priated for claims and improvments by act, entituled "An Act to provide divers funds accruing and growing due to this Commonwealth towards the expences of Government, and to 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 for the purposes therein mentioned, &ca, being the amount of his account for surveying two hundred and eighteen lots of land in district number three of the depreciation lands.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Friday, August 13th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

A return of officers elected in the first, second and fourth battalions of militia of Chester county, was received from Joseph McClellan, Esq'r, Lieutenant of the said county; and the same being read, and commissions were directed to issue agreeably thereto.

A petition from Abraham Sheridan, of Berks county, stating that he keeps a public house of entertainment in the said county; that he is unable to pay his tavern licence fees and excise, and praying Council would be pleased to exempt him from the payment of the same, was read, and an order taken that the petitioner have leave to withdraw his petition.

Upon further consideration of the petition of Peter Roberts, who was convicted of a misdemeanor in having defrauded Mary Eyre, and is now confined in the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia, with a recommendation from a number of respectable citizens in his behalf, and Mrs. Eyre having informed Council that the petitioner has made restitution to her for the property stolen, and signified to the Board a wish that he may be released from confinement, it was thereupon

Resolved, That the fine of the State and the imprisonment at hard labor, to which the petitioner was sentenced for the said offence, be remitted, on condition of his leaving the United States, not to

return.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Jonas Hartzell, for the sum of seventy-eight pounds, in full

of his attendance in Council one hundred days, between the seventh of April and thirteenth of August, 1790, the last day included.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, August 14th, 1790.

PRESENT:

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

The Treasurer and Register General's reports upon the account of Francis Johnston, Esquire, Receiver General of the Land Office, for fees received in the said office in the months of May, June and July, 1790, amounting to two hundred and eighty-six pounds, fifteen shillings and six pence, was read and approved.

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

In favor of William Bradford, Junior, Esquire, for the sum of one hundred and forty-five pounds sixteen shillings and eight pence, for his salary as Attorney General of this State from the first of January until the first of August, 1790.

In favor of Mary Magdelan Rowe for the sum of fifteen pounds five shillings, being the amount of a warrant of Council in her favour dated the twenty-fifth of November, 1789, for her pension due from the twenty-sixth of September, 1786, until the seventh of October, 1788, payable out of the fund arising from militia fines; but the said fund not being productive, the said warrant is now delivered up to be cancelled.

In favor of the said Mary Magdelan Rowe for thirteen pounds fifteen shillings, being the amount of her account for pension from the seventh of October, 1788, until the seventh of August, 1790, according to a decree of the Orphans' Court of the county of Northumberland, dated the twenty eighth day of May last.

In favor of Mary Anne Lepley for twenty-nine pounds eight shil lings, being the amount of pension due to her from the twentyeighth of June, 1786, to the twenty-eighth of July, 1790, according to a decree of the Orphans' Court of the county of Northumberland, dated the sixth day of July last.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, August 16th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

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

In favor of Mary Neese for the sum of eighty-four pounds, being the amount of a warrant of Council dated the twenty-seventh of December, 1788, which was drawn in her favor for the support of herself and children, until the twenty-ninth of November, 1788, according to an act of Assembly dated the twentieth of March, 1780, payable out of the militia fines of the county of Northumberland; but that fund not being productive, the said warrant is now delivered up to be cancelled.

In favor of said Mary Neese, for the sum of fifteen pounds, being the amount of pension due to her from the twenty-ninth of November, 1788, until the twenty-ninth of July, 1790, according to a decree of the Orphans' Court of the county of Northumberland, dated the twenty-eighth of May last.

Upon the petition of Rebecca Brock, who is now confined in the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia; it was

Resolved, To remit the fine of five pounds which was imposed upon her by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the county of Philadelphia, for an assault and battery.

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The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, August 17th, 1790.

PRESENT:.

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of William Gray, Esquire, for the sum of thirty-three pounds three shillings, for surveying ten tracts of land for the use of the German Reformed congregation in the city of Philadelphia, according to an Act of the General Assembly, passed the

An order was also drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Charles Biddle, Esquire, for the sum of one hundred pounds, for which sum he is to be accountable.

Mr. Wilson laid before Council a discription of the four persons, who lately murdered two friendly Indians on the waters of Pine Creek; whereupon, it was

Resolved, That the President be requested to write a letter in answer to the letter received yestered from Justice Freeman, of Portland, in the State of Massachusets, informing Council that four strangers had made their appearance in his neighbourhood, and that it is supposed they are the persons who murdered the said Indians, and that the said descriptions be inclosed in the President's letter, with a few copies of the Proclamation issued by Council on the 9th of July last, for apprehending the said murderers.

Albret Gallatin, Esquire, of the county of Fayette, laid before Council a certificate from Ephraim Douglass, agent for the sale of forfeited estates in the said county, that a certain James M'Donald hath purchased at public sale a tract of two hundred and ninetyfive acres, & a half of an acre of land situate in the said county, on the waters of Dunlap's creek, which was forfeited to this Commonwealth by Anthony Yeldall's, attainder of high treaaon, that he hath paid the purchase money therefore, and requesting that a patent may issue to the said James McDonald, for the said land; whereupon,

Resolved, That a patent issue to the said James McDonald, for the said tract of land in the usual form.

On motion of Mr. Breading, it was agreed to cancel the order which was granted on the twelfth instant, to Ephraim Douglass, Esquire, for seven hundred and sixty-three pounds, for surveying

the third district of depreciation lands, and in lieu thereof to issue three orders amounting to the same sum, vizt: one for one hundred pounds, one other for two hundred and forty pounds, and a third for the sum of four hundred and twenty-three pounds, all payable in the manner expressed in the minute of Council of that day.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, August 18th, 1790.

PRESENT:

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

A letter from General Richard Butler, Lieutenant of the county of Allegany, inclosing a letter from General St. Clair, Governor of the Western Territory, containing a requisition for five hundred men agreeably to Act of Congress of the twenty-ninth of September, 1789, for troops from this State to act in concert with the troops of the United States against the Indians, was received and read; whereupon, it was

Resolved, That the Vice President, Mr. Miles, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Smith and Mr. Findley, be a Committee to confer with Governor St. Clair, (who is now in the city,) on the subject of the said requisition.

A letter from the Honorable Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Esquire, of the ninth instant, inclosing two copies of a resolution. of the House of Representatives of the United States, dated the eighteenth of May last, respecting the time of the holding of the seats of the President, Vice President, Senators and members of the House of Representatives of the United States, was received and read, and a letter was written by the President to Mr. Muhlenberg, acknowledging the receipt of the said letter and inclosures.

Abraham Stewart was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace, and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Fayette, upon a return made according to law from the district of German township in the said county.