tember, 1786, to the seventh of October, 1788, to be paid out of the monies arising from militia fines in the said county. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, November 18th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, Presid't. Samuel Miles, James Read, Zebulun Potts, Richard Willing,. Lord Butler, Samuel Edie, The Attorney General attended and informed Council that the Jury in the cause of the Chief Justice against the State had not agreed in a verdict yesterday, and requesting instructions how to act, provided they should not be likely to agree this morning.Council recommended to the Attorney General to act as he and Mr. Ingersol the other Council for the State should think most proper, all circumstances considered. A letter from Samuel Boyd, Bartram Galbraith and Thomas Huling, Commissioners to examine the rivers Susquehanna and its Branches, stating the impracticability of compleating the business in time to report to Council in the present sessions of Assembly, was received and read. Agreeably to the Comptroller General's report of the seventeenth instant, two orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, one in favor of Joseph Perkins, for one hundred and eighteen pounds five shillings and seven pence, and the other in favor of Abraham Morrow, for thirty-three pounds four shillings and seven pence, payable out of the fund appropriated for claims and improvements, according to Act of Assembly passed the twenty-ninth day of September last, being granted in lieu of former orders for their services in repairing public arms, which remains unpaid, and are now delivered up to be cancelled. The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the following accounts, were read and approved, vizt: Of Stephen Porter, for one-half of the pay and expences of an Indian interpreter, who was employed by the Commissioners appointed to run and mark the boundary line between this State and the State of New York, and for seven barrells of flour used by the Commissioners, amounting in the whole to forty-six pounds twelve shillings and seven pence. An order was drawn for this sum. VOL. XVI.-14. Of Stephen Shewell, for one thousand and fifty-nine bushells of salt taken from his store in August, 1776, by the Committee of Safety, and accounted for to the State, amounting to seven hundred and ninety-four pounds nine shillings. A petition from John Logan, bricklayer, now confined in the jail of this city for receiving stolen goods, knowing them to be such, and for harbouring persons who had been convicted of capital offences, praying a pardon, was read, and the petition dismissed. A petition from Benjamin Miller, convicted of a burglary in the county of Montgomery, praying a pardon, was read; whereupon, it was moved and seconded to pardon the said Benjamin Miller, on condition of his leaving the State, and on the question to agree to the said motion, it was determined in the negative. Agreeably to the Comptroller General's report, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Joseph Perkins, for one hundred and twelve pounds fifteen shillings, payable out of the fund appropriated for claims and improvements according to Act of Assembly passed the twenty-ninth of September last, being granted in lieu of a former order for his services in repairing public arms. which remains unpaid, and is now delivered up to be cancelled. Nathaniel Breading, Esquire, Councillor elect for the county of Fayette, appeared and being qualified as the Constitution of the United States and of this State direct, was admitted to his seat at the Board. A letter from James Pemberton on behalf of the Society for the abolition of slavery, with copies of an address from the Society to the public for the members of Council, was received and read. A letter from the Attorney General informed Council that in the cause of the Chief Justice against the State, a non-suit was suffered by the plaintiff, the jury being ready with their verdict, &ca., and inclosing an account of Samuel Nichols, for the expences of the jury, amounting to four pounds fifteen shillings and nine pence, was received and read. Letters from Daniel Brodhead, Esquire, Surveyor General, nominating the following gentlemen Deputy Surveyors, agreeably to Act of Assembly passed the eighth day of April, 1785, were received and read, vizt: Henry Vanderslice, Deputy Surveyor of part of Berks county; Joseph Wallis, Deputy Surveyor of part of Northumberland county; and James Harris, Deputy Surveyor for all Mifflin county, except Upper Bald Eagle township, in the old purchase, and district No. 11 in the new purchase; thereupon, Resolved, That the Board concur with the said nominations, and that the following gentlemen be accepted as sureties for the said Deputy Surveyors, vizt: Jacob Morgan and Nicholas Lutz, for Henry Vanderslice; Samuel Wallis and John Loudon, for Joseph Wallis; and John Harris, and Samuel Bryson, Esquires, for James Harris. