This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners' Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.
System of Arrangement
The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.
Page 11 omitted, p. 143-144 duplicated, in numbering.
"Including an interesting and important discussion respecting the discipline of the religious Society of Friends; and containing the valuable speeches of the counsel, revised from the short-hand notes of T. Lloyd."
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Bool number 37a as assigned by Yeates.
A narrative of the proceedings of the religious society of the people called Quakers, in Philadelphia, against John Evans ... / comp. under the direction of John Evans. 1811.
With Report of the case of the commonweealth, vs. Tench Coxe, Esq. on a motion for a Mandamus in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania...Philadelphia: printed by Jane Aitken, 1803.
With The opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States...in the case of H. I. Huidekoper vs James Douglass...Philadalphia, Jane Aitken...no date.
A writ of habeas corpus is a procedure for obtaining a judicial determination of the legality of an individual's custody. This collection includes petitions for writs of habeas corpus and the writs themselves, showing the names of petitioners, persons to be brought to court, nature of dispute or alleged crime, dates of writs and accompanying documents, names of judges, and names of persons that the writs are filed against. Petitioners include indentured servants, Freedom Seekers, free persons of color, convicted prisoners, those awaiting trial, relatives of prisoners, parties in child custody disputes, and relatives of army recruits and draftees.
