Part 25 (1/2)

ARTICLE 7

The Commonwealth has jurisdiction over:

1. Civil law;

2. Criminal law;

3. Judicial procedure, including penal administration, and official cooperation between the administrative authorities;

4. Pa.s.sports and the supervision of aliens;

5. Poor relief and vagrancy;

6. The press, a.s.sociations and public meetings;

7. Problems of population; protection of maternity, infancy, childhood and adolescence;

8. Public health, veterinary practice, protection of plants from disease and pests;

9. The rights of labor, social insurance, the protection of wage-earners and other employees, and employment bureaus;

10. The establishment of national organizations for vocational representation;

11. Provision for war-veterans and their surviving dependents;

12. The law of expropriation;

13. The socialization of natural resources and business enterprises, as well as the production, fabrication, distribution, and price-fixing of economic goods for the use of the community;

14. Trade, weights and measures, the issue of paper money, banking, and stock and produce exchanges;

15. Commerce in foodstuffs and in other necessaries of daily life, and in luxuries;

16. Industry and mining;

17. Insurance;

18. Ocean navigation, and deep-sea and coast fisheries;

19. Railroads, internal navigation, communication by power-driven vehicles on land, on sea, and in the air; the construction of highways, in so far as pertains to general intercommunication and the national defense;

20. Theaters and cinematographs.

ARTICLE 8

The Commonwealth also has jurisdiction over taxation and other sources of income, in so far as they may be claimed in whole or in part for its purposes. If the Commonwealth claims any source of revenue which formerly belonged to the States, it must have consideration for the financial requirements of the States.