. The story of Lancaster: old and new; being a narrative history of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, form 1730 to the centennial year 1918 . OLD JAIL, CORNER WEST KING AND PRINCE STREETS. MODERN JAIL AS IT STOOD ABOUT 1853 PAKT II CHAPTER X Lancaster a City After Seventy-Six Years of Burgess Rule For the borough to throw off the robe in whichit had been wrapped for seventy-six years, eventuallyto become a full-fledged municipahty under a morehberal charter, must have been the opening up ofpossibihties such as the goodly inhabitants of thetownstead had never before witnessed. Then, forthe nine select a
. The story of Lancaster: old and new; being a narrative history of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, form 1730 to the centennial year 1918 . OLD JAIL, CORNER WEST KING AND PRINCE STREETS. MODERN JAIL AS IT STOOD ABOUT 1853 PAKT II CHAPTER X Lancaster a City After Seventy-Six Years of Burgess Rule For the borough to throw off the robe in whichit had been wrapped for seventy-six years, eventuallyto become a full-fledged municipahty under a morehberal charter, must have been the opening up ofpossibihties such as the goodly inhabitants of thetownstead had never before witnessed. Then, forthe nine select and fifteen common councilmen tobe designated senators and representatives couldnot otherwise than add dignity to their is to be regretted that these city fathers werenot long to be known as such in their corporatecapacity. And as for the burgesses, the greatmajority were relegated to private life. What may strike the twentieth-century reader aspecuhar is that no chief magistrate was voted forat the time the councilmen were elected; the reasonis not difficult to explain. As Governor Snyderhad the appointing power under the new charter,he had reserved the righ
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