SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, temporary one established, 408. Southwark Commissioners report touching certain lanes, alleys, roads, 245, 250, 262, 274, 277. Surveys of reserved tracts of land at Presque Isle, 161. money paid John Adlum, for making the same, 169. Susquehanna river, appropriation to improve the same, 179, 315. Statement of sundries from the accounts of Pennsylvania, 265, THANKSGIVING DAY, by proclamation, 102, 203. Tract of land on Lake Erie, bought from the Indians, 139. VENANGO, a Fort at mentioned, 161. W. WASHINGTON County, Rangers in, 37. Indians in, did mischief, 306. Washington George, President of United States, his address, 59. Western waters to be improved, 337, 347. Wilson John, an attainted traitor, 115. YORK COUNTY, returns of officers, 173. MINUTES OF THE SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. T Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, February the 7th, 1789. Upon the petition of Isaac Franks, of the city of Philadelphia, praying Council to appoint him a Notary and Tabellion Public, and also a recommendation of him as a person well qualified to execute the duties of that office from a number of citizens, Resolved, That the said Isaac Franks be appointed a Notary and Tabellion Public in and for the said Commonwealth, and he was commissionated accordingly. Anthony Carothers and Jacob Winck, Esquires, were appointed and commissionated Justices of the Peace, the former for the district of the township of New Providence, Limerick, and Skippack, in the county of Montgomery, and the latter for the district of the township of Belfast, in the county of Bedford, upon returns made according to law from the said several districts. Anthony Carothers, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated as Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Montgomery. On motion to grant commissions to Mason Fitz Alden and Abraham Nesbitt, who were returned by the Lieutenant of Luzerne county, in November, 1787, as officers in the first battalion of militia of that county. VOL. XVI.-1. Ordered, That commissions issue to Mason Fitz Alden as Captain, and Abraham Nesbitt as Lieutenant of foot in the said battalion. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Monday, February the 9th, 1789. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of John Nicholson, Esquire, for the sum of two hundred pounds, being one quarter's salary due to him as Comptroller General, ending the thirteenth of January last. A letter from Thomas Fitzsimmons, Esquire, member of the General Assembly, requesting the appointment of a Committee of Council, to confer with the Committee of Ways and Means, respecting the provision necessary to be made for the payment of pensioners, &ca., was read; and thereupon, Resolved, That Mr. Miles, Mr. Smith, Mr. Willing, Mr. Watt, and Mr. Maclay, be a Committee to confer with the said Committee of Ways and Means. Upon the petition of Eleanor Glass, convicted of keeping a disorderly house in this city, and now confined in the workhouse, praying remission of the punishment at hard labour, to which she was sentenced for the said offence, Resolved, That her punishment at hard labour in the workhouse be remitted. The further hearing of objections to the confirmation of the report of the commissioners for regulating the district of Southwark and townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk, was postponed until Friday next. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Charles Biddle, Esquire, Secretary, for the sum of nine pounds and nine pence, to reimburse him for money advanced to James Dunwoodie, the Express, who was employed to ride to the counties of Washington, Westmoreland, Fayette, &ca., to bring to Council the returns of Electors. Mr. Willing, Mr. Maclay, Mr. Smith, Mr. Watt and Mr. Miles, were appointed a Committee to confer with the Committee of the General Assembly on the subject of the letter from General Knox, and Mr. Miles, Mr. Smith and Mr. Maclay, were also appointed to confer with a Committee of the House upon the subject of Mr. Scott's resignation. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of James Elliott, for four pounds ten shillings, in full of his account for board |