...and this, it is alleged, offends against article 3, § 7, cl. 1, of the constitution, which declares that '. the general assembly shall not pass any local or special law authorizing the creation, extension, or impairing of liens;' also article 3, § 7, cl. 17, which declares...

...the Act of March 18, 1875, in contravention of that portion of the Constitution of Pennsylvania which provides that " The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special laws regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school-districts "...

...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,...

...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...

...3, on legislation. The prohibitions of that section, material here, are as follows: 'The legislature shall not pass any local or special law • * * regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs or school districts; * * * authorizing the laying out,...

...considering comes within the prohibition of the Constitution. The third section of the seventh article provides that " the general assembly shall not pass...local or special law . . . regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs or school districts." The act in question is one which...

...inconvenient, and were given a liberal construction in an important case. By that section it is provided that " The general assembly shall not pass any local or special law regulating the affairs of 1 Nav. Co. vs. Coons, 6 W. & S., 117. 2 Sharplesa vs. The Mayor, 21 Penn. St., 147; Weister vs. Hade,...

...the spirit— if not the Better — of the inhibition, contained In article 48 of the Constitution, that the General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law regulating labor, trade, etc. That question, however, was not presented In the demurrer; It was not passed upon...

...section, so far as applicable here, Is In these words: "Section 53. Special and local laws prohibited. 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...

...property shall not be taken or damaged for public use, without just compensation ; section 53 of article 4 provides that the General Assembly shall not pass any local or special laws regulating the practice or Jurisdiction by changing the rules of evidence in judicial proceedings,...