...section of the third article of the constitution, which prohibits the General Assembly from passing any local or special law regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school-districts. The opinion of the Court was delivered Oct. 4,1886. The circumstance that the power...

...so accepted shall be the law of such district' "Section 7 of article 3 of the Constitution provides, 'The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law • • • regulating the affairs of couutics, cities, townships, wards, boroughs or school districts.' The city of Harrisburg is a city...

...remedy the evil it was ordained in section 7, article 1 8 of the Constitution, among other things, that the " General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law * * * regulating the practice or jurisdiction of. or changing Ibe rules of evidence in any judicial proceeding or inquiry...

...are contrary to that portion of section seven of article third of the Constitution of Pennsylvania which provides that "the General Assembly shall not pass any local or special jaw * * * regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school-districts,"...

...Immunity from suit, except as a result of general acts of assembly. Article 3, § 7, says, Inter alia: "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." Inasmuch...

...it is said that the act is unconstitutional, in that it is in conflict with section 30, article 3, of the constitution, which provides that the general assembly shall not pass local or special laws in certain cases ; and it is insisted that the act in question is a local law,...

...of the Constitution of 1874, and that instrument does not interfere with the system, it does declare that the General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law providing or changing methods for the collection of debts or the enforcing of judgments, and any special...

...contains a schedule of nearly 50 prolific subjects -of previous special and local legislation, and ordains that "the general assembly shall not pass any local or special law" relating to either of them. As an additional safeguard, in cases where special legislation is not expressly...

...not a general law applicable to the whole tate. The Constitution provides, in Article III, section 7, that "the General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law authorizing the creation, extension or impairing of liens; regulating the affairs of counties, cities,...

...instance would be to declare the violation of such mandate unconstitutional. Section 19 of article II provides that the General Assembly shall not pass any local or special laws relating to fences, the straying of live stock, ditches, and numerous other subjects, all ordinarily...