Section 11

Section 11. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said mayor, recorder and aldermen, or any four or more of them (whereof the mayor or recorder for the time being shall be one) shall have full power and authority, and they are hereby vested with full power and authority to enquire of, hear, try and determine, agreeably to the laws and constitution of this commonwealth, all forgeries, perjuries, larcenies, assaults and batteries, riots, routs and unlawful assemblies, and all other offences which have been committed or shall be committed within the said city, which would be cognisable in any county court of quarter sessions of the peace of or for any county within this commonwealth, had the same offences, or any of them, been committed within any such county, and to punish all persons who shall be convicted of the same offences, or any of them, agreeably to the laws of this commonwealth, and also to enquire of, hear, try and determine all offences which shall be committed within the said city against any of the laws, ordinances, regulations or constitutions that shall be made, ordained and established in pursuance of this act, and to punish the offender and offenders, as by the said laws, ordinances, regulations or constitutions shall be prescribed or directed, also to impose fines on jurymen and others, according to law, and levy the same, and to award process, take recognizances for keeping the peace, for being of good behaviour, and for appearance or otherwise, or to commit to prison, as occasion shall lawfully require, without being accountable to the commonwealth for any fines or amercements to be imposed for the said offences, or any of them, except such as are or shall be by law made payable into the state treasury for offencess against this commonwealth, and generally to do all such matters and things within the said city, as any court of quarter sessions of the peace, oyer and terminer and jail delivery of and for any county within this commonwealth may or can do within any such county, and to the ends and intents, and for the purposes aforesaid, and for such other ends, intents and purposes as are in and by this act declared or mentioned, the said mayor, recorder and aldermen, or any four of them, (whereof the mayor or recorder for the time being shall be one) shall have full power and authority, and they are hereby vested with full power and authority to hold and keep a court of record within the said city four times in each year, by the name, style, and title of "The Mayors Court for the City of Pittsburg," for the enquiring, hearing, trying and determining of the pleas and matters aforesaid, and for the punishing of those who shall be found guilty thereof, and for the causing all encroachments in the streets of said city, and all nuisances to be removed, and for the punishing of offenders as the law in such cases requires, and for the doing and performing all such other matters and things as are in and by this act made cognizable by them or any of them.