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by law, that every white male inhabitant, who shall be over the age of 21 years, and shall have paid a tax, shall be considered worth fifty pounds, and entitled to vote;-and by another legislative act, females and negroes are prohibited from voting.]

The judges are appointed by the Legislature, those of the Supreme Court for a term of seven years, and those of the inferior courts, for five years; both are capable of being reäppointed.

Government for the year ending November, 1830.

Peter D. Vroom, Jun. Governor; salary $2,000, and fees of office as Chancellor of the state ex officio.

Edward Condit, Vice-President of the Legislative Council. Pay during attendance, $3,50 a day.

Daniel Coleman, Secretary of State, and Auditor. Salary $50, and perquisites.

Charles Parker, Treasurer. Salary $1,100.

Samuel L. Southard, Attorney General. Salary $80.

John Wilson, Clerk in Chancery. Pay, perquisites.

The members of the Legislative Council and the General Assembly, receive $3 for each day's attendance, and $3 for every 20 miles' travel.

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George K. Drake,

Zacariah Rossel,

JUDICIARY.

Supreme Court.

Chief Justice,
Associate Justice,
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Clerk of the Supreme Court.

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The judges of the Inferior Courts are appointed by the Legislature. Their number is not limited, and they have no salary.

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EDUCATION.

There are colleges and theological seminaries at Princeton and New Brunswick, and academies at various places.

This state has a School Fund which amounted, in October 1829, to $245,404 47, which is all in productive stocks, yielding an interest, on an average, of about 5 per cent. A tax of half of one per cent. on the amount of the capital stock of the several banks subscribed and paid in, is also appropriated to this fund; and the whole annual income is about $22,000. By a law passed, in 1829, $20,000 were annually appropriated to the support of common schools out of the income of the fund.

IX. PENNSYLVANIA.

PENNSYLVANIA was granted by Charles II. by a Charter signed on the 4th of March, 1681, to the illustrious William Penn, who was constituted the proprietary of the province. In 1682, William Penn, together with about two thousand settlers, most of whom, like himself, belonged to the society of Friends or Quakers, arrived in the country; and in the following year he laid out the plan of the city of Philadelphia. He established a friendly intercourse with the Indians, which was not interrupted for more than seventy years.

From the beginning of the 18th century till the commencement of the American Revolution, the government was generally administered by deputies appointed by the proprietaries, who mostly resided in England.

GOVERNORS, DEPUTY GOVERNORS, &c.

Under the Proprietary Government.
Appointed.

WILLIAM PENN, Prop. & Gov. 1682 James Logan, President,

Thomas Lloyd, President,
John Blackwell, Dep. Gov.

Benj. Fletcher,
William Markham,
WILLIAM PENN, do.

Appointed.

1786

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And'w Hamilton, Dep. Gov.

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The first Constitution of Pennsylvania was adopted in 1776; the present Constitution in 1790.

The legislative power is vested in a General Assembly, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives.

The representatives are elected annually on the second Tuesday in October, by the citizens of Philadelphia and of the several counties, apportioned according to the number of taxable inhabitants. The number cannot be less than 60, nor more than 100.

The senators are chosen for four years, one fourth being elected annually, at the time of the election of the representatives. Their number cannot be greater than one third, nor less than one fourth of the number of the representatives.

[In 1829, it was enacted by the General Assembly, "that until the next enumeration of taxable inhabitants, and an apportionment thereon, the senate, at a ratio of 7,700 [taxable inhabitants], shall consist of 33 members"; and "the House of Representatives, at a ratio of 2,544,, shall consist of 100 members."-The following statement shows the representative number, and the number of members of the legislature, at different periods.

Ratio. Representatives. 78

Ratio. Senators.

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The executive power is vested in a Governor, who is elected by the people on the second Tuesday in October, and who holds his office during three years, from the third Tuesday in December next following his election; and he cannot hold the office more than 9 years, in any term of 12 years. The General Assembly meets annually (at Harrisburg), on the first Tuesday in December, unless sooner convened by the Governor

The judicial power is vested in a Supreme Court, in Courts of oyer and terminer and gaol-delivery, in Courts of Common Pleas, an Orphans' Court, a Register's Court, a Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace for each county, and in such other courts as the legislature may, from time to time, establish. The judges of the Supreme Court and the several Courts of Common Pleas, are appointed by the Governor, and hold their offices during good behavior.

The right of suffrage is possessed by every freeman of the age of 21 years, who has resided in the state two years next preceding an election, and within that time paid a state or county tax, assessed at least six months before the election.

THE EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATURE.

The term of the present Governor will expire on the 3d Tuesday in December, 1832; and the terms of the Senators in October, in the years 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833.

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Senators, with the Expiration of their respective Terms.

William G. Hawkins, Speaker of the Senate.

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Frederick Smith, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

The Senators and Representatives receive $3 for each day's attendance, and 15 cents a mile for travel; the Speaker of each House, $4 a day.

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The judges of the Supreme Court hold Circuit Courts throughout the state, for which they receive, in addition to their salaries, $4 a day while on the circuits.

The jurisdiction of the following two District Courts for Philadelphia and for Lancaster and York counties, is the same as that of the Court of Common Pleas in other counties.

District Court for the City and Co. of Philadelphia.

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District Court for the Cos. of Lancaster and York.

Ebenezer G. Bradford, President Judge,
Alexander L. Hayes, Associate Judge,

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Salary.

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2,000

The State is divided into the 16 following Districts, for the sessions of the Courts of Common Pleas. The President Judge of the District of Philadelphia has a salary of $2,000, and two Associate Judges $400 each. The President Judge in the other districts have salaries of $1,600, and their

associates $200.

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