The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, September 16th, 1790. PRESENT: The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Henry Taylor, William Findley, Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's report, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Nathaniel Breading, Esquire, for the sum of three pounds ten shillings, payable according to act of Assembly passed the third day of March, 1790, out of the fund appropriated for claims and improvements, by an act of Assembly entituled An Act to appropriate 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 entitled An Act to appropriate the sum of five thousand pounds annually for the purposes therein mentioned, &ca., being the fees for surveying the lot No. 99 in the third district of depreciation lands Upon the second reading of the report of the Committee to whom was referred the petition of Samuel A. McCoskry, late Surgeon's Mate in the Corps of Artillery Artificers. It was agreed that the Committee be instructed to request the opinion of the Attorney General in writing on this subject. The Comptroller General and Register General's report upon the account of Benjamin Elliott, Esquire, for his services as Lieutenant of Huntingdon county, in the years 1788, 1789, and 1790, by which the sum of nineteen pounds five shillings and three pence appears to be due to him, was read and approved, for which sum an order was drawn upon the Treasurer, payable out of the militia fines of Huntingdon county. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Friday, September 17th, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, Presid't. The Honoroble GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, Esquire, of Philadelphia, and Daniel Martin, of the county of Bucks, were offered and accepted as sureties for James Hanna, Esquire, who was appointed on the fourth instant Register of Wills and Recorder of Deeds in and for the county of Bucks. Upon further consideration of the petition of Benjamin Thrape, who was convicted of a burglary and larceny at a Court of Oyer and Terminer held at Philadelphia the twenty-sixth of January, 1789, and who is now confined in the jail of the said city and county at hard labour for the said crimes, with a recommendation for a pardon from the county commissioners, and from Mr. Reynolds, the Jailor; it was Resolved, To pardon the said Benjamin Thrape. Upon the second reading of the petition of Captain Andrew Miller, who was fined at the court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Philadelphia in the sum of five hundred pounds for a breach of the act of Assembly entituled An Act to prevent infectious diseases being brought into this State, and it appearing to the Board by a recommendation from the Court that Captain Miller had no intention of violating the law, Resolved, That so much of the said fine of five hundred pounds as belongs to the State be remitted. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, September 18th, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. A letter from William Lewis, Esquire, Attorney of the United States for the district of Pennsylnania, inclosing an extract of a letter from the Honorable Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, Secretary of the United States, and requesting information relative to the acts or proceedings of this Council which may be supposed to contravene the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, was received and read, and an order taken that Tuesday next be assigned for the consideration thereof. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt : In favor of the Honorable Jonas Hartzell, Esquire, for the sum of eighteen pounds, in full for his attendance in Council from the thirtieth of August untill the twentieth of September, 1790, the last day included for two milages coming to Philadelphia and returning home. In favor of the Honorable James Martin, Esquire, for the sum of thirty-four pounds five shillings and six pence, in full for his attendance in Council from the thirteenth of August until the eighteenth of September, 1790, for two days attendance the twentythird and twenty-fourth of July, and for mileage coming to Philadelphia. The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the following accounts were read and approved, vizt: Of John Mitchell, Esquire, late Deputy Quarter Master Gen-. eral of the United States, for sundry expenses paid on account of this State for hoisting the flag at Billingsport in May and June, 1779, and for sundry military stores and camp equipage purchased by him for the State in August and September, 1780, by which a ballance of fifty-seven pounds seven shillings and six pence specie, appears to be due by the State to the said John Mitchell. Of William Chancellor, for a quantity of goods and merchandize purchased by Colonel William Wilson, by order of this Board, in pursuance of a resolution of the General Assembly, dated the sec ond day of September instant, to be delivered to the Chiefs of the Seneca Nations of Indians. Upon further cousideration of the petition of Frederick Deimling, who was convicted at the last Mayor's Court held in June last of forgery, and sentenced to pay a fine of ten pounds to the use of the Commonwealth, and to be imprisoned at hard labour for twelve months, praying Council would be pleased to grant him a pardon; it was Resolved, To pardon the petitioner. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Monday, September 20th, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the following accounts were read and approved, vizt: Of David Kennedy, Esquire, Secretary of the Land Office, for fees received in the said office from the eighth of June until the eighth of September, 1790, amounting to four hundred and seventy-one pounds three shilling and ten pence. Of Jacob Clider, for a rifle gun which he lent to his brother Abraham Clider, who was killed in actual service in the militia of Northampton county, against the Indians in the year 1780, and the said rifle was lost, valued at six pounds. Of Samuel Elie for his own pay as Colonel, and for the pay of the Staff Officers of his battalion of Berks county militia while on a tour of duty to Newtown, in the county of Bucks, from the first until the eighteenth of October, 1781, under General Lacy, amounting to thirty pounds thirteen shillings and six pence. A letter from the Honorable Henry Knox, Esquire, Secretary of War, of the fifteenth instant, requesting information respecting the payments which have been made by this State of pensions to invalids, was received and read, and the same referred to the Register and Comptroller General to report thereon. A letter Peter Thompson, relative to his claim to a city lot of about eight acres in right of Thomas Andrews, an original pur chase of land from William Penn, and to one-ninth part of one other city lot in right of the original purchase of John Pierce, of two hundred and fifty acres, both which lots he alledges have been sold by the Commonwealth, was read, and it was agreed to refer the same to the Secretary of the Land Office to report to Council thereon. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, September 21st, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. A letter from Peter Zachary Lloyd, Esquire, Clerk to the late General Assembly, requesting the sanction of Council to the entering on the Journals of the last session, an Address to the citizens of Pennsylvania, signed by fifty-six members, on the subject of their sudden dissolution, being read, Resolved, That the Secretary inform Mr. Lloyd that Council do not consider themselves authorized to give him any instructions relative to the Journals of the General Assembly. They are, however, of opinion, that no inconvenience can arise from subjoining to the minutes the Address signed by fifty-six members of the Assembly. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer: In favor of the Honorable Jacob Rush, Esquire, for one hundred and fifty pounds, being one quarter salary as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, due to him, and ending on the eighteenth instant, according to the Register and Comptroller General's reports. In favor of the Honorable Henry Taylor, Esquire, for the sum of forty pounds, being the amount of his account for attendance in Council from the twenty-first of August until the twenty-first of September, 1790, inclusively, and for mileage coming to Philadelphia and returning home. A letter from several persons late citizens of this State, formerly resid't in Huntingdon county, who were captured on the Ohio river by the Savages, requesting a publication of the same, for the |