government of the United States ; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings; and 18.
Page 33 - That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness.
Page 46 - Assembly and its committees, shall be performed under contract to be given to the lowest responsible bidder below such maximum price and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by law...
Page 35 - ... deprived of his life, liberty, or property, unless by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.

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