RE  ESTABLISHMENT  OF  BOROUGHS.
Section  1.  In  all  cases,  where  cities  of  the  third  class  have  been
formed  by  joining  together  two  or  more  boroughs,  it  shall  be  lawful
for  the  courts  of  common  pleas  of  the  proper  county,  upon  the  petition
of  not  less  than  one-third  of  the  registered  voters  of  the  territory,
proposed  to  be  erected  into  such  borough,  formerly  comprised  within
the  limits  of  either  borough,  setting  forth  that  the  inhabitants  of  said
territory  wish  to  separate  from  the  city  of  which  they  form  a  part,
and  to  establish  therein  a  borough  organization,  to  appoint  three  com-
missioners, whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  investigate  the  facts  set  forth
in  such  petition,  and  to  report  to  the  said  court  as  to  the  expediency  or
inexpediency  of  granting  the  prayer  of  the  petitioners.
Section  1,  Act  of  Apr.  18,  1877,  P.  L.  55.
