And Whereas, By an act of the said United States, passed on the first day of June now last past, it is provided that the oath or affirmation required by the sixth article of the said Constitution shall be administred in the form following, to wit: I, A B, do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States: And whereas, It is in and by the said act also directed and required, "that the members of the several State Legislatures, at the next sessions of the said Legislatures, respectively, and all Executive and Judicial officers of the several States who have been heretofore chosen or appointed, or who shall be chosen or appointed before the first day of August next, and who shall then be in office, shall, within one month thereafter, take the same oath or affirmation, except where they shall have taken it before, which may be administered by any person authorized by the law of the State in which such office shall be holden to administer oaths; and the members of the several State Legislatures and all Executive and Judicial officers of the several States who shall be chosen or appointed after the said first day of August, shall, before they proceed to execute the duties of their respective offices, take the foregoing oath or affirmation, which shall be administered by the person or persons who, by the law of the State, shall be authorized to administer the oath of office; and the person or persons so administering the oath hereby required to be taken, shall cause a record or certificate thereof to be made, in the same manner as by the law of the State he or they shall be directed to record or certify the oath of office, which said act has been transmitted to Council, in order that the same may be duly made known and promulgated within this Commonwealth: And whereas, For the convenience of those whom it may concern, and that they may have knowledge thereof, Council hath caused copies of the said act to be transmitted to the Prothonotarys of the several Court of Common Pleas within this State, with directions to make the same known within their respective counties. We have therefore thought proper to issue this proclamation, in order that no one may pretend ignorance of the premisses, and that all persons whom it may concern may have knowledge thereof and govern themselves conformably to the said Constitution and recited Given in Council, under the hand of his Excellency Thomas Mifflin, Esquire, President, and the Seal of the State, at Philadelphia, this twenty-third day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, and of the Commonwealth the fourteenth. act. ATTEST-CHARLES BIDDLE, Sec'ry. THOMAS MIFFLIN. Colonel Miles informed the Board that Casper Snyder, Cooper, living on Vine street wharf, was the son of the Mr. Snyder men tioned in the letter transmitted by the President of the United States yesterday, and Colonel Miles had leave to take the German letter which was inclosed for the use of the said Snyder. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Friday, July 24th, 1789. PRESENT: The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. James Read, Amos Gregg, Samuel Miles, Christopher Kucher, and Esquires. The Comptroller and Register General's report upon the account of George Graff, Esquire, Sheriff of the county of Northampton, for cash received on account of Court fines in October and December terms, 1788, amounting to twenty-seven pounds, was read and approved. Council took into consideration the case of William Cole, now confined in the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia, under sentence of death for a robbery, of which he was convicted at a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, held at Philadelphia the sixteenth instant, and a transcript of the record of his conviction being read, it was thereupon, Ordered, That execution of the sentence of the said Court be made and done upon him, the said William Cole, on Wednesday the twenty-ninth instant, between the hours of ten of the clock in the forenoon and two in the afternoon at the usual place of execu tion, and a warrant under the Lesser Seal directed to the Sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia, was accordingly issued. Upon further consideration of the petition of Anthony Cuthbert, stating his claim to divers city lots in right of Rees Price, under a patent dated the sixteenth of November, 1691, from the first proprietor of Pennsylvania, Resolved, That Friday the twenty-first day of August next, be assigned for hearing the said Anthony Cuthbert, touching his said claim, and that the Attorney General and Land officers be requested to attend Council at the same time. Upon application of John Wilson, for copies of the Proclamation of Council, dated the eighth of May, 1778, by which he was attainted of high treason, and of the petition which he lately presented to Council for a pardon, Resolved, That the request of John Wilson be complied with, and the Secretary be directed to furnish the said copies with a certificate under the Seal of the State. