In re Harrison Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lancaster county. Dee. 8. In 1844, a petition was presented to the court, signed by citizens residing within the bounds of the 22d election district of the county of Lancaster, composed of parts of Rapho, Mount .Toy, and East Donegal townships, in said county, stating the inconvenience, ’trouble, and expense, by reason of distance, to which the petitioners were subjected in attending their respective township elections, and…
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lancaster county. Dee. 8. In 1844, a petition was presented to the court, signed by citizens residing within the bounds of the 22d election district of the county of Lancaster, composed of parts of Rapho, Mount .Toy, and East Donegal townships, in said county, stating the inconvenience, ’trouble, and expense, by reason of distance, to which the petitioners were subjected in attending their respective township elections, and praying for the erection of a new township, out of those parts of the said townships as were comprised within the limits of…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, J.
The 14th section of the act of the 15th April, 1834, directs that, upon application by petition to the Court of Quarter Sessions for the purpose of creating a new township, or altering the lines of any township, or of ascertaining the lines or boundaries of any township, the court shall appoint three impartial men, if necessary, to inquire into the propriety of granting the prayer of the petitioners; and it shall be the duty of the commissioners so appointed, or any two of them, to make a plot or draft of the township proposed to be divided, and the division lines proposed to be made therein,…
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