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was maved 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 pre- 

 ceeding councils being read and approved, the board 

 according to order entered into the consideration of the 

 petition in the minutes of yesterday, touching the 

 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 

 necessity 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- 

 asmucli as this will requirs the establishment of courts 

 of judicature, with other alterations, for which a due 

 provision will best be made by a law ; it may be 

 convenient that the government acquaint the House of 

 Representatives now sitting, with the application made 

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

 strengthened by the joint and mianimous concurrence of 

 the whole Legislature." 



"At a council held at Philadelphia, February 20th, 

 1728-9. The minutes of the preceeding council being 

 read and approved, the Governor informed the board 

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

 acquainted the House of Representives with his inten- 

 tion to erect the upper part of the county of Chester 

 into a separate county, in which they had concurred and 

 desired that an equal number of the inhabitants of the 

 lower and upper part might run the division line ; and 

 therefore, he was now to recommend to the board to 



