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The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682-1801; Compiled Under the Authority of the Act of May 19, 1887 Volume 8 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... the rest of the people. To effectuate a purpose so desirable and just, we knew of no mode so adequate as that of instituting an office in the several counties.' If, then, an office in eaeh county is necessary, impartially and extensively to diffuse the advantages to be derived from the loans, and it be just (which your honor does not seem to controvert) to oblige the several counties to the payment of their respective deficiencies, which might arise from defective titles and want of value in the estates mortgaged, we thought it also but reasonable and just that the people on whose property those deficiencies were to be levied, should have a share in the appointment of the trustees who were to judge of the validity of those titles and that value. Nor were we apprehensive that 'great inconveniences,' if any, would arise from 'vesting the power of appointing them' in the commissioners of the 'counties, in conjunction with any three justices of the peace,' as in this, as well as in constituting an office in each county, we did not materially deviate from that policy which the legislatures of neighboring colonies, whose circumstances are, in the point before us, similar to those of this province, have for the like reasons, thought proper to adopt. Thus your honor will perceive, that if we have deviated from old forms, we have followed more applicable precedents of a modern date, which have met with His Majesty's royal approbation. We assure the Governor, as he has been pleased to intimate that he has no objection to a loan office bill, it is with real concern we find that we have failed in obtaining his concurrence in a measure of so much public importance, on a difference of sentiment respecting the form. But after the unusual length of our...
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- ISBN 10 1154331555
- ISBN 13 9781154331554
- BindingPaperback
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