each per day, as a compensation for your services, subsistence and horse hire, whilst you are actually engaged.

I am Gentlemen, with great respect,

Your most obedient and very humble servant, GEORGE ROSS, V. P. Timothy Matlack, Reading Howell and William Dean, Commissioners for viewing the river Delaware.

John Sellers and John Adlum, Commissioners for viewing the the river Schuylkill, and

To Samuel Boyd, Bartram Galbraith and Thomas Huling, Commissioners appointed to view the rivers Susquehanna and Juniata.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, October 7th, 1789.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

James Read,

Samuel Edie,

Zebulon Potts,

On motion,

Resolved, That Friday next be assigned for going into the appointment of Lieutenant for the county of Delaware, and also a Lieutenant for the county of Mifflin.

On motion,

Resolved, That the Comptroller General be directed to report to Council what sums are due for pensions to the widows and children of James Henry and Richard Delap and Henry Tantlinger respectively, late of the militia of Bedford county, deceased, agreeably to the several orders of Orphans' Court, of Bedford county, on their several claims in order that warrants may issue for payment.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, October 8th, 1789.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

James Read,

Samuel Edie,

Nathan Dennison,

George Woods, and Esquires.
Richard Willing,

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Nathan Dennison, Esquire, for eighteen pounds, in full for his attendance in Council until the ninth instant, inclusive.

A representation from the Commissioners appointed to view the river Delaware, requesting Council to furnish them with a number of articles, a list whereof they have sent in, and also the sum of ninety pounds, was read the second time and the further consideration thereof postponed untill to-morrow.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Friday, October 9th, 1789.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Agreeably to the order of the day, Council proceeded to the appointment of a Collector of Excise for the county of Delaware, a Lieutenant of the same county, and also a Lieutenant of the county of Mifflin. And the ballots being taken for the several candidates for the office of Collector of Excise, it appeared that Philip Sheaff, Esquire, was duly elected to that office by a majority of votes.

On motion,

Luke Morris, Jun'r, Esquire, was unanimously appointed. Lieutenant of the county of Delaware, and Samuel Bryson, Esquire, was unanimously appointed Lieutenant of the county of Mifflin.

The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of John Hubley Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Lancaster, for fees received for tavern and marriage licences, and for the tax upon writs, between the twentieth of March and sixth of October, 1789, amounting to five hundred and fifty-eight pounds seventeen shillings, was read and approved.

Agreeably to the minute of the first of September last, the Secretary, Receiver General, and Surveyor General of the Land Office made a report on the memorial of Charles Stewart, in behalf of the child of Robert Wilson, deceased, in the following words, vizt:

In obedience to an order of Council of the first of September instant, requiring us, 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 make out such division or partition of the same as shall appear just and equitable, we beg leave to report, that we have examined the deeds produced to us, and

found by an indenture, quinquipartite, dated the sixteenth day of October, 1775, made between Benjamin Chew, Edward Shippen, Samuel Meredith, Joseph Shippen, and Andrew Allen, that each of them was entitled to one-fifth part of thirty-six thousand acres of land, then in the county of Northumberland, now of Luzerne, subject to one-fourth part thereof, by the said agreement, to be granted or allotted to Robert Wilson, or his assigns. That Messieurs Chew and Edward Shippen, by two distinct deeds, conveyed their respective shares to the said Samuel Meredith; that Robert Wilson conveyed three thousand acres of his share to the said Samuel Meredith; that the State is entitled to the share of Andrew Allen; that the quality being supposed to be nearly equal, we laid the several surveys of the said lands together, as nearly as might be, in quantities or tracts agreeably to their respective proportions, and divided them by lot, whereby nineteen thousand three hundred and two acres and ten perches fell to the share of Samuel Meredith, five thousand three hundred and seventy four acres to the share of Joseph Shippen, or of those who represent him, six thousand three hundred and sixty-nine acres and one eighth to the share of Robert Wilson, or of those who represent him, and five thousand eight hundred and seventy-three acres to the State, in right of Andrew Allen, the several surveys and warrants for which are as follows, vizt:

We have had no persons or person who represent Joseph Shippen to consult with, or signify his, her, or their concurrence. We are, with due respect, your Excellency's and Honor's most Obedient and very humble servants,

JOHN LUKENS,

DAVID KENNEDY,
FRANCIS JOHNSTON,

His Excellency Thomas Mifflin, Esquire.

And the same being read and considered, it was,

Resolved, To adopt the report, so far as the appropriation therein affects the State.

The Comptroller General's reports upon the claim of the estate of Joseph Collier, for money paid into the State Treasury, vizt: one hundred and seventy pounds five shillings, Continental, amounting in specie to the sum of two pounds five shillings and four pence, was read and approved, and an order issued to the Treasurer to return the said sum of two pounds five shillings and four pence, out of the Treasury to the said estate.

The Comptroller General's reports upon orders of the Orphans' Court of Bedford county, in favor of the following persons, for their pensions, were read and approved, and orders were drawn upon the Treasurer for the several sums reported by the Comptroller to be due to them, payable out of the monies arising from the militia fines of the county of Bedford, vizt:

Catherine Tantlinger, for the sum of twenty-two pounds ten shillings, ballance due of her pension from the fourteenth of February, 1786, till the fourteenth of August, 1787.

Jane Delapt, for sixty-seven pounds seven shillings and six pence, for her pension due to her until the eleventh day of August, 1789.

Elizabeth Henry, for sixty-seven, pounds seven shillings and six pence, for pension due to her untill the eleventh of August, 1789.

Upon application of Timothy Matlack, Reading Howell, and William Dean, commissioners appointed to view the river Delaware, an order was drawn on the Treasurer in their favor, for the sum of one hundred, payable out of the fund appropriated by act of Assembly passed the twenty-eighth of September last, to enable them to proceed in said business, for which sum they are to be accountable, and the Commissary of Military Stores was directed to furnish the said commissioners with one horseman's tent, one smaller tent, three camp kettles, and two musquets, the property of the State, to be returned when the business is compleated, or accounted for by the commissioners.

On motion,

Resolved, That the opinion of the Attorney General be taken upon the following question, vizt: "Whether Justices of the Peace and Pleas who have been commissionated for a certain county, and a part of that county erected into a separate county, can continue to exercise the powers of the peace and pleas in that part erected into a new county, and separated from the old one," and that this opinion be requested of him by a committee of three; the members chosen were Colonels Smith and Willing, and Mr. Read.