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was moved and agreed that the further consideration 

 thereof should be deferred till to-morrow at nine o'clock? 

 beforenoon, to which time the council is adjourned." 



" Council met next day — the minutes of the three pro- 

 ceeding councils being read and approved, the board 

 according to order entered into the consideration of the 

 petition in the minutes of yesterday, touching tlip 

 division of Chester county, and after the same had 

 been fully considered and debated, the board came to 

 the following resolution : That, as well for as reasons set 

 forth in the said petition, as the security, peace and good 

 order of the whole government, there doth appear a real 

 tiecessity that a new county should be erected, according 

 to the prayer of said petition ; and although the power 

 of erecting counties is wholly vested in the proprietary, 

 and therefore in the Governor, or his lieutenant, yet, in- 

 asmuch as this will require the establishment of comts 

 of judicature, with other alterations, for which a due 

 provision v/ill best be made by a law ; it may be 

 convenient that the government acquaint the House of 

 Representatives now sitting, vv^ith the application made 

 to him, that the same may be carried on with, and 

 strengthened by the johit and unanimous concurrence of 

 the whole Legislature. '^ 



"At a council held at Philadelphia, February 20thj 

 1728-9. The minutes of the preceeding council being 

 read and approved, the Governor inform^ed the board 

 that pursuant to the resolution of the last council, he had 

 acquainted the House of Representives v/ith his inten- 

 tion to erect the upper part of the county of Chester 

 into a separate county, in which they had conciKred and 

 desired that an equal number of the inhabitants of the 

 lower and upper part might run the division line ; and 

 th(a:efore, he was now to recommend to the board to 



