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Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Your committee therefore recommend the following resolutions:

Resolved, That the Comptroller General be directed to make out and furnish Council, as soon as can be done with convenience, a statement of the whole amount of the depreciation certificates granted to the officers and soldiers of the army and military hospital, by the several laws of this Commonwealth; also the amount of such certificates as were granted in pursuance of the laws of this Commonwealth, whether for supplies furnished for the pay of the companies of rangers, volunteers or eighteen months' men, or militia; and also all such expenditures, since the commencement of the late war, as are chargeable to the United States, together with the funds appropriated, either in whole or in part, to pay the principal or interest thereof.

Resolved, That the Comptroller General be also directed to furnish Council with the amount of all such Loan Office certificates and other public securities of the United States, as are in the State Treasury, and are the property of this State; and also the amount of the interest paid by this Commonwealth, from time to time, on the Loan Office certificates and other evidences of the public debts of the United States.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, November 14th, 1789.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, Presid't. The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.

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A letter from Lewis Farmer, Esquire, inclosing a list of one hundred and fourteen German passengers, who have arrived at Philadelphia from the tenth of January to the first of October, 1789, was received and read, and ordered to be filed.

The Comptroller & Register General's report upon the account of James Searle, for his services and expences as an Agent for this State to borrow money in Holland, in the year 1780, and for his pay as a Delegate from this State to Congress, previous to his said agency, by which a balance of five hundred and eight pounds five shillings and two pence appears to be due to the said James Searle, was read and approved.

Agreeably to the Comptroller General and Register General's report, the following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of Hugh Barclay, Esquire, for seventy-six pounds thirteen shillings and two pence, being due to him upon his account as Lieutenant of the county of Bedford, as settled by the Comptroller General on the thirteenth instant, the said sum to be paid out o the monies arising from militia fines in the said county.

In favor of Lucinda Piper, for one hundred and twenty-five pounds fifteen shillings, in full of her pension until the first of September last, agreeably to act of Assembly passed the first of October, 1781; and in favor of Alexander Caul, for two pounds ten shillings and six pence, being his pension until the first of April last, according to act of Assembly dated the twenty-second of September, 1785.

The Comptroller and Register General's report upon the account of John Forsyth, Esquire, collector of Excise in the county of York, for excise collected and outstanding between the twenty-fifth of September, 1788, to the first of October, 1789, amounting to one thousand five hundred and forty-seven pounds two shillings and one penny, whereof six hundred and fifty pounds one shilling and two pence appears to have been paid into the Treasury, was read and approved.

Upon further consideration of a letter from the Attorney General of the twelfth of August last, relative to certain bills of exchange drawn in the year 1775, by Messieurs Stocker and Wharton, merchants, for the payment of the amount of which to the State of Pennsylvania they became liable, proposing payment by the execu tors of said Stocker and Wharton, deceased, of the balance due to the Commonwealth, by a discount of interest due to the company on certain certificates in the possession of the said executors,

Resolved, unanimously, That the said proposal be accepted, and that the Attorney General be instructed to discharge the suit, on payment being made by the said executors accordingly and on their satisfying the costs of suit.

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A letter from Daniel Brodhead, Esquire, Surveyor General, pominating, agreeably to act of Assembly passed the eighth day of April, 1785, Mr. William Wheeler a Deputy Surveyor of that part of Berks county lying on the south side of the road leading from Pottsgrove through Reading to Ellis Hughes, and Francis Yarnall's to Port Augusta, except Clark's district in that county.

Resolved, That the Board concur with the said nomination, and that John Ludwig and Daniel Leimback, Esquires, be accepted as sureties for the said Deputy Surveyor.

Agreeably to a recommendation from Samuel Edmiston, Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Mifflin, and several respectable inhabitants of the said county, William Brown, Esquire, was unanimously appointed President of the Court of Common Pleas, of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery and of the Orphans' Court of the said county of Mifflin, and commissionated accordingly.

