, maintain and provide for, and employ all paupers, poor and destitute persons entitled to relief who are residents of the County of Lancaster. Abolition of Poor Directors The Pennsylvania Legislature enacted a law in 1937 under the adminis- tration of Governor George H. Earle, which provided for two drastic

outstanding characteristic of corporate development in the United States. This is especially true in the growth of public utilities. Practically all the many gas companies, as well as the electric lighting companies, which were formed in Lancaster County be- ginning with the gas industry in 1849, and the