for the loan of the draft of the said district, made by John Hills, and of the levelling instruments, the property of the State, to enable them to regulate the descent of the water courses, and to ascertain the bounds of the streets, lanes and alleys in the said district, Resolved, That the request of the said Supervisors be complied with.

On motion,

Resolved, That to-morrow be assigned for going into the appointment of a Prothonotary of the county of Mifflin.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, September 22nd, 1789.

PRESENT:

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

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Jacob Rush, Esquire, for one hundred and fifty pounds, being one quarter salary due to him on the eighteenth instant, as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, according to the Comptroller General's report.

A petition from Rebecca Wall and Sarah Burk, now confined in the work house of this city, for keeping a disorderly house, praying remission of the several fines imposed upon them by the Mayor's Court for the said offence, was read, and appearing by a certificate from the keeper of the Work house, that their time of servitude is expired, and they have behaved in a regular and orderly manner during their confinement; it was thereupon,

Resolved, That the several fines payable to the use of the State, to which the petitioners have been sentenced, be remitted.

Council having requested a conference with the Judges of the Supreme Court and Attorney General, on the propriety of ordering a Court of Oyer and Terminer at an earlier day than the fourth or fifth of November next, which was suggested by them, Chief Justice M'Kean, Justice Bryan and the Attorney General attended, and agreed to hold a Court for the trial of the persons charged with the robbery and murder of John M'Farland, on Thursday the ninth of October next.

Agreeably to the minute of yesterday, Council proceeded to the appointment of a Prothonotary for the county of Mifflin, and the ballots being taken for the several candidates, it appeared that Samuel Edmiston was duly elected to that office, and he was commissionated accordingly.

On motion, Samuel Edmiston, Esquire, was also appointed and eommissionated Clerk of the Court of General Quarter Ssssions of the Peace and Jail Delivery, and of the Orphan's Court, and a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said county of Mifflin.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, September 23rd, 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 :

Of Abraham Demud, for a gun taken from him for the use of the public, in the year 1776, amounting to two pounds five shillings.

Of Abraham Fleury, for a gun and ten pot hooks taken for public use as aforesaid, amounting to three pounds eighteen shillings. Of Henry Strickler, for a gun taken for public use as aforesaid, amounting to two pounds five shillings.

Of Caleb Davis, Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Chester, for monies received for fees upon tavern licenses between the twenty-first day of February and the twenty-eighth day of July, 1789, amounting to eighty-two pounds four shillings.

Of Abel Morgan, Esquire, Lieutenant of the county of Montgomery, for monies received by him for militia fines, &ca., from the time of his appointment, in the year 1784, to the fourth of June, 1789, amounting to one thousand and seventy-four pounds seventeen shillings and nine pence; and an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the said Abel Morgan, for the sum of eight pounds eleven shillings and nine pence, payable out of the monies.

arising from militia fines in the said county, being a ballance due to him upon this account.

James McCalmont was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Franklin, upon a return made according to law from the district of the township of Letterkenny.

Upon the petition of Abraham Keebner, of the county of Montgomery, and a recommendation from the Justices of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the said county, for remission of the fine of ten pounds to which he was sentenced by the said Court, upon being convicted of fornication and bastardy, Resolved, That the said fine be remitted.

A letter from his Excellency the President of the United States, of the twenty-first instant, inclosing the following acts of Congress, vizt:

An Act for establishing the salaries of the executive officers of Government, with their assistants and clerks.

An Act to provide for the safe keeping of the acts, records, and seal of the United States, and for other purposes; and An Act to suspend part of an act entituled An Act to regulate the collection of the duties imposed on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandizes imported into the United States, and for other purposes, was received and read, and a letter was written by the President of this Board to the President of the United States, acknowledging the receipt of the said letters and enclo

sures.

