The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, January 12th, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, Presid't. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of John Nicholson, Esquire, for fifty pounds, being one quarter's salary due to his clerk on the tenth instant, according to the Comptroller General's report and an act of the General Assembly dated the fourth day of April, 1785. Agreeably to a report of the committee to whom was referred the letter from Robert Galbraith, Esquire, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor for the sum of one hundred pounds, being part of three hundred and ninety-three pounds which Council, on the twenty-fifth of September, 1788, agreed to allow him for clearing and making a good road from the Frankstown branch of Juniata, in Huntingdon county, to the mouth of Loyalhanning creek, in the county Westmoreland, according to contract made pursuant to an act of the General Assembly passed the twentyninth of March, 1788. The Council met. PHILAD❜A, Wednesday, January 13th, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. A letter from Daniel Brodhead, Esquire, Surveyor General, of the twelfth instant, nominating agreeably to act of Assembly of the eighth of April, 1785, Alexander McClean, a Deputy Surveyor of Rostraver township, partly in Westmoreland and partly in Allegany counties, the whole county of Fayette, and Turkeyfoot, Milford, and that part of Quemahoning township lying southward of the great road leading to Fort Pitt, in the county of Bedford, was received and read; and thereupon, Resolved, That this Board concur with the said nomination, and that Henry Beeson and Joseph Terrence be accepted as sureties for the said Deputy Surveyor. 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. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, January 14th, 1790. 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 Nicholas Becker, for a gun lost in public service at Fort Washington in the year 1776, valued at two pounds fifteen shillings, was read and approved. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of John Nicholson, Esquire, for the sum of two hundred pounds, being one quarter's salary due to him on the thirteenth instant, as Comptroller General of the accounts of this State, according to act of Assembly, dated the fourth day of April, 1785. In favor of Daniel Humphreys, for six pounds seven shillings and six pence, in full of his account for six setts of the Pennsylvania Mercury, furnished for the use of Council from the first of January, 1789, to the first of January, 1790, according to the Comptroller and Register General's reports. The further consideration of the Surveyor General's letter, relative to the appointment of Mr. Galbraith and Mr. Potter, as Deputy Surveyors, was postponed untill to-morrow. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Friday, January 15th, 1790. 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 Nathaniel Breading, Esquire, for fifty one pounds six shillings, in full of his account for his attendance in Council from the nineteenth of November, 1789, untill the fifteenth day of January, 1790, inclusively, and his mileage coming to Philadelphia. On motion, Resolved, That the Surveyor General be informed that Council will not proceed to the approbation of a Deputy Surveyor of the district number six, become vacant by the death of General Potter, untill he shall submit an appointment to this Board and not by way of recommendation. A letter from General Josiah Harmer, inclosing three drafts on the Treasurer of Westmoreland county, and the counties of Washington and Fayette, which have not and cannot be paid, was read and referred to Mr. Gregg, Mr. Potts and Mr. Taylor. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, January 16th, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Upon the petition of Jonathan Brown, of Bucks county, and a recommendation from several respectable inhabitants of the said county, for remission of a fine of five pounds which was imposed upon him for an assault and battery upon a certain Jonathan Wells, in December, 1787, Resolved, That the said fine of five pounds be remitted. Agreeably to a report of the committee to whom was referred the letter from Evan Owen, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor for the sum of thirty pounds, payable out of the fund appropriated by act of Assembly, dated the twenty-seventh of March last, to be applied in compleating that part of the Nescopeck road which crosses the Spring Mountain, and for which he is to account. A petition from Elizabeth Robinson, who was convicted at the last Mayor's Court of larceny, and is now confined in the jail of this city at hard labour, stating that this is the first offence, and praying that Council would be pleased to grant her a pardon, was read, together with a recommendation of her as a proper object of mercy; whereupon, it was Resolved, That the said Elizabeth Robinson be and she is hereby pardoned. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Monday, January 18th, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. A certificate from the Court of Quarter Sessions of Washington county, of the division of Bethlehem township, in the said county, by a straight line run from Peter Drake's to Weise's Mill, for the more convenient election of Justices of the Peace, agreeably to act of Assembly passed the thirty-first of March, 1784, was read the second time, by which it appears that the said division has become proper and will be usefull; it was thereupon Resolved, That the same be confirmed. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, January 19th, 1790. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, Presid't. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of Samuel Boyd, for fifty-two pounds, payable out of the funds appropriated by act of Assembly passed the twenty-eighth of September last, being the amount of his pay as a commissioner appointed by Council on the sixth of October last to view the river Susquehanna and Juniata, agrecably to the directions of the said act of Assembly. Two orders in favor of Bartram Galbraith, one of fifty-two pounds, and the other for fifty pounds, payable out of the fund before mentioned, being in part of his own pay and the pay of Thomas Hulings, as commissioners for viewing the said rivers under the appointment aforesaid, for which two several sums the said Mr. Galbraith is to account. Upon the second reading of the petition of Nicholas Billew, praying remission of a fine of five pounds imposed upon him by the Alderman's Court, for driving a team with four horses through the city, contrary to law, Resolved, That the petitioner have leave to withdraw his petition. Upon the petition of John Williams, now confined in the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia, for larceny, and a certificate from the jailor that the time of servitude to which he was sentenced for the said offence, is expired, Resolved, That the fine of fifteen shillings for which the prisoner now remains in confinement, be remitted. |