increase in the public debt.) The private corporation tried to prevent construction. In ad- vance of the election it contended that the act of the legislature was unconstitutional. Local newspapers printed the complete text of the act for the public's information. In early January the Pub- lic Service

the scheme. "JOSEPH SIMON." On November 4, 1786, petitions were presented to the General Assembly from "a number of the inhabitants of the borough of Lancaster, and others residing on the east side of that part of the said Conestogoe Creek, where the great road leading from the bor- �rough to the city

. Very truly yours, WILLIAM A. KELKER. February 26, 1907, Harrisburg, Pa. McCall's Ferry Bridge, Copy of letter† from Theodore Burr to Reuben Field, bridge-builder, Waterford, New York: "Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 26, 1815. "Dear Sir: I can now inform you, with a considerable degree of satisfac- tion, that I