, style and title of "Directors of the Poor and House of Employ- ment of the County of Lancaster." The Board of Directors are empowered to receive, take, hold any lands, tenements, and to erect suitable buildings within their respective counties for the reception, use and accommodation of the poor; to

active participation of citizens in government, 1953 �• CONTENTS History ------------- -------- ------------------ ______________ _____page 3, Lancaster Goes to Its Court House --------------:------------- -------page 4 The County; its powers, the commissioners, the courts ________________page 5 The

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

reported a constitution for the government of the 'American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry', which was read, approved and unanimously adopted. Every inhabitant of the county of Lancaster who feels an individual interest in the encouragement of

names of the past which are fast disappearing from the community -Wallace, Yundt, Kinzer and Rutt. A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION In recent years, descendants of German settlers of Lancaster count-.{, Pa., and of Rowan and other counties, of North Carolina, have exchanged notes containing the statement

MUSTER ROLLS OF SOLDIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY IN THE WAR OF 1812 By MRS. J. V. R. HUNTER AND MRS. MARY OWEN STEINMETZ Not long ago, an old record book was found in the office of the prothon- otary in the court house of Reading, Berks county, Pa., bearing the following title: "Muster Roll of the