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The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, November 4th, 1789.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

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An order was drawn upon

Richard Willing,

the Treasurer in favor of Frederick Sneider, for fifteen pounds ten shillings, in full for his attendance as Door-keeper to Council for the month of October, 1789.

Ephraim Douglass, Esquire, and James Paul, of the county of Fayette, were offered and accepted as sureties for Joseph Terrance's faithfull performance of his office of Sheriff of the said county, according to law.

On motion,

Resolved, That Friday next be assigned for going into the ap pointment of a President of the several courts of the county of Delaware.

Upon a letter from the Commissioners of the county of Northampton, requesting Council to issue their warrant for the removal of a certain George Sinclaire, who hath been convicted of a burglary in the said county, and sentenced to a servitude of ten years at hard labour, &ca.,

Ordered, That a warrant under the lesser seal of the State be now issued for removing the said George Sinclaire from the jail of the county of Northampton to the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia, agreeably act of Assembly of September, 1786.

A return of an election of Justices of the Peace from the district of the townships of Delaware and Upper Smithfield, in the county of Northampton, was laid before Council and read, and an order taken that the said return be transmitted to the Clerk of the Peace of said county, the same being defective for want of the tally list, the list of voters, and not being entered with the Prothonotary of the county, whose certificate is necessary to make the return compleat.

VOL. XVI-14.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, November 5th, 1789.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

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Upon the petition of John McPherson, of the county of York, for the pardon of his negro, Harry, who was convicted of larceny at a Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery held in and for the said county in the month of October last, and sentenced by the said Court to pay to the use of the Commonwealth a fine of one pound eighteen shillings and two pence, and undergo a servitude of three months at hard labour, &ca.,

Resolved, That the said fine and the punishment at hard labour be remitted.

Daniel Brodhead, Esquire, appointed on the third instant Surveyor General of this Commonwealth, now offered as his sureties for the faithfull performance of his said office, according to law, Reynold Keen, Joseph Carson, and William Bell, who were accepted as such.

On motion,

Resolved, That Friday next be assigned to consider of the propriety of appointing Peter Miller, of Philadelphia, and Benjamin Wallace, of Dauphine county, Justices of the Common Pleas.

Returns of the general elections of Sheriffs and Coroners held in the counties of Franklin and Huntingdon on the second Tuesday of October last, were received and read, by which it appears that John Johnston, Henry Work, and Thomas Brown, were duly elected Sheriffs, and George Clark and Thomas McLean Coroners of the county of Franklin, and John Patton and Alexander Ramsey Sheriffs, and Lodowick Sell and William Enyeart Coroners of the county of Huntingdon; whereupon,

Resolved, That John Johnston, Esquire, be appointed Sheriff, and George Clark Coroner of the county of Franklin, and John Patton, Esquire, Sheriff, and Lodowick Sell Coroner of the county of Huntingdon.

A certificate from Doctor Benjamin Duffield, that Thomas Archer, a prisoner confined in the jail of this city for an assault and battery, is dangerously ill of a pleurisy, was laid before Council and read, together with a petition from the prisoner, praying that

in consideration of his illness, Council will be pleased to remit the fine of thirty shillings imposed upon him for the said offence, and to release him from confinement: whereupon,

Resolved, That the fine aforesaid be remitted, and that the petitioner be released from confinement, agreeably to the prayer of his petition.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Samuel Miles for the sum of seventy-five pounds ten shillings, being in full for his attendance in Council from the first of July to the fifth of November, 1789, inclusively, (deducting fourteen days' absence.)

James Ash, Esquire, offered as sureties for his faithfull performance of the office of Sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia, according to law, Brian Wilkinson, James Craig, Jun'r, Joseph Cowperthwait and Andrew Tybout, who were accepted.

Petitions from Arthur French and Thomas McCartney, two prisoners confined in the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia, praying Council to pardon the several offences of which they have been convicted, were read; and it being represented to Council that their families are in great distress, and likely to become a public charge; therefore,

Resolved, That the said Arthur French and Thomas McCarty be pardoned.

