Remarks on ye Coll: Charter, Laws, etc. (manuscript copy), [1721]

One folio-sized leaf containing a two-page handwritten copy of a paper in Nicholas Sever's hand outlining his interpretation of Harvard records related to membership in the Harvard Corporation. This item is a different version of another copy in this collection (UAI 20.718 Box 1, Folder 3) The document begins, "When ye College was Incorporated it seems yt: all its Affairs were intirely (sic) put into ye hands of ye Corporation..."

Laws made and past by William Penn: Absolute Proprietary and Governour in Chief of the province of Pennsylvania and territories thereunto belonging, with the advice and consent of the freemen thereof in genrall assembly met at Newcastle...1700....and [as amended] at Philadelphia...1701

Contains one of the few original copies of Penn's laws as first passed and as revised and extended in the following year. During the interval between the two Assemblies, while Penn was absent in England, the first series of laws were found to be impracticable, and new amendments were made for which Penn had no choice but to agree to.