In re Borough of Pottstown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 181 January Term 1886, Sup. Ct. On June 1,1885, certain “ owners of and residents thereon of certain lots, out-lots and other tracts of land in the township of Pottsgrove,” petitioned the Court of Quarter Sessions to have the said lots, out-lots and tracts, described by metes and bounds, annexed to the borough of Pottstown, according to the acts of assembly in such case, etc.
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CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 181 January Term 1886, Sup. Ct. On June 1,1885, certain “ owners of and residents thereon of certain lots, out-lots and other tracts of land in the township of Pottsgrove,” petitioned the Court of Quarter Sessions to have the said lots, out-lots and tracts, described by metes and bounds, annexed to the borough of Pottstown, according to the acts of assembly in such case, etc. On June 30, 1885, exceptions were filed, setting out, among.other grounds, that “the act of assembly under which the proceeding was instituted is…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Clash :
This, writ of certiorari brings up the record of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montgomery county, in a proceeding instituted under act of June 11, 1879, P. L. 150, and the amenda*545tory act of May 17,1883, P. L. 36, to change the limits of the borough of Pottstown. The borough of Pottstown was incorporated by a special provision in the act of February 6,1815, P. L. 247, and has never become subject to the provisions of the revised and general borough law of April 3, 1851..
The act of June 11, 1879, is a supplement to the general borough law, and by its express terms…
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