150 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



nances of the Select and Common Councils, the emolument whereof is 

 paid out of the Treasury of the said city, shall be competent to serve as 

 a member of the Select or Common Councils. 



Sec 11. That all the property and estate whatsoever, real and personal, 

 of the borough of Lancaster, are hereby severally and respectively vested 

 in the corporation or body politic of the city of Lancaster and their suc- 

 cessors, in and by this act established by the name, style and title afore- 

 said, to and for the use and benefit of the said citizens and their succes- 

 sors forever. And, until the corporation of the said city shall be duly 

 organized under this act, the present charter of the borough of Lancas- 

 ter shall continue in full force and operation, and all officers under the 

 same shall be appointed and hold their offices as they now may or can 

 do by law ; and as soon as this act shall go into operation, all suits, prose- 

 cutions, debts, and claims whatever shall, by force thereof, become trans- 

 ferred to the said city, and be under the management and control thereof, 

 as fully and completely as if no alteration had been made in the said 

 charter. 



Sec 12. That the said Select and Common Councils shall, once in every 

 year, cause to be published a just and true account of all monies which 

 shall have accrued to them, in their corporate capacity, during the year 

 preceding such publication ; and also, of the disposition thereof 



Sec 13. That as often as any doubts shall arise, touching this act, the 

 same shall, in all Courts of law and equity and elsewhere, be construed 

 and taken most favorably for the said corporation. Provided^ That this 

 act, and the powers and authorities herein vested in the said city, shall 

 not be impaired, affected, defeated, or destroyed, by any neglect or 

 omission to appoint all or any of its officers at the times allotted for the 

 same. And, in case of any such defect or omission, the Recorder and 

 Aldermen of the said city, or a majority of them, shall forthwith take all 

 necessary measures to cure and supply such defects and omissions ; giving 

 due notice thereof in the public newspapers of the said city. 



Sec 11:. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 Commo7nveaUh of Pennsylvania^ in General Assembly met^ and it is Jierehy 

 enacted hy the authority of the same; That the inhabitants of the municipal 

 corporation of the city of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster, for all 

 the purposes for which cities are by law incorporated in this Common- 

 wealth, with the boundaries as at present established, excepting as here- 

 inafter provided, shall continue to be one body politic, in fact and in 

 name under the style and denomination of the city of Lancaster; and as 

 such, shall have, and exercise, and enjoy all the rights, immunities, 

 powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and obliga- 



11. Ibid., Sec. 26. 13. Ibid., Sec. 38. 



13. Ibid., Sec. 37. 14. Act of April 5, 1867, See. 1. 



