Resolved, That the Comptroller General be directed to call on John Van Campen, of Northampton county, to refund the sum of fifty-eight pounds sixteen shillings, overpaid him on his account as Commissary for furnishing provisions to the militia sent to Wyoming in the year 1784.

Agreeably to an act of General Assembly passed the fifth instant, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Messieurs Turnbull, Marmie and Company, for the sum of one thousand three hundred and seventeen pounds eighteen shillings and nine pence, payable out of the fund of five thousand pounds, annually set apart, and particularly appropriated for claims and improvements, being the amount of their claim against the State for money unpaid upon a warrant drawn by the Board of Treasury of the United States on Thomas Smith, Esquire, Continental Loan Officer, and by him accepted and placed to the credit of this State in account with the United States, which warrant was dated the first of June, 1787, and granted to them for supplies furnished to a part of the Continental Army.

The fine of four shillings and six pence imposed upon John Montgomery, now confined in the jail of this city for larceny, was remitted agreeably to the prayer of his petition; it appearing by a certificate from the jailor that his time of servitude is expired.

Doctor Gregg and Mr. Read were appointed a committee to superintend the examination of such certificates of debts due by the United States, as have been received in payment for lands, and lodged in the Comptroller General's Office, as the property of this State, and which by the act of Assembly of the first day of April, instant, the Comptroller General is required to deliver over to the Treasurer of the State.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, April 12th, 1790.

PRESENT:

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

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of His Excellency Thomas Mifflin, Esquire, for the sum of three hundred and

seventy-five pounds, being one quarter's salary as Vice President of the State, for which sum he is to account.

Agreeably to the Register and Comptroller General's reports of the eight instant, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of James Cunningham, Esquire, for the sum of one thousand and eighty-eight pounds ten shillings, payable according to act of Assembly dated the third of March last, "out of the fund appropriated for claims and improvements, by an act entituled an act to appropriate divers' funds accruing and growing due to this Commonwealth towards the expences of government, and provide a fund for other purposes so as not to interfere with the appropriation of part of the said fund made and directed by an act entituled an act to appropriate the sum of five thousand pounds annually, therein mentioned, any act or part of an act to the contrary notwithstanding," being the amount of his account for surveying three hundred and eleven tracts of land in his district of depreciation lands, numbered from 310 to 620 inclusive.

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Agreeably to an act of General Assembly passed the thirtieth of March last, entitled an act to authorise the sale of the barracks in the borough of Lancaster, and the lot or lots on which they are erected, and for other purposes therein mentioned," John Miller and James Cunningham, Esquires, were appointed Commissioners to expose to public sale, and sell to the highest bidder the aforesaid lot or lots of ground and the barracks thereon erected, and upon payment of the purchase money for the same in full, to make good and effectual conveyances for every such lot or lots to the purchasers thereof respectively.

Upon the second reading of a petition from Samuel Preston, of the county of Northampton, praying Council to appoint him a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the said county of Northampton, and for the county of Luzerne, in order that he may be enabled to take acknowledgements of deeds in the unsettled parts of those counties for the convenience of the persons making the same, and the purchasers who may reside at a great distance from a justice of the said court, and the petitioner being recommended to Council as a person well qualified for the said office; it was

Resolved, That the said Samuel Preston be appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Northampton.

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The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, April 13th, 1790.

PRESENT:

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

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

In favor of the Honorable William Augustus Atlee, Esquire, for the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, being one quarter's salary as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, ending the twentyfifth of March last.

In favor of John Nicholson Esquire, for the sum of two hundred pounds, being one quarter's salary due to him as Comptroller General of the accounts of this State, ending the thirteenth instant.

In favor of William Banks, for thirty-seven pounds ten shillings, being one quarter's salary due to him for his services in the Regis ter General's office from the fifth of November, 1790, to the fifth of February, 1790.

A memorial from a Committee of the subscribers to the Manufacturing fund, stating the probability of their factory having been. burnt by design, and accompanied by a threatning letter, directed to an agent of the company, was laid before Council, and the same being read, it was

Resolved unanimously, That a Proclamation be forthwith issu ed, offering a reward of three hundred dollars for apprehending and prosecuting to conviction the incendiary or incendiarys, their aiders and abettors, and a reward of one hundred dollars for apprehending and securing the author of the said letter, with a full and free pardon to all accomplices who shall make a discovery and prosecute to conviction, as aforesaid.

