The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, September 7th, 1789.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Resolved, That he be permitted to withdraw a representation which he laid before Council on the fourth instant, from the Grand Jury of the county of Cumberland, relative to a bill found by them against John English for forgery.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, September 7th, 1789, P. M.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Christopher Kucher, Esquire, for twenty pounds five shillings, in full of his account for his attendance in Council from the twelfth of July to the seventh of September, 1789, inclusively.

The petition of Alexander Neilly, convicted in the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery of the county of Allegany of an assault and battery, with an intent to ravish, &ca., was read; and thereupon,

Resolved, That the said petition be rejected, it being too indecent to lie on the table.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, September 8th, 1789.

PRESENT:

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

Council resumed the consideration of the petition of Thomas Clifford and Miers Fisher, attornies of Christiana Gulielma Gaskill, stating her right to city lots, under the original purchase of William Penn, the younger, from the first Proprietor of Pennsylvania, and 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 Delaware Fourth street to the river Schuylkill.

And on the question, "Will Council comply with the prayer of the petitioners?" being put, it was unanimously determined in the negative.

Council proceeded to the further consideration of the return of an election of Justices of the Peace from the district of the townships of Northampton and Southampton, in the county of Bucks; and thereupon, Joseph Thornton, Esquire, was appointed a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid, he having a majority of votes.

On motion,

Resolved, That two orders be drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of William Bradford, Junior, and Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, Esquires, for the sum of twenty pounds each, as a compensation for their services in defending the title of the Commonwealth to a confiscated estate in Bucks county, under an appointment of Council, dated the second of December, 1786, in favor of Joseph Thomas, the purchaser, against an ejectment brought by the former owner.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, September 9th, 1789.

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 Jacob Lutz, for militia services, as Captain of a company of foot in the battalion of Lancaster county militia, commanded by Colonel David Jenkins, in the years 1777, 1778, and 1779, in warning his company to attend musters for actual service, and giving notice of an appeal, &ca., amounting to five pounds six shillings and six pence.

Of Adam Kough, for his pay as an eighteen months' man, amounting to forty-five pounds.

A letter from his Excellency the President of the United States, dated the seventh of September instant, inclosing An Act to establish the Treasury Department, An Act for registering and clearing vessels, regulating the coasting trade, &ca., and duplicate of a resolution of Congress for carrying into effect a survey directed to be made by an act of the late Congress, was received and read, and the same transmitted to the Speaker of the General Assembly.

A letter was written by the President to the President of the United States, acknowledging the receipt of the said letter and enclosures.

The account of Captain Joseph Stiles, Commissary of Military Stores and Superintendant of the magazine of gunpowder, amounting to eighty-six pounds three shillings and four pence, which was approved on the tenth of June last, was this day laid before Council, and an order directed to issue upon the Treasurer for the said amount.

Jacob Tritt, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of York, upon a return made according to law, for the district of the townships of Chanceford and Windsor, in the said county.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, September 10th, 1789.

PRESENT:

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

The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of Adam Hubley, Esquire, for monies received for State duty upon goods sold at public auction in the district of Southwark from the twenty-fifth of May to the second of September, 1789, amounting to thirty-one pounds nine shillings and one penny, was read and approved.

Upon the second reading of the petition of James Campbell, of Cumberland county, for the pardon of his negro lad Julius, who was convicted of a burglary at a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery held at Carlisle, for the said county, on the first day of June last, and sentenced to undergo five years servitude at hard labour, &ca.,

Resolved, That the said negro lad Julius be and he is hereby pardoned.

Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the petition of Mary Adams, relative to a balance of money supposed to be due from John Ross of this city, merchant, to Alexander Ross, and by his attainder of high treason, forfeited to the Commonwealth, and it appearing by a report from the Comptroller and Register General that the said balance has been fully paid to Alexander Ross previous to the said attainder,

Resolved, That the said Mary Adams on that account, has no claim against the Commonwealth, or the said John Ross.

'The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Friday, September 11th, 1789.

PRESENT:

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

Robert Lollar, Esquire, was commissionated Register of the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration and Recorder of Deeds, for the county of Montgomery, agreeably to an appointment of him to those offices by the General Assembly, on the ninth instant, a certificate of which appointment was this day laid before Council.

The petition of Gobliep Ebert stating that he became bound in a recognizance, for the appearance of a certain Jane Hamilton (alias Jane Cooper,) at the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the county of Franklin, to answer to an indictment for larceny, that the said Jane Hamilton afterwards absconded, and the said recognizance became forfeited, and praying that Council in consideration of his poverty would be pleased to remit the same, was read, together with a recommendation accompanying the said petition, thereupon,

Resolved, That the said forfeiture amounting to twenty-five pounds, be and the same is hereby remitted.

The Comptroller and Register General reports upon the following accounts, were read and approved, vizt: