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The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, August 27th, 1789.

PRESENT:

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

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A letter was written by the President of this Board to the President of the United States, acknowledging the receipt of his letter of the twenty-fourth instant, inclosing an act of Congress of the twentieth, intituled "An Act providing for the expences which may attend negociations or treaties with the Indians tribes, and the appointment of commissioners for managing the same."

Council being informed that a number of persons were attending agreeably to notice giving, in order to be heard upon a complaint made to the Board on the eighth instant, of irregular proceedings at an election of Justices of the Peace in Northampton and Southampton townships, in Bucks county,

Resolved, That Mr. Watt, Mr. Baird, Mr. Cannon, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Smilie, be a committee to hear the parties, and that the said committee report their proceedings to Council.

On motion,

Resolved, That Wednesday next be appointed for the consideration of the report of the committee appointed to investigate the complaint against John Jones, Esquire, health officer.

On motion,

Resolved, That the Vice President, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Woods, be a committee to confer with a committee of the General Assembly, on the subject of annuities to the widows and children of deceased officers,

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Friday, August 28th, 1789.

PRESENT:

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

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A notification from Henry Weisner, of Newtown, in Bucks county, to the President, that a certain person named John Metotonica died intestate, leaving no issue or relations, and that it is supposed his property escheats to the Commonwealth, was received, and thereupon, an order was taken that the same be referred to the Escheater General.

A petition from a number of inhabitants of Bedford county, late militia men in actual service, complaining of certain exactions of the late Lieutenant of that county, George Woods, Esquire, was received and read and referred to the Vice President, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Willing, the committee appointed the twentieth instant, upon the letter from the Comptroller General relative to the conduct of Mr. Woods.

John Christ, Esquire, was commissionated Register of the Probate of Wills, and granting Letters of Administration and Recorder of Deeds for the county of Berks, agreeably to an appointwent of him to those offices by the General Assembly, on the twenty-sixth instant, a certificate of which appointment was laid before Council this day.

On motion,

Resolved, That to-morrow be appointed for the consideration of the petition of Christiana Gulielma Gaskell, praying "that the Attorney General may be directed to receive a declaration in ejectment on her demise, to try her title to three equal fourth parts of divers lots of ground, containing in breadth north and south one hundred and two feet, and extending across the intervening streets of the city, from the west side of Delaware Fourth street to the river Schuylkill."

On motion,

Resolved, That Mr. Miles, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Baird, be a committee to confer with a committee of the General Assembly, on the subject of the proceeds of the lottery, under an act of Assembly passed the fifteenth of March, 1784.

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The President laid before Council a letter from Mr. Carmichael, resident at the Court of Spain, in answer to the President's letter to him of the thirty-first of December, 1788, relative to demands of several citizens of Philadelphia against the officers of that crown at the Havanna, which was read, and it was, thereupon, Resolved, That the Secretary communicate the same to the gentlemen concerned.

On motion,

James Scull, Esquire, was unanimously appointed Clerk of the Orphans' Court in the county of Berks, in the place of Henry Christ, Esq'r, lately deceased..

Upon the petition of John Irwin, Esquire, of Westmoreland county, for remission of the fine of twenty-five pounds due to the State from his servant, John Souder, who was convicted in the county of Bedford of horse stealing, and whose term of servitude in the said county for the said offence, is expired,

Resolved, That the said fine be remitted."

A petition from John Armstrong, now confined in the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia for larceny, praying remission of the fine of twenty-five shillings due to the Commonwealth, which was imposed upon him' by the Mayor's Court for the said offence, was read, together with a certificate from the jailor that his time of servitude is expired, and that he has behaved himself orderly and obedient during his confinement, it was, thereupon,

Resolved, That the said fine be remitted.

The further consideration of the petition of Christiana Gulielm a Gaskill was postponed until Wednesday next.

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

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The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of Charles Biddle, Esquire, for fifty pounds, to reimburse him for cash advanced to two Indian Chiefs of the Cherokee Nations, to enable them to proceed to New York, to negociate some business with Congress, and to pay wages to the watchman employed in guarding the public Treasury and the several public offices in the State House, for which sum he is to account.

In favor of Frederick Sneider, for fifteen pounds ten shillings, in full of his wages for his attendance as Doorkeeper to Council from the first to the thirty-first of August, 1789, inclusively.

Mr. Dennison was appointed a Member of the Board of Property for the present month.

On motion,

Resolved, That Mr. John Holme be appointed and commissionated a Juetice of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Bucks.

VOL. XVI.-10.

Upon the second reading of the memorial of Charles Stewart, Esquire, guardian of the child of Robert Wilson, deceased, stating that the said deceased was entituled to an undivided fourth part of thirty-six thousand acres of land, located in August, 1774, by Benjamin Chew, Edward Shippen, Joseph Shippen, Samuel Meredith and Andrew Allen, on the waters of the north-east branch of Susquehanna, then in he county of Northumberland; that the part or share of the said Andrew Allen, by his attainder of high treason, is become the property of the Commonwealth; and praying that a fair and equitable division may now be made, under the sanction of Council, of the said lands, agreeably to the original contract of the parties.

Resolved, That the Surveyor General, Receiver General and Secretary of the land office, be and they are hereby authorized and required, on the part of this State, to consult with the other owners or proprietors of the lands in question, or their legal representatives, and with them to mark out such division or partition of the same as shall appear just and equitable, and make report thereof to Council.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, September 2nd, 1789.

PRESENT:

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

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A letter from the President of the United States, dated the thirtieth instant, inclosing a resolution of the Congress of the United States for carrying into effect a survey directed to be made by an act of the late Congress, dated the sixth of June last, was received and read, and the said resolution transmitted to the General Assembly.

A petition from George Burford, now confined in the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia, for a misdemeanor in winning a sum of money at cards, praying remission of the fine of six pounds to which he was sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions and Jail Delivery of said county, was read, together with a

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