Case of Maccungie Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. On a certioraH to the court of Quarter Sessions of Lehigh county, the record of that court in the matter of the application for the division of Maccungie township, was returned to this court, where the exceptions filed by the appellants to the proceedings of the court below were argued by Opinions, agreeing with each other, were delivered by Ross, J., and Kennedy, J., in which the circumstances of the case are so fully and minutely stated, that any other report of…
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IN ERROR. On a certioraH to the court of Quarter Sessions of Lehigh county, the record of that court in the matter of the application for the division of Maccungie township, was returned to this court, where the exceptions filed by the appellants to the proceedings of the court below were argued by Opinions, agreeing with each other, were delivered by Ross, J., and Kennedy, J., in which the circumstances of the case are so fully and minutely stated, that any other report of it would be superfluous.
1Opinion of the CourtRoss, J.
By the record returned, it appeared that petitions were presented on the 8th day of May, 1828, to the court, signed by two hundred and sixty resident citizens of Maccungie township in said county, setting forth, amongst other things, that the township of Maccungie has long since been erected, and from its extent is inconveniently large for all township purposes: That there are upwards of seven hundred voters in said township, and according to the mode of conducting elections under the present election laws, it is exceedingly inconvenient, if not impossible, for all the voters in said…
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