Signers of petition: Charles Nauman, Whitman Benner, J. Albright, D. Heitshu, H. Baumgardner, J. H. Longenecker, Thomas Baumgardner, G. H. Smith, B. Mishler, Henry Hines, Jacob McCulley, Owen Hopple.
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Signers of petition: John H. Pearsol, G. B. Markly, [S. Palton Jr.], H. Shubert, Joseph Cross, Daniel Leman, Isaac Dunn, George W. Curry, Adam M. Averell, C. M. Clewell, J. Augustus Beck, Daniel Leman, Isaac Dunn, Abraham K. Zell, Nelson Nutt, John Cross, Daniel F. Eberman, Wallace Taylor, J. W. Davis, Henry Metzger, J. M. Bahil, George W. Gerrich, F. Smith, John L. Samson, Michael Ehrman, Lancelot Fairer, E. Kirkpatrick, Samuel J. Jackson.
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List of petitioners that were granted licenses: George H. Hess, Robert Dysart, John Styer, Andrew S. Kauffman, Sarah Miller, Reuben Weidler, Frederic Zaracher, Moses Wenger, Moses Goldsmith.
April term.
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Signers of petition: Charles Beates, [unknown signature], R. Buchmiller, Benjamin M. Foltz, M. R. Witwer, [unknown signature], Jacob Kuhn, Michael Ehrman, John P. Dostman, Adam Keoffer, John Erisman, Jacob Baumgardner.
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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.
