former convicted of horse stealing, and the latter of two larcenies in the county of Chester, for remission of the fines and punishment at hard labour, to which they have been severally sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the said county for the said offence,

Resolved, That the said William Davis and Thomas McCalvey be and they are hereby pardoned.

The petition of Peter Emery and a recommendation in his favor from the Justices of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Chester, for remission of a fine of ten pounds to which the petitioner was sentenced at the said Court for fornication, were read the second time, and thereupon an order was taken that the said fine be remitted.

Council taking into consideration the petition of William Nichols, together with the report of the committee to whom it was re

ferred; and it appearing that the said William Nichols cannot pay any part of the debt due by him to the Commonwealth, without the utmost distress to himself and family,

Ordered, That execution against the said William Nichols for the debt due to the Commonwealth on the judgment obtained at the suit of the Collector of Customs, amounting to one hundred and ninety-five pounds seven shillings and seven pence, be stayed, and that time be allowed him to pay the said debt and interest in the following manner, vizt:-One-fourth part thereof on the first day of May, 1793, and the other three-fourths in equal portions on the first day of May in the three succceding years.

Upon the second reading of a letter from Nathan Kingsley, Esquire, a Justice of the Peace and Common Pleas in the county of Luzerne, informing Council that he resides sixty miles from the county town; that it is inconvenient, and sometimes impracticable, for him to attend Courts, by reason of the high waters, and very expensive; therefore requesting Council to accept his resignation of the said offices,

Resolved, That his resignation of the said offices be accepted.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt:

In favor of the Honorable James Read. Esquire, for the sum of twenty-four pounds fifteen shillings, in full of his account for his attendance in Council from the first of January to the second of February, 1790, inclusive.

In favor of Frederick Sneider, for fifteen pounds ten shillings, in full of his account for his wages as Door-keeper to Council from the first to the thirty-first of January, 1790, inclusively.

In favor of Joseph Stiles, Esquire, for the sum of eighty-five pounds, payable out of the monies arising from militia fines in the city and Liberties of Philadelphia, being amount of his account for forty quarters casks of gun powder delivered to the Lieutenant of the said city and Liberties for the use of the militia, according to the Comptroller and Register General's reports.

The petitition of James Smith, of Luzerne county, praying remission of two fines of five pounds each, which were imposed upon him by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the said county, upon being convicted of an assault and battery upon Joseph Whitecombe and Coleman, and for the imprisonment of their persons contrary to law, was read the second time; and the petitioner being recommended to Council for remission of the said fines by two Justices of the Peace, and several respectable inhabitants of Luzerne county, in consideration of his attachment to the Government of this State during the late disturbances in that county, it was, therefore, unanimously

Resolved, To remit the said fines..

William Findley,

Nathaniel Breading,

Richard Willing,

John Huline and Joseph Gillingham were offered and accepted as sureties for William Harvey, Collector of Excise for Bucks county, in the room of Gerardus Wynkoop and Samuel Dean, his former sureties.

Upon the report of the committee to whom was referred the letter from the Comptroller General, relative to the sale of two city lots, the property of the Commonwealth, agreeably to act of Assembly passed the eighth of April, 1788, the one situate on the north side of Market street, between Seventh and Eighth street, fourteen and a half feet in breadth by about three hundred and six feet in depth, and the other upon the Front street from Schuyl kill; the sale of which was postponed on account of the claim of Mr Peters, now withdrawn, it was

Resolved, That the Receiver General of the Land Office be directed to make public sale of the said two lotts of ground, according to law.

Agreeably to instructions from Council of the twenty-first day of May, 1789, the Comptroller General laid before the Board his books relative to the exchange of new loan certificates.

The Comptroller and Register General's report upon the account of Caleb Davis, Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Chester, for monies received for tavern licence fees between the twenty-eighth of July, 1789, and the twentieth day of January, 1790, amounting to two hundred and twenty-five pounds two shillings, was read and approved.

Mr. Wynkoop, Mr. Vaux, and Mr. Reiley, a Committee from the General Assembly, attending, were introduced, and informed Council that the House was now met, and ready to receive any business which Council might have to lay before them.

The committee were informed that a message was preparing, and would be laid before the House on Monday next.

Upon the second reading of the letter from the Comptroller General, dated the sixth of January last, relative to an examination of his accounts by the Register General of certificates issued for the funded State debt,

Resolved, That agreeably to act of Assembly passed the twentyeighth day of March, 1789, the Register General be and he is hereby directed to inspect and examine such parts of the transactions and accounts of the Comptroller General as relate to the certificates issued by him on interest, in pursuance of the act of Assembly passed the first day of April, 1784, and sundry subsequent acts and resolutions of the Assembly, for debts due by the Commonwealth which have been since funded and the interest made payable to the bearer, that the same be compared with their several accounts and receipts, and likewise with the payments of interest made at the Treasury.