to June the eighth, 1781, inclusive, amounting to thirty-two pounds five shillings and four pence. Of Captain Caldwell, for the pay of his company of the second battalion of Lancaster county militia, employed on the frontiers of Northumberland county, in August, September, and October, 1779, amounting to one hundred and two pounds thirteen shillings and nine pence. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, May 19th, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. The Register and Comptroller General's reports upon the following accounts were read and approved, vizt: Of Philip Jacob Shellhamer, for two months' pay and bounty for his services as a militia man in Captain Greenmyer's company of Northampton county militia, in the battalion commanded by Colonel Stephen Balliott, from the first of November, 1781, to the first of January, 1782, amounting to ten pound ten shillings. Of Captain Michael Hauffelt, for militia services in the seventh company of the first battalion of the militia of York county, at sundry times from August, 1780, to December, 1782, as certified by the Lieutenant of the said county, amounting to eleven pounds ten shillings. Of William Sawers of Northumherland county, for supplies of provisions and cloathing furnished by him to the troops sent to Wioming in December, 1775, by order of the Justices of the said county, in pursuance of a resolution of Assembly dated the twentyfifth day of November, 1775, for the purpose of enforcing the laws of Pennsylvania against the settlers from Connecticut, amounting to seventy-eight pounds one shilling and eleven pence, settled agreeably to act of Assembly passed the twenty-seventh day of March last. A petition from Samuel Henry, who was convicted of having received money which had been stolen by a certain William Thomas, and sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the peace of the county of Chester to undergo a servitude at hard labour for one year, to pay a fine of three pounds to the Commonwealth, pray ing that Council would be pleased to grant him a pardon, was read, with a certificate signed by a number of respectable inhabitants of the said county, of his having behaved himself orderly during his confinement, and recommending him to Council as a proper object of mercy; whereupon, it was Resolved, That the said Samuel Henry be and he hereby is pardoned. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Anthony Wright, for the sum of twenty-three pounds five shillings and four pence halfpenny, being the amount of his account for gunpowder and other articles purchased by him, and used by the regiment of artillery in this city on the birth-day of the President of the United States, by order of this Board. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, May 20th, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, Presid't. "The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. A petition from James Shaw, who was convicted of having received money which had been stolen by a certain William Thomas, and sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the county of Chester to undergo a servitude of hard labour for one year and six months, and to pay a fine of three pounds to the Commonwealth, praying that Council would be pleased to grant him a pardon, was read, with a certificate signed by a number of respectable inhabitants of the said county, of his having behaved himself orderly during his confinement, and recommending him to Council as a proper object of mercy; whereupon, it was Resolved, That the said James Shaw be and he is hereby par doned. The Register and Comptroller General's report upon the accounts of Adam Eicholtz, for the sum of fifty-two pounds four shillings and six pence, State money due to him for principal and interest upon his certificate for a bay horse which was furnished by him for the use of the Continental army in the year 1780, was read and approved, and an order for the said sum was drawn upon the Treasurer, payable in State money of the seventh of April, 1781, out of the fund appropriated by a resolution of the General Assembly of the eighth of April, 1782. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, May 22nd, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Agreeably to the minute of Council of the twenty-eighth of last month, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Timothy Matlack, Esquire, for the sum of ten pounds, payable out of the six hundred pounds which was appropriated by a resolution of the General Assembly passed the thirtieth day of March. last, for exploring the head waters of the river Susquehanna, Delaware, Lehigh and Schuylkill, and the western waters within this State, and to be charged to the fund provided by an act of the General Assembly of the twenty eighth of September, 1789, for claims and improvements, the said sum being advanced to the said Timothy Matlack in part of his pay as one of the Commissioners for exploring the said western waters; for which sum he is to account. The Register and Comptroller General's reports of the twentieth and twenty-second of this month, upon the account of Jacob Bayer for a ballance due on Jacob Morgan's certificates in his favor for supplies of forage, &ca., furnished by him for public use in the year 1780, being two pounds fourteen shillings and eleven pence, was read and approved. On motion, it was Resolved, That the consideration of the memorial of Michael Morgan O'Bryan, relative to certain city lotts which he alledges were purchased by him by mistake, be postponed. Upon the second reading of a petition of Elizabeth Gorrecht for the pardon of her son Michael Eyrick, who was convicted of manslaughter at the last Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, held in county of Philadelphia, it was Resolved, That his fine of ten pounds be remitted, and that he be released from confinement upon condition of his finding secu rity for his good behaviour during life, agreeably to the latter part of his sentence. The time for receiving proposals for repairing the banks of Mud. Island expiring this day, it was agreed to extend the time for eceiving such proposals untill the day of A letter from Charles Campbell, Esquire, Lieutenant of the county of Westmoreland, inclosing a return of officers for the several battalions of militia in that county, was received and read, and commissions directed to issue agreeably thereto. The committee to whom it was referred to consider of and report to Council the dimensions of a building suitable for a gun. powder magazine, to be erected on the lot lately bought for that purpose, reported the following, which was agreed to: "The walls round the yard of the magazine to be briek, and on a line with the north side of Walnut street and the west side of Ashton street, and to be eight feet high beside the capping, which is to be stone. "The powder house or manzine to be forty feet east and west, & sixty feet north and south, and to stand back from the wall on Walnut street twenty feet clear, and from Ashton street the north and west walls of the yard fifteen feet clear. "The two gable-end walls to be two feet thick of stone, and the two side walls two feet six inches thick of stone, or if double, two feet thick of stone, opening three inches, and a four and a half inch wall inside all round. "The heighth from the floor to the spring of the Arch to be eight feet, small arches to be turned all under the lower floor, in order to keep it dry. The height of the first floor to be six inches above the level of the yard. "A small house for the keeper at the south-east corner of Walnut and Front streets, on Schuylkill, to be fifteen feet six inches on Walnut street, and fifteen feet on Front street, two stories high, the first story to be eight feet in the clear, and the second story seven feet three inches in the clear, with a cellar under the whole, and to be finished plain." The Council'met. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, May 25th, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President. The Comptroller and Register General's reports of the twentyfourth instant, upon the account of John Welsh for the ballance of his pay as a seven months' man in the late army of the United States, from the fourth of July till August the first, 1780, amounting to two pounds five shillings, was read and approved. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, May 26th, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President. Jonas Hartzell, and The Treasurer and Register General's reports upon the following accounts were read and approved, vizt: Of Charles Biddle, Esquire, for fees received in the Secretary's office between the twenty-third of January and twenty-third of April, 1790, amounting to two hundred and seventeen pounds, eighteen shillings and four pence, and for wages paid to the Watchmen employed in guarding the public offices in and about the State |