The Mayor's Court was established at the incorporation of the City of Lancaster in 1818, and was composed of the mayor, recorder, and aldermen with powers and jurisdiction analogous to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail Delivery. It was abolished on 6 February 1849.
System of Arrangement
Organized by court term.
Arranged with general materials first, then constables reports, tavern licenses, un-numbered cases, and numbered cases.
Signers of petition: Christian Herr, Elias Herr, Jacob Spring, Henry Ferrer, Jacob Keesy, Isaac Houser, John Kreider Jr., John H. Miller, John Krider, A. S. Mylin, Henry Gall, Isaac Pickel, [signature in German], John Herr.
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Signers of petition: John P. Long, Jacob Weidler, Isaac B. Miller, Jacob Diffenbaugh, Jacob Spring, Jacob Keesy, Amos Stauffer, Frederick [Dare], Christian Herr, Frank McCullick, Isaac Pickel, James McCurdy, John Williamson, Abraham Herr.
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