to which he was sentenced by the last Mayor's Court, upon being convicted of receiving a bank note, knowing it to have been stolen, Resolved, That the said Anthony Cagle be and he hereby is pardoned. A petition from John Philip De Haas, of the city of Philadelphia, stating that his negroe lad Robert, about sixteen years of age, was convicted of receiving stolen goods at the last Mayor's Court, and praying that in consideration of his youth, Council would be pleased to grant him a pardon of the said offence, was received and read; and on consideration, it was Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner be granted. Upon consideration of the petition and recommendation in favor of Robert Cunnard, late of Norristown, in the county of Montgomery, who was attainted of high treason for having joined the British army in the year 1777, praying Council to take his case into consideration and grant him a pardon, Resolved That the said Robert Cunnard be and he is hereby pardoned. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, July 2nd, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. William Hepburn, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated. a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Northumberland, upon a return made according to law from the district of the township of Loyalsock, in the said county. Upon consideration of a memorial from a committee of public creditors, stating the great hardships they labour under in consequence of the delay in payment of the interest which is due to them from the Treasury of this State, Ordered, That the Secretary write a circular letter to the Commissioners of the several counties, directing them to take the most effectual measures for collecting all arrearages of public taxes in their respective counties. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Friday, July 3rd, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. Samuel Miles, James Read, Amos Gregg, Richard Willing, Christopher Kucher, and Esquires. Upon application of Miers Fisher, Esquire, attorney of Christiana Gulielma Gaskill, that Council would be pleased to appoint a time for hearing (before them,) the objections of the Attorney General, to granting the prayer of the petition of the said Gulielma Gaskill, to wit: that he, the Attorney General, be directed to receive a declaration in ejectment on her demise, to try her title to three equal fourths parts of divers lots of ground, containing in breadth north and south, one hundred and two feet, and extending across the intervading streets of the city from the west side of Delaware Fourth street to the river Schuylkill, Resolved, That Tuesday next at ten o'clock in the forenoon, be appointed for the said hearing, if convenient to the Attorney General. Council being informed that it is not convenient for the Attor ney General to attend the hearing appointed for this day, upon the application of Miers Fisher, Esquire, Attorney of Christian Gulielma Gaskill, Resolved, That the same be postponed. The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the following accounts, were read and approved, vizt: Of William Shannon, Esquire, Auctioneer of the Northern Liberties, for the State duty upon goods sold at auction, between the twentieth of March and twenty-sixth of June, 1789, amounting to one hundred and eight pounds two pence half penny. Of Henry Berntheisel, for his pay as a seven months' man in the late army of the United States, under Captain Hubley of Lancaster county, amounting to seventeen pounds ten shillings. The fine imposed upon Jacob Houser by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of Montgomery county, upon his being convicted in September, 1788, of keeping a tipling house, was remitted, agreeably to the prayer of his petition and a recommendation from two of the Justices of the said Court. Upon consideration of the petition and respectable recommendation in favor of Margaret Summers, late Margaret Ellis, who was convicted of larceny at the last Mayor's Court, praying a pardon of the said offence in consideration of her youth, Resolved, That the said Margaret Summers be, and she hereby is pardoned. On motion, Resolved, That the consideration of the several accounts sent ap by the Comptroller General previous to the present month, appointed for this day, be postponed. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, July 9th, 1789. PRESENT: The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. James Read, Amos Gregg, Christopher Kucher, Zebulun Potts, Abraham Smith, and Esquires. Upon consideration of the petition and recommendation in favor of Wood Lloyd, for remission of the fine of ten pounds, payable to the use of the Commonwealth, to which he was sentenced at the last Court, upon being convicted of retailing spirituous liquors by the small measure, without licence so to do, Resolved, That the said fine of ten pounds be remitted. A petition from Thomas Gregory, convicted of larceny at the last Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, held in and for the county of Philadelphia, and sentenced to pay to the use of the Commonwealth a fine of six pounds eleven shillings, and to undergo a servitude of eighteen months hard labour, praying that Council would be pleased to remit the said fine and punishment at hard labour, was read; and thereupon, Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner be granted. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Friday, July 10th, 1789. PRESENT: The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. James Read, Amos Gregg, Zebulun Potts, Samuel Miles, Christopher Kucher, and Esquires. Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, the following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of John Nicholson, Esquire, for one hundred and twenty-seven pounds three shillings and eight pence, amount of his account for further repairs done to that part of the bank of Mud Island, which by contract is to be kept up at the expence of the State. In favor of John Donaldson, for thirty-five pounds seven shillings and six pence, amount of his account for the hire of a clerk in the Register General's office, from April the third till July the third, 1789. A petition in favor of Henry Wells of York county, for remis. sion of the punishment to which he was sentenced, upon being convicted of robbery in the county of York aforesaid, was read and dismiss. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, July 11th, 1789. PRESENT: The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Samuel Miles, James Read, Abraham Smith, Christopher Kucher, Esquires. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Zebulun Potts, Esquire, for the sum of seventy-two pounds fifteen shillings, in full of his account for attendance in Council, from the first day of April untill July the eleventh, 1789, inclusively, deducting five days absence. Upon a recommendation of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the county of Philadelphia, a licence was granted to James. Williams to follow the employment of a hawker and pedlar within the said county, until the ninth day of July next, he having entered security as the law directs. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Monday, July 13th, 1789. PRESENT: The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Samuel Miles, Amios Gregg, James Read, Abraham Smith, Christopher Kucher, and Esquires. Two orders of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the county of Huntington, for erecting the town of Huntingdon and that part of the township of Huntington which is bounded by Cumberland county, the river Juniata, the Warrior Ridge and the kine of Barree township, into a separate district, for the more convenient election of Justices of the Peace; and also the north end of Tyrone township, beginning on the Little Juniata river, in the line of Huntington township, thence up the same to the corner of Frankstown township, at Logan's Narrows, thence by |