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Collection
James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 8 Others (Not Part of the Family)
Title
Act to confirm election of trustees of the Second Presbyterian Church
Object ID
JBFP 8.2.3.005
Date Range
1855/04/06
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Collection
James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 8 Others (Not Part of the Family)
Title
Act to confirm election of trustees of the Second Presbyterian Church
Description
Act to confirm election of trustees of the Second Presbyterian Church signed by Pennsylvania’s Speaker of the House of Representatives, Henry K. Strong, Speaker of the Senate, William Mulhenberg Hiester and Governor, James Pollock . An act to confirm and legalize the election of trustees of the Second Presbyterian Congregation of the City of Lancaster signed by Henry K. Strong, Speaker of the House of Representatives, William M. Hiester, Speaker of the Senate, and James Pollock, Governor, and certified by John M. Sullivan, Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth confirming the election of several trustees after failing to do so according to the charter of the church. This act upholds the action of the Golden seal with red ribbon on last page. Lancaster, PA.
Date Range
1855/04/06
Creator
Pennsylvania. General Assembly
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Container
JBFP Part 8, Box 1
People
Strong, Henry K.
Hiester, William Muhlenberg
Pollock, James
Sullivan, John M.
Subjects
Boards of directors
Presbyterian Church
Business records
Search Terms
Boards of directors
Second Presbyterian Church
Business records
Buchanan Collections
James Buchanan Presidential Library
Extent
1 item, 8 pages to scan, 8.75 x 14 in.
Object Name
Act
Language
English
Parent Object ID
JBFP Part 8 Series 2
Object ID
JBFP 8.2.3.005
Associated Material
James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,
http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers
James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,
https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/
James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html
James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,
https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm
Related Item Notes
James Buchanan Family Papers
MG-96 James Buchanan Collection
Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm
Photograph collections
Curatorial collections
Wheatland Mansion
Notes
May 2020 PastPerfect Conversion
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Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Accession Number
JBMS1996.032
Other Number
JBFP Part 8, Series 2, Subseries 3, Folder 5
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.
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An act, to incorporate the city of Lancaster, passed March 20, 1818

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17625
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly
Date of Publication
1875??
Call Number
352.008 C855 1875
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly
Place of Publication
Lancaster
Publisher
Printed by Wm. Dickson,
Date of Publication
1875??
Physical Description
24 p. 22 cm.
Notes
Bound with : Lancaster, Pa. Laws, ordinances, etc. Ordinances ... 1818-1875.
Library copy missing title page and pages 5-8. This is an 1870's edition. The charter is dated 1818.
Additional Corporate Author
Lancaster (Pa.).
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
352.008 C855 1875
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Constitutions of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17229
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1986.
Call Number
342.748 P415c
Responsibility
compiled by Legislative Reference Bureau, under the direction of Robert L. Cable.
ISBN
0818200731 (pbk.)
9780818200731 (pbk.)
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, PA
Publisher
The Bureau,
Date of Publication
1986.
Physical Description
503 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes the Pennsylvania Constitutions of 1968, 1874, 1838, 1790, and 1776.
Includes indexes.
Subjects
United States.
Constitutions - Pennsylvania.
Constitutions - United States.
Additional Author
Cable, Robert L.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Legislative Reference Bureau.
United States.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
342.748 P415c
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Laws enacted in the first sitting of the eleventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on the twenty third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21640
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1787]
Call Number
Book 588 1787
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Bradford,
Date of Publication
1787]
Physical Description
[1], 182-194, [2] p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Imprint supplied by Evans.
Signatures: 3A-3D² (3D2 verso blank).
Sideglosses.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. LIX-LXIV signed and enacted in the months of November and December by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Zachary Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Handwritten index precedes text,
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 588 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
ESTC
Subjects
Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Session laws.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania.
Three-quarters leather on boards (Binding)
Early works.
History.
Sources.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Mifflin, Thomas,
Lloyd, Peter Zachary.
Dallas, Alexander James,
Etting, Frank M.
