Constitutional law — Appropriations for benevolent purposes — Unemployment compensation — Act of December 5, 1936, P. L. (1937) 2897.
1. The Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Law of December 5, 1936, P. L. (1937) 2897, does not violate Article III, section 18, of the Constitution, as an appropriation for a charitable or benevolent purpose. [531-5]
Constitutional law — Local or special laws — Interest — Unemployment compensation — Act of December 5, 1936, P. L. (1937) 2897.
2. Sections 308 and 309 of the Act of December 5, 1936, P. L. (1937) 2897, do not violate section 7 of Article III of the Constitution, which prohibits the passage of local or special laws fixing the rate of interest. [535-6]
Constitutional law — Interstate commerce — Unemployment compensation — Act of December 5, 1936, P. L. (1937) 2897.
3. Section 307 of the Act of December 5, 1936, P. L. (1937) 2897, does not violate Article I, section 8, the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution. [536-40]
Constitutional law — Debt — Payment of moneys in excess of reserve — Unemployment compensation — Act of December 5, 1936, P. L. (1937) 2897.
4. The Act of December 5, 1936, P. L. (1937) 2897, does not violate Article IX, section 12 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, providing that moneys of the State over and above the necessary reserve shall be used in payment of the debt of the State. [540-43]
Constitutional law — Powers reserved to the states — Surrender — Unemployment compensation — Act of December 5, 1936, P. L. (1937) 2897.
5. Article VI of the Act of December 5, 1936, P. L. (1937) 2897, does not violate the Tenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution on the ground that it deprives the State from functioning as a sovereign state and that the surrender of the surplus moneys to the Treasury of the United States is, pro tanto, an unconstitutional surrender of sovereignty. [543-4]
Argued May 27, 1941.
PER CURIAM, June 30, 1941:
The judgment is affirmed on the foregoing portions of the opinion of President Judge HARGEST.