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.
Located on North Prince Street, on the railroad, North West Ward.
Petition rejected.
April term.
Signers of petition: Jacob Axer, Samuel Killian, D. Royer, [signature in German], John Stehman, David Wiley, [signature in German], Andrew [McGinnes], Mitchel J. Weaver, Charles Buckius, William Buckius Jr., Christian Myer.
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Signers of petition: John H. Pearsol, G. B. Markly, [S. Pelton Jr.], H. Shuber, Joseph Cross, George W. Curry, C. M. Clewell, J. Augustus Beck, Daniel Leman, Isaac Dunn, Wallace Taylor, Daniel F. Eberman, Wallace Taylor, John Cross, Nelson Nutt, J. W. Davis, [unknown signature], Henry Metzger, J. M. Bahel, John L. Samson, George Gorretch, F. Smith, David Erisman, William Kuhns, William Kachel, George Kutz, Josiah Devish, [unknown signature], H. L. Bailey, John Oster, J. Erisman, Daniel Erisman.
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Signers of petition: John M. Amweg, John W. Meckley, Jacob Hartman, H. Kendig, Daniel Hartman, Andrew Bear, William Buckius Jr., G. Jones, J. Stehman, J.J. Springer, William Kuhns, Christopher Gompf, [signature in German], Emanuel Kautz, G. Kuhns, H. M. White, John Pish, Andrew McGinnes, John Landis, Peter [Nare], Henry Nagle, Casper Bruner, Henry Stanter, B. Reinhaler, Jacob Dorwart, Peter Brunner, F. B. Pyle, Jacob Hoover, John B. Bitner, [signature in German], James Chambers, Daniel Finfrock, Alex Wiley, Milton Jeffries, John Dorwart, Charles Buckius, Samuel Killian David Wiley, [signature in German], Christian Myer, Samson Resh, John Dorwart, Philip [Copeland], Frederick Dorwart, George McDonald, John Lippineath, Lewis Cately, [ ] Gompf, Andrew Gompf, H. F. Eberman, John [Flick], J. M. Harman, Jacob Frailey, [unknown signature], Frederick Foltz, [Peter] Albert, Mitchell J. Weaver, William Garratt.
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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.