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Excerpt from Memorial of the Erection of Lackawanna County, in the State of Pennsylvania: Comprising an Account of the Progress of the New-County Movement, the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the Court-House, and a Stenographic Report of the Speeches at the Banquet, Held at the Wyoming House, Scranton, May 25, 1882
The appointment of Judge bentley was made on the ground that Lackawanna County, the moment it was erected, became, under the provisions of the Constitution, a. Separate judicial district. A mandamus was issued by the Supreme Court, wherein it was decided that the Constitution did not execute itself, but that legislation was meces sary before a new district could be created, hence the appointment was illegal and void. By the provisions of the new-county Act, the new countv was to remain in the same judicial district with the old, hence the Judges of Luzerne organized and held the courts. By Act of Assembly of March 13th, 1879, Lackawanna was made the forty-fifth Judicial District, and john handley assigned as President Judge and alfred hand as Additional Law Judge thereof. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