A petition from John Simpson, a prisoner confined in the same jail, praying a pardon, was also read, together with a certificate from the Jailor of his having behaved himself orderly since his confinement; thereupon,

Resolved, That the said John Simpson be pardoned, on condition of his departing this State within three weeks from this date,

not to return.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Friday, November 6th, 1789.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

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Returns of the General Election held in the counties of Bedford

and Washington, on the second Tuesday in October last, were re

ceived and read, by which it appears that the following gentlemen were duly elected, vizt :-James Martin, Councillor; Arthur McGaughey and John Cessna, Sheriffs; and Thomas Vickror and Thomas McGaughey, Coroners, of the county of Bedford. Henry Taylor, Councillor; David Williamson and William Wallace, Sheriffs; and Samuel Clark and Sashbazer Bently, Coroners; where

upon,

Resolved, Arthur McGaughey be appointed and commissionated Sheriff, and Thomas Vickror, Coroner, of the county of Bedford; and David Williamson, Sheriff, and Samuel Clark, Coroner, of the county of Washington.

Samuel Davidson and George Funk were offered and accepted as sureties for the Sheriff of the county of Bedford; and William Parker and John Lemon, sureties for the Sheriff of the county of Washington

The order of the day for the appointment of a President of the several Courts in the county of Delaware, and for considering of the propriety of appointing Peter Miller and Benjamin Wallace Justices of the Common Pleas, was postponed.

Upon the second reading of the letter from Alexander Hamilton, Esquire, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, relative to claims of this State against the United States, and the letter from Henry Knox, Esquire, Secretary at War, requesting a list of persons entitled to pensions by the laws of this State,

Resolved, That the same be referred to Colonel Smith, Christopher Kucher and Lord Butler, with an instruction to confer with the Comptroller General thercon.

Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's report of this day, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of John Armstrong, Jun'r, Esquire, for three hundred and eighty-seven pounds fifteen shillings, being a ballance due upon his account for his pay as a Delegate from this State to the late Congress of the United States.

Mr. Gurney, Mr. Lilly and Mr. Kennedy, attending, were introduced, and informed Council that they were a committee from the General Assembly appointed to confer with the Board respecting the election of a President and Vice President of the Supreme Executive Council; whereupon, a Conference was held, and with the committee it was agreed that on Wednesday next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, in the Assembly Room, the election of a President and Vice President should take place, and the following order of procession to the old Court House, in Market street, be observed, vizt:

Constables with their staves.

Sub-Sheriffs with their wands.

High Sheriff and Coroner with their wands.

Judges of the Supreme Court, and Judges of the High Court of Errors and Appeals.

Attorney General and Prothonotary of the Supreme Court.
Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia.

Treasurer.

Comptroller General and Register General.

Secretary of the Land Office.

Receiver General and Surveyor General.
Justices of the Peace.

Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, and Clerk of the

Court of Quarter Sess's.

Clerks of the Mayor's Court and of the Corporation.

Mayor, Recorder and Alderman.

Members of the Common Council.

Master of the Rolls and Register of Wills.

Register of German passengers, and Collector of Excise in the city and county of Philadelphia.

Assistant Secretary of the Council.

Secretary of the Council.

His Excellency the President, and Honorable the Vice Presi dent.

Members of the Council, two and two.

Door-keeper of the Council.

Serjeant-at-Arms with the mace.

Honorable the Speaker of the General Assembly.
Members of the General Assembly, two and two.

Door-keeper of the General Assembly.

Provost and Faculty of the University.

Officers of the militia.

、Citizens.

Council resumed the consideration of the case of James Cassady, who was convicted of a robbery at a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, held in the city of Philadelphia on the twenty-ninth day of January last; it being represented to the Board that he will go to Ireland, his native country, if pardoned.

Resolved, That the said James Cassady be and he is hereby pardoned, on condition of his leaving the State within five days from the date hereof, not to return.

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