final but that parties aggrieved thereby might appeal to the King. However, 
such appellants were to deposit the amount of the judgment or become bound 
with sufficient securities in double the said amount to prosecute the appeal with 
effect within twelve months. In case of appellate affirmance or of failure to 
prosecute within the time limited, appellant was to pay all debts, damages, and 
costs adjudged on the judgment appealed from and all costs and damages 
awarded for delay of execution. Upon giving the recognizance execution was 
to be stayed. 178 This act was short-lived, being disallowed by the King in 
Council in February, 1705/6. 179 
A similar provision was then incorporated in a February, 1710/11, act establishing 
courts, but the time limited for prosecution was extended to eighteen 
months. 180 This act met the same fate as the former in February, 1713/4. 181 
In each of these cases the acts had been disallowed for reasons not pertinent 
to the provision governing appeals. Therefore, in May, 1715, there was passed 
An Act Directing Appeals to Great Britain, devoted to the appellate process 
alone. This act provided for appeals from judgments, sentences, and decrees 
of any of the supreme courts or courts of admiralty in the province to the King 
in Council under the conditions of the 1710/1 act. 182 Yet even this legislative 
technique failed to aid, for disallowance followed in August, 1719, on the score 
that an appealable minimum was lacking. 183 Apparently notice of the disallowance 
never reached the colony. 184 
Finally, in May, 1722, an act for establishing a judicial system was passed 
which escaped disallowance. This act contained a clause saving the right of 
appeal from final sentence, judgment, or decree of any court to the King in 
Council or to such court or courts, judge or judges which should be appointed 
by the King to hear appeals from the plantations. This right was subject to 
the condition that appellant pay all accumulated costs and enter into bond of 
with two sufficient securities, conditioned to prosecute the appeal with 
effect within eighteen months, to satisfy the judgment appealed from, and 
to pay all costs and damages awarded in case of appellate affirmance or failure 
178 An Act for Establishing Courts of Judicature 
in this Province and Counties annexed, 
Charter and haws Prof. Pa., 314-15. 
179 1 Charters and Acts of Assembly of the 
Province of Pennsylvania (1762), 16-19. 
180 An Act for Establishing Courts of Judicature 
in this Province, Charter and Laws 
Prov. Pa., 328. 
181 1 Charters and Acts Assemb. Prov. Pa. 
(1762), 51. 
182 Charter and Laws Prov. Pa., 355. 
183 3 Stat, at Large Pa., 440. The Board of 
Trade had objected against the act that there 
was no sum limited for which an appeal might 
be brought as provided in the instructions to 
all governors of the royal colonies. However, 
disallowance was not advised outright, the 
matter being submitted to the determination 
of the Council {ibid., 466; CSP, Col., 1719-20, 
#297). Penn had memorialized in favor of 
the act that it was made pursuant to the 
charter provision (3 Stat, at Large Pa., 447). 
At one time during the act's legislative career 
a minimum had been inserted; see 2 
Pa. Archives (Bth ser.) 1125-26. 
18i See 3 Stat, at Large Pa., 32, note.