In re the Division of North Whitehall Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Lehigh county. This was a proceeding in the court below, for the division of North Whitehall township. April 10th 1862, two petitions were presented, praying for the appointment of commissioners to divide the township of North Whitehall.
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Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Lehigh county. This was a proceeding in the court below, for the division of North Whitehall township. April 10th 1862, two petitions were presented, praying for the appointment of commissioners to divide the township of North Whitehall. On the same day the court appointed commissioners “ to inquire into the propriety of granting the prayer of the petitioners, and who or any two of them were to make a plot or draft of the said township, and the division line proposed to he made,” &c., and directed them to give notice of the time and place of meeting in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Strong, J.
The order of the court prescribing the notice to be given of the time and place of meeting of the commissioners, required it to be given “ three weeks before the time of meeting.” It had reference not to the number of insertions in the newspapers of the county, nor to any intervals between insertions. Its plain purpose was to give to all persons interested in the proposed division of the township, a defined period, before the action of the commissioners, to prepare for their meeting. This period was fixed at three weeks. The mode of giving…
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