Overseers of Reading v. Overseers of Cumree
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THIS was.a certiorari £o the Sessions of Berks county, to bring up the proceedings of that court upon an order of two justices, removing Elizabeth Ackerman, a pauper, from the township of Cumree to the borough of Reading.
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THIS was.a certiorari £o the Sessions of Berks county, to bring up the proceedings of that court upon an order of two justices, removing Elizabeth Ackerman, a pauper, from the township of Cumree to the borough of Reading. From the evidence before the Sessions, the case was thus: The pauper, whose name before her marriage was Hendenbrooke, was imported directly from Europe into this state, and was bound on the 22d of March 1794, bv indenture . - , . . _ - ' „ , before the register of German passengers,- to serve John Lezvis Barde and his assigns for two years and nine months, in consideration…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
It is enacted by the act “ for the relief of “the poor” (9ih March 1771) that “every indented servant, “ legally and directly imported from Europe into this province, shall obtain a legal settlement in the city, borough, “ township or place, in which such servant shall first serve “ with his or her master or mistress for the space of sixty “ days; and if afterwards such servant shall duly serve in “ any other place for the space of twelve months, such ser“vant shall obtain a legal settlement in the city, borough, “ township or place where such service was last performed, “…
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