Sessions of the Peace of the county of Philadelphia, were read the second time and considered, and on motion, it was

Resolved, That the petitioners have leave to withdraw their petitions.

The petition of Elisha Mills, of the county of Washington, praying remission of a fine of ten pounds, payable to the use of the Commonwealth, to which he has been sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the said Court, upon being convicted of fornication, was read, and an order taken that the prayer of the said petition be granted.

A petition from Benjamin Smith, convicted in July, 1788, of larceny, and sentenced by the City Court to eighteen months hard labour, and to pay to the use of the Commonwealth a fine of four pounds, praying Council to grant him a pardon of the said offence in order that he may when released from confinement, transport himself to New Castle, in Great Britain, was read, and an order taken that the said Benjamin Smith be pardoned on condition of his leaving the State within twenty-four hours after being discharged from jail, and of leaving the United States within two weeks from such discharge, not to return.

A further petition from Patrick Quinn, convicted at the City Court, in January, 1789, of forgery upon two indictments, and sentenced to fine and imprisonment at hard labour, &ca., stating that he can procure a passage to Dublin, in Ireland, his native country, in a vessel now ready to sail from this port if he was released from imprisonment, and therefore, praying Council to grant him a pardon, was read, and thereupon,

Resolved, That the said Patrick Quinn be pardoned on condition of his leaving the United States, and transporting himself beyond the seas, in the manner stated in his petition, not to return.

Petitions from John McGill, convicted of an assault and battery in the county of Northampton; from James Brown, convicted in the county of Philadelphia, of burglary, and from Charles Pryor, convicted in the city of Philadelphia, of receiving stolen goods, knowing them to be such, praying remission of the fines and punishments at hard labour which have been imposed upon them for their offences, were read, and an order taken that the said petitions be dismissed.

Two petitions from Joseph Rodgers and Casper Kalkerson, alias Kirkisseltle, confined in the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia, upon conviction of larceny, stating that the time for which they were sentenced to hard labour is expired, and praying remission of the several fines due from them to the Commonwealth, were read, and thereupon,

Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioners be granted.

Upon the petition and recommendation in favor of Jacob Countryman, of the county of Bedford, convicted of an offence against the excise laws of this State, for omitting to make an entry of two

stills with the Collector of Excise in the said county, and fined in the sum of ten pounds, praying remission of that part of the said fine which belongs to the Commonwealth..

Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner be granted.

The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of Francis Johnston, Esquire, Receiver General of the Land Office, for fees received in the said office in the months of November and December, 1788, and January, 1789, amounting to three hundred and fifty-six pounds six shillings, was read and approved.

Henry Westby, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Allegany, upon a return made according to law from the district of the township of Elizabeth, in the said county. Upon the second reading of the report of the committee on the mode of exchanging the new loan certificates, it was

Resolved, That the following instructions be given to the Comptroller General.

SIR:-To facilitate the exchange of certificates agreeably to Act of General Assembly of the twenty-seventh day of March last, Council have judged it proper to give you the following instructions, vizt:

1st. Every person who in conformity with the said act shall present to you a new loan certificate, may at his option receive from you the Continental certificate or certificates for which the new loan certificate was granted, or receive a like sum of principal in in certificates of debts of the United States which have been paid into the Land office.

2nd. Where new loan certificates have been cancelled and several certificates have been by you given for the amount thereof to enable the party to make payment to the Land office, &ca., and where one or more of the latter shall be presented as part or parts of such new loan certificate, the person presenting the same may in lieu thereof receive so many of the original Continental certificates as

shall be equal to or nearest, and under the amount of the new loan certificates so presented.

3rd. In those instances in which it may be impracticable for you to make the exact amount of a new loan certificate or certificates with Continental certificates, you will issue a new certificate or certificates bearing similar interests for the ballance or ballances.

4th. In a sett of books to be prepared for the purpose, you will keep exact and fair accounts of all certificates you may receive, deliver or issue with their numbers, principal sums and dates of in

terest.

5th. That the ballance of interest to be received or paid by the State according to Act of Assembly, may be ascertained, you will calculate the arrears of interest which may be due on all new loan certificates you may receive, as well as on all Continental certificates you may deliver.

6th. You will receive indents or facilities for all ballances of interest as may be due to the State, and out of the indents or facilities you have received or may obtain from the United States upon the Continental certificates in your possession, you will pay such ballances of interests as may be due from the State.

7th. You will keep exact accounts of all indents so received or paid in books prepared for the purpose.

8th. If you consider it necessary to your own security or to the regularity of your proceedings in the premises, you will demand receipts from all persons to whom you may deliver certificates or indents as well as require vouchers of the certificates or indents which may be delivered or paid to you.

9th. On the first Wednesday in every month you will produce to Council for their inspection, the books in which your transactions relative to the exchange of certificates, according to Act of General Assembly of the twenty-seventh day. of March, 1789, are contained.

10th. If any difficulty or obstruction should occur in the execution of the duties required of you by the act above mentioned of the twenty-seventh of March last, by the foregoing instructions you will represent the same to Council that such difficulty or obstruction if possible may be obviated or removed.

You will have the foregoing instructions sett up in your office for the information of all persons concerned. THOMAS MIFFLIN.

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Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of James Elliott, for ten pounds fourteen shillings and eleven pence, in full of his account for sundry necessaries furnished to John Franklin, a State prisoner, during his late illness in the jail of this city.

The Comptroller and Register General's report upon the account of Henry Spiker, Esquire, Paymaster of the Militia of Berks county in 1778, 1780 and 1781, by which it appears that a ballance of two hundred and seventeen pounds six shillings and five pence in State money of 1781, is due him, was read and approved.

Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Doctor James Hutchinson, for seventeen pounds four shillings and six pence, being the amount of his account for medicine and attendance upon the guard of Invalids from December the seventh, 1788, until May the first, 1789.

The reports of the Comptroller and Register General's upon the following accounts, were read and approved, vizt:

Of David Kennedy, Esquire, Secretary of the Land office, for fees received in the said office in the months of February, March

and April, 1789, amounting to seven hundred and ninety-five pounds seven shilings and six pence.

Of Samuel Benezet. Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Bucks, of money received for tavern licences from the year 1783, until April the twenty-eighth, 1789, (the date of the Comptroller's report) amounting to three hundred and sixty-two pounds five shillings and ten pence, and for tax upon writs issued from March term, 1787, to December term, 1788, amounting to one hundred and forty-nine pounds fourteen shillings.

Of Jacob Krug, Esquire, Treasurer of the county of Lancaster, for monies received by him on account of taxes for 1787 and 1788, in said county, amounting to six thousand and six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Frederick Watts, Esquire, for thirty-six pounds fifteen shillings, in full of his account for attendance in Council from the eighth day of April to the twenty-sixth of May, 1789, inclusively.

The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of Samuel Turbutt, Esquire, Collector of Excise in the county of Lancaster, for excise collected by him from the second of October, 1788, till the eighth of May, 1789, amounting to two hundred and eighty-six pounds eighteen shillings and six pence, was read and approved.

Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the petition of Evan Owen,

Resolved, That the said Evan Owen be and he is hereby appointed to compleat the road commonly called Nescopeck road, lying between the river Susquehannah at the Falls of Nescopeck and the Lehigh, at or near the Union saw mill, according to an act of the General Assembly passed on the twenty-seventh day of March last, and that he be allowed ten shillings paper money of the emission of 1785, per diem, for his services in compleating the said road. An