An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Frederick Sneider, for fifteen pounds ten shillings, being one month's pay due to him as doorkeeper to Council, ending the thirty-first of May last.

Upon consideration of a recommendation from the Honorable Chief Justice McKean and Judges Atlee and Bryan, for the pardon of a certain John Murphy, who was convicted of larceny at the last Court of Oyer and Terminer held in the county of York,

Ordered, That the fine due to the Commonwealth, and the punishment at hard labour to which the said John Murphy was sentenced by the said Court, be remitted.

A letter from Robert Parker, Esquire, Collector of Excise in the couuty of Franklin, inclosing his commission, and requesting Council to accept his resignation of the said office, was received and read, and the said resignation accepted agreeably to his request.

Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Robert Aitken, for fifteen pound thirteen shillings and four pence, amount of his account for printing one ream of certificates, and for ruling and binding them into books, for the purpose of keeping the amount of certificates which are to be exchanged agreeably to act of Assembly dated the twenty-seventh day of March last.

A petition from Samuel Brigs, of the city of Philadelphia, with a model of a machine for making nails, screws, and gimblets, requesting the same (being in a box covered with white paper, bound longitudinally and traversely with purple tape, and secured by four seals,) should remain in the possession of the President untill called for by the Congress of the United States or General Assembly of Pennsylvania, to whom he has addressed memorials on the subject, was received in Council, and the said petition being read, it was thereupon agreed that the Secretary of this Board take charge of the said model to deliver it when called for, as stated in the petition.

Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the letter of the eighteenth of May last from William Heslit and Philip Scott, Esquires, two of the Justices appointed by Council to investigate the complaint against an election of Justices of the Peace lately held in the district of London Grove New Garden and London Britain, in the county of Chester,

Resolved, That the election aforesaid be confirmed, and that David Mackey, who had the highest number of votes, be appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas for the said county.

Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer for one pound ten shillings, in favor of John Scull, amount of his account for inserting in the Pittsburgh Gazette an order of this Board of the twelfth day of December, 1788, requiring public officers to render their accounts into the Comptroller General's office for settlement, according to law. A petition from Ann Woodley, in behalf of her son John Woodley, who was convicted at the last Court of General Quarter Sessions of the county of Philadelphia of an assault and battery upon a certain Catharine Knuckle, praying remission of the punishment to which he was sentenced for the said offence, was read. A recommendation from the Grand Jury, signed by the foreman, Jacob Morgan, being also read, it was thereupon,

Resolved, That the fine and imprisonment to which the said John Woodley was sentenced by the said Court, be remitted.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable James Read, Esquire, for twenty-three pounds five shillings, in full for his attendance in Council until this day, inclusive.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable Abraham Smith, Esquire, for thirty pounds in full of his account for his attendance in Council, from the first of May, until the ninth day of June, 1789, inclusively.

In favor of Messieurs Joseph Rakestraw and William Colliday, for five hundred pounds, in part of the sum of eleven hundred pounds granted by resolution of the General Assembly, dated the twentieth day of March last for repairing the State House, for which first mentioned sum they are to account.

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

Of Michael Moser, for thirty bushels of rye furnished to Colonel Lindemuth's detachment of Berks county militia while in service on the frontiers in the year 1780, amounting to seven pounds ten shillings.

Of John Miller, for six beef cattle supplied to the said detachment of militia in the year 1780, while employed as aforesaid, amounting to sixteen pounds five shillings and nine pence.

The committee to whom was referred the motion of Colonel Miles and Colonel as follows, vizt: "That an addition to the instructions of Council to the Comptroller General on the twenty-first of May last, relative to the exchange of certificates, be directed to make a fair statement of each transaction in the said exchange, and to transmit the same to the Register General, together with all certificates intended to be received or delivered, in order that the same may be examined, and proper entries thereof made in the books of the said Register; the certificates after such entry to be returned to the Comptroller General," with an instruction to consult the Judges of the Supreme Court thereon, reported verbally that having consulted the Chief Justice and Judge Rush, agreeably to the direction of Council, the said Judges were of opinion that Council had the power to order the mode or manner of setling accounts relative to the exchange of certificates as they should think best.

Council proceeded to the consideration of the said motion of Colonel Miles and Colonel Willing, when it was moved by Mr. Edie, seconded by Mr. Redick, to amend the said motion as follows, vizt: "to the Register General, and that proper entries thereof be made in the books of the said Register;" and on the question to agree to the said amendment, the yeas and nays were as follows, vizt:

So it was determined in the negative.

Council then resumed the consideration of the original motion, and on question to agree to the same, the yeas and nays were as follows, vizt:

Council being equally divided the question was lost.

Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the petitions of Patrick Jack and James Henry, of the county of Franklin, praying Council to remit the forfeitures to the State which they have incurred by reason of the non-appearance of a certain Hugh Furfey, to answer to a charge of perjury, for whose appearance the petitioners became bound,

Resolved, That the several sums forfeited to the Commonwealth by the petitioners as aforesaid, be remitted.

The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the fol

lowing accounts, were read and approved, vizt: