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The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, December 30th, 1789.

PRESENT:

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

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Benjamin Elliott, Esquire, Councillor elect for the county of Huntingdon, appeared, and being qualified as the Constitution of this State and the act of Congress of the first of June last directs, was admitted to his seat at this Board.

A letter from John Donaldson, Esquire, Register General, stating that the Comptroller General hath exchanged some certificates without consulting him according to law, was read, and referred to Mr. Miles, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Breading.

A petition from Francis Clow, who hath been convicted of larceny in stealing the property of Aaron Oakford, in the county of Chester, and sentenced to pay a fine of seven pounds to the Commonwealth, restore the goods stolen, and to undergo a servitude at hard labour for two years, stating that he is afflicted with the dropsey, so as to be totally unable to perform the service required of him by law, and therefore praying that Council would be pleased to grant him a pardon of the said offence, was read, witha certificate from the physician of the jail of said county that the prisoner is in a very weak state of health, and he being recommended by the person injured, and by many other respectable inhabitants of the said county; it was thereupon

Resolved, That the said Francis Clow, be and he is hereby pardoned.

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Henry Hale Graham, Esquire, was unanimously appointed a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Delaware, upon a return made according to law, from the district of the borough of Chester.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt:

In favor of the Honorable James Read, Esquire, for twenty-four pounds fifteen shillings, in full of his account for attendance in Council, from the twenty-eighth of November to the thirty-first of December, 1789, inclusively.

In favor of the Honorable Jonas Hartzell, Esquire, for fortyeight pounds fifteen shillings, in full for sixty-one days' attendance in Council, between the nineteenth day of October and thirty-first day of December, 1789, and for mileage coming to Philadelphia and returning home.

In favor of the Honorable Samuel Miles, Esquire, for forty-two pounds, in full for his attendance in Council, from the sixth of November untill the thirty-first of December, 1789, inclusively.

In favor of the Honorable William Augustus Atlee, Esquire, for the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, in full for one quarter's salary as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, due on the twenty-fifth instant, according to the Comptroller and Register General's report.

Mr. Jonas Hartzell was appointed a member of the Board of Property for the ensuing month.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, January 2nd, 1790.

PRESENT:

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

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The Honorable Christopher Kucher and William Wilson, Esquires, members of Council, were accepted as sureties for William M'Clay, Esquire, who was on the seventh of last month appointed, agreeably to act of Assembly of the eighth of April, 1785, a Deputy Surveyor of district number eighteen in the new purchase.

Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, the following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt:

In favor of the Honorable Jacob Rush, Esquire, for one hundred and fifty pounds, in full of his account for one quarter's salary as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, ending the twenty-fifth of last month.

In favor of the Honorable William Maclay, Esquire, for thirtythree pounds five shillings, in full of his account for the surveying fees of ten tracts of land of five hundred acres each, granted by act of Assembly dated the fourteenth of February, 1789, to the corporation of the Ministers, Vestry men and Church Wardens of the German Lutheran congregation, in and near the city of Philadelphia.

The report of the committee to whom was referred the letter from the Secretary of the Land office of the day of December follows, vizt:

last, was read the second time and adopted, as

The committee to whom was referred the letter from David Kennedy, Esquire, respecting an application by Jonas Hartzell, Esquire, for a warrant to survey ninety acres of land for his use, within the tract commonly known by the name of the Drylands, beg leave to report:

That it appears to your committee to be business particularly belonging to the Land office, and that any direction from Council would in their opinion be improper.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, January 4th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

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A letter from Alexander Hamilton, Esquire, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, of the thirty-first of December last, on the subject of the public securities and indents due to the public creditors of this State, and acknowledging the receipt of the President's letter of the twenty-eighth ult., was received and read.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, January 5th, 1790.

PRESENT:

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

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

Of Charles Biddle, Esquire, for fees received in the Secretary's office, from the twenty-fourth of July untill the twenty-third of October, 1789, amounting one hundred and ninety-six pounds seven shillings.

Of William Gregory, for his pay as an eighteen months' man in the late army of the United States, amounting to forty-five pounds.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt:

In favor of the Honorable John Wilkins, Esquire, for fifty-two pounds, in full for attendance in Council from November the twentieth, 1789, untill the sixth of January, 1790, inclusively, and his mileage coming to Philadelphia and returning home.

In favor of Francis Bailey, for fifteen pounds nine shillings and four pence, amount of his account for publishing in the Freeman's Journal the tax lists of the counties of Huntingdon, Franklin and Northampton, and for several continuations thereof, from August to October, 1789; according to the Comptroller General and Register General's report.

Council resumed the consideration of the report of the Commissioners appointed by act of Assembly of the twenty-ninth of September, 1787, to regulate the district of Southwark and townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk, as follows, vizt:

To the Honorable the President and Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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We, the Commissioners appointed by an act of Assembly passed the twenty-ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord,one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, intituled An act to appoint Commissioners to regulate the streets, lanes and alleys in the district of Southwark, and to lay out new streets, lanes and alleys therein, for the accommodation of the inhabitants, and to lay out the roads therein mentioned, through the said district, and parts of the townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk, most respectfully certify and return :—

That having first taken the oath and affirmation required by the act of Assembly, we have caused to be made a survey of all the streets, lanes and alleys of the said district, and several of the roads in the townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk, and have carefully viewed and considered the grounds through which they severally pass, in order to comply with the directions of the said act, and to accommodate as nearly as possible the convenience of the several owners of ground through which the new streets and roads were to be laid out, and after mature deliberation thereon, we unanimously report and return the following streets and roads, agreeably to two plans herewith returned and presented, and by us signed, wherein all the old streets, lanes, alleys and roads are coloured with light brown, and the new streets, alleys and roads hereafter described, are coloured with green. Those streets and ways which are coloured with yellow are only intended to shew the direction of the several streets which may hereafter be laid out, and may prove a convenience in the improvement and division of estates in those parts of the district, and prevent future irregularity in building.

No. 1. Wharf street :-A street laid out in order to form a communication from wharf to wharf, between the stores and buildings VOL. XVI.-17.

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