A return of militia officers for the county of Fayette, from Joseph Terrance, Esquire, the Lieutenant of that county, was received and read, and commissions directed to issue agreeably thereto.

A motion was made by Colonel Smith, seconded by Doctor Wilkins, and agreed to by Council in the following words to wit:

WHEREAS, By the report of the Receiver General of the Land office, it appears that at the public sales of the depreciation lands in the district surveyed by Joshua Elder, sixteen lots were purchased by the Comptroller General on account of the Commonwealth:

And whereas, It appears from the report aforesaid, that four lots were purchased by Ephraim Hart, two by John Peters, and two by Matthias Keely, in the same district, for which the purchase money, office fee, and charges of surveying remains unpaid.

Resolved, That the whole of the said lots be considered as reverting to the Commonwealth.

Agreeably to the Register and Comptroller General's reports, and an Act of Assembly passed the third day of March last,

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Joshua Elder, Esquire, for the sum of one thousand three hundred and fifty-eight

pounds, payable out of the fund appropriated by the said act for the payment of Deputy Surveyors of depreciation lands, the several ballances due to them, the said sum being due to the said Joshua Elder, upon his account for surveying the fifth district of the said

land.

John Metzger, Michael Hillman and Robert Ritchie, Esquires, were appointed and commissionated Justices of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Allegany, upon returns made according to law from the district of the townships of St. Clair, Versailles and Mifflin, in the said county; John Metzger, elected in the first mentioned district; Michael Hillman, in the second, and Robert Ritchie, in the third.

The Treasurer and Register General's reports upon the following account of Francis Johnston, Esquire, for fees received in the Receiver General's office from the ninth of March, untill the thir tieth of April, 1790, inclusively, amounting to two hundred and fifty-three pounds eleven shillings, was read and approved.

Upon the petition of William Mack, and a recommendation from several respectable inhabitants of Franklin county; it was

Resolved, To remit the fine of ten pounds due to the Commonwealth which was imposed upon the petitioner by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the said county, for keeping a tipling house contrary to law.

A petition from James Robinson, who is now confined in the jail of this city at hard labour for larceny, praying that Council would be pleased to grant him a pardon, being read the second time with a recommendation from Mr. Reynolds the Jailor (to a Committee of Council who visited the jail) for his good hehaviour; it was thereupon,

Resolved, That the said James Robinson be and he is hereby pardoned, on condition of his leaving this State in five days from the time of his discharge, not to return.

On motion,

Resolved, That Friday next be assigned for the consideration of the motion which was made by Doctor Gregg, and seconded by Mr. Potts, for a general pardon of the persons who have been attainted of high treason against this Commonwealth.

Council proceeded to the further consideration of the petition of John Johnson, a negro now confined in the jail of this city for larceny, stating his innocence, and praying that Council would be pleased to grant him a pardon, with a recommendation from Mr. Reynolds the jailor in his behalf, and a Committee of this Board upon enquiry into the case of the petitioner having reported that

it appears to them he is innocent of the crime for which he was confined; it was thereupon,

Resolved, That the said John Johnston be and he is hereby pardoned.

The keeper of the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia having certified to Council that the time of servitude to which a certain Thomas Varnham was sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the said county, is now expired, and that he remains in confinement for a fine of two pounds five shillings which is due to the Commonwealth, and the said Thomas Varnham having by his petition prayed to Council for remission of the same; it was

Resolved, That the said fine of two pounds five shillings be and the same is hereby remitted.

Resolved, That the consideration of the motion for a general pardon of persons who have been attainted of high treason against this State, be postponed.

The Treasurer and Register General's reports upon the follow

ing accounts were read and approved, vizt:

Of David Kennedy, Esquire, Secretary of the Land Office, for fees received in the said office from the eight of March untill the eight of June, 1790, amounting to six hundred and twenty-eight pounds eleven shillings and nine pence.

Of Caleb Davis, Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Chester, for fees received for tavern and marriage licences, and the tax upon writs between the first day of May, 1789, and tenth day of June, 1790, amounting to one hundred and ninety-nine pounds eighteen shillings and nine pence.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Christopher Kucher, Esquire, for the sum of twenty-four pounds in full of his account for attendance in Council from the fourteenth of May until the fourteenth of June, 1790, inclusively. The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the following accounts were read and approved, vizt:

Of Stephen Duncan, Esquire, late Treasurer of the county of Cumberland, containing a statement of the taxes collected and outstanding in the said county, untill the time be ceased to act in the office of Treasurer.

Of Alexander McGuighen the present Treasurer of the said county, stating the amount of taxes collected and outstanding untill the first day of May, 1790, in the said county.

A petition from James Maxwell, of the county of Chester, for the pardon of his wife Elizabeth, who was among others convicted in the said county in February last of receiving money which had been stolen from a certain Robert Wilkins, and who is now confined in the jail of the said county at hard labour for the said offence, was read with a recommendation from a number of respectable inhabitants of the said county in her behalf, and the said Robert Wilkins having signified to Council his desire that she may be released; it was thereupon,

Resolved, To pardon the said Elizabeth Maxfield.