An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable 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, Andre 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 pursuance 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 President. James Read, George Ross, David Redick, and 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. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, June 19th, 1788. PRESENT: The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi dent. Upon the petition of James Dugan, convicted at Philadelphia County Court for this mouth, 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. The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice President. Samuel Dean, Abraham Smith, Christopher Kucher, David Redick, James Read, and } Esquires. Upon consideration of the petition and recommendation in favor of James Haalen, 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, at the usual places of execution, and warrants under the less seal were issued to the Sheriffs of York and Franklin counties accordingly. Council Chamber. PHILADELPHIA, Monday, June 23rd, 1788. PRESENT: The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice President. George Ross, Christopher Kucher, Esquires. Memorandum: This being the day appointed for deciding on such claims to city lots, &ca., as are before Council, under old rights, and were made before the time limitted by law expired, but a quorum of Council not being met, it was agreed by the members present, to postpone the business aforesaid until to-morrow morning at ten o'clock, and to request the attendance of the Attorney General and Land Officers at that time. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, June 24th, 1788. PRESENT: The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi dent. George Ross, Christopher Kucher, and Henry Hill, Esquires. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Ilonorable Jacob Rush, Esquire, for one hundred and fifty pounds, being one quarter's salary due to him as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, ending the eighteenth instant, according to the Comptroller General's report. In favor of Eve Withington, for two hundred and seventy pounds, being the ballance of her pension from the first of March, 1780, untill the first of July, 1788, according to the comptroller General's report of this day, and an act of Assembly dated the first of March, 1780. The Attorney General and the Land Officers attending the Board agreeably to their resolution of the twenty-third of April last, resumed the consideration of the several claims to city lots, &ca., which were filed within the time prescribed by act of Assembly dated the tenth day of April, 1781, and thereupon, a petition from James Pearson, was read, stating in behalf of himself and others divers claims to city lots, and it appearing on examination of the several papers produced by him, and the records of the Surveyor General's office, that the city lots in right of the original purchases of John Blunston, George Woods, John Killeup, Jacob and Henry Comely, Nicholas Walu, James Dilworth, William Lawrence, and Joshua Ferne, have been surveyed and returned into the Surveyor General's office, under warrants from the Proprietary Land office; and Mr. Pearson having represented that the said lots have not been sold by the Commonwealth under the act aforesaid, Resolved, That it is the opinion of Council the petitioners ought to produce to the Land Office their titles under the purchasers aforesaid, and apply for patents for the lots claimed in the usual form of the said office. The claims of Sarah Palmer, and others, and of James Henry, and others, by their Agent James Pearson, under Samuel Bradshaw, John Ap, John and Thomas Wynns, original purchasers, not being supported by proper vouchers according to law, it was Resolved, To dismiss the same. The claim of Josiah Bunting and Benjamin Bonsal, by their Agent James Pearson, in right of Joshua Ferne, so far as the same respects the liberty land, was also dismissed as being unsupported. On motion, Resolved, That the farther consideration of the claims of Samuel Allen, the younger, and others, in right of Samuel Allen, and of Anne March, in right of John Price, by their Agent James Pearson, be postponed until Thomas Mason and Mary Jenkins, who, it is alleged, claim under the same original purchasers, are heard before Council. Anthony Butler, in behalf of Messieurs John Penn, Junior, and John Penn, attended and produced to Council the proof required by a resolution of the Board dated the twenty-first of April last, vizt: That Ralph Brock was the son of John Brock, an origiual purchaser, and had a right to convey the city lots appurtenant thereto, whereupon, the Land officers were instructed to compleat the title of Messieurs Penns, to the lots aforesaid in the usual form of the Land Office. |