wark, for the State duty upon goods sold at auction, between the twelfth of December, 1789, to the thirteenth of March 1790, amounting to seventy-two pounds two shillings and ten pence halfpenny, was read and approved.

The order of the day for going into the appointment of an Inspector of Pot and Pearl Ashes, was postponed.

On motion,

Resolved, That the written opinion of the Attorney General, on the fourth section of the act of Assembly passed the thirtieth of September, 1789, be referred to Mr. Miles, Mr. Gregg, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Smith and Mr. Findley, and that the said committee be instructed to state the measures which have been taken by Council, relative to the controversy subsisting between the Comptroller and Register General, with respect to the meaning of the said act.

A letter from His Excellency Alexander Martin, Esquire, Governor of the State of North Carolina, dated the twentieth of last

Zebulun Potts, and

Samuel Miles,

month, inclosing a copy of a resolution of the general Convention of that State, dated the twenty-third of November, 1789, "with several amendments by them proposed, to become part of the Constitution for the future government of the United States," was received and read, and the same transmitted to the General Assembly in a letter from the President to the Speaker.

A petition from Patrick M'Cape, of the county of Cumberland, who was convicted of larceny, and sentenced by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the said county to a servitude of two years hard labour, and to pay to the use of the Commonwealth equal to the value of the goods stolen, praying a pardon, was read, with a recommendation from a number of respectable inhabitants of the said county in favor of the petioner. It was thereupon,

Resolved, That the said Patrick M'Cape be and he is hereby pardoned.

A petition from John Simpson, who was pardoned by Council on the fifth of November last, "on condition of departing the State within three weeks, not to return," stating that he is still confined in the jail of this city, under that part of his sentence which requires restitution to be made to the person injured; that he has made restitution, and praying Council to order that he be discharged from confinement, was read; and thereupon,

Resolved, That the petitioner be released from his confinement, on condition of his leaving the United States.

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

In favor of the Honorable Jacob Rush, Esquire, for the sum of 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.

I favor of John Penn and John Penn, junior, Esquires, for twenty five thousand eight hundred and twelve pounds ten shillings, being the amount of the sixth installment of one hundred and thirty thousand pounds, which by act of Assembly of the twenty-seventh of November, 1779, is directed to be paid to the late Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, and interest due on the said installment from the third of September, 1789, untill the seventeenth instant.

Upon the report of the committee to whom was referred the petition and recommendation in favor of Henry Hoover, of the county of Bedford, for remission of the fine which was imposed upon him for not making an entry of his still, and for retailing whisky contrary to law, it was

Resolved, That so much of the fine unpaid as belongs to the State be remitted.

A petition from Alexander Moore, of Montgomery county, praying remission of the fine of ten pounds to which he was sentenced for keeping a tipling house, was read, with a recommendation from five Justices of the Peace of said county; thereupon,

Resolved, That the said fine be remitted.

A letter from His Excellency the President of the United States, dated the fifteenth instant, in answer to the letter from the President of this State of the tenth, which inclosed the representation from some of the inhabitants of Washington county respecting the mischiefs which have been committed for several years past by the Indians in that county, was received and read, and the same was transmitted to the General Assembly in a letter from the President to the Speaker.

On motion,

Resolved, That Mr. Miles, Mr. Smith, Mr. Gregg, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Findley, be a Committee to confer with a Committee of the General Assembly relative to a disagreement in opinion be

tween the Comptroller and Register General, on the meaning of the fourth section of the act of Assembly passed the thirtieth of September, 1789.

Resolved, That the Secretary take order with respect to the discharge of John Simpson, who was pardoned on the nineteenth instant, on condition of his leaving the United States.

A letter from Thomas Arnold, of Weymouth, in Great Britain, relative to an estate which has fallen to one William Green, son of John Green, was received and read, and the same referred to the Secretary, to take order thereon.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable Christopher Kucher, Esquire, for the sum of thirty-nine pounds, in full of his account for attendance in Council from the seventeenth of February untill the twenty-fourth of March, 1790, inclusively.

In favor of Bartram Galbraith, for sixty-six pounds three shillings and five pence, payable out of the fund appropriated by act of Assembly passed the twenty-eighth of September last, being a ballance due to him and to Thomas Hulings, upon an account settled by the Comptroller and Register General, on the nineteenth of January last, for their services and expences as Commissioners for exploring the river Susquehanna and Juniata, in pursuance of the said act of Assembly.

The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of William Findley, Esquire, for the hire of his team, taken into the public service in the year 1778, amounting to thirteen pounds one shilling, was read and approved.

On motion,

Arnold Colt, Esquire, was appointed Collector of Excise in and for the county of Luzerne.

The petition of William Butler, now confined in the jail of this city, convicted and sentenced to hard labour, upon two indictments, the one for receiving stolen goods, the property of Jonathan Willis, and the other for robbing John Manderfield, praying that Council would be pleased to grant him a pardon, was read the second time, and it appearing that his time of servitude for the first offence is expired, and the Sheriff and Jailor having certified that William, who suffered death for robbing the said John Mandersfield, declared to them at the place of execution, that the petitioner was not concerned with him in that robbery; it was

Resolved, That the said William Butler be and hereby is pardoned.

Upon the petition of Benjamin Carr, praying Council to remit a fine of ten pounds, which was imposed upon him by the Mayor's Court for keeping a disorderly house, and a recommendation in his favor,

Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner be granted, on his complying with that part of his sentence which requires security for his good behaviour.

The fine of ten pounds to which Adam Premir was sentenced by the last Mayor's Court, for keeping a tipling house, was also remitted, agreeably to the prayer of his petition.