Colonel Isaac Melcher, who was appointed by the Council of Safety in December, 1776, Barrack Master General, with the rank of Colonel, and continued in the office untill the fourteenth of August, 1778, when the same was abolished by the Supreme Execu tive Council, having requested this Council to grant him a certificate of his said appointment, and of his having settled his accounts agreeably to law, and it appearing by an extract from the Comptroller General's books, that the said Colonel Melcher settled his accounts with the State in due time, it was thereupon Resolved, That such certificate be granted to him.

Frederick Watts,

Amos Gregg,

An invitation to Council from the faculty of the university to attend the public examination of candidates for degrees in medicine, to be held in the hall of the University on Monday next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, was received and read, and it was agreed to attend.

Mr. Finley laid before Council a transcript of the conviction of John Hunter of an assault and battery, in the county of Westmoreland, for which offence he was sentenced to pay to the use of the Commonwealth a fine of five pounds, and upon the recommendation of several respectable inhabitants of the said county, it was

Resolved, To remit the said fine, agreeably to the prayer of the said Hunter's petition presented to Council in November last.

The Secretary presented to Council a form of a conveyance from the Commonwealth, for islands in the rivers Ohio and Allegany, which was read and referred to the Attorney General to report, whether the same is legal and proper.

Upon application of John Donaldson, Esquire, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor, for the sum of one hundred & twenty-five pounds, being one quarter's salary as Register General of the accounts of this Commonwealth, ending the twenty-eighth of this month, according to act of Assembly passed the twentyeighth day of March, 1789.

On motion,

Resolved, That on Thursday next, Council go into the appointment of an Inspector of Pot and Pearl Ashes.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable William Findley, Esquire, for the sum of sixty-six pounds, in full of his account for his attendance in Council until this day, inclusive.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable Amos Gregg, Esquire, for sixty-seven pounds ten shillings, in full of his account for his services in Council from the sixteenth of December, 1789, till the sixteenth of March, 1790. the last day included.

In favor of the Honorable Nathaniel Breading, Esquire, for fiftytwo pounds sixteen shillings, in full of his account for his attendance in Council from the fifteenth of January till the sixteenth of March, 1790, and mileage going home.

In favor of Joseph Price, for three pounds eighteen shillings and four pence, in full of his account for seven and a half days work at the banks of Mud Island, according to the Comptroller and Register General's report of the twenty-sixth of February last.

Elisha Price, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace, and of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Delaware, upon a return made according to law, from the borough of Chester.

Upon the petition of John M'Garvey, and a recommendation in his favor, from the Mayor, Recorder and Alderman of this city; it was

Resolved, That the fine of fifty pounds payable to the use of the Commonwealth, which was imposed upon the petitioner by the Mayor's Court, upon his being convicted of keeping a Shuffle Board contrary to law, be remitted.

The fine of fifty pounds due to the Commonwealth, to which Mary Stanup was sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery of the county of Delaware, was also remitted, agreeably to the prayer of her petition, and a recommendation from the Commissioners of the said county, and from Thomas Levis, Esquire, a Justice of the Peace.

Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Samuel Jones, Esq'r, for the sum of three hundred and four pounds ten shillings, payable out of the fund appropriated by an act of the General Assembly passed the third instant, entituled "An Act directing the payment of the accounts of sundry Deputy Surveyors of depreciation lands," being the amount of his account for surveying eightyseven tracts of land in his depreciation district.

The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of Adam Hubley, Esquire, Auctioneer for the district of South

wark, for the State duty upon goods sold at auction, between the twelfth of December, 1789, to the thirteenth of March 1790, amounting to seventy-two pounds two shillings and ten peuce halfpenny, was read and approved.

The order of the day for going into the appointment of an Inspector of Pot and Pearl Ashes, was postponed.

On motion,

Resolved, That the written opinion of the Attorney General, on the fourth section of the act of Assembly passed the thirtieth of September, 1789, be referred to Mr. Miles, Mr. Gregg, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Smith and Mr. Findley, and that the said committee be instructed to state the measures which have been taken by Council, relative to the controversy subsisting between the Comptroller and Register General, with respect to the meaning of the said act.

A letter from His Excellency Alexander Martin, Esquire, Governor of the State of North Carolina, dated the twentieth of last

month, inclosing a copy of a resolution of the general Convention. of that State, dated the twenty-third of November, 1789, "with several amendments by them proposed, to become part of the Constitution for the future government of the United States," was received and read, and the same transmitted to the General Assembly in a letter from the President to the Speaker.

A petition from Patrick M'Cape, of the county of Cumberland, who was convicted of larceny, and sentenced by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the said county to a servitude of two years hard labour, and to pay to the use of the Commonwealth equal to the value of the goods stolen, praying a pardon, was read, with a recommendation from a number of respectable inhabitants of the said county in favor of the petioner. It was thereupon,

Resolved, That the said Patrick M'Cape be and he is hereby pardoned.

A petition from John Simpson, who was pardoned by Council on the fifth of November last, on condition of departing the State within three weeks, not to return," stating that he is still confined in the jail of this city, under that part of his sentence which requires restitution to be made to the person injured; that he has made restitution, and praying Council to order that he be discharged from confinement, was read; and thereupon,

Resolved, That the petitioner be released from his confinement, on condition of his leaving the United States.

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 the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, being one quarter salary due to him on the eighteenth instant, as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court.