1847.] 



HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 



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Majority in favor of removal . 752 



When the result of the election became known, the majority 

 being so large, no one then thought of making even an effort to de- 

 feat the will of the people thus emphatically expressed. A cer- 

 tain act, however, had been recently passed by the Legislature, 

 giving the citizens of each township a right to decide by ballot, 

 whether spirituous liquors should be sold in their respective 

 townships. This act had been declared unconstitutional by the 

 Supreme Court, and their being some similarity between that 

 act and the Removal Act, its constitutionality also became 

 questionable. The Commissioners felt unwilling to proceed with 

 the erection of the new buildings until the constitutional ques- 

 tion should be decided, or a confirmatory act shouhl be passed. 

 The friends of removal at once determined to ask the Legis- 

 lature to pass a confirmatory act, not dreaming that a propo- 

 sition so reasonable and just would meet with the least resistance 

 from any quarter. In tliis they were mistaken, for their appli- 

 cation was met by a remonstrance from a large number of anti- 



