. A history of Pennsylvania. e of public execution andsuffered the extreme penalty of the law. Their estates wereafterward confiscated.^ There can be no question that thepunishment was wholly out of proportion to the offences, butthey were hung as an example. Among other acts of retaliation, the Constitutionalists at-tacked the College on the ground that most of its supportershad been Tories, and were able in 1779 to j)r()cure the annul-ment of its charter. The property was given to a new boardof trustees, and the institution was called the University ^ These were aflerwards restored to their
. A history of Pennsylvania. e of public execution andsuffered the extreme penalty of the law. Their estates wereafterward confiscated.^ There can be no question that thepunishment was wholly out of proportion to the offences, butthey were hung as an example. Among other acts of retaliation, the Constitutionalists at-tacked the College on the ground that most of its supportershad been Tories, and were able in 1779 to j)r()cure the annul-ment of its charter. The property was given to a new boardof trustees, and the institution was called the University ^ These were aflerwards restored to their f;iiniHes. 156 HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA of Pennsylvania. The old trustees, however, kept up theirorganization, and there were two nominal colleges until 1791,when the college and the university were united under thename of the University of Pennsylvania. There was scarcely an institution or interest that did notundergo a greater or less upheaval during this unsettled time, ONE SIXTH OFDOLLAR Accordingto a Hejolu- \tionojQoN~\. CRESS, paf\\^cd at Phi-| \busin.^ ladelphia ^iFebruary 17, 1776 §One Sixth of a Dollar.
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