surveys, for the payment of which no provision hath been made by the Legislature. I have the honor to be with the greatest respect, sir, Your most obedient and most humble servant, THOMAS MIFFLIN. Honorable the Speaker of the General Assembly. On motion, Robert Hunter, junior, was unanimously appointed Collector of Excise for the counties of Westmoreland and Allegany, Mr. John Giffin, who was formerly appointed having declined to act. On motion, Resolved, That to-morrow be assigned for the consideration the complaint against Michael Huffnagle, Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Westmoreland. A petition from James Dewsberry, now confined in the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia, upon being convicted of unlawfull gaming and defrauding a certain Samuel Beard of the sum of six pounds seven shillings and six pence, praying remission of the fine of six pounds due to the Commonwealth to which he has been sentenced for the said offence, was received and read, and the jailor having informed Council that he is not able to pay the said fine, and has behaved himself orderly during his confinement; it was thereupon, Resolved, To remit the same. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, September 17th, 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 Abraham Moser, of York county, for taking up three deserters from the American Army in the year 1782, and securing them, amounting to six pounds, was read and approved. Upon application of Frederick Sneider, Doorkeeper, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor for the sum of thirty pounds, to purchase firewood for the use of Council, for which sum he is to account. The consideration of the complaint against Michael Huffnagle, Esquire, was postponed untill to-morrow. A return of officers for three Battalions of militia in the county of Bedford, signed by Hugh Barclay, Lieutenant of that county, was laid before Council, and the same being read, it was Ordered, That Commissions issue agreeably thereto. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Friday, September 18th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the following accounts, were read and approved, vizt: Of Jacob Fitzer, for his pay as a seven months' man in the late army of the United States, from the twenty-sixth of June to the twenty-second of December, 1780, amounting to fourteen pounds fifteen shillings. Of Andrew Heffer, for one year's pension, ending the fourteenth of November, 1788, according to a decree of the Supreme Court, amounting to thirteen pounds ten shillings, for which sum an order was drawn upon the Treasurer. On motion, Resolved, That John Moore, William Jack and Ephraim Douglass, Esquires, be and they are hereby authorized to investigate the charges of divers inhabitants of Westmoreland county, against Michael Huffnagle, Esquire, Prothonotary of that county, and to report to Council. Upon consideration of the petition and respectable recommendation in favor of Charles Jones, praying that Council would be pleased to appoint him a Notary and Tabellion Public, in and for this Commonwealth, Resolved, That the prayer of his petition be granted. A petition from Daniel Fennell, of the district of Southwark, praying remission of the fine of five pounds, to which he was sentenced by the last Court of General Quarter Sessions of Phiadelphia county, for an assault and battery, was read, Council taking the said petition into consideration, and also a recommendation in his favor accompanying the same, and it appearing that the petitioner has a large family to support and is not able to pay the said fine; it was thereupon, Resolved, That the said fine be remitted. Agreeably to a resolution of the General Assembly of the fifteenth instant, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Mr. John Dunlap, for the sum of two hundred and forty-eight pounds nineteen shillings and eight pence, payable out of the fund appropriated for claims and improvements, the same being in full of the sum due by this State to the said John Dunlap, as an indemnification against a ground rent of eleven pistoles per annum and the arrearages thereof, issuing out of certain lots by him purchased from this Commonwealth, as being subject to five pistoles per annum, whereas, in fact they are subject to the said sum eleven pistoles per annum. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, September 19th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. John Baird, Upon application of Samuel Church, William M'Mullen and John Cornish, Supervisors of the roads in the district of Southwark, for the loan of the draft of the said district, made by John Hills, and of the levelling instruments, the property of the State, to enable them to regulate the descent of the water courses, and to ascertain the bounds of the streets, lanes and alleys in the said district, Resolved, That the request of the said Supervisors be complied with. On motion, Resolved, That to-morrow be assigned for going into the appointment of a Prothonotary of the county of Mifflin. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, September 22nd, 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 Jacob Rush, Esquire, for one hundred and fifty pounds, being one quarter salary due to him on the eighteenth instant, as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, according to the Comptroller General's report. A petition from Rebecca Wall and Sarah Burk, now confined in the work house of this city, for keeping a disorderly house, praying remission of the several fines imposed upon them by the Mayor's Court for the said offence, was read, and appearing by a certificate from the keeper of the Work house, that their time of servitude is expired, and they have behaved in a regular and orderly manner during their confinement; it was thereupon, Resolved, That the several fines payable to the use of the State, to which the petitioners have been sentenced, be remitted. Council having requested a conference with the Judges of the Supreme Court and Attorney General, on the propriety of ordering a Court of Oyer and Terminer at an earlier day than the fourth or fifth of November next, which was suggested by them, Chief Justice M'Kean, Justice Bryan and the Attorney General attended, and agreed to hold a Court for the trial of the persons charged with the robbery and murder of John M'Farland, on Thursday the ninth of October next. Agreeably to the minute of yesterday, Council proceeded to the appointment of a Prothonotary for the county of Mifflin, and the ballots being taken for the several candidates, it appeared that Samuel Edmiston was duly elected to that office, and he was commissionated accordingly. On motion, Samuel Edmiston, Esquire, was also appointed and eommissionated Clerk of the Court of General Quarter Ssssions of the Peace and Jail Delivery, and of the Orphan's Court, and a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said county of Mifflin. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, September 23rd, 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: Of Abraham Demud, for a gun taken from him for the use of the public, in the year 1776, amounting to two pounds five shillings. Of Abraham Fleury, for a gun and ten pot hooks taken for public use as aforesaid, amounting to three pounds eighteen shillings. Of Henry Strickler, for a gun taken for public use as aforesaid, amounting to two pounds five shillings. Of Caleb Davis, Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Chester, for monies received for fees upon tavern licenses between the twenty-first day of February and the twenty-eighth day of July, 1789, amounting to eighty-two pounds four shillings. Of Abel Morgan, Esquire, Lieutenant of the county of Montgomery, for monies received by him for militia fines, &ca., from the time of his appointment, in the year 1784, to the fourth of June, 1789, amounting to one thousand and seventy-four pounds seventeen shillings and nine pence; and an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the said Abel Morgan, for the sum of eight pounds eleven shillings and nine pence, payable out of the monies |