which was received and read in Council on the fifteenth day of May last, was this day read the second time in the following words,

to wit:

At a Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery, holden at Pittsburgh for the county of Allegany, on the eighteenth day of December last, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, before George Wallace, Esquire, President, and Joseph Scott, John Johnston and John Wilkins, Esquire, Justices of the same Court, the Court proceeded. to divide the county of Allegany into townships in the following manner, to wit:

Moon township: Beginning at the mouth of Flakerty's run; thence up the Ohio river to the mouth of Chartier's creek; thence up the said creek to the mouth of Miller's run; thence by the line of the county to the place of beginning.

St. Clair township: Beginning at the mouth of Chartier's creek; thence up the Ohio river to the mouth of Monongahela river, and up the said river to the mouth of Street's run; thence up the said run to the head thereof; thence by a straight line to the line of the county; thence by the said line to the mouth of Miller's run on Chartier's creek, and down said creek to the place of beginning.

Mifflin township: Beginning at the mouth of Street's run; thence up the Monongahela river to the line of the county, and by the said line to the line of St. Clair township.

Elizabeth township: To contain all that part of the Forks between Monongahela and Youghiogany rivers, which lies within the county of Allegany.

Versailles township: Beginning at the mouth of Youghiogany river; thence up the said river to the mouth of Crawford's run; thence by the line of the county to the mouth of Brush creek; thence down Turtle creek to the mouth thereof; thence up Monongabela river to the place of beginning.

Plumb township: Beginning at the mouth of Brush creek; thence by a straight line to the mouth of Plumb creek on the Allegany river; thence up the said river to the county line; thence by the said line to the place of beginning.

Pitt township: Beginning at the mouth of Pockety's run; thence up the Allegany river, and by the line of the county to Flakerty's run; thence up the Ohio river to the mouth of Monongahela river; thence up the said river to the mouth of Turtle creek; thence up Turtle creek to the mouth of Brush creek; thence by the line of Plumb creek to the place of beginning.

Whereupon, it was

Resolved, That the division of the said county into townships. or districts, as before described, be and the same is hereby confirmed.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, September 5th, 1789.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable. GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Upon consideration of the report of the committee appointed to investigate the complaint against the late election of Justices of the Peace in the district of Northampton and Southampton, in the county of Bucks,

Resolved, That the petitioners have leave to withdraw their petition.

Agreeably to the minute of the second instant, Council resumed the consideration of the report of the committee appointed to investigate the complaint against John Jones, Esquire, Health Officer, when it was moved and seconded to postpone the further consideration thereof untill the next Mayor's Court shall be adjourned; and on the question to agree to the said postponement, the yeas and nays were as follows, vizt:

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, September 7th, 1789.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Mr. Smith,

Frederick Watt,

Richard Willing, and
George Woods,

Esquires.

Nathan Dennison,

On motion of Mr. Watt,

Resolved, That he be permitted to withdraw a representation which he laid before Council on the fourth instant, from the Grand Jury of the county of Cumberland, relative to a bill found by them against John English for forgery.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, September 7th, 1789, P. M.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Christopher Kucher, Esquire, for twenty pounds five shillings, in full of his account for his attendance in Council from the twelfth of July to the seventh of September, 1789, inclusively.

The petition of Alexander Neilly, convicted in the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery of the county of Allegany of an assault and battery, with an intent to ravish, &ca., was read; and thereupon,

Resolved, That the said petition be rejected, it being too indecent to lie on the table.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, September 8th, 1789.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Council resumed the consideration of the petition of Thomas Clifford and Miers Fisher, attornies of Christiana Gulielma Gaskill, stating her right to city lots, under the original purchase of William Penn, the younger, from the first Proprietor of Pennsylvania, and praying that the Attorney General may be directed to receive a declaration in ejectment, on her demise, to try her title to three equal fourth parts of divers lots of ground, containing in breadth north and south one hundred and two feet, and extending across the intervening streets of the city from Delaware Fourth street to the river Schuylkill.

And on the question, "Will Council comply with the prayer of the petitioners?" being put, it was unanimously determined in the negative.

Council proceeded to the further consideration of the return of an election of Justices of the Peace from the district of the townships of Northampton and Southampton, in the county of Bucks; and thereupon, Joseph Thornton, Esquire, was appointed a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid, he having a majority of votes.

On motion,

Resolved, That two orders be drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of William Bradford, Junior, and Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, Esquires, for the sum of twenty pounds each, as a compensation for their services in defending the title of the Commonwealth to a confiscated estate in Bucks county, under an appointment of Council, dated the second of December, 1786, in favor of Joseph Thomas, the purchaser, against an ejectment brought by the former owner.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, September 9th, 1789.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the following accounts were read and approved, vizt:

Of Jacob Lutz, for militia services, as Captain of a company of foot in the battalion of Lancaster county militia, commanded by Colonel David Jenkins, in the years 1777, 1778, and 1779, in warning his company to attend musters for actual service, and giving notice of an appeal, &ca., amounting to five pounds six shillings and six pence.

Of Adam Kough, for his pay as an eighteen months' man, amounting to forty-five pounds.

A letter from his Excellency the President of the United States, dated the seventh of September instant, inclosing An Act to establish the Treasury Department, An Act for registering and clearing vessels, regulating the coasting trade, &ca., and duplicate of a resolution of Congress for carrying into effect a survey directed to be made by an act of the late Congress, was received and read, and the same transmitted to the Speaker of the General Assembly.

A letter was written by the President to the President of the United States, acknowledging the receipt of the said letter and enclosures.

The account of Captain Joseph Stiles. Commissary of Military Stores and Superintendant of the magazine of gunpowder, amounting to eighty-six pounds three shillings and four pence, which was approved on the tenth of June last, was this day laid before Council, and an order directed to issue upon the Treasurer for the said

amount.

Jacob Tritt, 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 a return made according to law, for the district of the townships of Chanceford and Windsor, in the said county.