An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Frederick Watt, Esquire, for the sum of sixty-nine pounds seventeen shillings, being the amount of his account for his attendance in Council until this day, inclusive, and for mileage coming to Philadelphia and returning home.

On motion,

Resolved, That Mr. Miles, Mr. Read and Mr. Findley, be a committee to prepare and report to Council a draft of a message to the General Assembly, at their next meeting.

Mr. Ross and Mr. Addison, members of Convention, and Mr. Ryerson, member of Assembly for the county of Washington, attended, and produced in writing a statement of the depredations committed by the savages within that county from to time since, and submitting the same to the consideration of Council.

Whereupon,

Resolved, That Mr. Findley, Mr. Miles and Mr. Taylor, be appointed a committee to confer with the said gentlemen, upon the subject of a defence for the western counties against the Indians, and that they make report to Council.

The Comptroller General laid before the Board a statement of the public debt of this State, as required by act of Congress of the twenty-third of November, 1789, as follows, vizt:

Statement of sundries from the accounts of Pennsylvania, requir ed by an act of Council of the twenty-third of November, 1789. Dollars. 90th.

Aggregate amount of the principal of the deprecia-
tion certificates granted to the officers, and of the
Army and Military Hospital, in pursuance of the
several laws of this Commonwealth,
Ditto of certificates granted per act June the first,
1780, for supplies for the army, other than speci-
fic supplies, Continental money equal to,
Ditto, certificates granted for horses for the army in
the year 1780,

Ditto, certificates of funded debt granted for all such debts of the State not paid off, but certified with interest,

Amount of all such expenditures, claims and engage

ments of Penn'a, since the commencement of the late war, as are chargeable to the United States, arranged & ascertained, 10,219,878

Unsettled or not yet arranged, nor the)
specie value of the items paid in Con-
tinental money, ascertained by the scale 5,000,000
of depreciation, say

1,403,793 57

34,583 59

90,336, 7

478,351 10

-15,219,878

Note.-Certificates of liquidated debt, and Loan office certificates of the United States, redeemed by this State, are not included in the above.

The funds appropriated either in whole or in part to pay the principal or interest of the above, are as follows, vizt :

The one-third part of the principal of the depreciation certificates paid of in bills of credit of the emission of April, 1781, on application of the holder.

The whole of the forfeited estates unsold before December, 1780, appropriated as a fund to redeem both principal and interest.

The tract of land in Pennsylvania bounded on the north by the donation lands, on the west by the western boundary of the State, and on the south and east by the rivers Ohio and Allegany, excepting the two reserved tracts thereout at Mackintosh, and opposite Pittsburgh on the aforesaid river Ohio, appropriated as a fund to redeem both principal and interest.

The excise on spirituous liquors was appropriated to pay the annual interest to those who had not alienated their certificates when this fund was assigned, and until they had themselves drawn the first year's interest thereon.

A sum was granted out of the imposts duties not exceeding twentyfive thousand and ninety seven pounds nineteen shillings and three pence, to pay up a year's arrear of such interest, in aid of the Excise.

And lastly, these certificates, principal and interest, funded or unfunded were made receivable in the Land office in payment for lands and lots the property of the State.

The certificates granted per act of June, 1780, were discharged by payments at the Treasury shortly after they were granted, of which public notice was given that all might come in or they were made receivable in the taxes then collecting, and such as neglected the one or other of these means of redemption may and do now receive payment of the principal at the State Treasury.

The certificates granted for horses were receivable, also in the taxes collecting at the time they were granted.

And to such as were not redeemed in that way the principal and interest is paid from the Treasury upon their application.

The aggregate fund of taxes and the arrears of taxes, and imposts is (inter alia) appropriated to the payment of the interest of the certificates of funded debt.

They are receivable at the Land office in common with depreciation certificates for city lots, and for other lands sold by the Commonwealth.

The claims of the Commonwealth against the United States have generally been already discharged out of the taxes and other revenues of the Commonwealth, such as have not, are comprisad under one or other of the preceding heads, or are included in an estimated sum of about forty-six thousand eight hundred and fifty pounds, for which there have yet been no certificates issued, but which the parties on settlement will be intitled to receive.

Comptroller General's Office,

January 23rd, 1790.

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JOHN NICHOLSON.

Ordered, That a certified copy of the said statement be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.

General Watt, member of Council and William Brown, Esquire, of Mifflin county, were accepted as sureties for James Potter, who was on the twenty-first instant, appointed a Deputy Surveyor of district No. 6, in the new purchase.

Adam Hamaker, Esquire, was appointed and commissioned a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Dauphine, upon a return made according to law from the district of Derry and Londonderry, in the said county.

A letter was written by the President to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, inclosing a copy of the Comptroller General's statement of the public debt of Pennsylvania, reported yesterday.

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

In favor of Peter Babb, for the sum of fifty-six pounds six shillings and nine, State money of the emission of the seventh of April, 1781, payable out of the fund appropriated by resolution of Assembly of the eighth of April, 1782, being in full for principal and interest due upon his certificate for a horse furnished by him for public use in the year 1780.

In favor of William Dean, Esquire, for one hundred and eight pounds nine shillings and eight pence, payable out of the fund arising from militia fines in the county of Montgomery or Philadelphia, being a ballance due upon his account as sub-Lieutenant of the county of Philadelphia.

Upon the second reading of the petitions and respectable recommendations in favor of William Davis and Thomas McCalvey, the

former convicted of horse stealing, and the latter of two larcenies in the county of Chester, for remission of the fines and punishment at hard labour, to which they have been severally sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the said county for the said offence,

Resolved, That the said William Davis and Thomas McCalvey be and they are hereby pardoned.

The petition of Peter Emery and a recommendation in his favor from the Justices of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Chester, for remission of a fine of ten pounds to which the petitioner was sentenced at the said Court for fornication, were read the second time, and thereupon an order was taken that the said fine be remitted.

Council taking into consideration the petition of William Nichols,, together with the report of the committee to whom it was re