On motion,

Resolved, That Friday next at ten o'clock in the forenoon, be appointed for a hearing upon the claim of Anthony Cuthbert and Nicholas Young, to certain lots in the city of Philadelphia, under old rights, and that the Attorney General and Land Officers be requested to attend.

Upon application of Colonel Lewis Nichola for the pardon of Catharine Miller and Sarah Goodman, now confined in the work house of this city for larceny, and the said Colonel Nichola having given a certificate of their good behaviour while in his custody, and informed Council that a respectable farmer would, if they were released, take them to Franklin county,

it was

Resolved, That the said Catharine Miller and Sarah Goodman be and they are hereby pardoned.

A certificate from the Justices of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in the county of Westmoreland, that the division of the district of Mount Pleasant, in the said county, for the purpose of electing Justices of the Peace is become proper and will

be useful, which was received and read on the seventh day of February last, was this day read the second time, and an order taken that the division of the said district by the said Court for the purpose aforesaid, be and the same is hereby confirmed.

The Council met.

Philadelphia, Thursday, September 24th, 1789.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Samuel Edmiston, Esquire, who was, on the twenty-second instant, appointed Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Mifflin, now offered the Honorable George Woods and Hugh Davidson, Esquires, as sureties for his faithfull discharge of the duties of the said office according to law, and they were accepted by Council.

Samuel Edmiston, Esquire, was commissionated Register of the Probate of Wills and granting letters of administration and Recorder of Deeds in and for the county of Mifflin, agreeably to an appointment of him to those offices by the General Assembly on the twenty third instant, a certificate of which appointment was this day laid before Council.

On motion,

Resolved, That a dedimus potestatum bo now issued and directed to Samuel Edmiston, Prothonotary, General James Potter, and William Brown, Esquire.

On motion,

Resolved, That to-morrow be assigned for the consideration of the case of John Jones, Esquire, Health Officer.

Upon the second reading of the letter from Colonel William Henry, Lieutenant of the city and liberties of Philadelphia, containing an estimate of the expence that will attend the exercise of the militia of the city and liberties on the ensuing muster days, and requesting Council to grant him an order on the Treasurer for the sum of one hundred and seventy-eight pounds, the amount thereof, and also for the sum of two hundred pounds, on account of his pay as Lieutenant,

Resolved, That two orders be drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the said Colonel William Henry, the one for one hundred and seventy-eight pounds, the amount of the said estimate, and the other for two hundred pounds, on account of his pay as Lieuten

ant, both payable out of the monies arising from militia fines in the said city and liberties, and for which the said Lieutenant is to be accountable.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Friday, September 25th, 1789.

PRESENT:

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

Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, the following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt:

In favor of the Honorable Thomas McKean, Esquire, for two hundred and fifty, being one quarter's salary due to him as Chief Justice of this State on the twenty-fifth instant.

In favor of Mr. John Adlum, for one hundred and seventy-five pounds eight shillings and eight pence, being in full of his account of expences in laying out and surveying four tracts of land, reserved by this State, at the mouth of French creek, at Fort Le Beauf, Presque Isle, and the mouth of Conewango, the said sum payable agreeably to resolution of the General Assembly of the twenty-third instant, out of the fund appropriated for claims and improvements.

În favor of Alexander Graydon and Joseph Hubley, Esquires, for the sum of fifteen pounds four shillings and six pence, being the amount of their expences in going to the town of Huntingdon, to invest the charges exhibited against Lazarus Brown McLene, Esquire, for misconduct in his office of Prothonotary of the county of Huntingdon, and returning home, under an appointment of Council, dated the twenty-second of September, 1788.

In favor of Frederick Sneider, for thirty pounds eighteen shillings, amount of his account for attendance as Doorkeeper upon the Donation Land Office from the third of November, 1788, untill the thirteenth of September, 1789, being ten months and nine days, payable out of the monies received on account of the State during that time for surveying fees.

Upon the petition of Robert Lollar, Register of Wills and Recorder of Deeds in the county of Montgomery,