Signers of petition: Benjamin B. Bear, A. Brubaker, Jacob Sener, John S. Wissler, John Yohn, Isaac Evans, Jacob Baker, John Seachrist, J. Ream, David Ringwalt, [signature in German], John G. Bowers.
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Signers of petition: Andrew Bear, John Stauffer, John Bostick, Jacob Myers, Thomas Devert, James Denham, R. [ Mars], J. B. Brubaker, John [Schwer], Jacob Grubb, John Denham, Sebastian Smith, Henry Imhoff, [signature in German], Peter Bells, Henry Good, Jacob Workman, Isaac Buck, Benjamin Workman, Abraham [Hoefgen], Frederick Miller, Henry Weibley, John Leib Jr.
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Located in the Northwest Ward on the North Queen Street.
April term.
Signers of petition: Jacob Myers, Emanuel Kiehms, C. B. Hackman, Charles R. Frailey, Elias Eby, Moses Geiserberger, David Weidler, John [Secrist], R. E. Fahnestock, W. H. Spangler, John Kuhn, Jacob Ziegler, Charles M. Urban, Christian Rine.
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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.
