the resolution, 47 yeas to 7 noes. The Petition. MARTICK TOWNSHIP. To the Honorable the Representatives of the freemen of the State of Pennsylvania this Memorial Humbly Sheweth : That your Memorialists are of Opinion that frequent Changes in Government have a tendency to weaken it, and to Create

mentioned, married a daughter of Mr. Rhoddy, who died in the year 1733. He directed his executors to build a grist mill along Conewago creek for his son, Alexander Rhoddy, within two years after his desth. In 1745, James Rhoddy, son of above, sold the mills and 350 acres to John Forry and Joseph Sherrick

area of 973 square miles, or 623,720 acres, of which more than 500,000 acres are cultivated land, divided into 9,000 farms, whose assessed valuation in 1896 was $87,262,990, and the annual products, according to the census of 1890, aggre- gated $7,657,790. It is interesting to note that the county