...shall not pass any local or special law — Authorizing the creation, extension, or impairing of liens; regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts; changing the names of persons or places; changing the venue in civil or criminal cases; authorizing...

...shall not pass any local or special law — Authorizing the creation, extension, or impairing of liens; regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts; changing the names of persons or places; changing the venue in civil or criminal cases; authorizing...

...cities of the first class only, it was a local or special law within the meaning of ARTICLR III., \ 1 of the Constitution, which provides that "the General...local or special law . . . regulating the affairs of ... cities." III. That the Act of 23d May lf-74, made no provision for submitting the question of any...

...by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land." Section 7, Article III., declares as follows: "The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law .... regulating labor, trade, mining or manufacturing." Class legislation is not necessarily special legislation within...

...amendment is to harmonize the section with the provision in the seventh section of the third article, that the General -Assembly shall not pass any local or special law " creating corporations, or amending, renewing or extending the charters thereof." According to the...

...learning. CONSTITUTION OF PENNSYLVANIA, AS AMENDED IN 1873.* Article III. — Legislation. SECTION 7. The general assembly shall not pass any local or special...of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school-districts, * * * erecting new townships or boroughs, changing township-lines, borough-limits,...

...legislation. The third section of Article III. plainly refers to future legislative Acts, where it provides that the General Assembly shall not pass any local or special Act on the subject of venue. Therefore if these Acts are repealed, it must be by the twenty-third section...

...Slate. This view is in entire accord with Section 7, Article III., of the Constitution, which declares that: The General Assembly shall not pass any local...or special law regulating the affairs of counties and cities, and prescribing the powers and duties of officers therein. If the view so earnestly pressed,...

...prospective character of these constitutional provisions will be very apparent: Article III., section 7. "The general assembly .shall not pass any local or special law . . . regulating the practice or jurisdiction of, or changing the rules of evidence in any judicial proceeding or inquiry...

...of the term. (Webster vs. County Commissioners, etc., 29 Md. 516. The Constitution of Pennsylvania provides that: "The General Assembly shall not pass...cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts; * * * nor slum they indirectly enact such special or local laws by the partial repeal of a general...