. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. d examined the present court-house and the adjacent offices, and had found them entirelyinadequate for the present needs of the county, and they there-fore recommended the county commissioners to erect a newcourt-house for the accommodation of the courts and of theseveral officers of the county, and for the reception and safekeeping of the records and other public papers in charge of saidofficers. The grand jurors for the March sessions were S. G. Caughey(foreman), T. O. Anshutz, Henry Boyle, Daniel Brenner, SamuelBurns,
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. d examined the present court-house and the adjacent offices, and had found them entirelyinadequate for the present needs of the county, and they there-fore recommended the county commissioners to erect a newcourt-house for the accommodation of the courts and of theseveral officers of the county, and for the reception and safekeeping of the records and other public papers in charge of saidofficers. The grand jurors for the March sessions were S. G. Caughey(foreman), T. O. Anshutz, Henry Boyle, Daniel Brenner, SamuelBurns, John Craig, Joseph Campbell, Jesse Carothers, CharlesCarter, Stephen Calvin, Jerome Douthett, Joseph Ewing, W. , A. F. Huffman, Wm. W. McCoy, S. R. Mitchell,John Nickum, L. L. Ripper, John Ramsey, J. R. Thompson,John Wilson, and W. F. Read. The grand jurors for the June sessions were Jas. H. Fife(foreman), J. A. Sutherland, David E. Lowry, Fergus McClel-land, Jas. Anderton, Samuel Gibson, Harvey Reed, John Veon, 1 Road Docket No. 2, No. 8, Nov. Sess., 4-> °° History of Beaver County 205 Gilbert Trumpeter, Wm. Kennedy, M. McGuire, Henry Phillis,Jas. H. McCoy, and John Swaney. The order of the court approving the finding of the abovenamed grand juries was made July 15, 1874, and certified to thecommissioners for their action thereon. On the 19th day of December following, J. H. McCreery,Esq., the District Attorney of Beaver County, presented hispetition to the Court of Common Pleas, setting forth the neglectof the commissioners, viz., H. J. Marshall, Daniel Neely, andDavid Patten, to erect a court-house as directed, and prayingfor an alternative writ of 1. The same day thecourt granted the writ. On January 11, 1875, the answer ofthe commissioners was filed and the case was January 25, 1875, the court awarded a peremptory man-damus on the commissioners who were now in office, viz., DanielNeely, David Patten, and Andrew Watterson, command
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