Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania: From Its Organization to the Termination of the Revolution. [Mar. 4, 1777 - Dec. 20, 1790], Volume 13

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Page 10 - ... distance from New Castle, northward and westward, unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude ; and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned.
Page 10 - The said land to extend westward five degrees in longitude, to be computed from the said eastern bounds ; and the said lands to...
Page 10 - ... northward, then, by the said river, so far as it doth extend ; and from the head of the said river...
Page 308 - January then last past, and the overseers shall keep the said list, to be perused by any person, without payment of any fee, at any time between the hours of ten of the clock in the forenoon and four of the clock in the afternoon...
Page 483 - We are also unanimously of opinion that the jurisdiction and pre-emption of all the territory lying within the charter boundary of Pennsylvania, and now claimed by the State of Connecticut, do of right belong to the State of Pennsylvania.
Page 222 - LASTLY, the effect of such pardon by the king, is to make the offender a new man ; to acquit him of all corporal penalties and forfeitures annexed to that offence for which he obtains his pardon ; and not so much to restore his former, as to give him a new credit and capacity.
Page 95 - WHEREAS by depositions taken according to law, it appears that several evil-disposed persons have conspired to obstruct the execution of the Laws in the County of Luzerne, and have violently...
Page 570 - States should cause all hostilities to cease against his Britannic Majesty, his subjects and his possessions, at the terms and epochs agreed upon between his said Majesty the King of Great Britain, his Majesty the King of France, and his Majesty the King of Spain, so and in the same manner as...
Page 78 - An Act for the attainder of divers Traitors if they render not themselves by a certain day, and for Vesting their Estates in the Commonwealth, and for more effectually discovering' the same, and for ascertaining and satisfying the lawful Debts and Claims thereupon...
Page 461 - Charge from the Bench to the Grand Inquest at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, and general Gaol Delivery, held for the City and County of Philadelphia, April 13, 1736.

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