it appears to them he is innocent of the crime for which he was confined; it was thereupon,

Resolved, That the said John Johnston be and he is hereby pardoned.

The keeper of the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia having certified to Council that the time of servitude to which a certain Thomas Varnham was sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the said county, is now expired, and that he remains in confinement for a fine of two pounds five shillings which is due to the Commonwealth, and the said Thomas Varnham having by his petition prayed to Council for remission of the same; it was

Resolved, That the said fine of two pounds five shillings be and the same is hereby remitted.

Resolved, That the consideration of the motion for a general pardon of persons who have been attainted of high treason against this State, be postponed.

The Treasurer and Register General's reports upon the follow

ing accounts were read and approved, vizt:

Of David Kennedy, Esquire, Secretary of the Land Office, for fees received in the said office from the eight of March untill the eight of June, 1790, amounting to six hundred and twenty-eight pounds eleven shillings and nine pence.

Of Caleb Davis, Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Chester, for fees received for tavern and marriage licences, and the tax upon writs between the first day of May, 1789, and tenth day of June, 1790, amounting to one hundred and ninety-nine pounds eighteen shillings and nine pence.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Christopher Kucher, Esquire, for the sum of twenty-four pounds in full of his account for attendance in Council from the fourteenth of May until the fourteenth of June, 1790, inclusively. The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the following accounts were read and approved, vizt:

Of Stephen Duncan, Esquire, late Treasurer of the county of Cumberland, containing a statement of the taxes collected and outstanding in the said county, untill the time be ceased to act in the office of Treasurer.

Of Alexander McGuighen the present Treasurer of the said county, stating the amount of taxes collected and outstanding untill the first day of May, 1790, in the said county.

A petition from James Maxwell, of the county of Chester, for the pardon of his wife Elizabeth, who was among others convicted in the said county in February last of receiving money which had been stolen from a certain Robert Wilkins, and who is now confined in the jail of the said county at hard labour for the said offence, was read with a recommendation from a number of respectable inhabitants of the said county in her behalf, and the said Robert Wilkins having signified to Council his desire that she may be released; it was thereupon,

Resolved, To pardon the said Elizabeth Maxfield.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Amos Gregg, Esquire, for the sum of sixty-nine pounds in full of his account for his attendance in Council from the seventeenth of March until the sixteenth of June, 1790, inclusively.

A letter from the Honorable Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, Secretary of State, dated the eighth instant, inclosing two copies of each of the following acts of Congress of the United States, vizt:

An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned.

An Act for finally adjusting and satisfying the claims of Frederick William De Stueben.

An Act for giving effect to an act intitled An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States within the State of North Carolina; and

An Act supplemental to the act for establishing the salaries of the Executive officers of Government, with their assistants and clerks, was received and read.

A letter from his Excellency Joachin De Canaveral, Commandant General of Carthagena, in the Indies, relative to a number of persons, formerly residents of this State, who went to South America some time past, and now returned, was received and read.

The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the fol

lowing accounts, were read and approved, vizt:

Of Casper Marche, for his pay for two months' service as a Light Horseman in Colonel Philip Bahm's battalion of Northampton county militia, when called into actual service, for the defence of the frontiers of the said county against the Indians, in the year 1782, amounting to ten pounds seventeen shillings.

Of Mary Wert, for pension due to her from the first of February until the first of June, 1790, according to an order of Orphans' Court of the county of Philadelphia, dated the fourteenth instant, amounting to twenty pounds, for which sum an order was drawn on the Treasurer.

The keeper of the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia having certified to Council that the times of servitude of John Munrow, Patrick Dalton, Hugh Jones, James Spence, Francis Collins, George Wall, and Isabella McKeever, who were confined in the said jail for larceny, are expired, and that they remain in confinement for the following fines, due to the Commonwealth, which they are unable to pay, vizt:

And the said prisoners having petitioned Council for a remission of their fines, it was thereupon

Resolved, That the said fines aforesaid be and the same are hereby remitted.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable James Martin, Esquire, for the sum of thirty-four pounds one shilling, being in full for his attendance in Council between the twentieth of April and eighteenth of June, 1790, the last day included, and for mileage going home and returning to this city.

The Register and Comptroller General's reports upon the following accounts were read and approved, vizt:

Of Captain Paul Knaus, for the pay of five miliția men of his company of Northampton county militia, while in actual service, for two months, in the year 1781, on the frontiers of said county, against the Indians, amounting to forty-four pounds two shillings.

Of Philip Vancler, for his pay as a seven months' man, in the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment of the late Army of the United States, amounting to seventeen pounds ten shillings.

A petition from Barent Jacob, who hath been indicted in the Mayor's Court for selling spirituous liquors by the small measure without licence, stating his case, and praying that Council would be pleased to direct that no further proceedings may be had against him, was read, and the same referred to the Attorney General.

A letter from John Nicholson, Esquire, Comptroller General, dated this day, informing Council that the office of Collector of Excise in the countys of Bedford and Franklin are vacant, by the death of Samuel Crossan in the former, and by the resignation of Richard Parker in the latter, and inclosing an application of several persons in Bedford county, requesting that Mr. Benjamin Martin may be appointed Collector of Excise in that county, was read, and the further consideration thereof postponed untill Tuesday

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable John Wilkins, for the sum of fortythree pounds fifteen shillings, in full of his account for attendance in Council one day in January last and from the twenty-eighth of April untill the twentieth of June, 1790, the last day included, deducting nine days' absence, and for mileage coming to Philadelphia and returning home.

In favor of Timothy Matlack, Esquire, for the sum of ten pounds, payable out of the sum of six hundred pounds which was appropriated by a resolution of the General Assembly, passed the