The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, July 28th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

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

Of William Craig, Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Northampton, for monies collected by him for the tax upon writs, and the fees upon tavern licences from June, 1788, untill September, 1789, amounting to two hundred and sixty-two pounds twelve shillings and six pence.

Of Robert Aitken for blank books and stationary furnished to the State Convention from July the sixteenth till August the thirtieth, 1786, amounting to five pounds three shillings.

Of Valentine Hoffman for sundry repairs to the gun carriges belonging to the State, amounting to nine pounds and six pence, for which sum an order was drawn upon the Treasurer.

A letter from Charles Pettit, Esquire, of the twenty-seventh instant, informing Council that in pursuance of his appointment as Commissioner for settling the accounts between this etate and the United States, he had attended at New York, &ca., was received and read,

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

A petition from Hugh Wiley, stating that he became bound by recognizance for the appearance of a certain Rachel Beatty at the Court of Quarter Sessions of Franklin county, to answer to an indictment for larceny, that the said Rachel did not appear, and his recognizance is forfeited, and praying remission of the said forfeiture, being read the second time with a recommendation from several respectable inhabitants of the said county in favor of the petitioner; it was thereupon,

Resolved, To grant the prayer of the said petition.

The fines of five pounds each imposed by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the county of Luzerne upon Philip Meyer and Jacob Shineberger for keeping tipling houses in the said county

contrary to law, were remitted agreeably to the prayer of their petitions.

James Johnston and Henry Pawling were offered and accepted as sureties for Doctor Robert Johnston who was on the twentysecond of June last appointed Collector of Excise for Franklin county.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, July 29th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of Eve Withington for the sum of three hundred and fifty pounds, being the arrearages of pension due to her from the eleventh of May, 1777, until the first day of March, 1780, and from the sixteenth of June, 1789, until the sixteenth of July, 1790, according to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, and an order of the Orphans' Court of Berks county, of the seventeenth instant, in persuance of an act of Assembly passed the first day of March, 1780.

In favor of Lucinda Piper for the sum of one hundred and twelve pounds ten shillings for her pension from the first of September, 1789, to the first day of July, 1790, according to the Comptroller and Register General reports, and an order of Orphans' Court of Cumberland county, dated the twenty-eight day of June, 1790, in pursuance of an act of Assembly of the first day of October, 1781.

In favor of Elizabeth Baxter for the sum of forty-two pounds three shillings and nine pence, being one quarter's pension due to her from the fourteenth of December, 1789, until the the 13th of March, 1790, according to the Register and Comptroller General's reports, and an order of Orphans' Court of Bucks county, dated March the eleventh, 1790, in pursuance of an act of Assembly passed the first day of October, 1781.

The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of the contributors of the Pennsylvania hospital for boarding David Grady, a pensioner, from the fifteenth of March, 1787, until the first of May, 1790, three, years, one month and two weeks, at twenty-two pound ten shillings per annum, by which a ballance of thirty-five pounds three shillings and nine pence appears to be due to the said contributors, was read and approved, and for which sum an order was drawn upon the Treasurer.

The keeper of the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia having certified to Council that the times of servitude to which Francis Garvin and James Dickson were sentenced for larceny are expired, that they have been of good behaviour during their confinement, and remain in prison for the fines due to the State; whereupon,

Resolved, That the several fines due to the State from the said Francis Garvin and James Dickson, be remitted agreeably to the prayer of their petitions.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, July 31st, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

A petition from Jacob Rudolph of the county of Montgomery, with a recommendation from the Justices of the said county in his behalf, for remission of a fine of ten pounds, which was imposed upon him by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the said county, for keeping a tipling house, being laid before Council and

read and it appearing that since the conviction the petitioner has obtained a licence to keep a public house; it was thereupon, Resolved, To remit the said fine.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, August 3rd, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Mr. Elliott was appointed a member of the Board of Property

for the present month.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, August 4th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable Lord Butler, Esquire, for the sum of thirty-seven pounds ten shillings, in full of his account for attendance in Council from the twenty-fourth of June until the fourth of August, 1790, and for mileage coming to Philadelphia and returning home.

In favor of Frederick Sneider, for sixteen pounds seventeen shillings and six pence, being the amount of his account for one month's wages as Door-keeper to Council, ending the thirty-first of July, and for cash paid for pasting up proclamations, and for cleaning the Council Chamber.

On motion of, Mr. Breading was appointed to attend the Board of Property this day, in the place of Mr. Elliott, who was appoint

ed yesterday, and who is interested in a cause which is to come on this morning.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, August 5th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

James Elliott,

James Read,

Zebulun Potts,

Christopher Kucher,

Jonas Hartzell and, Esquires.
Amos Gregg,

Samuel, Miles,

Abraham Smith,

Nathaniel Breading,

A letter from the Honorable Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, Secretary of State, inclosing the following acts of Congress, vizt:

An Act to amend an act for the establishment and support of light houses, beacons, buoys and public piers.

An Act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes.

An Act provideing for holding a treaty or treaties to establish peace with certain Indian tribes.

And an Act for the government and regulation of seamen in the Merchant's service, was received and read, and a letter was written by the Vice President to Mr. Jefferson, acknowledgeing the receipt of the said letter and enclosures.

A petition from Messieurs Herpst and Lex, of the city of Philadelphia, stating that two hogsheads of rum had been sent by them to Henry Hersh, of Womelsdorf in the county of Berks, that by mistake, Mr. Herbst entered them for Dauphine county, supposing Womelsdorf to be in that county, by which mistake the said rum was seized by the Collector of Excise for Berks county, being read, and it appearing to the satisfaction of Council, that no fraud whatever was intended either by Herbst and Lex or by Henry Hersh, Resolved, That the State's share of the for feiture of the said two Hogsheads of Rum, be remitted.