pensioners by the Supreme Court and Orphans' Courts under the laws of this State.

Resolved, That the Comptroller General be and he hereby is authorised and directed to deliver to Sharp Delany, Esquire, such certificates in his possession as have been granted by the Judges of the Supreme Court or Orphans' Courts of this State to officers and soldiers entitled to pensions under the Laws of Pennsylvania, to enable the said Sharp Delany, Esquire, to settle with, and to pay the said pensioners agreeably to instructions received by him from the Secretary of War at New York.

The Comptroller General to take Mr. Delany's receipt or receipts for certificates so delivered containing a stipulation for the safe return of the same to the said Comptroller General.

Upon the second reading of the report of the Committee to whom was referred the application for a new order in favor of Demus Linsley,

Resolved, That the order which was granted to him for fortyfour pounds one shilling and nine pence on the tenth of December, 1789, on the Militia fines of Washington county be cancelled, and that a new order for the same sum be issued, payable out of the Militia fund of the county of Lancaster.

Upon the petition of Rebecca Thompson, and a recommendation from the Commissioners of the county of Philadelphia, for remission of the fine of one pound fifteen shillings, and punishment at hard labour, to which the petitioner was sentenced by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Philadelphia, upon being convicted of larceny in December, 1788; it was

Resolved, That the said Rebecca Thompson be and she is hereby pardoned.

General Watts presented a petition from William Purdy praying to be appointed Excise Officer in the county of Mifflin, and the petitioner being recommended to Council as a suitable person for that office,

Resolved, That the said William Purdy be appointed Collector of Excise in the said county of Mifflin.

The further consideration of the memorial of Edward Williams was postponed.

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Nathaniel Breading,

Thomas Turbett and Samuel McIlvaine, of the county of Mifflin, were offered and accepted as sureties for William Purdy, Collector of Excise in the said county.

A return of the election of John Derr, as Lieutenant of the seventh company of the first battalion of the militia of Northampton county, and of John Dillinger, as Ensign of the same company, being made to Council by John Craig, Esquire, Lieutenant of the said county, and the same being read, it was

Resolved, That commissions issue accordingly.

Upon the second reading of the petition from Catherine Rush, praying that the Attorney General may be directed to enter a noli prosequi in favor of her daughter Catherine Somers, who is charged with a larceny in the shop of a certain William Burgess, in this city,

Resolved, That the said petition be referred to the Attorney General.

The Committee to whom was referred the memorial of Lewis Farmer, in behalf of the corporation of ministers, trustees, elders, deacons of Germ in Reformed congregation in the city of Philadel phia, delivered in a report, which was read and adopted as follows, vizt:

That having considered the memorial they are of opinion that the request of the memorialists to have the warrants which have been issued for five thousand acres of land, within the last purchase of the Indians cancelled, and others to issue generally agreeably to the Act of Assembly, may without any impropriety be complied with, and therefore offer the following resolution :

Resolved, That on the corporation of the ministers, trustees, elders and deacons of the German Reformed congregation in the city of Philadelphia, transferring to the Commonwealth the warrants which they have obtained for five thousand acres of land, within the last purchase of the Indians, the Secretary of the Land office be and he is hereby directed and authorized to issue warrants to the said corporation for five thousand acres of land to be located, set out and surveyed within the unappropriated lands of this State, agreeably to the directions of an Act of Assembly, entituled An Act to grant to the corporation of the ministers, trustees, elders and deacons of the German Reformed congregation in the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, certain lands therein mentioned for endowing the free school for the use of the poor of the said congregation: Provided, nevertheless, That all charges and expences attending such transfers, and the issuing or granting of new warrants be paid by the congregation above mentioned.

Upon the report of the Committee to whom was referred the petition and recommendation in favor of John Manderfield, for remission of a forfeiture of one hundred and fifty pounds to the use of the Commonwealth, which he has incurred by reason of the nonappearance of Elisha Brewer, Adam Rice and Thomas Bailey, in the City Court, to answer to an indictment for a cheat, they hav

ing absconded before trial, and for whose appearance the petitioner became bound by recognizance; it was

Resolved, That the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds of the said forfeiture of one hundred and fifty pounds, be remitted.

A letter from Thomas Ryerson, Esquire, member of Assembly, relative to the defence of the western frontiers against the incursions of the Indians, was received and read; whereupon, it was

Resolved, That to morrow be assigned for taking into consideration the several papers now before Council on the subject of a frontier defence.

Benjamin Lodge, Esquire, appointed and approved as a Deputy Surveyor on Tuesday last, having transmitted a bond executed by himself and by Christopher Hays and Nehemiah Stokely, as his sureties, it was agreed to accept them as such, and that Mr. Findley, and Mr. Baird, who were accepted as sureties for Mr. Lodge, discharged therefrom.

The bond being dated prior to the appointment of Mr. Lodge; it

was

Ordered, That a new one be executed.

A petition from John Rankin, who was attainted of high treason against this Commonwealth, by a Proclamation of Council issued in pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly passed the sixth day of March, 1778, for the attainder of divers traitors, &ca., stating that he is desirous of returning to this State, and praying that Council would be pleased to grant him a pardon that he may be restored to the rights of a citizen of this State, was read the second time; and thereupon,

Resolved, That the said John Rankin be pardoned.

A petition from Mary Reib, of the county of Westmoreland, who was convicted at the last Court of General Quarter Sessions of the said county, of fornication and bastardy, and sentenced by the said Court to pay a fine of ten pounds to the use of the Commonwealth, stating that she is unable to pay the said fine, is now confined in the jail of the said county, and praying that Council would be pleased to take her distressed case into consideration, and remit her fine was read; whereupon,

Resolved, That the said fine be remitted.

George Finley, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Westmoreland, upon a return made according to law from the district of the township of Wheatfield, in the said county.

The committee to whom was referred the petition of John Bryce, with the letter from John Nicholson, Esquire, made a report, which was read and adopted, as follows, vizt;

"That John Bryce became the purchaser of an undivided moiety of a tract of land in Sadsbury township, in the county of Chester, forfeited by Francis and William Armstrong, attainders of high treason; that said Bryce has paid the Commonwealth for the same, and since conveyed his title to John Nicholson, Esquire; that it appears by the last will and testament of the late father of the said Francis and William Armstrong, that their mother, the widow of the testator, has an annuity of ten pounds as a dower, out of the said estate, and that it appears by a certificate of one of the agents for the sale of forfeited estates in Chester county, that said moiety was not sold subject to any such annuity or incumbrance what

ever.

"The committee are, therefore, of opinion, that it is out of the power of Council to refund the money that has been paid, or give any relief against the annuity, as the estate was sold without any reserve, or mention made of such incumbrance, and that the title