The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, February 25th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. Agreeably to the Comptroller General's report, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Matthias Hollenback, Esquire, for four pounds seventeen shillings and two pence, amount of his account for carriage of fifty stand of musquets from Lancaster to Wioming by the way of Middletown, and for cash paid to George Fry for storing the same. Upon consideration of the several petitions and recommendations in favor of Benjamin Williams and Nicholas Yundt, the former convicted of an assault and battery, and the latter for fornication and bastardy, in the county of Lancaster, for remission of their fines, Resolved, That the several fines adjudged to be paid to the use of the Commonwealth by the said Benjamin Williams and Nicholas Yundt, upon their being convicted as aforesaid, be remitted. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of His Excellency Thomas Mifflin, Esquire, for three hundred and seventy-five pounds, being one quarter's salary as President of the State, for which sum he is to account. Upon consideration of the report of the Committee, to whom was referred the return of an election of Justices of the Peace, lately held in the second district of the county of Luzerne, Resolved, That the election for Justices of the Peace, held on the twentieth day of January last, in the second district of the county of Luzerne, was not conducted according to law, and therefore, that the proceedings at said election, and the return thereof be quashed. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, February 26th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. Robert Mcllhaney, 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 from the district of the townships of Germany and Mountjoy in the said county. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Friday, February 27th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable William Maclay, Esquire, for thirty-one pounds two shillings, in full for his attendance in Council from the twenty-sixth day of January, until the twenty-seventh day of February, 1789, inclusively. Upon the verbal report of the Committee to whom it was referred to consider of and report to Council, on the propriety of granting credentials to the Senators and Representatives of this State in the Congress of the United States, Resolved, That no farther order be taken by Council thereon. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, February 28th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. Upon the report of the Committee to whom was referred the petition from Joseph Perkins and Abraham Morrow, Resolved, That an order be drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the said Joseph Perkins, for one hundred and nineteen pounds nineteen shillings, payable out of the monies arising from militia fines in the city and liberties of Philadelphia, being the amount of his account for repairing arms belonging to the city and liberties of Philadelphia, agreeably to the Comptroller General's report of the fourteenth day of February instant. Upon consideration of a letter received from his Excellency William Livingston, Esquire, Governor of the State of New Jersey, demanding that a certain Andrew Allen, now in the custody of the Sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia, and who stands charged with a forgery committed in the said State, be delivered up, in order to be removed to the State of New Jersey, having jurisdiction of his offence, Resolved, That the Sheriff of the city and county of Philadel phia be authorized and directed to deliver up the said Andrew Allen to the order of the Honorable David Brearly, Esquire, Chief Justice of New Jersey, in order that he may be removed to the said State, to answer for the said offence. Eleazer Jenkins, Esquire, was appointed and commissioned a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Washington, upon a return made according to law, for the district of the township of Bethlehem, in the said county. Two petitions, one from Charles Read, now confined in the jail of this city, under sentence of death for murder, and the other from his mother, Ann Read Wardel, praying a pardon of the said offence, accompanied by a recommendation of him for mercy from the jury and a number of citizens, were laid before the Board and read. A letter from the Honorable the Judges of the Supreme Court, requesting that a reprieve might be issued for the prisoner until Saturday, the fourteenth day of March next, was also received and read. Council taking into consideration the said request of the Judges, it was thereupon Resolved, To reprieve the said Charles Read until Saturday, the fourteenth day of March next; and the Sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia was instructed accordingly. On motion, Resolved, That agreeably to the supplement to the act of Assembly intituled An Act to alter and amend an act intituled An Act to remedy the defects of the several acts of Assembly heretofore made for regulating the elections of Justices of the Peace throughout this State, &ca., passed the twenty-seventh day of February, 1788, the inhabitants of the district in which the town of Sunbury is situate (in the county of Northumberland) are intitled to and shall be allowed a third Justice of the Peace, upon an election of such Justice being held within the said district by the freeholders thereof, and return made to Council according to law. Upon application of James Dinwiddie, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor for twenty-five pounds six shillings and three pence, ballance due upon his account for riding express to the western counties to bring to Council the returns of Electors. On motion, Resolved, That a præcept be now issued for holding a new election of Justices of the Peace in the second district of the county of Luzerne on the fourteenth day of April next. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Monday, March 2nd, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Robert Martin, Esquire, for twenty-seven pounds ten shillings, amount of his account for his services and expences in attending at Wyoming in the year 1784, by direction of Council, to quiet the disturbances at that place, according to the Comptroller General's report. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Griffith Evans, for seven shillings and one penny, for writing paper furnished by him and used by the Commissioners for ascertaining the claims of settlers at and near Wyoming. Agreeably to the Comptroller General's report and an Act of Assembly dated the twentieth of March, 1780, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Mary Cline Smith, for forty-eight pounds ten shillings, being her pension from July, 1780, until August the seventh, 1788, as adjudged to her by the Orphans' Court of Northumberland county, in right of her late husband, Baltzer Kline Smith, late private in the militia of said county. Colonel Willing was appointed to attend the Board of Property for the present month, Doctor Gregg, whose turn it was, not having it in his power to attend this month. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, March 3rd, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Nathan Dennison, Esquire, for twenty-four pounds, in full for his attendance from January the twenty-eighth until the twentyeighth of February, 1789, inclusively. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Frederick Sneider, for fourteen pounds two shillings, in full for his attendance as doorkeeper to Council from the first until the twenty-eighth day of February, 1789, inclusively, and cash paid for sweeping two chimneys. Absalom Baird and John Douglass, Esquires, were appointed and commissionated Justices of the Peace, the former for the district of the town of Washington, and the latter for the district of the township of Peters, in the county of Washington, upon returns made according to law from the said districts. The said Absalom Baird and John Douglass, Esquires, were also appointed and commissionated Justices of the Court of Commonpleas in and for the said county of Washington. |