Event Detail

Summary

Type Method Description Successful?
Annexation Municipality Laflin Borough 1903 Ordinance yes

Dates

Event Year(s) Final Decree Date Effective Date How Effective Date Determined
1903 Jun 15, 1903 Final Decree - Date Granted

Map

Affected Government

From
Municipality		 From
County		 From
State		 To
Municipality		 To
County		 To
State
Jenkins, Township of
Reduction 		Luzerne County
Part 		PA
Part 		Laflin, Borough of
Expansion 		Luzerne County
Part 		PA
Part

Metes and Bounds Description

Detail Description Type Source Acres Beginning Point
View Laflin Borough 1903 Ordinance shape ordinance (docket) 6.5 point in the division line between the Borough of Laflin and Jenkins Township, said point being South sixty eight degrees and twenty minutes west sixty eight feet from a stone monument marking the line between the Thomas Williamson and Benjamin Swallow farms of the Pennsylvania Coal boundary

Adjudication

Detail Tribunal Type No. Term Relationship
View Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Sessions 553 Apr 1903 direct

Law

Detail Citation Relationship
View Act of April 3, 1851 (Pa. Laws 320, No. 218), § 30 indirect
View Act of June 2, 1871 (Pa. Laws 283, No. 264), § 4 indirect
View Act of July 15, 1897 (Pa. Laws 296, No. 229), § 1 indirect
View Act of April 28, 1899 (Pa. Laws 115, No. 92), § 1 indirect
View Act of April 1, 1834 (1833-1834 Pa. Laws 163, No. 98), §§ 1–3 reference
View Act of April 22, 1903 (Pa. Laws 247, No. 183), §§ 1–2 reference

Government Action

Detail Government Action Date Approved Effective Location
Laflin, Borough of Ordinance: Providing for the admission of a certain tract of land into the Borough of Laflin Apr 14, 1903