A draft of a Proclamation was accordingly laid before Council, and being read, was agreed to, as follows, vizt:

Pennsylvania, ss:

By the President and Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, By the affidavit of John Anderson, taken according to law, it appears that a threatning letter was on the night of the eleventh instant, put under the door of Francis Bailey, directed to

John Taylor, one of the persons who had contracted with the subscribers to the Manufacturing fund in Philadelphia, to carry on the business of the factory :

And whereas, There is great reason to believe that the fire by which the buildings occupied as the factory, as aforesaid, were consumed, on the night of the twenty-fourth ultimo, was occasioned by some villain or villains:

And whereas, As it is of the utmost importance that the perpetrators of such atrocious crimes should be brought to condign punishment: We have, therefore, thought proper to offer, and do hereby offer, a reward of One Hundred Dollars for discovering the author or authors of the said letter, and also a reward of Three Hundred Dollars for discovering the person or persons who wilfully and maliciously set fire to the said factory, to be paid on conviction for the same; and over and above the said reward, we do hereby promise a free and full pardon to any one of the persons concerned in the said letter or setting fire to the factory, their aiders, abettors and comforters, who shall discover, apprehend and secure any other or others of the said offenders, so that he or they shall be convicted as aforesaid :* And we do hereby charge and require all Judges, Justices, Sheriffs and Constables, to make diligent search and enquiry after, and to use their utmost endeavors to apprehend and secure the said offenders, their aiders, abettors and comforters, and every of them, so that they may be dealt with according to law.

Given in Council under the hand of His Excellency Thomas Mifflin, Esquire, President, and the seal of the State, at Philadelphia, this thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thou sand seven hundred and ninety, and of the Commonwealth the fourteenth.

Attest:-CHARLES BIDDLE, Secretary.

THOMAS MIFFLIN.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, April 14th, 1790.

PRESENT:

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

James Martin,
William Wilson,

Zebulun Potts,

James Read,

Christopher Kucher,

Jonas Hartzell,

Esquires.

The Committee to whom was referred the resolution of the General Assembly of the sixth instant, relative to a gun-powder Maga

zine, reported that a lot on Walnut street, and bordering on the river Schuylkill, the property of Colonel John Patton, was the most proper place that could be procured for erecting thereon a Powder Magazine: Whereupon,

It was agreed that the Committee be authorized and instructed to negotiate the purchase of the said lot, on the following principles, vizt-Council to nominate two disinterested persons on the part of the State, Colonel Patton to nominate two persons, the four to chose a fifth person, and the five persons to ascertain the value of the lot in question.

Upon the petition and recommendation of a number of respectable inhabitants of the borough of Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland, for the pardon of a certain George Mason, who was convicted in the said county of larceny, and sentenced in October, 1788, to two years and nine months hard labour, &ca.,

Resolved, That the said George Mason be and he is hereby pardoned.

On motion,

Samuel Postlethwaite, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated Clerk of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and General Jail Delivery of the county of Cumberland, in the room of John Agnew, Esquire, lately deceased.

A letter from Sharp Delany, Esquire, of the thirteenth instant, inclosing a letter from his Deputy, relative to the settlement of his accounts, and requesting a direction to the Comptroller to report on the said accounts, was read; whereupon, the Secretary was directed to inform the Comptroller General that Council wish to have information relative to the settlement of Colonel Delany's account, and to know the reasons why that settlement has been delayed.

The Committee to whom was referred the copy of the list of pensioners furnished to Council by Sharp Delany, Esquire, taken from and compared with the list which he received from the War Office of the United States, made report, which was read and adopted as follows, vizt:

The Committee to whom was referred the business of the Comptroller General respecting the pensioners' pay, &ca., having examined sundry papers relative thereto, and such of his books as he presented to your Committee, report: They find errors in his books to the amount of thirteen pounds thirteen shillings against the Commonwealth as stated by himself; and further, your Committee report that the Comptroller General has produced to the Executive Council a variety of accounts for sundry persons said to be pensioners and invalids, for which, in consequence thereof, orders have issued for payment on the Treasurer, when at the same time it does not appear he was authorised for so doing, not having orders from any court for his justification.