Bradford, Thomas,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 588 1787
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Laws enacted in the second sitting of the eleventh General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on the twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21641
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1787]
Call Number
Book 588 1787a
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Bradford,
Date of Publication
1787]
Physical Description
[1], 196-313, [1], iv p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Imprint supplied by Evans.
Signatures: 3E-4L² (4L2 verso blank) chi².
Sideglosses.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. LXV-CIII signed and enacted in the months of February and March by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Zachary Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 588 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
ESTC
Subjects
Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Session laws.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
History.
Sources.
Three-quarteres leather on boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Mifflin, Thomas,
Lloyd, Peter Zachary.
Dallas, Alexander James,
Etting, Frank M.
Bradford, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 588 1787a
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Laws enacted in the second sitting of the tenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on the twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21638
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
[1786]
Call Number
Book 588a
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Bradford,
Date of Publication
[1786]
Physical Description
[1], 10-87, [1], 4 p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.
Signatures: C-Y² [Z]².
Sideglosses.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. V-XXXII signed and enacted in the months of February through April by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Samuel Bryan, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 588 as assigned by Yeates.
With: Pennsylvania. Laws enacted in the third sitting of the tenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : T. Bradford, [1786] --Pennsylvania. Laws enacted in the first sitting of the eleventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : T. Bradford, [1786] --Pennsylvania. Laws enacted in the second sitting of the eleventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : [T. Bradford, 1786].
Evans
ESTC
Subjects
Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Session laws.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
History.
Sources.
Three-quarters leather on boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Mifflin, Thomas,
Bryan, Samuel,
Dallas, Alexander James,
Etting, Frank M.
Bradford, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 588a
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Laws enacted in the third sitting of the twelfth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21645
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
[1788]
Call Number
Book 588 1788a
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by T. Bradford,
Date of Publication
[1788]
Physical Description
[1], 456-537, [1], 2 p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.
Signatures: 6B-6Z² ( -6Z2) (6Y2 verso blank).
Sideglosses.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. CLVI-CLXXIV signed and enacted in the months of September and October by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Zachary Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 588 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
ESTC
Subjects
Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Session laws.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
History.
Sources.
Three-quarters leather on boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Mifflin, Thomas,
Lloyd, Peter Zachary.
Dallas, Alexander James,
Etting, Frank M.
Bradford, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 588 1788a
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Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : from the seventh day of December , one thousand seven hundred, to the twentieth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20665
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1795.
Call Number
Book 21a 1795
Responsibility
Republished under the authority of the legislature, by Alexander James Dallas.
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Hall and Sellers,
Date of Publication
1795.
Physical Description
6], ; 33 cm.
Notes
Vol III includes Table of laws repealede, expired, or obsolete and Table of private acts.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library
Page number xliii at head of third page.
Book number 21 as arranged by Yeates.
Three-quarters leather over brown paper-covered boards.
Subjects
Law - Pennsyvania.
Session laws - Pennsylvania
Additional Author
Dallas, Alexander James,
Yeates, Jasper, Yeates, d 1745-1817.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 21a 1795
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Laws of the fourteenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, enacted in the second sitting : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the second day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21651
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
[1790]
Call Number
Book 589 1790a
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Bradford,
Date of Publication
[1790]
Physical Description
[1], 234-317, [1] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title. Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: 3G-4D² [4E]¹.
Sideglosses.
Pagination continues session laws from 1788 (Evans 21368).
Page 275 incorrectly numbered 267.
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 589 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Subjects
Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Session laws.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
History.
Sources.
Three-quarters leather on decorated boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Bradford, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 589 1790a
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Laws of the thirteenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, enacted in the second sitting : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the third day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21648
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
[1789]
Call Number
Book 589 1789
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1789 Feb.)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by T. Bradford,
Date of Publication
[1789]
Physical Description
pages [1], 10-104, [i.e. 10-108] ; 32 cm (fol.)
Notes
Caption title. Imprint from colophon.
Pagination continues session laws from 1788 (Evans 21368).
Error in paging: p. 108 misnumbered 104.
Signatures: C-2C2 chi2 (2C2 verso blank).
Printed index precedes text.
Printed and handwritten marginalia.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 589 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Three-quarters leather on decorated boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 589 1789
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