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Coneord—M. Stamp, E. Yarnall. 

 Ethjmont — E. B. Green, Georfje Baker. 

 Marple — Abraham Pratt, Dr. J. M. Moore. 

 Middletown — Joseph Edwards, Abram Pennell. 

 Newtown — Eli Lewis, T. H. Speakman. 

 N. Frovidenci>—R. T. Worrall, P. Worrall. 

 Upper Providence — E. Bishop, Thos. Reese. 

 Thornbury — Eli Baker, David Green. 

 Tinicum — Joseph Weaver, Jr. 



After various discussions, a vote was taken on the different 

 sites that had been proposed, which resulted in giving the 

 County property 8 votes ; the Black Horse, 6 ; Chester, 6, and 

 Rose Tree, 2. Eventually, upon further ballotings, the County 

 property received 12 votes, a majority of the whole. Both re- 

 movalists and anti-removalists were very imperfectly represented 

 by the Delegates assembled at this meeting, yet it was their ac- 

 tion that determined the particular location of the future seat of 

 justice of the County. 



The anti-removalists were present at the meeting to defeat the 

 question of removal altogether ; but should not have participated 

 in a vote upon the different sites, if they did not intend to be 

 bound by the result. Those removalists, who felt that they had 

 not been represented at the meeting, (and they constituted a 

 majority of the whole,) were generally opposed to fixing a site 

 at all, but desired that the vote of the people should be taken, 

 simply, for and against the removal. From this cause, and with 

 the view of reconciling all differences, the committee appointed 

 by the meeting held at the Black Horse, called a third meeting, 

 to be held at the Hall of the Delaware County Institute of Sci- 

 ence, on the 30th of the same month. This meeting was very 

 largely attended. An address to the people of the County was 

 adopted, and also the form of a petition to the Legislature in 

 favor of a law giving the people a right to vote on the question 

 of removal without fixing a site. This was not acquiesced in 

 by a considerable number of removalists residing principally in 

 the northwestern part of the County, and the result was a 

 schism in the removal party, and the adoption of two forms of 

 petition to the Legislature. 



The County was represented by William Williamson of Chester 

 County in the Senate, and by John Larkin, Jr., in the House — 

 both gentlemen being opposed to removal, but both understood 

 to be favorable to the passage of a law that would afford the 

 people of the County a fair vote on the question. 



The dispute among the removalists in respect to fixing or not 

 fixing a site in advance, grew warm, and as a majority of them 

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