The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, January 20th, 1790.

PRESENT:

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

The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of William Armstrong, Esquire, late Deputy Adjutant General of the militia of this State for retained rations in the year 1777 and 1778, amounting to thirteen pounds, was read and approved.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable George Ross, Esquire, for the sum of one hundred and twentyfive pounds, being one quarter's salary as Vice President of the State, for which sum he is to account.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, January 21st, 1790.

PRESENT:

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

James McLene and George Matthews, Esquires, were offered and accepted as sureties for Thomas Brown McLene, who was appointed on the fourteenth day of December last a Deputy Surveyor of district number two in the new purchase.

A letter from Daniel Brodhead, Esquire, Surveyor General, of the twentieth instant, informing Council that he hath appointed Mr. James Potter Deputy Surveyor of district number six in the VOL. XVI.-18.

new purchase become vacant by the death of his father, and submitting the said appointment for the approbatiion of the Board, agreeably to act of Assembly dated the eighth day of April, 1785, was read; and thereupon, it was

Resolved, That Council approve of the said appointment.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorabl Henry Taylor, Esquire, for the sum of forty-nine pounds fifteen shillings, in full for his attendance in Council from the 3rd day of December, 1789, untill the twenty-second day of January, 1790, (deducting six days' absence,) and his mileage coming to Philadelphia and returning home.

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

Of Thomas Blair, for rations furnished to his company of Bedford county militia while employed in the defence of the western frontiers of this State, in the year 1777, amounting to forty-two pounds seven shillings and nine pence.

Of Messieurs Dunlap and Claypoole, for six setts of the Pennsylvania Packett, for one year to the eighth day of January, 1790, and for sundry advertisements inserted, amounting to twenty pounds seven shillings, for which sum an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in their favor.

On motion,

Ordered, That the report of the commissioners appointed by act of Assembly of the twenty-seventh of September, 1787, to survey and regulate the streets, lanes and alleys of the district of Southwark, be now recorded in the office for recording of deeds for the county of Philadelphia, agreeably to the fifth section of the said act, together with the adjudication of Council thereon.

Upon the report of the committee to whom was referred the letter from Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Harmer, of the ninth of November last, inclosing sundry certificates of money due his recruiting officers, and also three drafts of the late Treasurer of the State, on the Treasurer's of the counties of Westmoreland, Washington and Fayette, for the sum of two hundred and ninety-two pounds ten shillings, made in consequence of orders of Council, issued to him for the like sum, which has not been paid,

Resolved, That the Secretary write a letter to Colonel Harmer, acknowledging the receipt of the said letter and enclosures.

Resolved, That the said three drafts on the County Treasurers be returned to Mr. Rittenhouse, the late State Treasurer, that the origi nal orders of Council issued to him be cancelled, and that orders be now drawn upon the Treasurer of the State, in favor of Lieutenant Ebenezer Denny, for the sum of ninety-seven pounds two shillings and six pence, payable out of the fund appropriated by act of Assembly dated the tenth day of November, 1787, to be charged to the United States, and for which Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Harmer is to be accountable, being the amount of money expended by the said Lieutenant Ebenezer Denny, Captains William Ferguson, David M'Curty and Joseph Ashton, and Lieutenant Thomas Doyle, in recruiting the Pennsylvania quota of troops, agreeably to the said act of Assembly, to be by the said Lieutenant Denny paid to the said officer, according to their several shares therein.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Frederick Watt, Esquire, for the sum of sixty-nine pounds seventeen shillings, being the amount of his account for his attendance in Council until this day, inclusive, and for mileage coming to Philadelphia and returning home.

On motion,

Resolved, That Mr. Miles, Mr. Read and Mr. Findley, be a committee to prepare and report to Council a draft of a message to the General Assembly, at their next meeting.

Mr. Ross and Mr. Addison, members of Convention, and Mr. Ryerson, member of Assembly for the county of Washington, attended, and produced in writing a statement of the depredations committed by the savages within that county from to time since, and submitting the same to the consideration of Council.

Whereupon,

Resolved, That Mr. Findley, Mr. Miles and Mr. Taylor, be appointed a committee to confer with the said gentlemen, upon the subject of a defence for the western counties against the Indians, and that they make report to Council.

The Comptroller General laid before the Board a statement of the public debt of this State, as required by act of Congress of the twenty-third of November, 1789, as follows, vizt:

Statement of sundries from the accounts of Pennsylvania, requir ed by an act of Council of the twenty-third of November, 1789. Dollars. 90th.

Aggregate amount of the principal of the deprecia-
tion certificates granted to the officers, and of the
Army and Military Hospital, in pursuance of the
several laws of this Commonwealth,
Ditto of certificates granted per act June the first,
1780, for supplies for the army, other than speci-
fic supplies, Continental money equal to,
Ditto, certificates granted for horses for the army
the year 1780,

1,403,793 57

34,583 59

in

90,336 7

478,351 10

Ditto, certificates of funded debt granted for all such debts of the State not paid off, but certified with interest,

Amount of all such expenditures, claims and engage-
ments of Penn'a, since the commencement of the
late war, as are chargeable to the United States,
arranged & ascertained,
10,219,878
Unsettled or not yet arranged, nor the)
specie value of the items paid in Con-
tinental money, ascertained by the scale
of depreciation, say

$5,000,000

-15,219,878

Note. Certificates of liquidated debt, and Loan office certificates of the United States, redeemed by this State, are not included in the above.

The funds appropriated either in whole or in part to pay the principal or interest of the above, are as follows, vizt:

The one-third part of the principal of the depreciation certificates paid of in bills of credit of the emission of April, 1781, on application of the holder.

The whole of the forfeited estates unsold before December, 1780, appropriated as a fund to redeem both principal and interest.

The tract of land in Pennsylvania bounded on the north by the donation lands, on the west by the western boundary of the State, and on the south and east by the rivers Ohio and Allegany, excepting the two reserved tracts thereout at Mackintosh, and opposite Pittsburgh on the aforesaid river Ohio, appropriated as a fund to redeem both principal and interest.

The excise on spirituous liquors was appropriated to pay the annual interest to those who had not alienated their certificates when this fund was assigned, and until they had themselves drawn the first year's interest thereon.

A sum was granted out of the imposts duties not exceeding twentyfive thousand and ninety-seven pounds nineteen shillings and three pence, to pay up a year's arrear of such interest, in aid of the Excise.