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, July 25th, 1789. PRESENT: The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Samuel Miles, Richard Willing, James Read, Christopher Kucher, Upon consideration of the petition and respectable recommendation from a number of the inhabitants of the bourough of Carlisle, and from Mr. Justice Weiss, of this city, for the pardon of a certain Richard Crane, who was convicted at the last Mayor's Court of receiving stolen goods, knowing them to be such, and sentenced to pay to the use of the Commonwealth a fine of four pounds ten shillings, and to undergo a servitude at hard labour for the term of six months, &ca., Resolved, That the said Richard Crane be and he is hereby pardoned. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Monday, July 27th, 1789. PRESENT: The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. A letter from the President of the United States to His Excellency the President of this State, inclosing an Act of Congress passed the twentieth day of this month, imposing a duty upon tonnage; and requesting that the receipt of the several Acts of Congress may be acknowledged by the President of this State, was received and read. A letter from Thomas Fitzsimmons, Esquire, one of the Delegates from this State in Congress, addressed to the President of this State, on the subject of certain certificates of this State now in the Treasury of the United States, was also received and read, On motion, Resolved, That on Wednesday next Council will go into the appointment of a Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, Clerk of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery, and of the Orphans' Court for the county of Northum berland, the said offices having become vacant by the death of Lawrence Keene, Esquire. Council Chamber. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, July 28th, 1789. PRESENT: The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Agreeably to the order of the day, Council proceeded to the appointment of a Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, Clerk of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery, and Clerk of the Orphans' Court for the county of Northumberland, in the room Lawrence Keene, Esquire, lately deceased, and the ballots being taken for the several candidates, it appeared that Jasper Ewing was duly elected to the said several offices, and he was commissionated accordingly. On motion, Resolved, That the said Jasper Ewing be appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Northumberland, and that a dedimus potestatem be now issued, directed to Jaspar Ewing, Prothonotary, and John Simpson, the Recorder and Register of the said county. Upon the second reading of the petition of Arthur French and Thomas McCarty, the former convicted of a cheat and the latter of a nuisance, in keeping a disorderly house, at the last Mayor's Court, praying remission of the punishment to which they have been severally sentenced for the said offences, Resolved, That the said petitions be dismissed. Upon the second reading of the petition of Crousillat and Oliver, of the city of Philadelphia, merchants, stating, that having imported into this State, from Europe, a quantity of goods, and paid the duty thereon, they shipped the same to St. Domingo, but not being landed there, were brought back to Philadelphia in the same vessel; therefore praying Council to remit the duties charged upon the second importation of the said goods, Resolved, That Council cannot grant the relief prayed for, and that the petitioners have leave to withdraw their petitions. A note from the Trustees and Faculty of the University, to his Excellency the President and Council, requesting the favor of their company to join in procession with the Trustees and Faculty, on the thirtieth and thirty-first instant from the Philosophical Hall to the German church in Race street, to attend the commencement, was received and read, and it was agreed to attend the said procession. Upon consideration of the petition and recommendation in favor of Ezekiel Bayona, confined in the jail of this city, for remission of a fine of twenty shillings, to which he was sentenced by the Mayor's Court, for an assault and battery upon certain Grace Oberman, Resolved, That the fine aforesaid be remitted. The petition of George Benedict, praying Council to grant him some relief, in consideration of his being wounded while doing duty as a gunner in Colonel Hanna's battalion of Dauphine county militia, was read, and thereupon, Resolved, That Council cannot grant any relief in this case, and that the petitioner have leave to withdraw his petition. Agreeably to the Comptroller's and Register General's reports, the following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of William Fians, for forty-three pounds five shillings and ten pence, being the ballance due to him upon 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, amounting to one hundred and twenty-seven pounds, settled the twentyfirst instant. In favor of Philip Cline, for thirteen days' mason work at the aforesaid bank, amounting to six pounds eight shillings and three pence, settled the twenty-fifth instant. In favor of Messieurs Brown and Shortall, lumber merchants, for three pounds one shilling and ten pence, amount of their account for one thousand feet of rough sap pine boards, sent to Mud Island, and used by the men employed in repairing the aforesaid bank, to walk on out into the mud, settled by the Comptroller General the same day. In favor of Thomas Hall, for six pounds nine shillings and nine pence, in full for thirteen days and a half of work as a mason at |