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Lord Butler, Esquire, for the sum of twenty five pounds five shillings, being in full of his account for his pay as Councillor untill the twenty-third instant, inclusive, and for his mileage coming to Philadelphia and returning home. Upon a petition and recommendation in favor of James Dunbar, now confined in the jail of this city for an assault and battery, praying remission of a fine of ten pounds imposed upon him by the Mayor's Court for the said offence, Resolved, That the said fine be remitted. The fine of six pounds imposed upon James Durandt, confined in the same jail for a cheat, was also remitted, agreeably to the prayer of his petition, it appearing to Council by a certificate from Mr. Reynolds, the jailor, that his time of servitude is expired. Doctor John Wilkins, Councillor elect for the county of Alle gany, appeared, and being qualified as the Constitution of this State, and the act of Congress of the first of June last, direct, was admitted to his seat at the Board. A letter from Daniel Brodhead, Esquire, Surveyor General, nominating agreeable to the act of Assembly of the eighth of April, 1785, Mr. Isaac Hicks, a Deputy Surveyor of the county of Bucks, in the place of Samuel Preston, who has removed from the county, was received and read; thereupon, Resolved, That Council concur with the said nomination, and that Amos Gregg, Esquire, member of Council, and Mr. Joseph Baldwin, be accepted as sureties for the said Deputy Surveyor. Upon farther consideration of the petitions and recommendations for the pardon of Benjamin Miller and George Harple, who were convicted of a robbery at the last Court of Oyer and Terminer, held in the county of Montgomery, and sentenced to five year hard labour, &ca., stating that this is the first offence, Resolved, That the said Benjamin Miller and George Harple be and they are hereby pardoned, on condition of their giving sufficient security each, in the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, to be of good behaviour for the term of four years from this date, which security the Sheriff of the said county is hereby required to take. The keeper of the jail of this city having certified to Council, that the servitude to which John Thompson, Patrick Lynch and Thomas Conner, were sentenced for larceny is now expired, and that they have been of good behaviour during their confinement; thereupon, Resolved, That several fines of twenty shillings each, due from them to the Commonwealth, be and the same are hereby remitted. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Zebulun Potts, Esquire, for the sum of ninety pound fifteen shillings, being in full for his attendance in Council from the twelfth day of July, to November the twenty-first, 1789, (deduct ing fourteen days' absence,) and his mileage twice coming to Philadelphia and returning home. Proposals of a loan to the State in conformity to an act of Assembly, passed the twentieth instant, from several citizens, for the immediate relief of a number of wounded and disabled soldiers, whose pensions by the laws of this State have ceased, and who cannot receive any support from Congress untill the fifth day of March next, were laid before Council and read as follows, vizt: Having taken into consideration the proposals for obtaining a loan for the immediate relief of the invalids made to us by the committee of the Supreme Executive Council, we agree to advance such sums of money as are set to our names on the following conditions, to wit: To advance the money on loan to be secured by the certificates, letters of attorney and assignments of the invalids, and to be guarantied by Council, under the late act of Assembly for the relief of the invalids. The repayment of the money in specie, with interest, to be made to the subscribers, or of so much thereof as shall not be recovered from the United States on the fifth day of March next, whether the deficiency may arise from frauds on the part of the invalids or non-payment by the United States. That arrangements be taken by a committee of Council with the subscribers for the manner of payment of the invalids, and for the re-payment to the subscribers from the United States. November 21st, 1789. Whereupon, THOMAS FORREST, £450 0 0. Resolved, That the said proposals be accepted, and that Colonel Miles, Colonel Smith and Colonel Wilson be a committee to arrange the business with the subscribers to the said loan. Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the petition of John Lovely, who was convicted at a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, held at Philadelphia in February, 1789, for the city and county of Philadelphia, of harbouring certain persons who had been convicted of capital offences, knowing them to have been so convicted, and sentenced for the said offence to four years hard labour, &ca., Resolved unanimously, That the said John Lovely be and he is hereby pardoned. On motion, Resolved, That Tuesday next be assigned for the consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the petition from Northampton county, relative to the Nescopeck road laid out by Evan Owen. A list of pensioners entitled to the benefit of the act of Assembly, passed the twentieth instant, was laid before the Council by the Comptroller General. |