. The government of the people of the state of Pennsylvania. Special legislation enacted by the General Assembly ofthis State lias resulted in variations in the organizationand administration of local government. These varia-tions will be found in the methods of assessing andcollecting taxes, in the number and duties of the clerksof the courts, in the method of road-supervision, in thematter of salaries and fees of officials and in variousother matters of local government. It has not Ideemed necessary nor even desirable to attempt to explainand to reconcile these minor differences ; they can b
. The government of the people of the state of Pennsylvania. Special legislation enacted by the General Assembly ofthis State lias resulted in variations in the organizationand administration of local government. These varia-tions will be found in the methods of assessing andcollecting taxes, in the number and duties of the clerksof the courts, in the method of road-supervision, in thematter of salaries and fees of officials and in variousother matters of local government. It has not Ideemed necessary nor even desirable to attempt to explainand to reconcile these minor differences ; they can be bestexamined and considered in the localities in which theyoccur. Under the present Constitution of the State, Bpe-cial legislation—that is, legislation affecting only certaininterests or localities—is forbidden. The advantage of referring directly to the Constitutionfor any information which is therein expressly stated, andthus to study the Constitution itself, rather than to studyabout it, cannot be too strongly urged. There is a realityand a fresh
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