In re the Division Line of Clay, West Cocalico, & Ephrata Townships
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Lancaster county. On the 1st May 1857, the petition of sixteen citizens of Clay and West Cocalico townships was presented to the court below, praying that parts of said townships, embracing about seven hundred acres of land, and containing about fifteen voters, might be annexed to Ephrata township. Commissioners were accordingly appointed, who reported in favour of the proposed annexation.
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Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Lancaster county. On the 1st May 1857, the petition of sixteen citizens of Clay and West Cocalico townships was presented to the court below, praying that parts of said townships, embracing about seven hundred acres of land, and containing about fifteen voters, might be annexed to Ephrata township. Commissioners were accordingly appointed, who reported in favour of the proposed annexation. On the 19th August 1857, the petition of the majority of the legal voters of Clay and West Cocalico townships was presented, praying for a review, under the provisions…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lowrie, C. J.
By the Act of 1834, relating to counties and townships, the Quarter Sessions has authority over townships so as to erect new ones, to divide any one already existing, and to alter the lines of any two or more adjoining ones. These are three distinct functions. The law in relation to two of them is so far changed by the Acts of 14th March and 24th April 1857, B. L. 93, 304, that no township can be divided into two or more, and no new township can be erected out of two or more adjoining ones, without the concurring vote of the people…
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