PENNSYLVANIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I
SCHEDULE NO. 1 (ADOPTED WITH THE CONSTITUTION)

SCH. I §0 | SCHEDULE I INTRODUCTION

Adoption.

The provisions of Schedule No.1 were adopted December 16, 1873, 1874 P.L.3, effective January 1, 1874.

Partial Repeal of Schedule.

See section 2 of Proposal No.7 of 1968 in the appendix to the Constitution for provisions relating to the partial repeal of Schedule No.1. That no inconvenience may arise from the changes in the Constitution of the Commonwealth, and in order to carry the same into complete operation, it is hereby declared, that:

SCH. I §1 | WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT

This Constitution shall take effect on the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, for all purposes not otherwise provided for therein.

SCH. I §2 | FORMER LAWS REMAIN IN FORCE

All laws in force in this Commonwealth at the time of the adoption of this Constitution not inconsistent therewith, and all rights, actions, prosecutions and contracts shall continue as if this Constitution had not been adopted.

SCH. I §3 | ELECTION OF SENATORS

At the general election in the years one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four and one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, Senators shall be elected in all districts where there shall be vacancies. Those elected in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four shall serve for two years, and those elected in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five shall serve for one year. Senators now elected and those whose terms are unexpired shall represent the districts in which they reside until the end of the terms for which they were elected.

SCH. I §4 | ELECTION OF SENATORS (CONTINUED)

At the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, Senators shall be elected from even-numbered districts to serve for two years, and from odd-numbered districts to serve for four years.

SCH. I §5 | ELECTION OF GOVERNOR

The first election of Governor under this Constitution shall be at the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, when a Governor shall be elected for three years; and the term of the Governor elected in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight and of those thereafter elected shall be for four years, according to the provisions of this Constitution.

SCH. I §6 | ELECTION OF LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

At the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, a Lieutenant Governor shall be elected according to the provisions of this Constitution.

SCH. I §7 | SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS

The Secretary of Internal Affairs shall be elected at the first general election after the adoption of this Constitution; and, when the said officer shall be duly elected and qualified, the office of Surveyor General shall be abolished. The Surveyor General in office at the time of the adoption of this Constitution shall continue in office until the expiration of the term for which he was elected.

SCH. I §8 | SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

When the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be duly qualified the office of Superintendent of Common Schools shall cease.

SCH. I §9 | ELIGIBILITY OF PRESENT OFFICERS

Nothing contained in this Constitution shall be construed to render any person now holding any State office for a first official term ineligible for re-election at the end of such term.

SCH. I §10 | JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT

The judges of the Supreme Court in office when this Constitution shall take effect shall continue until their commissions severally expire. Two judges in addition to the number now composing the said court shall be elected at the first general election after the adoption of this Constitution.

SCH. I §11 | COURTS OF RECORD

All courts of record and all existing courts which are not specified in this Constitution shall continue in existence until the first day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, without abridgment of their present jurisdiction, but no longer. The court of first criminal jurisdiction for the counties of Schuylkill, Lebanon and Dauphin is hereby abolished, and all causes and proceedings pending therein in the county of Schuylkill shall be tried and disposed of in the courts of oyer and terminer and quarter sessions of the peace of said county.

SCH. I §12 | REGISTER’S COURTS ABOLISHED

The register's courts now in existence shall be abolished on the first day of January next succeeding the adoption of this Constitution.

SCH. I §13 | JUDICIAL DISTRICTS

The General Assembly shall, at the next session after the adoption of this Constitution, designate the several judicial districts as required by this Constitution. The judges in commission when such designation shall be made shall continue during their unexpired terms judges of the new districts in which they reside; but, when there shall be two judges residing in the same district, the president judge shall elect to which district he shall be assigned, and the additional law judge shall be assigned to the other district.

SCH. I §14 | DECENNIAL ADJUSTMENT OF JUDICIAL DISTRICTS

The General Assembly shall, at the next succeeding session after each decennial census and not oftener, designate the several judicial districts as required by this Constitution.

SCH. I §15 | JUDGES IN COMMISSION

Judges learned in the law of any court of record holding commissions in force at the adoption of this Constitution shall hold their respective offices until the expiration of the terms for which they were commissioned, and until their successors shall be duly qualified. The Governor shall commission the president judge of the court of first criminal jurisdiction for the counties of Schuylkill, Lebanon and Dauphin as a judge of the court of common pleas of Schuylkill county, for the unexpired term of his office.

