1849.] HISTORY OF Delaware county. 375 



dred and forty-seven, so far as they authorize the removal of the 

 seat of justice from the borough of Chester, be, and the same are 

 hereby eonfirmed and made of full force and effect, and when 

 the public buildings referred to in said act shall have been com- 

 pleted, it shall be the duty of the Court, Sheriff", and other 

 officers of said county, to do and perform the things mentioned 

 and required to be done and jx-rformed in said act. Provided, 

 That this act shall not go into eff'ect until a decision shall be 

 obtained from the Supreme Court on the validity of said act of 

 Marcli third, cigiiteen hundred and forty-seven. Provided, how- 

 ever, that said decision shall be obtained in one year from the 

 date of the passage of this act. 



William F. Packer, 

 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

 William Williamson, 



Speaker of the Senate. 

 Approved the seventh day of April, one thousand eight hun- 

 dred and forty-eight. 



Francis R. Shunk." 



The Supreme Court soon closed their sitting in Philadelphia, 

 and no further eff'ort was made to comply with the ridiculous 

 provisions of the confirmatory law till the winter term following. 

 It w^as now apparent, from the various motions of the counsel of 

 the anti-removalists, that delay was a main object with his 

 clients; but eventually, with much perseverance, the question 

 was argued by the late Joseph G. Clarkson, the counsel of the 

 removalists, and the opinion of the Court delivered just before 

 the close of the year specified in the act. This opinion was a 

 full confirmation of the constitutionality of the Removal Law. 



The Commissioners, in pursuance of the Removal Act, very 

 soon purchased a tract of forty-eight acres of land from Sarah 

 Briggs, adjoining the County farm attached to the house for the 

 support and employment of the poor, for the sum of $5760. On 

 this a town was laid out, and many lots were immediately sold, 

 realizing a great profit to the County. It was at first intended 

 to call the town Providence, but in consideration of the great 

 number of places bearing that name, the name of Media, sug- 

 gested by Minshall Painter as a proper one, was adopted, and 

 inserted in the Act of Incorporation. The town was laid out by 

 Joseph Fox, Esq. 



The location of the public buildings increased the value of the 

 adjacent land. In this increase in value, the adjoining property 

 belonging to the county, on which the old Alms-house was located, 

 shared very fully ; so that it soon became evident, that by dis- 

 posing of this property with the old buildings, (which were not 



