the affairs of the said borough, keeping peace and good order therein. The charter then continues; "And we do further grant for ourselves, heirs and successors to the Burgess, freeholders, inhabitants and house- keepers of Lancaster, to have, hold and keep within the said borough two markets in each

erected into a county in 1813, have failed, and for nearly a century our grand old county, the richest agricultural county in all the Union during the past three de- cades, has been allowed to retain her boundaries, a fact for rejoicing and grateful remembrance. After the separation of Lancaster county

Prisoners, including those of the Convention Troops within the Picquets, I think your information Eroneous; there is at Present upwards of two Hundred men with four Hun- dred Twenty Seven Women and Children without the Picquets, Shel- tered with Blankets and Planks pro- cured by themselves, and yet the Bar