Henderson, & West Townships' Case
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
CERTIORARI to the quarter sessions of Huntingdon county. An application was made for the appointment of commissioners to view and attach part of West township to Henderson township. The commissioners made a report in favour of the alteration, and embodied in it the courses, distances and a particular description of the new line ; and also accompanied their report with a draft of the new line.
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CERTIORARI to the quarter sessions of Huntingdon county. An application was made for the appointment of commissioners to view and attach part of West township to Henderson township. The commissioners made a report in favour of the alteration, and embodied in it the courses, distances and a particular description of the new line ; and also accompanied their report with a draft of the new line. The objection made to the report was, that a draft of the lines of the township proposed to be altered was not returned with the report, by which the court might judge of the propriety of the alteration-…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
In erecting a new township, or what is much the same, dividing an old one, or in altering the lines of adjoining townships, the commissioners are required, by the act of 1803, “ to make a draft of the township proposed to be divided, and the division line proposed to be made therein, or of the township proposed to be laid off, or of the lines proposed to be altered, of any two or more adjoining townships, as the case may be, if the same cannot be fully designated by natural lines or boundaries.” The only question that has come up under any…
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- Case of the erection of a separate township of part of Wyalusing townshipSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1816