CHARTER OF THE CITY OF LANCASTER. 149 



with the like appeal, by the party aggrieved, to the Court of Common 

 Pleas of the county of Lancaster. 



Sec. 7. That the Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen, or any of them, shall 

 and may take and receive the acknowledgment and probate of all deeds 

 and written instruments, and receive the legal fees therefor: which ac- 

 knowledgments and probates shall be as valid, and, have the like force 

 and effect, as if tlie same were acknowledged before a Judge of the Su- 

 preme Court or any Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, within this 

 Commonwealth. 



Sec 8. That it shall and may be lawful for the Select and Common 

 Councils, in common council assembled, from time to time, to permit and 

 license such and so many brokers within the said city, and under such 

 rules and regulations, as they may think proper ; and to prohibit all other 

 persons from using and exercising the business of a broker therein, under 

 such pains and penalties as shall from time to time be ordained and estab- 

 lished. 



Sec. 9. That it shall and may be lawful for the Select and Common 

 Councils, when duly assembled, from time to time by any ordinance duly 

 enacted, to vest in the Mayor of the said city for the time being, the 

 appointment of such officers within the said city, as they may think expe- 

 dient for the well-ordering .and governing the same, and to remove the 

 same from such offices or appointments, for mis-behavior or otherwise, as 

 may be necessary ; which officers shall take an oath or affirmation, before 

 the said Mayor, Recorder, or Alderman, well and faithfully to perform 

 the duties of the offices or appointments to them respectively committed. 

 And the said Councils may require security to be given by such officers, 

 or any of them, and prescribe the sum and the form in which such secu- 

 rity shall be given. And the said officers and their sureties may be sued 

 and recovery had against them in the city court, for breach of official 

 duty, or delinquency in paying over any monies collected by them, under 

 criminal or civil process issued by the Mayor, Recorder, or any Alderman 

 of the said city. And for the recovery of lines, forfeitures, and penal- 

 ties, debts, and other demands, cognizable in the city court, the ordinary 

 forms of law shall be pursued in the process, judgment, and several kinds 

 of execution, as if the same were made cognizable and recoverable in the 

 courts of the county. And all officers and jurors of the said city shall 

 be competent to hear, try, and determine all matters and things within 

 their jurisdiction ; and all citizens to give testimony, notwithstanding any 

 fine or penalty be made payable for the use of the said city. 



Sec. 10. That no Alderman of the said city, nor any person holding an 

 office of trust or profit under the laws of this Commonwealth, or the ordi- 



7. Ibid., Sec. 22. 9- Ibid., Sec. 24. 



8. Ibid., Sec. 23. 10. Ibid., Bee. 25. 