SCH. I §16 | PRESIDENT JUDGES; CASTING LOTS; ASSOCIATE JUDGES

After the expiration of the term of any president judge of any court of common pleas, in commission at the adoption of this Constitution, the judge of such court learned in the law and oldest in commission shall be the president judge thereof; and when two or more judges are elected at the same time in any judicial district they shall decide by lot which shall be president judge; but when the president judge of a court shall be re-elected he shall continue to be president judge of that court. Associate judges not learned in the law, elected after the adoption of this Constitution, shall be commissioned to hold their offices for the term of five years from the first day of January next after their election.

SCH. I §17 | COMPENSATION OF JUDGES

The General Assembly, at the first session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall fix and determine the compensation of the judges of the Supreme Court and of the judges of the several judicial districts of the Commonwealth; and the provisions of the fifteenth section of the article on Legislation shall not be deemed inconsistent herewith. Nothing contained in this Constitution shall be held to reduce the compensation now paid to any law judge of this Commonwealth now in commission.

SCH. I §18 | COURTS OF PHILADELPHIA AND ALLEGHENY COUNTIES; ORGANIZATION IN PHILADELPHIA

The courts of common pleas in the counties of Philadelphia and Allegheny shall be composed of the present judges of the district court and court of common pleas of said counties until their offices shall severally end, and of such other judges as may from time to time be selected. For the purpose of first organization in Philadelphia the judges of the court number one shall be Judges Allison, Pierce and Paxson; of the court number two, Judges Hare, Mitchell and one other judge to be elected; of the court number three, Judges Ludlow, Finletter and Lynd; and of the court number four, Judges Thayer, Briggs and one other judge to be elected. The judge first named shall be the president judge of said courts respectively, and thereafter the president judge shall be the judge oldest in commission; but any president judge, re-elected in the same court or district, shall continue to be president judge thereof. The additional judges for courts numbers two and four shall be voted for and elected at the first general election after the adoption of this Constitution, in the same manner as the two additional judges of the Supreme Court, and they shall decide by lot to which court they shall belong. Their term of office shall commence on the first Monday of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

SCH. I §19 | ORGANIZATION OF COURTS IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY

In the county of Allegheny, for the purpose of first organization under this Constitution, the judges of the court of common pleas, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be the judges of the court number one, and the judges of the district court, at the same date, shall be the judges of the common pleas number two. The president judges of the common pleas and district court shall be president judge of said courts number one and two, respectively, until their offices shall end; and thereafter the judge oldest in commission shall be president judge; but any president judge re-elected in the same court, or district, shall continue to be president judge thereof.

SCH. I §20 | WHEN RE-ORGANIZATION OF COURTS TO TAKE EFFECT

The organization of the courts of common pleas under this Constitution for the counties of Philadelphia and Allegheny shall take effect on the first Monday of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and existing courts in said counties shall continue with their present powers and jurisdiction until that date, but no new suits shall be instituted in the courts of nisi prius after the adoption of this Constitution.

SCH. I §21 | CAUSES PENDING IN PHILADELPHIA; TRANSFER OF RECORDS

The causes and proceedings pending in the court of nisi prius, court of common pleas, and district court in Philadelphia shall be tried and disposed of in the court of common pleas. The records and dockets of said courts shall be transferred to the prothonotary's office of said county.

SCH. I §22 | CAUSES PENDING IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY

The causes and proceedings pending in the court of common pleas in the county of Allegheny shall be tried and disposed of in the court number one; and the causes and proceedings pending in the district court shall be tried and disposed of in the court number two.

SCH. I §23 | PROTHONOTARY OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY

The prothonotary of the court of common pleas of Philadelphia shall be first appointed by the judges of said court on the first Monday of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and the present prothonotary of the district court in said county shall be the prothonotary of the said court of common pleas until said date when his commission shall expire, and the present clerk of the court of oyer and terminer and quarter sessions of the peace in Philadelphia shall be the clerk of such court until the expiration of his present commission on the first Monday of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

SCH. I §24 | ALDERMEN

In cities containing over fifty thousand inhabitants, except Philadelphia, all aldermen in office at the time of the adoption of this Constitution shall continue in office until the expiration of their commissions, and at the election for city and ward officers in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five one alderman shall be elected in each ward as provided in this Constitution.

