the inhabitants number one hundred families, and forever thereafter, they shall be represented by four As- semblymen to be chosen by them- selves; that they shall have Courts in the town; and the county shall be named (this has never been filled in, in the original, or in the record at Philadelphia

EARLY LANCASTER TAX- ABLES--1754 r A document, entitled "The Return of the Borough of Lancaster, 1754," has just come to my hands. It has never been in print, and its contents are not recorded in any book of record in the Court House or elsewhere. It consists of five sheets of pa per, not bound

greater harmony and a more cheerful readiness to assist with what was in their power, than appeared on this o c -casion,whichwaschieflyowingto the affable and courteous behavior of our Governor."* June 6, 1728: "At a Court of Quarter Session of Philadelphia, held June 3, a charge was delivered from the

Commissioners, empowered to erect Lancaster county, "shall purchase" a piece of land and erect "thereon a Court House, etc.," it appears that it was not completed for ten years later. Under date of No- vember 3, 1737, there is a record in the Commissioners' office that "The Com- missioners mett and considered

regularly used as early as 1714, for "the peti- tion filed in Lancaster County Quar- ter Sessions Court to 'relay' it out in 1734 sets out that it has been in use for twenty years." These five terms were first Tuesday os August, 1729; first Tuesday of No- vember, 1729; February 3d, 1730; May 5th, 1730, and