In re division of Gettysburg
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Adams county: Of May Term 1879, No. 74. On the 30th of August 1877, the requisite number of freeholders, resident in the borough of Gettysburg, presented their petition to the Court of Quarter Sessions, setting forth, “ that it would promote the interest of your petitioners, and the taxpayers generally of said borough, to have the said borough divided into wards.”
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Adams county: Of May Term 1879, No. 74. On the 30th of August 1877, the requisite number of freeholders, resident in the borough of Gettysburg, presented their petition to the Court of Quarter Sessions, setting forth, “ that it would promote the interest of your petitioners, and the taxpayers generally of said borough, to have the said borough divided into wards.” On the 1st of September 1877, the court appointed three commissioners, and issued an order to them “ to inquire into the propriety of granting the prayer of the petitioners.” On the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The first assignment of error presents the question, whether, in a proceeding to divide a borough into wards, it is necessary for the petitioners to ask for division into a definite number of wards and suggest the boundaries thereof. The answer to this question must depend on the provisions of the statute by which alone the proceeding is authorized and regulated.
The Act of May 14th 1874, Pamph. L. 159, prescribing “ the manner by which the courts may divide boroughs into wards,” empowers-the several courts of Quarter Sessions within their respective counties to divide boroughs into wards; to…
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