permission from Council to employ a Clerk to assist him in the execution of his office,

Resolved, That John Donnaldson, Esquire, Register General, be and he is hereby authorized to employ a Clerk for the purpose aforesaid.

Upon the second reading of the report of the committee to whom it was referred to consider of and report to Council, a plan for securing the public records,

Resolved, That the Secretary be authorized and directed to take full order thereon.

An application in writing from Mrs. Physick, requesting Council to certify under the great seal the quantity of acres surveyed within the tract of land assigned as a donation to the officers and soldiers of the late Pennsylvania line, was presented to the Board and read, and it was thereupon,

Resolved, That the Secretary take order thereon.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, April 25th, 1789.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

The Comptroller and Register General's report upon the accounts. of Jacob Auld, Esquire, Collector of Excise in Montgomery county, for monies received and balances due for excise in said county, from October the twenty-sixth, 1787, to April the sixteenth, 1789, by which it appears that a ballance of twenty-nine pounds fourteen shillings and a half penny is due by Jacob Auld to the State, was read and approved.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, April 27th, 1789.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Upon application of Mrs. Jane Roberts, and agreeably to the Comptroller General's report, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in her favor for seventy-five pounds, payable out of the proceeds of the confiscated estate of John Roberts, deceased, being an annual sum decreed to her by the Supreme Court, agreeably to an act of General Assembly, passed the sixth day of March, 1778, and due the first day of this month.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable David Redick, Esquire, for fifty-six pounds, in full of his account for attendance in Council untill the first day of May, 1789, inclusively, and for mileage coming from Washington county to Philadelphia.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of John Chambers, Esquire, late Sub-Lieutenant of the county of Northampton, for twenty-three pounds nineteen shillings and seven pence, payable out of the monies arising from militia fines in the said county, being the sum for which an order was directed to issue on the seventeenth day of September last, but not being applied for, the order was omitted to be drawn at that time.-See minutes of the seventeenth of September, 1788.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, April 28th, 1789.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable John Smilie, Esquire, for fifty-four pounds, in full for his atVOL. XVI.-5.

tendance in Council from the sixteenth of February until April the twenty-eighth, inclusively.

Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the application of John Adlum, for a sum of money to defray the expence of locating and surveying the several tracts of land reserved by resolution of Assembly of the twenty-fourth of March last, vizt: at Presque Isle, at Le Beuf, at the head of the navigation of French creek, at the mouth of Canawango, and at the Fort of Venango,

Resolved, That the request of Mr. Adlum cannot at present be complied with, no money being yet appropriated for defraying the expence aforesaid.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, April 29th, 1789.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

The Comptroller General's report upon the account of William C. Bradford, late Paymaster to the State Navy, by which it appears there is a ballance of two pounds two shillings and five pence specie due from him to the State, was read and approved.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Mr. William Whitman, for thirty pounds, being six months' pension due to him.

A return of militia officers for the first battalion of Northumberland county militia, commanded by Colonel John White, from Lieutenant of the said county, was received and read, and an order taken that commissions issue agreeably thereto.

The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the accounts of Stephen Collins, for leaden spouts taken from him in the year 1777, for public use, amounting to eighteen pounds sixteen shillings and three pence, was read and approved, and a certificate directed to issue for the amount in favor of said Collins.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, April 30th, 1789.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of His Excellency Benjamin Franklin, for seventy-seven pounds five shillings and six pence, amount of his account for postage of public letters paid by him during the time of his Presidentship of this State, according to the Comptroller and Register General's report of the twenty ninth instant.

In favor of Mr. Francis Bailey, for forty-two pounds five shillings and seven pence, amount of his account for printing work done for the Comptroller General's office, and for inserting in the Freeman's Journal advertisements upon public business, according to the Comptroller and Register General's report of the twenty-ninth of this month.

In favor of the Honorable Abraham Smith, Esquire, for fifty-four pounds five shillings, in full for his attendance in Council from the seventeenth of February, until the thirtieth of April, 1789, inclusively.

In favor of Frederick Snyder, for fifteen pounds, being one month's wages as doorkeeper to Council, including this day.

The report of the committee to whom was referred the accounts of Mr. William Turnbull, with the Comptroller General's statement thereon, was read the second time, and an order taken that the further consideration thereof be postponed until Saturday next.

The petition of Joshua Elder, presented to Council on the ninth day of April, 1788, stating that he has not appealed from the settlement of his account as late Sub-Lieutenant of the county of Lancaster, by the Comptroller General, within the time allowed by law, owing to his not receiving timely notice of said settlement, and praying Council to agree to an audit of the said accounts, was read the second time, the Comptroller General's report upon the said petition being also read; it was thereupon,

Resolved, That Council cannot grant the relief prayed for, and that the petitioner have leave to withdraw his petition.

On application of Christian Febiger, Esquire, late Auctioneer of the township of the Northern Liberties, in the county of Philadel phia,

Resolved, That Christian Febiger, Esquire, during the time he acted as Auctioneer of the Northern Liberties, hath executed the several duties of the said office with fidelity, and to the satisfaction of the Board.

Council taking into consideration that agreeably to a late act of Assembly, the Guard of Invalids will be discharged from their present service on the first of next month,

Resolved, That under their present circumstances, they be enti tled to receive rations for eight days, commencing the first and ending the eighth day of May, to enable them to travel to their respective places of residence.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, May 2nd, 1789.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Upon application of William Henry, Esquire, Lieutenant of the city and liberties of Philadelphia, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor for two hundred and seventy-three pounds, payable out of the monies arising from militia fines in the said city and liberties, for defraying the expence of exercising the militia on the ensuing muster days, for which sum he is to account.

Agreeably to a certificate from the Judges of the Supreme Court, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Edward Burd, for seven pounds, being the expences of the Honorable Judge Atlee in coming to and returning from a Supreme Court held at Philadelphia for the term of April, 1789, and a Court of Nisi Prius for Philadelphia county, immediately succeeding the said Supreme Court, and which are not chargeable to the county of Philadelphia.

was

A petition from several freeholders residing in the district composed of the townships of Londongrove, Newgarden and Britain, in the county of Chester, against an election of Justices of the Peace held in the said district on the day of read, and an order taken that William Clingan, Philip Scott, and William Hazlet, Esquires, Jnstices of the Peace in and for the said county, living near the said district, be authorized and directed to investigate the facts stated in the said petition, upon the oaths of