John Moore and John Culbertson, Esquires, were offered and accepted as sureties for James Guthrie's faithful performance of the office of Sheriff of the county of Westmoreland according to law.

The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of John Hazelwood, Esquire, for his services and expences in the year 1776, in the State Navy, and as Commissioner for the purchase of provisions for the army in the year 1781, by which a ballance of two hundred and twenty-three pounds eleven shillings and three pence half penny appears to be due to Mr. Hazlewood, was read and approved.

Agreeably to an order of Orphans' Court of the county of Northumberland, held the seventh of October, 1788, and the Comptroller General's report thereon, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Mary Magdelena Row, for fifteen pounds five shillings and seven pence, being due to her for her pension in right of her husband George Row, deceased, from the twenty-sixth day of Sep

tember, 1786, to the seventh of October, 1788, to be paid out of the monies arising from militia fines in the said county.

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Samuel Edie,

The Attorney General attended and informed Council that the Jury in the cause of the Chief Justice against the State had not agreed in a verdict yesterday, and requesting instructions how to act, provided they should not be likely to agree this morning.Council recommended to the Attorney General to act as he and Mr. Ingersol the other Council for the State should think most proper, all circumstances considered.

A letter from Samuel Boyd, Bartram Galbraith and Thomas Huling, Commissioners to examine the rivers Susquehanna and its Branches, stating the impracticability of compleating the business in time to report to Council in the present sessions of Assembly, was received and read.

Agreeably to the Comptroller General's report of the seventeenth instant, two orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, one in favor of Joseph Perkins, for one hundred and eighteen pounds five shillings and seven pence, and the other in favor of Abraham Morrow, for thirty-three pounds four shillings and seven pence, payable out of the fund appropriated for claims and improvements, according to Act of Assembly passed the twenty-ninth day of September last, being granted in lieu of former orders for their services in repairing public arms, which remains unpaid, and are now delivered up to be cancelled.

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

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Of Stephen Porter, for one-half of the pay and expences Indian interpreter, who was employed by the Commissioners appointed to run and mark the boundary line between this State and the State of New York, and for seven barrels of flour used by the Commissioners, amounting in the whole to forty-six pounds twelve shillings and seven pence. An order was drawn for this sum.

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Of Stephen Shewell, for one thousand and fifty-nine bushells of salt taken from his store in August, 1776, by the Committee of Safety, and accounted for to the State, amounting to seven hundred and ninety-four pounds nine shillings.

A petition from John Logan, bricklayer, now confined in the jail of this city for receiving stolen goods, knowing them to be such, and for harbouring persons who had been convicted of capital offences, praying a pardon, was read, and the petition dismissed.

A petition from Benjamin Miller, convicted of a burglary in the county of Montgomery, praying a pardon, was read; whereupon, it was moved and seconded to pardon the said Benjamin Miller, on condition of his leaving the State, and on the question to agree to the said motion, it was determined in the negative.

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Agreeably to the Comptroller General's report, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Joseph Perkins, for one hundred and twelve pounds fifteen shillings, payable out of the fund appropriated for claims and improvements according to Act of Assembly passed the twenty-ninth of September last, being granted in lieu of a former order for his services in repairing public arms which remains unpaid, and is now delivered up to be cancelled.

Nathaniel Breading, Esquire, Councillor elect for the county of Fayette, appeared and being qualified as the Constitution of the United States and of this State direct, was admitted to his seat at the Board.

A letter from James Pemberton on behalf of the Society for the abolition of slavery, with copies of an address from the Society to the public for the members of Council, was received and read.

A letter from the Attorney General informed Council that in the cause of the Chief Justice against the State, a non-suit was suffered by the plaintiff, the jury being ready with their verdict, &ca., and inclosing an account of Samuel Nichols, for the expences of the jury, amounting to four pounds fifteen shillings and nine pence, was received and read.

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