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Ordered, That commissions issue to Mason Fitz Alden as Captain, and Abraham Nesbitt as Lieutenant of foot in the said battalion.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, February the 9th, 1789.

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An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of John Nicholson, Esquire, for the sum of two hundred pounds, being one quarter's salary due to him as Comptroller General, ending the thirteenth of January last.

A letter from Thomas Fitzsimmons, Esquire, member of the General Assembly, requesting the appointment of a Committee of Council, to confer with the Committee of Ways and Means, respecting the provision necessary to be made for the payment of pensioners, &ca., was read; and thereupon,

Resolved, That Mr. Miles, Mr. Smith, Mr. Willing, Mr. Watt, and Mr. Maclay, be a Committee to confer with the said Committee of Ways and Means.

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George Woods,

Nathan Dennison, and

Amos Gregg,

Upon the petition of Eleanor Glass, convicted of keeping a disorderly house in this city, and now confined in the workhouse, praying remission of the punishment at hard labour, to which she was sentenced for the said offence,

Resolved, That her punishment at hard labour in the workhouse be remitted. The further hearing of objections to the confirmation of the report of the commissioners for regulating the district of Southwark and townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk, was postponed until Friday next.

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An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Charles Biddle, Esquire, Secretary, for the sum of nine pounds and nine pence, to reimburse him for money advanced to James Dunwoodie, the Express, who was employed to ride to the counties of Washington, Westmoreland, Fayette, &ca., to bring to Council the returns of Electors.

Mr. Willing, Mr. Maclay, Mr. Smith, Mr. Watt and Mr. Miles, were appointed a Committee to confer with the Committee of the General Assembly on the subject of the letter from General Knox, and Mr. Miles, Mr. Smith and Mr. Maclay, were also appointed to confer with a Committee of the House upon the subject of Mr. Scott's resignation.

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An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of James Elliott, for four pounds ten shillings, in full of his account for board

ing John Franklin, a State prisoner, from the third to the thirtyfirst of January, 1789, according to the Comptroller General's report.

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The Attorney General appearing in Council, and informing the Board that, by the instructions he received the twentieth ultimo, respecting the suit brought by the Commonwealth against the Executors of Messrs. Stocker and Wharton, he is only authorised to indemnify the defendants from the demands of Davidson and Lees, and that they should be indemnified against all others.

Resolved, That the Attorney General be authorized to engage, on the part of this Commonwealth, in case of a recovery on this suit, to indemnify the defendants from any demands of Davidson and Lees, and all other persons whatsoever.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt:

In favor of the Honorable Samuel Miles, for one hundred and six pounds nine shillings and two pence, being a balance due to him by the State, agreeably to a decree of the Supreme Court in January last, upon an appeal of Colonel Miles to the said Court, from the settlement of his accounts by the Comptroller General, together with costs of suit.

In favor of Captain John Morrell, for two pounds eight shillings, payable out of the monies arising from militia fines in the city and Liberties of Philadelphia, in full of his account for gun powder used upon the birth-day of General Washington.

Joseph Kenne, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace, and of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Luzerne, upon the return made according to law from the third district, in the said county.

On motion, it was

Resolved, To postpone the further consideration of the report of the Commissioners appointed to regulate the districts of Southwark, and townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk.

Upon consideration of the report of the Committee to whom was referred the application of Anthony Butler, in behalf of Messieurs John Penn, Junior, and John Penn,

Resolved, That warrants issue on the Treasurer in favor of John Penn, Junior, and John Penn, Esquires, for the several instalments of the one hundred and thirty thousand pounds sterling reported by the Comptroller General to be due to them respectively, payable out of the funds appropriated for that purpose by an act of Assembly, entituled "An Act for furnishing the quota of this State towards paying the annual interests of the debts of the United States, and for funding and redeeming the interest of the public. debts of this State," passed the sixteenth day of March, 1785.

The fine of ten pounds to the Commonwealth adjudged to be paid by Robert Hiddleson, of the county of Chester, upon his being convicted at the last Court of Quarter Sessions held in that county, of fornication and bastardy, was remitted, upon his petition and a recommendation from a number of the inhabitants of Chester county.

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Upon consideration of the report of the Committee to whom was referred the petition from Stephen Jenkins, praying remission of the fine and imprisonment to which he was sentenced for a riot by the last Court of Oyer and Terminer, held in Luzerne county,

Resolved, That the remainder of his punishment by imprisonment be remitted, and that the Prothonotary of the said county be directed to take the said Jenkins's security for the payment of the fine of one hundred dollars, to be recovered against him, when orders for that purpose shall be given by Council.

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An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Abraham Smith, Esquire, for fifty-two pounds ten shillings, in full of his account for attendance in Council from December the seventh, 1788, untill February the sixteenth, 1789, inclusively.

William Haslet, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Chester, upon a return made according to law for the district of the townships of West Caln, Sadsbury, and West Fallowfield, in the said county.

Upon the second reading of a certificate of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Northumberland county, (received and read in Council August the twenty-sixth, 1788,) that the division which has been made of the district of the Loyalsoc and Washington townships, for a more convenient election of Justices of the Peace is necessary, and will be usefull,

Ordered, That the said division be confirmed.

Upon the petition and recommendation in favor of Jacob Hugley, praying remission of the fine of fifty pounds, which was imposed upon him by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Cumberland county, for an assault and battery;

Ordered, That the said fine be remitted.

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