should be expended by the commanding officer of the Artillery battalion in providing such articles as are wanted to compleat the ordinance stores of the said battalion.

Upon the petition and recommendation in favor of Thomas Boyd, convicted of assault and battery upon two indictments in the county of Lancaster, and sentenced by the Court of Oyer and Terminer which was held in said county in May, 1788, to pay to the use of the Commonwealth a fine of fifty pounds, praying remission of the said fine,

Resolved, That the said fine of fifty pounds, be remitted.

Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the petition of Rachel Gibbs, praying remission of the forfeiture incurred by her late husband Hugh Gibbs, by reason of the non-appearance of a certain Hugh Furfy to answer to a charge of perjury in the county of Franklin, for whose appearance the said Hugh Gibbs and Patrick Jack of the said county became bound,

Resolved, That the forfeiture for the non-appearance of the said Hugh Furfey to answer to the charge aforesaid, so far as it relates to the estate of the said Hugh Gibbs, be remitted.

A petition from a number of inhabitants of the district of the townships of Limerick, New Providence and Skippack, in the county of Montgomery, containing a complaint of irregular proceedings at the last election of Justices of the Peace in and for the said district, and praying to be heard in support of the said petition, was read; and thereupon,

Ordered, That Saturday the fourth day of April next be appointed for a hearing touching the said complaint, and that the petitioners and the officers of the said election have notice to attend Council on that day.

A petition from Daniel Yoder and others, relative to the last election for Justices of the Peace, held in the district of Colebrookdale, Earl and Oley, in the county of Berks, was read; on consideration, it was

Resolved, Not to grant the prayer of the petitioners, and that they have leave to withdraw their petition.

The Comptroller General's reports upon the accounts of Caleb Davis, Prothonotary of Chester county, for tavern licence fees received between the twenty-sixth of August, 1788, and twenty-first of February, 1789, amounting to two hundred and seventy pounds, and upon the account of Richard Dennis for sundry articles furnished for public use, and for his services in collecting boats in the year 1777, were read and approved, and a certificate for one hundred and fifteen pounds seven shillings directed to issue to Richard Dennis, according to the said report.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, March 19th, 1789.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.

The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.

Agreeably to the Comptroller General's report an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Jacob Rush, Esquire, for one hundred and fifty pounds, being one quarter's salary due to him on the eighteenth instaut, as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of this State.

On motion,

Resolved, That agreeably to the supplement to the act of Assembly entituled an act to alter and amend an act to remedy the defects of the several acts of Assembly heretofore made for regulating the elections of Justices of the Peace throughout this State, &ca, passed the twenty-seventh day of February, 1788, the inhabitants of the first district in which the town of Wilkesbarre is situate, (in the county of Luzerne,) are intitled to and shall be allowed a third Justice of the Peace, upon an election of such Justice being held within the said district by the freeholders thereof, and return made to Council according to law.

Agreeably to the minute of the seventeenth instant, Council proceeded to the consideration of the sureties offered by several public officers in the appointment of the Board, when it was

Resolved, To accept of the following:

For John Nicholson, Esquire, Comptroller General, Blair McClenachan and David Jackson.

In Chester county-For Caleb Davis, Prothonotary, Thomas Cheyney, Esquire.

In Lancaster county-For Samuel Turbett, Collector of Excise, William Ross and Jacob Bayley.

For James Ross, Lieutenant, George Ross
and Frederick Hubley.

For James Ross, Sheriff, Robert Coleman and
Doctor Frederick Kuhn.

In Berks county-For Daniel Levan, Prothonotary, Isaac Levan.

In Northampton county-For William Craig, Prothonotary, Conrad Irie, jun'r, and William Barnett.

In Cumberland county-For William Lyon, Prothonotary, William

Duffield.

For Charles Lieper, Sheriff, John Miller and William Moore.

In Washington county-For Thomas Scott, Prothonotary, James Marshall and John Neville.

