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...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'...

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...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...

...CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE 3. — Local or special lawi regulating labor, etc., not to be paused. SECTION 7. The general assembly shall not pass any local or special law » » • regulating labor, trade, mining or manufacturing * * * . BRIGHTLY'S PUKDON'S DIGEST, EDITION OF 1885. Courts of...

...null and void, in that — First, it violated that provision of the state constitution which declares that, " The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law creating corporations, or amending, renewing, extending or explaining the charter thereof." Second,...

...be taken for private use or without compensation, unless by consent of the owner ;" nor the clause that, "the General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law * * granting to any corporation or association or individual any special or exclusive right, privilege...