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5. Legislation : Charitable appropriations. 



6. Municiiial bond issues: Recommendations, department of 

 internal affairs, bureau of municipalities. 



7. State budget system : Constitutional provisions In Massa- 

 chusetts. 



S. State budget system : Kecommendations of New Tork State 

 Reconstruction Commission. 



0. Courts: Reorganization recommended by American Ju- 

 diciary Society. 



10. Budget system : Recommendations of New York 1916 

 convention. 



11. Courts : Organization of the intermediary appellate 

 courts of New York State. 



12. Courts : Organization and operation of court of common 

 pleas of Allegheny County. 



13. Charitable institutions : Appropriations to. 



14. Courts : Regulation of procedure. 



15. Suffrage : Restrictions as to newly naturalized jpersons. 



16. Charitable appropriations: Amount of, to, and services 

 rendered by, institutions not controlled by State. 



17. State duties imposed on local executive officers. 

 IS. Local government : Constitutional restrictions. 



19. Charitable appropriations : Rates and amounts of 1919 

 appropriations. 



20. Local government : Constitutional home rule provisions 

 of other States. 



21. Local government : Discussions of constitutional provi- 

 sions affecting municipalities' "Home Rule." 



22. Executive : Present organization and changes in the in- 

 terest of efficiency. 



23. Municipalities : Contracts with public utilities ; police 

 power of state. 



24. Local government: Borrowing powers of coextensive 

 municipalities. 



25. County officers' compensation for collecting State taxes. 

 2C. Courts : Protection of legal rights of poor. 



27. Municipalities : Improvement ; excess condemnation ; 

 assessment of benefits. 



28. Proportional representation. 



29. Constitution : Method of changing. 



30. Mandamus evil in Philadelphia. 



31. Civil service reform. 



32. Schools: Support of. 



33. Initiative and referendum. 



34. Education, higher: Provision for in State. 



35. Education: State's ability to greatly increase appropria- 

 tions. 



36. Brief of Kenneth L. M. Pray, secretary of Public Charities 

 Association of Pennsylvania : on State aid to private social 

 agencies. 



37. Education : Distribution of State appropriations. 



38. Housing problem: Constitutional changes necessary to 

 solve. 



39. Courts : Justice of the peace : Arguments of R. H. Smith 

 and J. C. Jones at public hearings. 



40. Local and special legislation. 



41. Reasons in support submitted by proponents : Amend- 

 ments on calendar of May 11, 1920: Articles 1, 2, 3 and 4. 



42. Judges : Appointing vs. election system. 



43. Amendments of preliminary draft: Suggestions by Law 

 Association of Philadelphia. 



44. Amendments on calendar of May 11, 1920. Article 5. 

 Reasons in support submitted by proponents. 



45. Amendments on calendar of May 11, 1920, articles 6, 8, 

 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, J8-a : Reasons in support submitted by pro- 

 ponents. 



46. Education : Sufficiency of facilities provided in this State : 

 Enforcement of compulsory education laws. 



47. Initiative and referendum: Types of constitutional pro- 

 visions. 



48. Eminent domain : Provision for compensation under 

 fourteenth amendment of the Federal Constitution and article 

 1, section 10 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania. 



49. Charitable appropriation: Letter of Hon. William Flinn. 



50. Resolution in re appointment of committee on style. 



New York: State ConMtuUonal Convention Committee, 1938: 



1. New York State Constitution annotated. 



2. Amendments proposed to New York Constitution, 1895- 

 1937. 



3. Constitutions of the States and United States. 



4. State and local government in New York. 



5. New York City government : Functions and problems. 



6. Problems relating to bill of rights and general welfare. 



7. Problems relating to legislative organization and powers. 



8. Problems relating to executive administration and powers. 



9. Problems relating to judicial administration and organi- 

 zation. 



10. Problems relating to taxation and finance. 



11. Problems relating to home rule and local gcjvernment. 



12. General index. 



II. LEGISLATIVE RECORDS 



The records of legislative action constitute source 

 material for the student of history, politics, and eco- 

 nomics second only in importance to that recording the 

 proceedings and action by constitutional conventions. 

 Our legislative bodies are thus under an especial obli- 

 gation to research students of taking that action that 

 will ensure that an accurate record of their jjroceed- 

 ings is kept and that such records will be given due 

 publication. These records embrace not only a mere 

 statement of action taken but all documents made use 

 of by the legislators in the performance of their duties. 

 As regards the national government, there is prob- 

 ably no other government in the world that has done as 

 much in the way of giving publicity to its proceedings 



and publishing the material prepared in connection 

 with the performance of its duties. The work of the 

 State legislatures in this way has been, and is, on a 

 much less extensive scale, the deterring element here 

 being primarily the cost involved. 



Journals 



The Federal Constitution (art. I, sec. 5) provides 

 that "each House shall keep a journal of its proceed- 

 ings and from time to time publish the same, except- 

 ing such parts as may, in their judgment, require 

 secrecy." In compliance with this provision, both 

 Houses have kept and published a journal of their pro- 

 ceedings since the beginning of the Government. Due 



