, maintain and provide for, and employ all paupers, poor and destitute persons entitled to relief who are residents of the County of Lancaster. Abolition of Poor Directors The Pennsylvania Legislature enacted a law in 1937 under the adminis- tration of Governor George H. Earle, which provided for two drastic

terprises tended to be small. 1 Votes of the Assembly, V, 255. 2 Coxe, View, p. 313. 3 Lancaster County Assessment Lists, 1773, Public Records, Harrisburg Pa. 4 Cazenova Journal,p. 75. 5 Minutes of the Select Council of the City of Lancaster, Feb. 22, 1836. 6 Pennsylvania Gazette, Sept. 11. 1760; American

tons of bar iron. Penn Iron Company The rolling mill of Penn Iron Co. occupied the vacant buildings of the Norris Brothers' Lancaster Locomotive Works, in the square bounded by Fulton, North Plum and East Chestnut streets, and the Pennsylvania Railroad, in Lancaster. This rolling mill began as the