MINUTES

OF THE

SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, February the 7th, 1789.

Upon the petition of Isaac Franks, of the city of Philadelphia, praying Council to appoint him a Notary and Tabellion Public, and also a recommendation of him as a person well qualified to execute the duties of that office from a number of citizens,

Resolved, That the said Isaac Franks be appointed a Notary and Tabellion Public in and for the said Commonwealth, and he was commissionated accordingly.

Anthony Carothers and Jacob Winck, Esquires, were appointed and commissionated Justices of the Peace, the former for the district of the township of New Providence, Limerick, and Skippack, in the county of Montgomery, and the latter for the district of the township of Belfast, in the county of Bedford, upon returns made according to law from the said several districts.

Anthony Carothers, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated, as Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Montgomery.

On motion to grant commissions to Mason Fitz Alden and Abraham Nesbitt, who were returned by the Lieutenant of Luzerne county, in November, 1787, as officers in the first battalion of militia of that county.

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Ordered, That commissions issue to Mason Fitz Alden as Captain, and Abraham Nesbitt as Lieutenant of foot in the said battalion.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, February the 9th, 1789.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of John Nicholson, Esquire, for the sum of two hundred pounds, being one quarter's salary due to him as Comptroller General, ending the thirteenth of January last.

A letter from Thomas Fitzsimmons, Esquire, member of the General Assembly, requesting the appointment of a Committee of Council, to confer with the Committee of Ways and Means, respecting the provision necessary to be made for the payment of pensioners, &ca., was read; and thereupon,

Resolved, That Mr. Miles, Mr. Smith, Mr. Willing, Mr. Watt, and Mr. Maclay, be a Committee to confer with the said Committee of Ways and Means.

Upon the petition of Eleanor Glass, convicted of keeping a dis orderly house in this city, and now confined in the workhouse, praying remission of the punishment at hard labour, to which she was sentenced for the said offence,

Resolved, That her punishment at hard labour in the workhouse be remitted. The further hearing of objections to the confirmation of the report of the commissioners for regulating the district of Southwark and townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk, was postponed until Friday next.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Charles Biddle, Esquire, Secretary, for the sum of nine pounds and nine pence, to reimburse him for money advanced to James Dunwoodie, the Express, who was employed to ride to the counties of Washington, Westmoreland, Fayette, &ca., to bring to Council the returns of Electors.

Mr. Willing, Mr. Maclay, Mr. Smith, Mr. Watt and Mr. Miles, were appointed a Committee to confer with the Committee of the General Assembly on the subject of the letter from General Knox, and Mr. Miles, Mr. Smith and Mr. Maclay, were also appointed to confer with a Committee of the House upon the subject of Mr. Scott's resignation.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of James Elliott, for four pounds ten shillings, in full of his account for board

ing John Franklin, a State prisoner, from the third to the thirtyfirst of January, 1789, according to the Comptroller General's report.

The Attorney General appearing in Council, and informing the Board that, by the instructions he received the twentieth ultimo, respecting the suit brought by the Commonwealth against the Executors of Messrs. Stocker and Wharton, he is only authorised to indemnify the defendants from the demands of Davidson and Lees, and that they should be indemnified against all others.

Resolved, That the Attorney General be authorized to engage, on the part of this Commonwealth, in case of a recovery on this suit, to indemnify the defendants from any demands of Davidson and Lees, and all other persons whatsoever.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt:

In favor of the Honorable Samuel Miles, for one hundred and six pounds nine shillings and two pence, being a balance due to him by the State, agreeably to a decree of the Supreme Court in January last, upon an appeal of Colonel Miles to the said Court, from the settlement of his accounts by the Comptroller General, together with costs of suit.

In favor of Captain John Morrell, for two pounds eight shillings, payable out of the monies arising from militia fines in the city and Liberties of Philadelphia, in full of his account for gun powder used upon the birth-day of General Washington.

Joseph Kenne, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace, and of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Luzerne, upon the return made according to law from the third district, in the said county.

On motion, it was

Resolved, To postpone the further consideration of the report of the Commissioners appointed to regulate the districts of Southwark, and townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk.