The Judiciary of Allegheny County, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: J. W. F. White
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332357409
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Excerpt from The Judiciary of Allegheny County, Vol. 7 The Act of 1722 established a Supreme Court Of three Judges, afterwards increased to four, who reviewed, on writs of error, the proceedings in the county courts, and were also Judges of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, for the trial of all capital felonies, for which purpose they visited each county twice a year. The Act Of 31 May, 1718, made the following Offences punishable with death: treason, misprision of trea son, murder, manslaughter, sodomy, rape, robbery, mayhem, arson, burglary, witchcraft, and concealing the birth Of a bastard child. On the night of N ov. 24, 1758, the French blew up, de stroyed, and deserted Fort Duquesne; the next day General Forbes took possession of the ruins, and commenced Fort Pitt. Ten years thereafter, by the treaty of Fort Stanwix (nov. 5, the Indian title to all lands south of the Ohio and Monongahela, and up the Allegheny as far as Kittanning, was ceded to the Perms, and four months later (march 27, the Manor of Pittsburgh was surveyed. At that time all north of the Ohio and Allegheny was Indian Terri tory. In October, 1770, George Washington visited Pitts burgh and estimated the number Of houses at about twenty, which, counting six persons to a house, would give a total population of one hundred and twenty, Of men, women, and children. 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.