The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, December 22nd, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Upon the second reading of the petitions and recommendations for the pardon of William Goggan and Daniel Morrison, who were convicted at a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, held at Philadelphia on the sixteenth of July last, of harbouring persons who had been convicted of capital offences, and receiving from them stolen goods, knowing them to be such; it was Resolved, That the said William Goggan and Daniel Morrison be and they are hereby pardoned. Agreeably to the minute of the fifteenth instant, Miers Fisher, Tench Cox and others, attended and were heard before Council, in support of their petition for the confirmation of the report of the Commissioners appointed to survey and regulate the district of Southwark and townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk, agreeably to act of Assembly passed the twenty-ninth of September, 1787. Several of the land holders in the townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk, who object to the said confirmation, were also heard. The further consideration of the said report was then postponed. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, December 23rd, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Samuel Edie, Abraham Smith, Jonas Hartzell, Zebulun Potts, Henry Taylor, and Esquires. Benjamin Burd and Cornelius Devoir, Esquires, were appointed and commissionated Justices of the Peace and of the Common Pleas in and for the county of Bedford, upon returns made according to law from the districts of Dublin and Londonderry townships, in the said county. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, December 24th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. John Wilkins, On motion, Resolved, That Colonel Miles, Colonel Smith and Doctor Gregg, be appointed a committee to enquire what forwardness the accounts are in which were directed to be prepared by the Comptroller General, in order to be sent to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States; and that the said committee report such assistance as they may think proper to be given to the Comptroller, to expedite the business. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable Thomas McKean, Esquire, for the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, being one quarter's salary due to him as Chief Justice of the State, ending the twenty-fifth of this month. In favor of the Honorable George Bryan, Esquire, for the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, being one quarter's salary due to him as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of this State, ending the twenty fifth of this month. In favor of the Honorable Samuel Edie, Esquire, for twenty. seven pounds, in full of his account for attendance as Councillor, from the twenty-sixth of November till the thirty-first of December, 1789, inclusively. In favor of the Honorable William Wilson, Esquire, for seventy pounds five shillings, in full of his account for attendance in Council from the twenty-third of October, 1789, untill the third of January, 1790, inclusively, and his mileage coming to Philadel phia and returning home. In favor of the Honorable Christopher Kucher, Esquire, for twenty-six pounds five shillings, in full of his account for his attendance in Council from the twenty-fifth of November untill the twenty-ninth of December, 1789, inclusively. In favor of James Hockley, for the sum of forty-nine pounds, payable out of the sum of five thousand pounds specially appropriated by law for the payment of claims, as soon as that fund shall be sufficiently productive, agreeably to a resolution of the General Assembly passed on the eighth day of this month, being in full of his claim against this Commonwealth as a Commissioner for clearing the river Schuylkill. Colonel Miles, who was on the bench in the last Mayor's Court during the trial of a certain Abraham Branson for an assault, of which he was convicted, having recommended the prisoner to Council as a proper object of mercy, it was resolved to remit the fine of twenty shillings, which was imposed upon him for that offence. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, December 30th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Benjamin Elliott, Esquire, Councillor elect for the county of Huntingdon, appeared, and being qualified as the Constitution of this State and the act of Congress of the first of June last directs, was admitted to his seat at this Board. A letter from John Donaldson, Esquire, Register General, stating that the Comptroller General hath exchanged some certificates without consulting him according to law, was read, and referred to Mr. Miles, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Breading. A petition from Francis Clow, who hath been convicted of larceny in stealing the property of Aaron Oakford, in the county of Chester, and sentenced to pay a fine of seven pounds to the Commonwealth, restore the goods stolen, and to undergo a servitude at hard labour for. two years, stating that he is afflicted with the dropsey, so as to be totally unable to perform the service required of him by law, and therefore praying that Council would be pleased to grant him a pardon of the said offence, was read, witha certificate from the physician of the jail of said county that the prisoner is in a very weak state of health, and he being recommended by the person injured, and by many other respectable inhabitants of the said county; it was thereupon Resolved, That the said Francis Clow, be and he is hereby pardoned. Henry Hale Graham, Esquire, was unanimously appointed a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Delaware, upon a return made according to law, from the district of the borough of Chester. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable James Read, Esquire, for twenty-four pounds fifteen shillings, in full of his account for attendance in Council, from the twenty-eighth of November to the thirty-first of December, 1789, inclusively. In favor of the Honorable Jonas Hartzell, Esquire, for fortyeight pounds fifteen shillings, in full for sixty-one days' attendance in Council, between the nineteenth day of October and thirty-first day of December, 1789, and for mileage coming to Philadelphia and returning home. In favor of the Honorable Samuel Miles, Esquire, for forty-two pounds, in full for his attendance in Council, from the sixth of November untill the thirty-first of December, 1789, inclusively. In favor of the Honorable William Augustus Atlee, Esquire, for the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, in full for one quarter's salary as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, due on the twenty-fifth instant, according to the Comptroller and Register General's report. Mr. Jonas Hartzell was appointed a member of the Board of Property for the ensuing month. |