months. During their session they passed 93 Laws and 9 Resolutions. Lancaster Intelligencer April 17, 1802 Among the acts passed was one which marked the first step toward building of the Union Canal. It was "An act to enable the Governor of the Commonwealth to incorporate a company for opening a Canal

offering to the State Government, free of expense, forty-five acres of ground, the same being part of their farm "elegantly and eligibly situated on the Bank of the river Susquehanna, 18 miles from Lancaster, 10 miles above Columbia, 18 below Harrisburg and 8 miles from the borough of York." They also

borough, on Thursday last [June 28] in good health." Six days later —on July Fourth, Governor McKean participated in the Independence program in Lancaster, the seat of government, as he had done on the same day in the previous year. The 1804 celebration in Lancaster was an elaborate all- day program and

Scotland Light, where the Lancaster was sunk in a deep water disposal area, according to law and in the presence of an inspector of the U. S. Corps of Engineers. The Lancaster had been to all the big ports, had served on all the seas, had been hostess to visiting dignitaries from dozens of countries, had

THE LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS PREFATORY NOTE A complete history of the Lancaster General Hospital has not been written, due in part to the unfortunate fact that many of the early records are not extant. What is here presented is not even to be considered as a full and

seat of government. The Supreme Executive Council which was then the governing body of Pennsylvania (Constitution of 1776) fled Philadelphia and met in Lancaster from October 1, 1777 through June 20, 1778. �In February, 1795, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution in favor of removing the

First Reformed Church, Lancaster, Pa. 2 Baptismal records of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pa. 3 A company, formed by Robert Fulton, Robert R. Livingston, Nicholas J. Roosevelt and B. Henry Latrobe, started building steamboats at Pitts- burgh about the year 1810. �Arks On The Susquehanna Lacking

had a ride on the old Fall River Line, there was nothing in comparison for Lancaster County lads and lassies as a ride on the stern paddle wheel, double-decker, sea-worthy Lady Gay, which drew as much as two feet of water, and churned majestically from Witmer's Bridge to Peoples' Park and return

scholars as the Rev. Henry E. Muhlenberg and Andrew Ellicott. To the Baron, Major Ellicott gave the following note of introduc- tion to Aaron Burr, vice-president of the United States : Lancaster, June 11, 1804. "Dear Sir I beg leave to introduce to your acquaintance and civilities the bearer, the Baron De

Rev. Dr, James E. Wagner. March 4, Lancaster newspapers increased in price from five cents to seven cents a copy. 19. The plant of the Lancaster Brick Company, northwest of School Lane Hills, was damaged severely by fire, entailing a loss of $300,000. 29, City water rates were increased; the average