Bonds posted by constables, showing names of constable and surety; date and amount of bond; conditions of obligation; signatures of constable, surety, and witnesses; and date filed. Arr. chron. by date filed. No index. Hdw. and typed on ptd. fm.
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Located between Marietta and Bainbridge and fronting the Canal and adjoining lands of James Wilson.
Petition not granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: James Stackhouse, Jacob Rigler, Henry Bahn, John F. Withers, Samuel Miller, John Woodman, William Child, A. L. Evans, F. Wilson, Christian Hertzler, Jacob Libhart, John C. Doak, Abraham Cassel, David Cassel, John Cassel, John Bowman.
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The Mayor's Court was established at the incorporation of the City of Lancaster in 1818, and was composed of the mayor, recorder, and aldermen with powers and jurisdiction analogous to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail Delivery. It was abolished on 6 February 1849.
System of Arrangement
Organized by court term.
Arranged with general materials first, then constables reports, tavern licenses, un-numbered cases, and numbered cases.
The Mayor's Court was established at the incorporation of the City of Lancaster in 1818, and was composed of the mayor, recorder, and aldermen with powers and jurisdiction analogous to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail Delivery. It was abolished on 6 February 1849.
System of Arrangement
Organized by court term.
Arranged with general materials first, then constables reports, tavern licenses, un-numbered cases, and numbered cases.
The Mayor's Court was established at the incorporation of the City of Lancaster in 1818, and was composed of the mayor, recorder, and aldermen with powers and jurisdiction analogous to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail Delivery. It was abolished on 6 February 1849.
System of Arrangement
Organized by court term.
Arranged with general materials first, then constables reports, tavern licenses, un-numbered cases, and numbered cases.
The Mayor's Court was established at the incorporation of the City of Lancaster in 1818, and was composed of the mayor, recorder, and aldermen with powers and jurisdiction analogous to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail Delivery. It was abolished on 6 February 1849.
System of Arrangement
Organized by court term.
Arranged with general materials first, then constables reports, tavern licenses, un-numbered cases, and numbered cases.
Located between Marietta and Bainbridge along the Pennsylvania Canal.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: Christian Hertzler, Samuel McKinney, James Stackhouse, [signature in German], [T. Wilson], John Paules, A. L. Evans, O. McDonald, William Rankin, [unknown signature], Abraham Zublin, Jacob Glatz, Henry Omit, John Clements, [Z. Hipple], [signature in German].
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Located on Front Street, at extreme western end of Marietta.
Petition not granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: Jacob Glatz, John R. Diffenbach, John Sultz, George Deyer, John McBride, Benjamin Taylor, Joseph Imhoff, Robert King, Abraham Cassel, Jacob Scheidly, Isaac Reinhart, H. Spiese, J. Grosh.
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Remonstrance against renewing license for taverns kept by Joseph Wade, William Grosh, Robert Hedger, Benjamin Taylor, Oliver McDonald, David Summy, John Clements, & John Young.
January term.
Signers of Petition: Samuel Huston, James Mchaffey, Samuel Bailie, George M. Clawges, Thomas Sumption, Benjamin Garman, Enoch Davies, James Wilson, John Bell, Alexander Boggs, Samuel M. Yost, Lorenzo Taggart, George [Ingles], Joshua Mitchell, Robert A. Ramsey, Samuel Patterson, Frederick Haines, Henry Sultzbach, John Griese.
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