various counties of the State, for the reason that they knew more about the necessities of the same. Boroughs were incorporated in the same way previous to this Act of Assembly, but since by the Court of Quarter Sessions. These Courts al- ways had the authority to establish and form new townships. Thus it

memorable contests in the local Courts between two opposing factions for control of the church property; they lamented, with one voice, the ap- parent inclination or willingness of those in charge to let the old Brothers' House, if not some of the other buildings, fall into decay; and they resolved,none

similar movement on the part of the Courts of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia and Chester counties necessary, and an act was passed to authorize the change. The original manuscript of that stat- ute is still in existence. It consists of two folios and is attested by a seal. The dealer

houses and 2,000 inhabitants. It had been incorporated as a borough in 1742. Its first newspaper, the Lancaster Ga- zette, was issued by H. Miller and S. Holland in 1752. It was published fort- nightly, in parallel columns, German and English. The first school of which we have record is in 1748, under

regularly used as early as 1714, for "the peti- tion filed in Lancaster County Quar- ter Sessions Court to 'relay' it out in 1734 sets out that it has been in use for twenty years." These five terms were first Tuesday os August, 1729; first Tuesday of No- vember, 1729; February 3d, 1730; May 5th, 1730, and

Gleanings from an Old Newspaper. The notes which I have the honor of reading to you to-day,Mr. President and members of the Historical Society, do not profess to be a paper. They have no value, historically; they con- tain nothing which is either new, novel, or startling, and yet they have a

Commissioners, empowered to erect Lancaster county, "shall purchase" a piece of land and erect "thereon a Court House, etc.," it appears that it was not completed for ten years later. Under date of No- vember 3, 1737, there is a record in the Commissioners' office that "The Com- missioners mett and considered

LANCASTER IN 1777-1780. In the recently published paper by W. U. Hensel on Major John Andre's Residence in Lancaster, 1775-76, refer- ence was made to the social life in Lancaster during the period of the American Revolution, It was pretty plainly intimated, and easily to be in- ferred, that during

the works a special siding was connected with the Pennsylvania railroad oppo- site the Bamford works. The Last Company. The mine farm, after 1877, for about six years, was in charge of David Uren, an intelligent Welshman, now deceased, and whose body is interred in Woodward Hill Cemetery, this city

arrested in his own House, and remov'd from. thence & put under Confinement we appointed a Committee to wait upon him, in order to satisfy ourselves by what authority he was made a prisoner, what charge had been brought against him, whether he had applied for a hearing, and whether a hearing had been