! With this the committee adjourned until its next meeting-21 March 1887—to be held in the Board of Trade rooms. The Board of Trade (the predecessor of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry) graciously permitted the Society to meet in its rooms without charge. Committee appointments were announced by

not dined with a farmer in a quarter of a century. Col. Duffy's invitation was cordi- ally accepted . At 10 A.M. the guest was at the Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. George W. Childs, Col. A. L. J. Cassatt, Charles E. Pugh, J. N. Dubarry, George De B. Keim, George B. Roberts, Lieut. A. M. Thackara

.' When William Penn drafted his "frames of government" for Pennsylvania, the English system was adopted, lock, stock, and barrel. County courts were established with justices of the peace holding sessions quarterly (hence "quarter sessions of the peace court"). Not only summary offenses, misdemeanors