The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, September 16th, 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 Womer, of Berks county, for six months and five days' pay as a soldier in the late army of the United States, amounting to fifteen pounds eight shillings and four pence. Of Conrad Riehl, of Berks county, for sixteen days' pay for his services in collecting and conducting a brigade of waggons to Reading for public service, in November, 1781, by order of the Waggon Master General, and for his rations during that time, amounting to nine pounds ten shillings. Of Nathaniel Jerrard, of Bedford county, for two and a half hundred weight of flour furnished by him to Captain Philips' company of Bedford county militia, while stationed for the defence of the frontiers of that county against the savages in the year 1780, amounting to one pound seventeen and six pence. Of John Harris, of York county, for a gun and blanket taken from him for public service in the year 1776, when the militia marched to Amboy, in the State of New Jersey, amounting to three pounds eight shillings and four pence. Of Michael Peterman, of said county, for a gun taken from him for the public service as aforesaid, amounting to three pounds ten shillings. Of Conrad Geisey, of said county, for a gun taken from him as aforesaid for public service, amounting to two pounds ten shillings. Of Jacob Lefever, of said county, for a gun taken from him for the public service aforesaid, amounting to two pounds five shillings. Of John Crosby, for stone furnished by him for repairing that part of the bank of Mud Island which by contract with the present tenant is to be kept up at the expence of the State, amounting to thirty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and two pence, An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Mr. John Crosby for this sum. The Comptroller General's report upon the account of Captain Jacob Lutz, for militia services in the county of Lancaster in the year 1777, 1778 and 1779, which was read and approved on the ninth instant, was again laid before Council; and on consideration it was resolved to draw an order in favor of Captain Lutz upon the Treasurer, for the sum of five pounds six shillings and six pence, amount of his said account, payable out of the monies arising from militia fines in the said county. Upon application of Andrew Elliott, Esquire, for the loan of two surveying instruments and a small quadrant, the property of the Commonwealth, to enable him to proceed in the business of surveying the triangular piece of country bounding on Lake Erie, which was purchased by this State of the United States, Resolved, That the request of Mr. Ellicott be complied with, and that David Rittenhouse, Esquire, be directed to furnish him with the said instruments, taking a receipt to return them when required. A petition from Lazarus Brown McLene, of the county of Franklin, stating that at the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, held at Chambersburgh for the said county, on the twenty-fifth of May last, he was convicted of a riot and an assault and battery, and fined by the court in the sum of five pounds, and praying that Council would be pleased to remit the said fine, was received and read, a recommendation from the Chief Justice and Judge Bryan in his behalf being also read and considered; it was thereupon Resolved, That the said fine be and the same is hereby remitted. Returns of surveys of four reserved tracts of lands made by John Adlum-A Presque Isle formed by Lake Erie, at Leboeuf at the head of the navigation of French creek, at the mouth of Conewango, and at the Fort of Venango, in pursuance of a resolution of the General Assembly dated the twenty-fourth of March last, were laid before Council, together with the account of the expence of making the said surveys, amounting according to the Comptroller and Register General's report to the sum of one hundred and seventy-five pounds eight shillings and two pence: whereupon the said account was approved, and an order taken that the same, together with the said returns of surveys be transmitted to the General Assembly, inclosed in a letter from the President, in the following words, to wit: In Council, Philadelphia, September 16th, 1789. SIR-I do myself the honor of transmitting to you surveys of four tracts of land directed to be reserved for the use of the State by a resolve of the General Assembly of the twenty-fourth of March last, with Mr. Adlum's account of the expence of making those VOL. XVI.-11. surveys, for the payment of which no provision hath been made by the Legislature. I have the honor to be with the greatest respect, sir, Your most obedient and most humble servant, Honorable the Speaker of the General Assembly. On motion, Robert Hunter, junior, was unanimously appointed Collector of Excise for the counties of Westmoreland and Allegany, Mr. John Giffin, who was formerly appointed having declined to act. On motion, Resolved, That to-morrow be assigned for the consideration the complaint against Michael Huffnagle, Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Westmoreland. A petition from James Dewsberry, now confined in the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia, upon being convicted of unlawfull gaming and defrauding a certain Samuel Beard of the sum of six pounds seven shillings and six pence, praying remission of the fine of six pounds due to the Commonwealth to which he has been sentenced for the said offence, was received and read, and the jailor having informed Council that he is not able to pay the said fine, and has behaved himself orderly during his confinement; it was thereupon, Resolved, To remit the same. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, September 17th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President. The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of Abraham Moser, of York county, for taking up three deserters from the American Army in the year 1782, and securing them, amounting to six pounds, was read and approved. Upon application of Frederick Sneider, Doorkeeper, an order was. drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor for the sum of thirty pounds, to purchase firewood for the use of Council, for which sum he is to account. The consideration of the complaint against Michael Huffnagle, Esquire, was postponed untill to-morrow. A return of officers for three Battalions of militia in the county of Bedford, signed by Hugh Barclay, Lieutenant of that county, was laid before Council, and the same being read, it was Ordered, That Commissions issue agreeably thereto. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Friday, September 18th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the following accounts, were read and approved, vizt: Of Jacob Fitzer, for his pay as a seven months' man in the late army of the United States, from the twenty-sixth of June to the twenty-second of December, 1780, amounting to fourteen pounds fifteen shillings. Of Andrew Heffer, for one year's pension, ending the fourteenth of November, 1788, according to a decree of the Supreme Court, amounting to thirteen pounds ten shillings, for which sum an order was drawn upon the Treasurer. On motion, Resolved, That John Moore, William Jack and Ephraim Douglass, Esquires, be and they are hereby authorized to investigate the charges of divers inhabitants of Westmoreland county, against Michael Huffnagle, Esquire, Prothonotary of that county, and to report to Council. Upon consideration of the petition and respectable recommendation in favor of Charles Jones, praying that Council would be pleased to appoint him a Notary and Tabellion Public, in and for this Commonwealth, Resolved, That the prayer of his petition be granted. A petition from Daniel Fennell, of the district of Southwark, praying remission of the fine of five pounds, to which he was sentenced by the last Court of General Quarter Sessions of Phiadelphia county, for an assault and battery, was read, Council taking the said petition into consideration, and also a recommendation in his favor accompanying the same, and it appearing that the peti tioner has a large family to support and is not able to pay the said fine; it was thereupon, Resolved, That the said fine be remitted. Agreeably to a resolution of the General Assembly of the fif teenth instant, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Mr. John Dunlap, for the sum of two hundred and forty-eight pounds nineteen shillings and eight pence, payable out of the fund appropriated for claims and improvements, the same being in full of the sum due by this State to the said John Dunlap, as an indemnification against a ground rent of eleven pistoles per annum and the arrearages thereof, issuing out of certain lots by him purchased from this Commonwealth, as being subject to five pistoles per annum, whereas, in fact they are subject to the said sum eleven pistoles per annum. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, September 19th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Upon application of Samuel Church, William M'Mullen and John Cornish, Supervisors of the roads in the district of Southwark, |