On motion, Resolved, That on Monday the sixth day of this month Council will proceed to a further investigation of the memorial of Richard Wells and other papers relative to the conduct of the Comptroller General and Naval officer in the case of the ship Anne, and that the parties concerned be heard at the same time, of which the Secretary was directed to give notice. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, April 4th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt : Two orders were drawn in favor of the Honorable Amos Gregg, Esquire, one for eighty-two pounds five shillings, and the other for twenty-two pounds ten shillings, making in the whole the sum of one hundred and four pounds fifteen shillings, which is in full for his attendance in Council until the thirty-first day of March last, inclusive, and for mileage twice going home and returning to Coun cil. And one order in favor of the Honorable Zebulun Potts, Esquire, for one hundred and two pounds fifteen shillings, in full for his attendance in Council until the thirty-first day of March last, inclusively, and for mileage twice going home and returning to Council. Upon consideration of a resolution of the General Assembly, dated the twenty-fourth day of March last, relative to reservations of certain lands for the use of the State, at Presque Isle, formed by Lake Erie, at Le Boeuf, at the head of the navigation of French creek, at the mouth of Conewango, in the county of Allegany, and at the fort of Venango, not exceeding at each place three thousand acres of land,' Resolved, That the Surveyor General be directed, and he is hereby directed, to appoint a proper person to locate, survey, and make return of the several tracts mentioned in the said resolution of Assembly, for the use of the Commonwealth, in conformity with the said resolution, and that the locations at each place amount to three thousand acres and no more. On motion, Resolved, That the Vice President, Mr. Watt, Mr. Smith, Mr. Smilie, and Mr. Dennison, be a committee to take the evidence in support of the complaint against the late election of Justices of the Peace in the district of the townships of New Providence, Limerick, and Skippack, in the county of Montgomery, and make report of the same to Council. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Monday, April 6th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the petitions of a number of the inhabitants of the county of Northampton, respecting the conduct of the late County Commissioners and the late Treasurers of the said county, Resolved, That the petitions aforesaid, charging some of the former County Commissioners and Treasurers of said county with peculation, &ca., be referred to the Attorney General, who is hereby directed to prosecute so many of the Commissioners and Treasurers of the said county as shall appear from the testimony that shall be laid before him, to be guilty of the crimes contained in the said petitions, in such manner as he may think most likely to do justice to the concerned. Resolved, That the Comptroller General be and he is hereby directed to furnish the Attorney General with such testimony as he hath already collected, or may hereafter collect, for the purpose aforesaid. Resolved, That the minute of Council of the eighth day of December last, appointing the Honorable Robert Traill, Esquire, and Peter Rhoads, Esquire, to examine into the facts set forth in a pe-. tition presented to this Board some time past, complaining of the misconduct of some of the Commissioners of Northampton county, be and the same is hereby rescinded and made void. Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the letter from the Honorable John Jay, Esquire, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, inclosing sundry papers from Germany, Resolved, That the Secretary be and he is hereby directed to cause advertisements to be published in one, at least,, of the English, and one German newspaper of this city, and German paper of Lancaster, calling upon the children of John Ludwig Shumann, who died in the Palatinate in Germany, and whose children came to this State and lived in Chester county, to apply at the Secretary's office for information respecting an estate descended to them by the death of Ludwig Schumann, their grandfather. The committee appointed to hear the petitioners against the late election of Justices of the Peace in the district of New Providence, Limerick, and Skippack, in the county of Montgomery, informed the Board that some of the parties attended on Saturday, but many others not appearing, for want of proper notice, they had been under the necessity of postponing the business. A list of nine other witnesses was produced, for whom citations were requested. Resolved, That the said nine witnesses, to wit, John Umstead, Benedict Garve, Isaiah Davis, Jacob Castlebury, Daniel Markley, David Evans, Moses Hopsen, John Richard, and Nicholas Robinson, of the county of Montgomery, be required to attend Council. on Wednesday, the fifteenth day of this month, when the Board will proceed to a further hearing of the petitioners touching their complaint against the said election, and that new citations issue to George Essick, Sen'r, John Shannon, Peter Feadly, William Nelson, Thomas North, Conrad Sharer, Christian Shunck, Jacob Auld, Andrew Porter, and Samuel Baird, requiring them to attend at the same time, to give evidence in support of said complaint. A letter from Mr. Richard Wells, informing the President of the decease of his mother, was received and read. On motion, Resolved, That the hearing which was appointed for this day, touching the complaint contained in the memorial of Richard Wells against the Comptroller General and Naval Officer, be postponed until Thursday next at eleven o'clock, at which time the memorialist, the Comptroller General, and Naval Officer, are required to attend Council. VOL. XVI.-4. . The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, April 8th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable Frederick Watt, Esquire, for sixtyseven pounds ten shillings, in full for his attendance in Council until this day inclusive. In favor of the Honorable George Woods, Esquire, for forty-four pounds, fifteen shillings, being a ballance due upon his account for his attendance in Council until this day inclusively, and for mileage coming to Philadelphia and returning home at this time. In favor of James Elliott, for four pounds ten shillings for boarding John Franklin four weeks from the second till the thirty-first of March, 1789, according to the Comptroller General's report. In favor of Griffith Evans, for one pound ten shillings, being fees due to him from the State for surveying one tract of two hundred acres of donation lands, which was omitted in a former account, according to the Comptroller General's report. Agreeably to the report of the Committee to whom was referred the settlement of the accounts of John Christie, Esquire, Collector of Excise in the county of Chester, from January, 1788, till March, 1789, by the Comptroller General, amounting to one thousand one hundred and seventy-four pounds nineteen shillings and eight pence. Resolved, That Council approve of the said statement. On motion, Resolved, That Thomas Ryerson be appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Washington. On motion, Resolved, That Edward Cook, Esquire, be appointed and commissionated President of the Court of Common Pleas, and of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the county of Fayette. Council being informed that the two city lots ordered for sale this day, are claimed as the property of Richard Peters, Esquire, who is endeavoring to procure the necessary proofs of his title, and therefore requested the postponement of the sale; and it ap pearing to Council that his claim was made within the time required by law, Ordered, That the Receiver General of the Land Office be and he is hereby directed to postpone the sale of the said lots. Petitions from John Logue and George Burford, confined in the jail of the county of Philadelphia, upon conviction of larceny, and from Peter Cleare, confined in the jail of the county of Chester, upon conviction of horse stealing, severally praying remission of the punishment to which they have been sentenced upon being convicted as aforesaid, were read; and, on consideration, it was Resolved, To dismiss the said several petitions, and that the petitioners have leave to withdraw the same. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, April 9th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt; In favor of Christopher Marshall, Jun'r, Treasurer of the Society for the encouragement of manufactures and the useful arts, for the sum of one thousand pounds, payable out of the funds appropriated for claims and improvements by the act of Assembly, intituled "An Act to appropriate divers funds arising and growing due to this Commonwealth towards the payment of the expenses of government, and to provide a fund for other purposes," being the amount of one hundred shares of ten pounds each, which the Treasurer of the State is directed in the name and for the use of the State, to subscribe to the manufacturing fund of the said Society, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly passed at the last session, entituled "An Act to assist the cotton manufactures of this State." In favor of the Honorable George Woods, for the sum of one hundred pounds, payable out of the monies sett apart for the support of government, and for claims and improvements, to be by him paid to Alexander McClean, Esquire, for the purpose for laying out the road from Bedford to Pittsburgh, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly passed the twenty-seventh day of March |