The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, February 28th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. Upon the report of the Committee to whom was referred the petition from Joseph Perkins and Abraham Morrow, Resolved, That an order be drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the said Joseph Perkins, for one hundred and nineteen pounds. nineteen shillings, payable out of the monies arising from militia fines in the city and liberties of Philadelphia, being the amount of his account for repairing arms belonging to the city and liberties of Philadelphia, agreeably to the Comptroller General's report of the fourteenth day of February instant. Upon consideration of a letter received from his Excellency William Livingston, Esquire, Governor of the State of New Jersey, demanding that a certain Andrew Allen, now in the custody of the Sheriff of the city aud county of Philadelphia, and who stands charged with a forgery committed in the said State, be delivered up, in order to be removed to the State of New Jersey, having jurisdiction of his offence, Resolved, That the Sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia be authorized and directed to deliver up the said Andrew Allen to the order of the Honorable David Brearly, Esquire, Chief Justice of New Jersey, in order that he may be removed to the said State, to answer for the said offence. Eleazer Jenkins, Esquire, was appointed and commissioned 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, for the district of the township of Bethlehem, in the said county. Two petitions, one from Charles Read, now confined in the jail of this city, under sentence of death for murder, and the other from his mother, Ann Read Wardel, praying a pardon of the said offence, accompanied by a recommendation of him for mercy from the jury and a number of citizens, were laid before the Board and read. A letter from the Honorable the Judges of the Supreme Court, requesting that a reprieve might be issued for the prisoner until Saturday, the fourteenth day of March next, was also received and read. Council taking into consideration the said request of the Judges, it was thereupon Resolved, To reprieve the said Charles Read until Saturday, the fourteenth day of March next; and the Sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia was instructed accordingly. On motion, Resolved, That agreeably to the supplement to the act of Assembly intituled An Act to alter and amend an act intituled An Act to remedy the defects of the several acts of Assembly heretofore made for regulating the elections of Justices of the Peace throughout this State, &ca., passed the twenty-seventh day of February, 1788, the inhabitants of the district in which the town of Sunbury is situate (in the county of Northumberland) are intitled to and shall be allowed a third Justice of the Peace, upon an election of such Justice being held within the said district by the freeholders thereof, and return made to Council according to law. Upon application of James Dinwiddie, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor for twenty-five pounds six shillings and three pence, ballance due upon his account for riding express to the western counties to bring to Council the returns of Electors. On motion, Resolved, That a procept be now issued for holding a new election of Justices of the Peace in the second district of the county of Luzerne on the fourteenth day of April next. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Monday, March 2nd, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Robert Martin, Esquire, for twenty-seven pounds ten shillings, amount of his account for his services and expences in attending at Wyoming in the year 1784, by direction of Council, to quiet the disturbances at that place, according to the Comptroller General's report. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Griffith Evans, for seven shillings and one penny, for writing paper furnished by him and used by the Commissioners for ascertaining the claims of settlers at and near Wyoming. Agreeably to the Comptroller General's report and an Act of Assembly dated the twentieth of March, 1780, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Mary Cline Smith, for forty-eight pounds ten shillings, being her pension from July, 1780, until August the seventh, 1788, as adjudged to her by the Orphans' Court of Northumberland county, in right of her late husband, Baltzer Kline Smith, late private in the militia of said county. Colonel Willing was appointed to attend the Board of Property for the present month, Doctor Gregg, whose turn it was, not having it in his power to attend this month. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, March 3rd, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Nathan Dennison, Esquire, for twenty-four pounds, in full for his attendance from January the twenty-eighth until the twentyeighth of February, 1789, inclusively. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Frederick Sneider, for fourteen pounds two shillings, in full for his attendance as doorkeeper to Council from the first until the twenty-eighth day of February, 1789, inclusively, and cash paid for sweeping two chimneys. Absalom Baird and John Douglass, Esquires, were appointed and commissionated Justices of the Peace, the former for the district of the town of Washington, and the latter for the district of the township of Peters, in the county of Washington, upon returns made according to law from the said districts. The said Absalom Baird and John Douglass, Esquires, were also appointed and commissionated Justices of the Court of Commonpleas in and for the said county of Washington. Mr. Miles, Mr. Smith, Mr. Dennison, Mr. Woods, and Mr. Redick, were appointed a committee to confer with a committee of the General Assembly and the Judges of the Supreme Court, on the case of John Franklin a state prisoner in the jail of this city. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Lewis Nichola, Esquire, for thirty-nine pounds seven shillings and six pence, being one month's pension due to the Invalid Guard, according to the Comptroller General's report and an act of Assembly, dated the twenty-second day of September, 1785. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, March 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: State In favor of Frederick Antes, Esquire, of Northumberland county, for the sum of two pounds twelve shillings and four pence, money of the emission of April, 1781, and the sum of fourteen pounds two shillings, of the last emission of paper money, being the ballance due upon the settlement of his accounts as late Treasurer of the said county, according to the Comptroller General's report. In favor of Edward Burd, Esquire, Prothonotary of the Supreme Court, for the sum of seven pounds, being the expences of the Honorable Judge Atlee in coming to and returning from a Supreme Court and a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, held at Philadelphia in January last, according to the certificate of the Judges of the Supreme Court, dated the fifth day of February last. In favor of Lord Butler, Esquire, Sheriff of the county of Luzerne, for ten pounds twelve shillings, amount of his account for Sheriff's fees and expences for carrying John Franklin a State prisoner from Easton, in the county of Northampton, to Wyoming, in the county of Luzerne, and for bringing him back to Easton. VOL. XVI.-2. In favor of James Elliott, for the sum of four pounds ten shillings, amount of his account for boarding John Franklin, a State prisoner, in the month of February, 1789, according to the Comptroller General's report. Upon consideration of the petition and recommendation in favor of William Jones, for remission of the fine to the Commonwealth and the punishment at hard labour to which he has been sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the county of Washington, upon being convicted of larceny, Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner be granted. Upon the petition of John Tate, convicted in the county of Bedford, of an assault and battery upon a certain Samuel Crossan, junior, and Thomas Crossan, of the county aforesaid, praying remission of the fines of twenty pounds and two pounds ten shillings to which he has been sentenced for the said offence, Resolved, That the fine aforesaid be remitted. A petition from William Price, praying Council to direct the settlement of the account of Jacob Rudolph for the pay of his company of Chester county militia, for militia services in 1777, was read and referred to the Comptroller General to report thereon. The Comptroller General's report upon the several petitions of Thomas McCormick and Thomas Jones, disabled soldiers late of the army of the United States, were received and read, and on consideration it was, Resolved, That Council cannot grant the relief prayed for, and that the said Thomas McCormick and Thomas Jones have leave to withdraw their several petitions. The petition of Mary Blair, of Cumberland county, praying Council to direct that the order which she received upon the militia fines of said county may be made payable out of the common' treasury, was read; and thereupon, Resolved, That the prayer of said petition cannot be granted, and that the petitioner have leave to withdraw the same. |