In Bedford county-For David Espy, Prothonotary, Bernard Dougherty and Thomas Smith.

For Hugh Barclay, Lieutenant, George Woods. For Arthur McGaughey, Sheriff, Samuel Davidson and George Funk.

In Fayette county-For Ephraim Dough lass, Prothonotary, Gen'l Arthur StClair and Gen'l James Irvine.

For Joseph Terrance, Sheriff, Ephraim Douglass and James Paul.

In Franklin county-For Edward Crawford, Prothonotary.

For John Johnston, Sheriff, Thomas Campbell and John Boggs.

For Robert Parker, Collector of Excise, Doc

tor William McGaw and Robert Smith.

In Huntington county-For John Patton, Sheriff, Henry Neff and John Matthews.

Eor Andrew Henderson, Prothonotary, Is

rael Israel and John Cannon.

Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the letter of the Comptroller General respecting the banks of Mud Island,

Resolved, That the Comptroller General take order for the immediate repairing such part of the banks of Mud Island as are by the lease to be kept up at the expence of the State.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Friday, March 20th, 1789.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt:

In favor of the Honorable Richard Willing, Esquire, for fortyeight pounds fifteen shillings, in full for his attendance in Council until this day inclusively.

In favor of the Honorable James Read, Esquire, for twenty pounds five shillings, in full for his attendance in Council until this day inclusive.

In favor of the Honorable Tench Coxe, Esquire, for forty-three pounds, in full for his pay as a delegate from this State to Congress from the sixteenth day of February, until the fifth day of March, 1789, and his mileage, according to the Comptroller General's report.

Two orders were drawn in favor of John Penn, the elder, for three thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds sterling, each, and four orders in favor of John Penn, the younger, for eleven thousand two hundred and fifty pounds sterling, each, payable out of the funds appropriated by act of the General Assembly dated the sixteenth day of March, 1785, together the interest which is due thereon, which sums, together with the monies paid upon former orders, are in full of five installments of the one hundred and thirty thousand pounds sterling, which is directed by law to be paid to the late Proprietors of Pennsylvania.

The further consideration of the report of the committee on the memorial of Richard Wells, relative to the Comptroller General and Naval Officer, was postponed until to-morrow.

Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the memorial of the acting committee of the Society for promoting the abolition of slavery and the relief of free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage, relative to the case of a free Negro of the name of Philip, who has been taken from this State and is now held in bondage in the province of Louisiana,

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Resolved, That His Excellency the President be requested to apply to the Governor of the said Province by letter, and demand the said Negro as a citizen of Pennsylvania, and that the several affidavits and other papers accompanying the said memorial, be authenticated by the necessary certificates and seals, and enclosed in the President's letter to the said Governor of Louisiana.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, March 21st, 1789.

PRESENT:

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

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt:

In favor of the Honorable Christopher Kucher for fifty-two pounds ten shillings, in full for his attendance in Council until this day, inclusively.

In favor of the Honorable Nathan Dennison, Esquire, for fifteen pounds fifteen shillings, for his attendance in Council until this day, inclusively.

In favor of Matthew Wilson and Elizabeth Wilson, Executors of Robert Wilson, for ten pounds sixteen shillings and three pence, being the costs of suit in the Supreme Court upon an appeal to the said Court from the settlement of the said Robert Wilson's account, as late Sub-Lieutenant of Chester county, by the Comptroller General, as appears by a certificate from the Prothonotary of the

said court.

The further consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the memorial of Richard Wells, relative to the conduct of the Comptroller General and Naval Officer in the case of the ship Anne, was postponed until Thursday next.

Upon consideration of a petition and recommendation in favor of William Sutherland, convicted of an assault and battery, in the county of Philadelphia, praying remission of the fine of twenty shillings payable to the use of the Commonwealth, imposed upon him for the said offence,

Resolved, That the said fine be remitted.