Borough of Little Meadows
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Quarter Sessions of Susquehanna county. On the 19th November, 1856, the petition of thirty-two persons was presented to the court, setting forth “ that, in the opinion of your petitioners, the interests of the citizens of Apolacon township, and more particularly those within the following described boundaries, will be greatly enhanced by the incorporation into a borough of the following described tract or territory, viz.: beginning at the north-west corner of…
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Appeal from the Quarter Sessions of Susquehanna county. On the 19th November, 1856, the petition of thirty-two persons was presented to the court, setting forth “ that, in the opinion of your petitioners, the interests of the citizens of Apolacon township, and more particularly those within the following described boundaries, will be greatly enhanced by the incorporation into a borough of the following described tract or territory, viz.: beginning at the north-west corner of the township of Apolacon (and also of the county of Susquehanna), and on the north line of the state of Pennsylvania,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Woodward, J.
The legislature, by the Act of 1st April, 1834, empowered the Quarter Sessions, with the concurrence of the grand jury, to incorporate towns and villages into boroughs, on *258the application, in writing, of a majority of the freeholders residing within the limits of the same. The Act also required that the town or village to be incorporated should contain three hundred inhabitants; but this was taken away by the Act of 3d April, 1851. The latter act, however, dispensed with no other conditions of the prior act, but, on the contrary, reasserted…
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