In favor of Catherine, the widow of General William Thompson, deceased, for seventy pounds six shillings and three pence, being one quarter's pension due to her under the act of Assembly dated March 1st, 1780.

A deed was examined and signed by his Excellency the Presi dent, bearing date the tenth instant, conveying to John Grauel, in ffee simple, a certain three story brick messuage or tenement and lot of ground, marked with the letter A, (in the general plan of the ground, whereon the barracks formerly stood,) being forty-six and a half feet in breadth on Third street continued in the Northern Liberties, and extending in length, or depth, one hundred and twelve feet, to Rose alley, which messuage and lot of ground he purchased on the third day of July, 1784, for one thousand two hundred and ten pounds, from the Commissioners appointed by Council to sell the said barrack ground, and hath paid the said sum, as appears by the said Commissioners' receipts.

A letter from the Delegates of this State, inclosing an act of Congress dated the sixth of this month, for surveying and ascer taining the quantity of land situate between Lake Erie and Pennsylvania and west of the boundaries of the States of New York and Massachusets, and fixing the price at which the same may be sold, was read, requesting instructions from Council relative to the purchase of the said land on account of the State.

A letter of instructions was written to Stephen Balliet and William Armstrong, Esquires, inclosing the minutes of Council of the fourteenth of May and seventh instant, and requesting them to proceed without delay to the county of Luzerne, on the business of their appointment, and consult Messicurs Montgomery and Gray, Deputy Surveyors, and obtain from them such drafts of surveys as it may be in their power to furnish, and from Colonel Pickering descriptions of the townships comprehended in the resolution of Assembly of March 27th, 1788.

A letter from James Findley of Westmoreland county, requesting Council to accept his resignation of his offices of Justices of the

Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas of the said county, was read; and thereupon it was

Resolved, That the said resignation be accepted.

Council resumed the consideration of the letter from the Delegates of this State, and the act of Congress inclosed therein, which were received on the twelfth instant, respecting a survey to fix the boundary and determine the quantity of land within the territory adjoining the northern boundary of this State, belonging to the United States, and authorizing the Board of Treasury of the United States to sell the said land, in whole, at private sale, for a price not less than three-fourths of a dollar per acre in specie, or public securities drawing interest;

Resolved, That the President inform our Delegates in Congress, that they are authorized and empowered by this Board to negotiate and contract with Congress, in behalf of this State, for the purchase of the lands before described, at the rate of three-quarters of a dollar per acre in specie or public securitys bearing interest.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of Joseph Perkins for the sum of four hundred pounds, payable out of the monies arising from militia fines in the city and liberties of Philadelphia, towards defraying the expence of repairing the public arms, which were delivered to him for that purpose, for which sum he is to account.

In favor of Captain David Zeigler for one hundred and ten dollars, towards defraying the expences of the recruiting service, under an act of the General Assembly passed the tenth day of November, 1787, for which sum he is to account with Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Harmar, who is to be accountable to the State.

Upon application of Mr. Samuel Caldwell for sundry papers in the office of the Secretary of the Land office, that are necessary on the tryal for Hogg Island;

Ordered, That Mr. Kennedy be requested to deliver the said papers to Mr. Caldwell, taking his receipt to return them to the said office.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honora ble Francis Hopkinson, Esquire, for seventy-five pounds, being one quarter's salary due to him on the thirteenth instant, as Judge of the Court of Admiralty, according to the Comptroller General's report.

A remonstrance from a number of freeholders residing in the districts of the townships of Germany and Mountjoy, in the county of York, against an election of Justices of the Peace, lately held in the said district, was read, and an order taken that Henry Slagle, Jacob Rudisill and David Beatty, Esquires, Justices of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, living near the said district, be authorized and directed to investigate the facts stated in the said remonstrance, upon the oaths of such witnesses as may be adduced, and make report to this Board in manner and form prescribed in and by an act of Assembly intituled "An Act to remedy the defects of the several acts of Assembly heretofore made for regulating the elections of Justices of the Peace throughout this State, &ca."

A report from Daniel May, Andrew Thompson and Henry Slagle, Esquires, of the evidence taken by them, touching a disputed election of Justices of the Peace, in the district of the townships of Warrington and Manahan, in the county York, in pursu ance of an order of this Board of the twenty-eighth of March last, was received and read; and on consideration it was

Resolved, To confirm the said election, and the petition against it was dismissed; thereupon, Elihu Underwood, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of York

Upon the petition of Thomas Jennings, now of the Invalid Guards, stating that he has been fined in the sum of twenty-one shillings, for non-attendance upon militia duty, in the year 1787, that he is unable to pay the said fine, and praying Council to remit the same; an order was taken that the prayer of the petitioner be granted, in consideration of his extreme poverty.

Two letters from Charles Thomson, Esquire, the one enclosing an act of Congress dated May the twenty-second, 1788, relative to the closing all accounts between the United States and individual persons, who have been intrusted with public monies, from time to time; and the other inclosing the representation in Congress, in the month of May last, were received, read and filed.

Upon the petition and recommendation in favor of Mary Shoeman; it was

Ordered, That the fine and punishment at hard labour, to which she was sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery of the county of Philadelphia, upon being convicted of larceny, be remitted, in consideration of her youth, and this being the first crime.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, June 18th, 1788.

PRESENT:

The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi dent.

James Read,

George Ross,

David Redick, and
Christopher Kucher,

Esquires.

Abraham Smith,

Two orders were drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Colonel James O'Hara, for the sum of one thousand dollars each, being in part of seven thousand dollars, which on the tenth day of January last, Council agreed to pay to him for supplying the troops in the western country with provisions, for which two several sums he is to account, the same to be charged to the United States.

Two transcripts from the records of the last Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery held in the county of York, of the conviction of Philip Nagle, for uttering base coin, knowing it to be such, and negro Jack Durham, of a rape committed in the said county, were received and read, and the further consideration thereof postponed until Saturday next.

Upon the petition of James Dugan, convicted at Philadelphia County Court for this month, of keeping a tipling house, and fined ten pounds, and it appearing he is unable to pay the fine,

Ordered, That the said fine be remitted.

Upon the petitions of John Boice and Lenah Bennet, and a recommendation from the Justices of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery of the county of Bucks, it

was

Ordered, That the several fines imposed upon them by the said Court, upon their several convictions, the former of larceny and the latter of perjury, be remitted.

Christopher Kucher, George Ross,

Upon consideration of the petition and recommendation in favor of James Haulen,

Ordered, That the punishment at hard labour, to which the said James Hanlen was sentenced by the last Court of Oyer and Terminer held in York county, upon being convicted of robbing a certain George Lantzel of a mare, be remitted, according to the prayer of the said petition.

The fine of forty pounds payable to the use of the Commonwealth by Matthew Hughes, upon his being convicted of an assault and battery at the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery of the county of Bucks, was remitted, upon his petition and a recommendation from several inhabitants of the county of Bucks, of good character.

Agreeably to the minutes of the eighteenth instant, Council took into consideration two transcripts from the records of the last Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail delivery, held in York and Franklin counties, in the case of Philip Nagle, convicted of uttering base and counterfeited coin, knowing it to be such, and sentenced to be hanged by the neck until he be dead; and of negro Jack Durham, convicted of a rape in the last mentioned county, and sentenced in like manner; whereupon, it was

Ordered, That execution of the several sentences of the said Courts against the said Philip Nagle and negro Jack Durham, be made and done upon them on Tuesday the eighth day of July next,