SCH. I §25 | MAGISTRATES IN PHILADELPHIA

In Philadelphia magistrates in lieu of aldermen shall be chosen, as required in this Constitution, at the election in said city for city and ward officers in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five; their term of office shall commence on the first Monday of April succeeding their election. The terms of office of aldermen in said city holding or entitled to commissions at the time of the adoption of this Constitution shall not be affected thereby.

SCH. I §26 | TERM OF PRESENT OFFICERS

All persons in office in this Commonwealth at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, and at the first election under it, shall hold their respective offices until the term for which they have been elected or appointed shall expire, and until their successors shall be duly qualified, unless otherwise provided in this Constitution.

SCH. I §27 | OATH OF OFFICE

The seventh article of this Constitution prescribing an oath of office shall take effect on and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

SCH. I §28 | COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND AUDITORS

The terms of office of county commissioners and county auditors, chosen prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, which shall not have expired before the first Monday of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, shall expire on that day.

SCH. I §29 | COMPENSATION OF PRESENT OFFICERS

All State, county, city, ward, borough and township officers in office at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, whose compensation is not provided for by salaries alone, shall continue to receive the compensation allowed them by law until the expiration of their respective terms of office.

SCH. I §30 | RENEWAL OF OATH OF OFFICE

All State and judicial officers heretofore elected, sworn, affirmed, or in office when this Constitution shall take effect, shall severally, within one month after such adoption, take and subscribe an oath, or affirmation, to support this Constitution.

SCH. I §31 | ENFORCING LEGISLATION

The General Assembly at its first session, or as soon as may be after the adoption of this Constitution, shall pass such laws as may be necessary to carry the same into full force and effect.

SCH. I §32 | AN ORDINANCE DECLARED VALID

The ordinance passed by this Convention, entitled "An ordinance for submitting the amended Constitution of Pennsylvania to a vote of the electors thereof," shall be held to be valid for all the purposes thereof.

SCH. I §33 | CITY COMMISSIONERS OF PHILADELPHIA

The words "county commissioners," wherever used in this Constitution and in any ordinance accompanying the same, shall be held to include the commissioners for the city of Philadelphia.

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PENNSYLVANIA CONSTITUTIONARTICLE ISCHEDULE NO. 1 (ADOPTED WITH THE CONSTITUTION)

SCH. I §0 | SCHEDULE I INTRODUCTION

Adoption.

Partial Repeal of Schedule.

SCH. I §1 | WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT

SCH. I §2 | FORMER LAWS REMAIN IN FORCE

SCH. I §3 | ELECTION OF SENATORS

SCH. I §4 | ELECTION OF SENATORS (CONTINUED)

SCH. I §5 | ELECTION OF GOVERNOR

SCH. I §6 | ELECTION OF LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

SCH. I §7 | SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS

SCH. I §8 | SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

SCH. I §9 | ELIGIBILITY OF PRESENT OFFICERS

SCH. I §10 | JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT

SCH. I §11 | COURTS OF RECORD

SCH. I §12 | REGISTER’S COURTS ABOLISHED

SCH. I §13 | JUDICIAL DISTRICTS

SCH. I §14 | DECENNIAL ADJUSTMENT OF JUDICIAL DISTRICTS

SCH. I §15 | JUDGES IN COMMISSION

SCH. I §16 | PRESIDENT JUDGES; CASTING LOTS; ASSOCIATE JUDGES

SCH. I §17 | COMPENSATION OF JUDGES

SCH. I §18 | COURTS OF PHILADELPHIA AND ALLEGHENY COUNTIES; ORGANIZATION IN PHILADELPHIA

SCH. I §19 | ORGANIZATION OF COURTS IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY

SCH. I §20 | WHEN RE-ORGANIZATION OF COURTS TO TAKE EFFECT

SCH. I §21 | CAUSES PENDING IN PHILADELPHIA; TRANSFER OF RECORDS

SCH. I §22 | CAUSES PENDING IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY

SCH. I §23 | PROTHONOTARY OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY

SCH. I §24 | ALDERMEN

SCH. I §25 | MAGISTRATES IN PHILADELPHIA

SCH. I §26 | TERM OF PRESENT OFFICERS

SCH. I §27 | OATH OF OFFICE

SCH. I §28 | COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND AUDITORS

SCH. I §29 | COMPENSATION OF PRESENT OFFICERS

SCH. I §30 | RENEWAL OF OATH OF OFFICE

SCH. I §31 | ENFORCING LEGISLATION

SCH. I §32 | AN ORDINANCE DECLARED VALID

SCH. I §33 | CITY COMMISSIONERS OF PHILADELPHIA

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