House and the public Treasury, and for money expended in improving the State House yard, amounting to one hundred and thirty-one pounds sixteen shillings, by which it appears that the ballances of fourteen pounds and two pence upon the former, and one shilling and eleven pence upon the latter account, are due to the said Charles Biddle. Of Nicholas Brosius, Esquire, Collector of Excise in the county of Berks, for excise collected by him in the said county from August, 1788, to Augnst, 1789, amounting to eight hundred and thirty-four pounds, seventeen shillings and eleven pence. Upon the second reading of a petition from Thomas Green, who was convicted of larceny, and is now confined in the jail of this city at hard labor, praying that Council would be pleased to grant him a pardon, and he being recommended as a proper object of mercy, it was Resolved, To pardon the said Thomas Green, upon condition of his leaving this State in five days, not to return. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, May 27th, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Amos Gregg, Christopher Kucher, Zebulun Potts, Samuel Edie, Abraham Smith, William Finley, Jonas Hartzell, Frederick Watts, and The Treasurer and Register General's reports upon the following accounts were read and approved : Of William Shannon, Esquire, auctioneer for the Northern Liberties, for the State duty on sales at auction received by him between the fourth of January and the third of April, 1790, amounting to ninety-five pounds five shillings and seven pence halfpenny. Of Edward Crawford, Junior, Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Franklin, for cash received by him for tavern and marriage licences, between the fifteenth day of October, 1789, and the first day of April, 1790, amounting to twenty-six pounds ten shillings and three pence. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Friday, May 28th, 1790. 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 Charles Biddle, Esquire, for the sum of one hundred pounds, for the purpose of paying wages to the watchmen employed in guarding the public offices in and about the State House, and the public Treasury, according to act of Assembly passed the twenty-seventh of March, 1789, for which sum he is to account. In favor of John Donaldson, Esquire, for the sum of thirty-two pounds and three pence, being two months and eight days' salary due to John Waite, as Clerk in the Register General's Office from the eighth of March last to the time of his leaving the office; and In favor of William Banks, for the sum of thirty-seven pounds ten shillings, being one quarter's salary due him on the eighth instant, as.Clerk in the said office, according to the Register and Comptroller General's reports. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, May 29th, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Upon the report of the committee to whom were referred four orders of Orphans' Court of the county of Cumberland, for the pensions due to the widows, Mary Denny, Jennet Wilson, and Susannah Neil, of the said county, in pursuance of the militia laws of this State, their husbands having been killed while in actual service in the militia against the enemy, it was agreed that the following orders be drawn upon the Treasury: In favor of Mary, the widow of Walter Denny, for the sum of eighty-four pounds eight shillings and ten pence, for her pension untill the first day of April, 1789. In favor of Jennett, the widow of John Wilson, for the sum of ninety-six pounds, for her pension untill the said first day of April; and In favor of Susannah, the widow of John Neil, for the sum of ninety pounds, being the pension due to her untill the same time, according to the Register and Comptroller General's reports, and the several orders of the Orphans' Court aforesaid. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Monday, May 31st, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Upon the second reading of a petition from Charles Rowan, of the county of Cumberland, with a recommendation from a number of respectable inhabitants of that county, in his behalf, for remission of a fine of ten pounds to the Commonwealth, and the punishment of eighteen months hard labour to which he was sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the said county, for larceny, it was Resolved, That the said Charles Rowan be and he hereby is pardoned. Council being informed of the death of Nicholas Brosius, Esquire, who was Collector of Excise in the county of Berks, and several petitions being now before the Board for that office, it was on motion, Resolved, That to-morrow be assigned for going into the appointment of a Collector of Excise, in the room of the deceased. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, June 1st, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, Presid't. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Frederick Sneider, for the sum of fifteen pounds ten shillings, in full of his account for his wages as Doorkeeper to Council from the first to the thirty-first of May, 1790, inclusive. The Comptroller and Register reports upon the account of Samuel Crossan, Esquire, Collector of Excise for the county of Bedford, for excise collected by him from November, 1788, till February 1st, 1790, in the said county, amounting to eighty-three. pounds fourteen shillings and two pence, was read and approved. The Treasurer and Register General's reports upon a further account of said Samuel Crossan, Esquire, for excise collected between the first of February and the fifth of April, 1790, amounting to seventeen pounds three shillings and five pence, and including the ballance of thirty-five pounds thirteen shillings and three pence, due to the State upon the last account, by which it appears that a ballance is now due to the said Samuel Crossan, was also read and approved. Agreeably to the order of the day, Council proceeded to the appointment of a Collector of Excise for the county of Berks, in the room of Nicholas Brosius, Esquire, lately deceased; and the ballots being taken for the several candidates, it appeared that Peter Feather, junior, of the said county, was duly elected. Isaac Levan and Daniel Levan, of the county of Berks, were offered and accepted as sureties for the said Peter Feather, junior. The Register and Comptroller General's reports upon the account of Captain David Crosby, for the pay of his company of Chester county militia, in the battalion of militia commanded by Colonel John McDowell, while under marching orders from the Lieutenant of the county aforesaid in October, 1781, amounting to seventy pounds five shillings, was read and approved. A return of militia officers for the county of Allegany, from Richard Butler, Esquire, Lieutenant of that county, was received and read, and it was Ordered, That commissions issue agreeably thereto. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, June 2nd, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President. The Register and Comptroller General's reports upon the accounts of Captain David Wells, for the pay of his company of Berks county militia, amounting to four hundred and four pounds four shillings and eleven pence, was read and approved. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, June 3rd, 1790. PRESENT: The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. The Register and Comptroller reports upon the following accounts, were read and approved, vizt: Of Youst Strack, for provisions supplied to Colonel Michael Lindemuth's battalion of Berks county militia, while in actual service on the frontiers against the Indians in September and October, 1780, amounting to two pounds eighteen shillings and six pence. Of Andrew Runkle, for provisions furnished to the said militia, amounting to twelve pounds eighteen shillings and one penny. Of Martin Dribelbis, for provisions to the said militia, amounting to thirteen pounds three shillings. Of Mark Swinks, for provisions furnished to the said militia, amounting to three pounds nine shillings and four pence. VOL. XVI.-25. |