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1781 508 (1781)

handle is hein.ssl/sspa0219 and id is 1 raw text is: His EXCELLENCY T78r. Tb' flfib rear of the Common. feab. L A W S Ena&ed in the fourth fitting of the fifth general affembly of the commonwealth of Penz/y/vania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on 2ueJday, the fourth day of September, A. D. 178 r. C H A P T E R CCXIV. An ACT to incorporate the German Society, contributing Jor the relie of direjed Germans, in the flate of Penn- .ylva ia. Preamble. SECTION I. ATHEREAS the arrival of Germans V from Europe, and the numerous fettlcments made b- them in Pennfylvania, have grcatly contributed to the prefent wealth and fRrength of this Rate; and the means of encouraging thef foreigners to come and fettle among us, by removing or leffening their diflreffes in a new country, have, on findry occa- fions, deferk edly engaged the attention of the former go- vernment of this country. SreT. 2. And whereas a number of German inhabi- tants of the city of Philadelphia, and its neighbourhood, by their humble petition to the general affembly of this fRate, have reprefented ,nd (hewn, that fome time in the year of our Lord one thouland feven hundred and fixty fbur, fome of the petitioners and divers other perfons, all Germans by birth, or defcending from Germans, who had fettled in this flate, moved by the fuderings of their countrymen then newly arrived, formed themlelves into a charitable fociety, under the name of -The Ger- man Society of Philadelphia, in the province of Pennfyl- vania, and by voluntary fubfcriptions and flated contri- butions from time to time, fupplied the poor, the ick, and otherwife difireffed Germans, brought to the city of Philadelphia 508