ment now pending in the county of Bucks for an estate which was confiscated and sold to Joseph Thomas.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, September 13th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Upon the petition of William Beatty a prisoner in the jail of the county of Delaware, and a recommendation from three justices of the peace of the said county in his behalf for remission of the fine of ten pounds, to which the petitioner was sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the said county, for fornication and bastardy; it was

Resolved, To grant the prayer of the petitioner.

Samuel Jones, Esquire, Register of Wills and Recorder of Deeds for the county of Allegany, appeared in Council and expressed a wish to substitute as his surety Jacob Bright for Mr. Bausman who was accepted on Saturday last; whereupon it was agreed to accept Mr. Bright as surety in the room of the said Jacob Baus

man.

A petition from John Willisby, a prisoner at hard labour in the jail of the county of Chester, praying that Council would be pleased to remit the several fines and punishments at hard labor to which he was sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the peace of the said county for two larcenies of which he hath been convicted, was read with a recommendation in his behalf from a number of respectable inhabitants of the said county, and a certificate from the Sheriff that he hath behaved himself peaceably since his confinement; whereupon, it was

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

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, September 14th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

A letter from the Attorney General informing Council that Jacob Benner, a delinquent collector of taxes, is now confined in the jail for the sum of one hundred and fifty-two pounds three shillings and eleven pence due to the Commonwealth, that the father of the said Benner (a substancial freeholder) has given his bond and warrant of attorney to confess judgment for the sum due from his son payable with interest, one-half in one month, and the remainder in twelve months, and requesting the advice of Council, being read, Ordered, That the Attorney General be directed to discharge the said Jacob Benner, he paying the costs of suit.

Mr. Findley produced a certificate from the Receiver General of the Land Office, that the lot No. 89 in Nathaniel Breading's district of depreciation lands was on the sixth day of March, 1786, sold to George Syder who had paid neither the purchase money or office fees; whereupon, it was

Resolved, To consider the said lot as reverted to the State, as the purchaser had not complied with the terms of the law.

A petition from Baltzer Kentzler and wife in behalf of their sons Baltzler and George, who were convicted at the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the county of Philadelphia, of stealing a horse, stating that the said horse was very old, and had been turned out on the commons by the owner as useless, and praying that Council would be pleased to grant them remission of the fine and punishment to which they have been sentenced by the said Court for the said offence was read, and Colonel Miles having stated to Council (from information) some of the circumstances attending the said offence, from which Council have reason to believe that the prosecution was a malicious one; it was thereupon,

Resolved, That the said Baltzer and George Kinsler, be and they are hereby pardoned.

Upon the petition of James Osburne for remission of the fine and punishment at hard labour to which he was sentenced at the

last Mayor's Court for larceny, and a certificate from the jailor that he has behaved himself peaceably since his confinement; it

was

Resolved, That the fine of five pounds to the Commonwealth, and the punishment of hard labour for one year, to which the petitioner was sentenced for the said offence be remitted.

Mr. Potts produced a power of attorney from John Whiteman, authorizing a certain Anthony Musgenung to draw his donation lands, and stated that when he applied to the committee for leave to draw, the power of attorney was not acknowledged, upon which the committee objected to his drawing the lot, and that the application was within the time limited by law; whereupon, it was agreed that Mr. Potts permit John Whiteman by his attorney to draw the said lots, and that Peter Trexler, Esquire, in right of Jacob McClane, whose application is circumstanced nearly as the above be also permitted to draw.

Mr. Elliott was appointed to attend the drawing, instead of Mr. Read, who is absent, and who was, with Mr. Potts, specially ap pointed to that duty.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, September 15th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, September 16th, 1790.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's report, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Nathaniel Breading, Esquire, for the sum of three pounds ten shillings, payable according to act of Assembly passed the third day of March, 1790, out of the fund appropriated for claims and improvements, by an act of Assembly entituled An Act to appropriate divers funds accruing and growing due to this Commonwealth, towards the expences of government, and to provide a fund for other purposes so as not to interfere with the appropriation of part of the said fund, made and directed by an act entitled An Act to appropriate the sum of five thousand pounds annually for the purposes therein mentioned, &ca., being the fees for surveying the lot No. 99 in the third district of depreciation lands.

Upon the second reading of the report of the Committee to whom was referred the petition of Samuel A. McCoskry, late Surgeon's Mate in the Corps of Artillery Artificers.

It was agreed that the Committee be instructed to request the opinion of the Attorney General in writing on this subject.

The Comptroller General and Register General's report upon the account of Benjamin Elliott, Esquire, for his services as Lieutenant of Huntingdon county, in the years 1788, 1789, and 1790, by which the sum of nineteen pounds five shillings and three pence appears to be due to him, was read and approved, for which sum an order was drawn upon the Treasurer, payable out of the militia fines of Huntingdon county.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Friday, September 17th, 1790.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, Presid't. The Honoroble GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, Esquire, of Philadelphia, and Daniel Martin, of the county of Bucks, were offered and accepted as sureties for James Hanna, Esquire, who was appointed on the fourth instant Register of Wills and Recorder of Deeds in and for the county of Bucks.

Upon further consideration of the petition of Benjamin Thrape, who was convicted of a burglary and larceny at a Court of Oyer. and Terminer held at Philadelphia the twenty-sixth of January, 1789, and who is now confined in the jail of the said city and county at hard labour for the said crimes, with a recommendation for a pardon from the county commissioners, and from Mr. Reynolds, the Jailor; it was

Resolved, To pardon the said Benjamin Thrape.

Upon the second reading of the petition of Captain Andrew Miller, who was fined at the court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Philadelphia in the sum of five hundred pounds for a breach of the act of Assembly entituled An Act to prevent infectious diseases being brought into this State, and it appearing to the Board by a recommendation from the Court that Captain Miller had no intention of violating the law,

Resolved, That so much of the said fine of five hundred pounds as belongs to the State be remitted.