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

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