Crawford County, Pennsylvania

Be it enacted ... that [three men are appointed commissioners] to survey, define and mark boundaries of a territory lying in the township of Oil Creek, the county of Crawford; said territory to be sur veyed or laid out within tracts number 27, 28, 29, 33 and 34, or from such part or parts of the said tracts, including the village of Titusville, as to them shall appear the most proper and convenient, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned; ... and said commissioners shall make return of said survey to the recorder of Crawford county, who shall record the same as evidence of said boundaries; and the territory so designated, is hereby erected into a borough, to be called the borough of Titusville.

Beginning at the n.e. corner of Tract No. 27 at a stone; thence south along the line of lands of H. J. Huidekoper and Thomas H. Sill now J. L. Chase & Co. 418 perches to a hemlock or maple; thence west along the line of Venango Co. or lands of Allen & Co., John Irwin and the heirs of A. Robinson, 640 perches to a post and stone; thence north by lands of Robert Lewis and the heirs of James Kerr, 415.5 perches to a post and stone; thence east by lands of Wm Kelly & Woods 640 perches to a stone and place of beginning, containing Tract Nos. 27, 28, 33, and 34 entire

Be it enacted ... that the inhabitants of the borough of Titusville, in the county of Crawford, as the said borough now extends, and is incorporated, and hereby constituted a corporation, and body politic, by the name and style of the city of Titusville.  The city of Titusville shall be divided into four wards [with Pine and Franklin Streets as the dividing line].