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An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Amos Gregg, Esquire, for the sum of sixty-nine pounds in full of his account for his attendance in Council from the seventeenth of March untill the sixteenth of June, 1790, inclusively.

A letter from the Honorable Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, Secretary of State, dated the eighth instant, inclosing two copies of each of the following acts of Congress of the United States, vizt:

An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned.

An Act for finally adjusting and satisfying the claims of Frederick William De Stueben.

An Act for giving effect to an act intitled An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States within the State of North Carolina; and

An Act supplemental to the act for establishing the salaries of the Executive officers of Government, with their assistants and clerks, was received and read.

A letter from his Excellency Joachin De Canaveral, Commandant General of Carthagena, in the Indies, relative to a number of persons, formerly residents of this State, who went to South America some time past, and now returned, was received and read.

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The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the fol

lowing accounts, were read and approved, vizt:

Of Casper Marche, for his pay for two months' service as a Light Horseman in Colonel Philip Bahm's battalion of Northampton county militia, when called into actual service, for the defence of the frontiers of the said county against the Indians, in the year 1782, amounting to ten pounds seventeen shillings.

Of Mary Wert, for pension due to her from the first of Febru ary until the first of June, 1790, according to an order of Orphans' Court of the county of Philadelphia, dated the fourteenth instant, amounting to twenty pounds, for which sum an order was drawn on the Treasurer.

The keeper of the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia having certified to Council that the times of servitude of John Munrow, Patrick Dalton, Hugh Jones, James Spence, Francis Collins, George Wall, and Isabella McKeever, who were confined in the said jail for larceny, are expired, and that they remain in confinement for the following fines, due to the Commonwealth, which they are unable to pay, vizt:

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And the said prisoners having petitioned Council for a remission of their fines, it was thereupon

Resolved, That the said fines aforesaid be and the same are hereby remitted.

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An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honora. ble James Martin, Esquire, for the sum of thirty-four pounds one shilling, being in full for his attendance in Council between the twentieth of April and eighteenth of June, 1790, the last day included, and for mileage going home and returning to this city.

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

Of Captain Paul Knaus, for the pay of five militia men of his company of Northampton county militia, while in actual service, for two months, in the year 1781, on the frontiers of said county, against the Indians, amounting to forty-four pounds two shillings.

Of Philip Vancler, for his pay as a seven months' man, in the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment of the late Army of the United States, amounting to seventeen pounds ten shillings.

A petition from Barent Jacob, who hath been indicted in the Mayor's Court for selling spirituous liquors by the small measure without licence, stating his case, and praying that Council would be pleased to direct that no further proceedings may be had against him, was read, and the same referred to the Attorney General.

A letter from John Nicholson, Esquire, Comptroller General, dated this day, informing Council that the office of Collector of Excise in the countys of Bedford and Franklin are vacant, by the death of Samuel Crossan in the former, and by the resignation of Richard Parker in the latter, and inclosing an application of several persons in Bedford county, requesting that Mr. Benjamin Martin may be appointed Collector of Excise in that county, was read, and the further consideration thereof postponed untill Tuesday

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The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable John Wilkins, for the sum of fortythree pounds fifteen shillings, in full of his account for attendance in Council one day in January last and from the twenty-eighth of April untill the twentieth of June, 1790, the last day included, deducting nine days' absence, and for mileage coming to Philadelphia and returning home.

In favor of Timothy Matlack, Esquire, for the sum of ten pounds, payable out of the sum of six hundred pounds which was appropriated by a resolution of the General Assembly, passed the

thirty-first day of March last, for exploring the head waters of the rivers Susquehanna, Delaware, Lehigh, and Schuylkill, and the western waters within this State, and to be charged to the fund provided by act of the General Assembly of the twenty-eighth day of September, 1789, for claims and improvements, the said sum being advanced to the said Timothy Matlack, in part of his pay as one of the Commissioners for exploring the said western waters, for which sum he is to account.

A letter from the Honorable Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, Secretary of State, dated the seventeenth instant, inclosing two copies of each of the following acts and resolutions of Congress, vizt:

An Act for giving effect to the several acts therein mentioned in respect to the State of Rhode Island aud Providence Plantations;

An Act for the relief of Thomas Jenkins and company;

A Resolution respecting the arrears of pay due to the troops of the lines of the States of Virginia and North Carolina; and

A Resolution for the publication of treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the United States; was received and read, and a letter written by the President to Mr. Jefferson acknowledging the receipt of the said letter and inclosures.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, June 22nd, 1790.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.'

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The Treasurer and Register General's reports upon the accounts of Frederick Conrad, Esquire, Treasurer of the county of Montgomery, containing a statement of taxes collected in the said county in the year 1789, amounting to four thousand two hundred and eighty pounds twelve shillings and eight pence, and of the outstanding taxes for said year amounting to one thousand nine hundred and forty pounds eight shillings and ten pence, was read and approved.

Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, and an act of Assembly passed the first of October, 1781, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Mary Wert for the sum

of fifteen pound, being one quarter's pension due to her on the first day of February last.

Two letters from Daniel Brodhead. Esquire, Surveyor General, of the twenty-first instant, informing Council that he had appointed Joseph L. Finley to be Deputy Surveyor of the district late Joshua Elder's, in the county of Westmoreland, bounded southerly by the district of John Moore and Benjamin Lodge, westerly by the Allegany river, northerly by the line of the late purchase, and easterly by the line of Huntingdon county; and James Hamilton to be Deputy Surveyor of district number four, in the new purchase, on the north side of the West Branch of Susquehanna, bounded southerly by the said West Branch, easterly by the district of George Woods, junior, number three, northerly by the State line, and westerly by James Johnston's district, number five; and submitting the said appointments for the approbation of Council, agreeably to act of Assembly passed the eighth of April, 1785, was received and read; and thereupon

Resolved, That Council approve of the said appointments.

On motion of Mr. Findley, seconded by Mr. Smith, it was Resolved, That Thursday next be assigned for the choice of a Commissioner to attend on the part of this State the settlement of the accounts of Pennsylvania with the United States.

Upon the second reading of the report of a committee to whom was referred the petition of William Owen for the right of preemption to a certain island, lying in the Allegany river, about six miles below the mouth of Kiscomenetas river, containing eightyfour acres and six perches, and the usual allowance of six acres p'r cent, &ca., it was

Resolved, That the right of pre-emption to the said island be granted to the said William Owen, provided that he pays for the same within six months from the date hereof, at the rate of twentyfive shillings per acre in funded certificates of this State.

Upon further consideration of the letter received from Mr. Nicholson, received on the eighteenth instant, relative to the office of excise in the counties of Franklin and Bedford, it was unanimously

Resolved, That Doctor Robert Johnston be appointed and commissionated Collector of Excise in the county of Franklin, and that Benjamin Martin be appointed and commissionated Collector of Excise in the county of Bedford.

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