County are now forwarded to the State by twenty state registrars appointed by the Governor. Birth certificates are for- warded on the 10th and death certificates on the 5th of each month. REFERENCES DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS, Harrisburg, Pa. Borough Code Charts-Organization of Borough Government

County Antimasonic Party in national and state affairs. Secondly, I shall disclose how the Anti- masonic Party completely dominated local politics in Lancaster County for more than a decade, and why this particular county was so receptive to this "peculiar movement." Lastly, I shall point out many of the

Brief Outline on the Care o the Poor, the Sick, and insane 0/ Lancaster County, /0a. BY HENRY A. SHOWALTER For more than fifty years after the erection of Lancaster County the poor were supported by the several townships. Two Overseers of the Poor were elected in each township. The constables and

northern border with Berks County, and Mar- tic, a small Scotch-Irish Federalist township along the Susquehanna, in- explicably defy the rule of German-Established Church-Federalist, Scotch- Irish-Dissenter-Republican which is noticeable elsewhere in the county. A second area in which the political

Republicans on whose ticket he ran. Elected county sheriff in 1819, Mathiot later was elected mayor of Lancaster for eleven terms, and served as a member of the Lan- caster School Board from its inception in 1838 until his death in 1843. Mathiot was made a Mason in 1823, and became Worshipful Master of Lodge