.' When William Penn drafted his "frames of government" for Pennsylvania, the English system was adopted, lock, stock, and barrel. County courts were established with justices of the peace holding sessions quarterly (hence "quarter sessions of the peace court"). Not only summary offenses, misdemeanors

, Columbia. Black and white balls were held in the cup below the muzzle. To vote, a member picked the appropriate ball and placed it into the muzzle where it rolled into a drawer at the right end. The officer in charge of the vote would then check the color of the balls in the drawer and announce the outcome