..."Article III., section 7, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania of 1874, among other things, declares that ' the General Assembly shall not pass any local...cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts . . . regulating the management of public schools, the building or repairing of school houses, and...

...act to be unconstitutional, on the ground that it was in conflict with section seven of Article III of the Constitution, which provides that the General...or special law regulating the affairs of counties, etc. — Frost v. Cforry, 46 Leg. Int. 47. A bill is pending in the present Legislature for the repeal...

...the law is so held in Pennsylvania; although article thirty, section seven, of the State Constitution provides that the " General Assembly shall not pass...any local or -special law regulating the affairs of cities, counties, or school districts, or any local or special » McAunich v. Miss. & Mo. RR Co., 20...

...65, is a local law and in conflict with Article 3, paragraph 7. of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, which provides: — That the General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law.' " In passing on this subject in Swartz vs. Carlisle Borough, 237 Pa. St., 473, on page 477, Mr. Justice...

...we hold that the 57th section comes within the constitutional prohibition of special legislation, " regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts." We see no difference in principle between this and the section of the Act of 1885 declared unconstitutional...

...there is anything now settled in the constitution it is that the legislature can no longer pass a valid local or special law regulating the affairs of counties,...cities, townships, wards, boroughs or school districts. And what the legislature may not do directly, it cannot accomplish by indirection, as by classification...

...Pennsylvania in some very recent decisions. The last const! tution of that State, adopted in 1884, provided that "the general assembly shall not pass any local or special law regulating the aft'airs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs or school districts." The first general assembly...

...legislation, without making such an act a local statute. Evans v. Phillipii H7 PS. 220. 30. If an act regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts, either produces or may produce local results, it is void under section 7, article III., of the constitution....

...brings us to plaintiffs' fourth ground of objection, which rests on Article 46, which is to the effect that : "The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law." • • li For the opening and conducting of elections or fixing or changing the place of voting.1'...

...violate 'he proCONSTITUTIONAL LAW— Continued. vision of the Constitution (Art. 4, sec. 53.) declaring that "the General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law for the opening and conducting of elections, or fixiig or changing the places of voting." Straughan...