Coalmont

The founding record

Incorporation., On the 10th of August, 1864, a petition was presented to the judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions, praying for the incorporation of the village of Coalmont as a borough, in accordance with the acts of Assembly in such cases made and provided. The petition set forth, among other statements, that the number of inhabitants within the limits of the proposed borough was three hundred and twenty-one. It was signed by Levi Evans and twenty-six other freeholders of the village. * On the 15th of the same month a remonstrance against such incorporation was filed, signed by J. Brooks and eight other citizens and freeholders of the village. It set forth that a borough government would necessitate increased burdens of taxation, which the inhabitants were illy able to sustain. The grand jury reported favorably on this petition, and on the 22d of November, 1864, the court by a decree constituted the village of Coalmont a borough, and a separate election and school district. 234 HISTORY OF HUNTINGDON COUN TY, PENNSYLVANIA. J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 1,524,016 of the scanned text

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