The suggestion by Mr. Rice, that the town be named Catasauqua, was generally adopted, and application was made to the court of Quarter Sessions of the County of Lehigh, April 3, 1851, for incorporation into a Borough. The decree of the court was rendered February 1, 1853. The maiden election of officials for the new corporation resulted as follows:

Chief Burgess--David Thomas.

Town Council--Jesse Knauss, William Biery, Joshua Hunt, Jr., Joseph Laubach, John Clark.

Street Commissioners--Morgan Emanuel, Jonas Biery.

High Constable--Charles Sigley.

Auditor--John Williams.

Judge--Isaac E. Chandler.

Inspectors--David G. Jones, Augustus H. Gilbert.

Assessor--Levi Haas.

School Directors--James Ginder, Owen Rice, Charles Nolf, Charles G. Schneller, George W. Klotz, James Wilson.

Justice of the Peace--John Hudders.

Constable--Joseph Lazarus.

To facilitate municipal elections and in order to secure equitable representation for each section of the borough in Town Council and the School Board, forty-nine citizens petitioned the Court, April 11, 1876, for a division of the Borough into two wards. The Court appointed Eli J. Sieger, J. F. Newhard and W. B. Powell as commissioners to examine the territory and report to the Court.

Their recommendation to divide the Borough into two wards (First Ward and Second Ward), with Church Street as the boundary line between them, was confirmed by the Court, January 19, 1877.

Application to extend the Borough limits on the east was made in 1909. The object of the petition was to annex East Catasauqua, a territory comprising about 435 acres. The decree of annexation was handed down October 3, 1909, and East Catasauqua was constituted the Third Ward. The commissioners were William Weisley, John R. Tait and James T. Davies.

The Second Ward was divided into two parts (Second Ward and Fourth Ward) with Third Street as the dividing line. The Fourth Ward comprises the eastern or Howertown Avenue section. The commissioners were H. W. Hankee, Harvey H. Knerr, and Samuel Heilman.

Benedict Mark, William Wilkinson, Elvina N. Fehr and John W. Koch, being a majority of freeholders adjacent to and along the north and the east boundary lines of the Borough and in the same county, petitioned the Court of Lehigh to be annexed to Catasauqua. The case was laid before the Grand Jury sitting for the Quarter Session of June Term, 1895. The Grand Jury having reported favorably to the petition, the Court decreed, July 2, 1895, that the properties named and their contiguous lots be incorporated in the Borough of Catasauqua.

The northern limits of Catasauqua were fixed to coincide with the boundary between Hanover and Allen townships. This boundary, however, was in dispute for many years so that certain tax-payers and voters were in doubt as to where they lived. A report by commissioners appointed by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lehigh County, was set aside January 6, 1889. At a later date commissioners were appointed by joint action of the Lehigh and the Northampton County Courts (Allen Township being in the latter County). The gentlemen were Major Samuel D. Lehr of Allentown, Birge Pearson of Easton and Thomas S. McNair, of Hazleton.

They located a point on the east bank of the Lehigh River, twenty perches south of Faust's Ferry, and a spot in the Monocacy creek, where it crosses the road leading from Hanoverville to Bath, PA, and drew a straight line between the boroughs of Catasauqua and North Catasauqua.

It appears that at the turn of the century the local people had a slight problem with the boundary adjustment.

"It cuts diagonally through Mr. Faust's property at Catasauqua and cuts off a small corner of the Bryden Horse Shoe Works property; then it passes north of Thomas Bachman's house and touches the bay-window of Daniel Milson's house which later became the home of James M. Lennon); it crosses Adam Rau's premises so as to cut it into two equal triangles; and it also cuts off a foot and a half of a corner of the stand pipe."