(9) Fordney began to cut it up in 1855, by selling the greater part of the tract to Christian Kieffer by deed dated April 2, 1855, and recorded in Book H, Vol. 8, p. 564, Retaining only a small block out of the heart of it with no street fronts. Christian Kieffer immediately cut it up further by

the development of their country. The financial end and valid title was now adjusted. A surveyor was em- ployed and the entire tract divided into farms or sections of 448 acres each. Two years later forty-five thousand acres more were purchased north of Waterloo by another company from Pennsylvania

- stances of the keepers of public houses " and a full state of the condition of the business and its obedience to law—were to be inquired into. (e) The Slave Trade.—In 1761 it became necessary to pass laws, more carefully to restrict and suppress the slave trade in the Province. Emanuel Carpenter and

. Carson South-east Ward. Jacob Demuth Jacob Gable B. McGonigle Dr. P. Bier South-west Ward. George Bryan D. Lepkichler C. Gillespie Henry Carpenter George Louis Mayer was appointed treasurer. In July, 1834, a public meeting was held in Lancaster and con- tributions, amounting to $155.37, were solicited

of architecture." Many of these handbooks found their way to the colonies and to the settlements in Lan- caster County. Among the books of this nature that found their way to this region may be cited, " The British Carpenter " by Francis Price and the CITY HALL IN EARLY DAYS. " Builder's Jewel" by

became the principal products of his firm. Business considerations led to the endeavor to monopolize the production of chrome with the result that the Tyson Mining Co. controlled the principal chrome mines of the United States (Do. p 87). This company held the monopoly on production until about 1895. The