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LAWS

OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA.

PASSED AT THE

SESSION OF 1889,

IN THE

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH YEAR OF INDEPENDENCE,

TOGETHER WITH

A proclamation by the Governor, declaring that he has filed certain Bills in the office
of the Secretary of the Commonwealth with his objections thereto, and a List

of Charters of Corporations organized under the "Corporation

Act of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four,"

and the Supplements thereto.

BY AUTHORITY.

HARRISBURG:

EDWIN K. MEYERS, STATE PRINTER.

1889.

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LAWS

OF THE

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

No. 1.

AN ACT

To provide for the commencement of the terms of office of councilmen, constables and school directors in new wards, when erected in cities of the first class under existing laws and where the several wards constitute separate school districts, to provide for the supervision of the public schools in such new wards until the organization of the board of school directors of the new. school section, and to provide for the term of councilmen and constables already elected by the voters of the old ward.

held.

elected.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That whenever any new ward is erected or created in any city of the first class within this Commonwealth, the qualified electors of such ward at the next general or municipal election when election to be occurring not less than forty days after the decree of the proper court having jurisdiction, declaring the election or creation of such new ward in conformity to law, shall elect one person to serve as a member of select council, such a number of members of common council as the ward is entitled to, according to the list. of taxable inhabitants, such a number of constables as what officers to be is directed by law, and a full board of directors of public schools, together with such a number as they are annually entitled to elect for full terms. On the second Monday after the election of such officers, the members of councils shall be admitted to their seats and the con- Commencement of stables shall, if they have filed their bonds, enter upon the execution of the duties of their offices, and that all councilmen and constables residing in said new ward or wards, who were elected by the qualified electors of the old ward, shall serve out the respective terms for which they were elected as members from the old ward and if any election should occur for councils or constables previous to the expiration of their respective

terms of office.

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