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The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, July 13th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

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Zebulun Potts,

Lord Butler,

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Upon the second reading of a petition of Leonard Lesher, and a recommendation from the Justices of the Court of General Quartor Sessions of the county of Philadelphia, and several respectable inhabitants, for remission of the fine of ten pounds to which he was sentenced for keeping a tipling house contrary to law; it was

Resolved, That the said fine of ten pounds to which he was sentenced be remitted.

Two fines of twenty shillings each, due to the Commonwealth, which were imposed upon Samuel Morris and Richard Sackett, by the last Mayor's Court for assault and battery, were also remitted, agreeably to the prayer of their petitions.

The keeper of the jail having certified to Council that the time' of servitude, to which Martin Bough, was sentenced by the Mayor's Court for larceny is expired, and that he only remains in confinement for a fine of eight shillings and four pence, due to the Commonwealth, which he is unable to pay, and the said Martin Bow, having praying Council to remit the same; it was

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Resolved, To grant the prayer of the petitioner.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, July 14th, 1790.

PRESENT:

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

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A letter from the Honorable Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, Secre

tary of State, of the ninth instant, inclosing two copies of each of

the following acts of Congress, vizt: An Act for giving effect to an act intituled An Act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States in respect to the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and An Act to authorize the purchase of a tract of land for the use of the United States, was received and read, and a letter written by the Vice President to Mr. Jefferson, acknowledging the receipt of the said letter and inclosures.

A petition from James Dugan, praying that Council would be pleased to remit a fine of fifteen shillings, which was imposed upon him by the Mayor's Court for an assault and battery upon his wife, was received and read, and the petitioner being well recommended to Council, and it appearing that he has given security for his peaceable behaviour; it was thereupon

Resolved, To remit the said fine.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, July 15th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

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An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Christopher Kucher, Esquire, for twenty-three pounds five shillings, in full of his account for attendance in Council from the fourteenth of June until the fifteenth of July, 1790, the last day included.

A petition from William Henderson, who hath been indicted in the Supreme Court for extortion in receiving greater and other fees than are allowed by law, while he acted as a Deputy to John Jones, Esquire, late Health Officer, praying that Council would be pleased to direct that no further proceedings may be had against him upon the said indictment, being read the second time, it was

Resolved, That the said petition be referred to the Attorney General.

Joel Willis, 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 town of Chester, in the said county.

Upon the sccond reading of a petition from James McGlaughlin, who is now confined at hard labour in the jail of the city and county

of Philadelphia for larceny, praying that Council would be pleased to grant him a remission of the punishment at hard labour and the fine due to the State, to which he was sentenced for the said offence,

Resolved, That the said James McGlaughlin be and he is hereby pardoned.

Two letters from Germany, one of them respecting a certain Sixtus Keller, and the other giving information of some property left by Joanna Catherine, (mother of the wife of Adam Frederick Longyear, who came from that country about forty years ago,) to her grand children, were received and read, and it was

Resolved, That the Secretary take order concerning them..

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Friday, July 16th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

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An order was drawn up on the Treasurer in favor of John Nicholson, Esquire, for two hundred pounds, being one quarter's salary due to him as Comptroller General of the Accounts of this State on the thirteenth instant, according to the Register General's report and an act of Assembly dated the fourth of April, 1785.

Chistian Oyster, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Franklin, upon a return made according to law from the district of the township of Franklin, in the said county.

A note from the Trustees and Faculty of the College of Philadelphia, requesting the favor of Council to attend a public cominencement, to be held to-morrow in the College hall at nine o'clock, was received and read, and it was agreed to attend.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, July 17th, 1790.

PRESENT:

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

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A draft of a letter from Council to Colonel Alexander McGillivray and the other Chiefs and Warriors of the Creek Nation of Indians, who are now in this city, on their way to Congress, was laid before the Board and agreed to, as follows, vizt:

In Council, Philadelphia, July 17th, 1790.

SIR-The President and Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania are happy in the opportunity of welcoming you to the city of Philad'a, and of assuring you and the great Chiefs and Warriors of the Creek Nation, who accompany you, of our most cordial wish to render your stay here convenient and agreeable.

We have received a letter from the Secretary of War at New York, written by order of the President General of the United States, intimating your desire of taking this route, and recommending you to our attention and regard. That communication demonstrates indeed the President General's earnest desire to cultivate every means for establishing a good understanding between the citizens of the United States and their brethern of the Creek Nation; but it was unnecessary on the present occasion, as our own feelings sufficiently prompt us to testify our personal esteem for you, and as we hope the conduct of Pennsylvania, from the landing of William Penn to this day, has unequivocally proved her love of justice, her disposition for peace, and her respect for the rights and happiness of her neighbours.

It is with sincere pleasure that we anticipate from the object of your journey the establishment of a lasting harmony between your Nation and the United States of America; and we are persuaded that you will coincide in opinion that (however the ambition or turbulence of individuals may sometimes mislead them) our common country furnishes room enough for all its inbabitants, and that the real interests of all will be best promoted by mutual forbearance and a reciprocity of good offices.

Be pleased then, Sir, to communicate, with a cordial welcome to our city, these sentiments of the great Chiefs who have accompanied you, and to bear them in your own mind. They are the sen

timents not only of the persons who now address you, but likewise, we are confident, of all who are engaged in the administration of public affairs, and indeed, of all the virtuous citizens of the American Union. If, therefore, they obtain the credit and confidence to which they are entituled, our latest posterity will have occasion to rejoice, and to bless that benevolent policy which extinguishes National prejudice and resentment, will at length unite us in the grateful bonds of peace and friendship.

THOMAS MIFFLIN. Colonel Alexander McGillivray and others, Chiefs and Warriors of the Creek Nation of Indians.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, July 19th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

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Ordered, That the letter which was agreed to in Council on the seventeenth instant, be handed this morning to Colonel Alexander McGillivray, and that the Secretary read the same in his presence and of the Chiefs who accompany him.

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The Secretary informed Council, that agreeably to the order of yesterday, he waited on Colonel McGillivray and the Chiefs ac

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