The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Friday, June 19th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Resolved, That the Secretary be instructed to inform the trustees of the Loan office that it is inconvenient to Council to permit them to occupy any longer their Committee Room, and to request them to remove their papers to the room occupied by the Commissioners of Bankrupt. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Francis Hopkinson, for seventy-five pounds, being one quarter's salary due to him on the thirteenth instant, as. Judge of the Court of Admiralty of this State, according to the Comptroller General's and Register General's reports, and an Act of Assembly dated the twenty-ninth day of September, 1787. John Weitzel, Esquire, was appointed and commissioned a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Northumberland, upon a return made according to law from the district of the township of Augusta. Upon consideration of the petition of Barnabas Oldwine, and a recommendation in his favor from many respectable inhabitants of the borough of Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland, for the remission of the fines payable to the use of the Commonwealth, and the punishment at hard labour, to which the petitioner was sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the said county in July, 1787, upon his being convicted of larceny upon two indictments, Resolved, That the said Barnabas Oldwine be and he hereby is pardoned. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, June 20th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt : In favor of Robert Aitken, for fifteen pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, in full of his account for printing blank certificates and binding them into books for entering the certificates which are to be re-exchanged, agreeably to act of Assembly passed at the last sessions. And in favor of John Crosby, for fifty-three pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, in full for stone for repairing that part of the bank of Mud Island which by contract is to be kept up at the expence of the State, according to the Comptroller and Register General's report. A letter from the Honorable Robert Morris and William Maclay, inclosing a copy of a bill to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States, as reported to the Senate by a committee appointed for that purpose, was received and read. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Monday, June 22nd, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Samuel Edie, John Smilie, John Baird, Zebulun Potts, Christopher Kucher, and Esquires. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, June 23rd, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, the following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt In favor of James Hennesly, for three pounds fourteen shillings. and eight pence, amount of his account for hauling twenty-eight perch of stone for repairing that part of the bank of Mud Island, which, by contract with the tenant, is to be kept up at the expence of the State. In favor of Eve Withington, for the sum of five pounds five shillings and ten pence, being a ballance due upon her account for boarding twenty State prisoners during their stay in the town of Reading on their way to Staunton, in the State of Virginia, by order of Council dated the ninth day of September, 1777, and in pursuance of a resolution of Congress dated the eighth of the same month. Upon consideration of the petition of Cornelia Cross, (widow,) for the pardon of a negroe boy named Cuff, (the property of her children,) who was convicted at the Mayor's Court held on the eighteenth of this month, and sentenced to pay a fine of forty-five shillings, and to be imprisoned six weeks at hard labour, Resolved, That the said negroe Cuff be and he hereby is pardoned. The fine of fifty pounds due to the State, which was imposed upon Hugh Hagen by the City Court held in April, 1788, upon his being convicted of a cheat, was remitted, agreeably to the prayer of his petition, Council being informed, by a certificate from the jallor that the term of his imprisonment is expired, and that he is unable to pay the said fine. On motion, Ordered, That the Secretary be directed to take effectual measures for obtaining an exact account of all persons who have licence to sell spirituous liquors by retail in the city, and the several counties of the State, together with the residence of the retailers, in order that information thereof may be given to the Legislature at their next meeting. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, June 24th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice Presient. Council taking into consideration the Act of Assembly passed the twenty-seventh of March last, appropriating the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds for opening and repairing the public road through Black's Gap, and also a representation from sundry inhabitants of the counties of York and Franklin, Resolved, That the Honorable Samuel Edie, member of this Board, and Moses McClean and Benjamin Chambers, be and they are hereby appointed to contract with some person or persons, to compleat the road through Black's Gap, between Chambersburgh and York Town, agreeably to the said act of Assembly, and that an order issue to the Treasurer for the sum of fifty pounds, payable to Mr. Edie, to enable the said gentleman to proceed in the said business, and for which sum they are to be accountable. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable Samuel Edie, Esquire, for the sum of sixty-three pounds, amount of his account for attendance in Council two days in December, 1788, and from the fourteenth of April until the twenty-sixth of June, 1789, inclusively, and also for mileage coming to Philadelphia, and returning home. In favor of the Honorable Jacob Rush, Esquire, for one hundred and fifty pounds, being one quarter's salary as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, due to him on the eighteenth of this month, according to the Comptroller and Register General's reports. In favor of John Reynolds, keeper of the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia, for the sum of fourteen pounds nine shillings and ten pence, amount of his account for the expence of removing John Franklin, a State prisoner from the said jail to the jail of the county of Northampton. The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the following accounts were read and approved, vizt: Of Jacob Blythe and Benjamin Beaver, for their pay as eighteen months, men in the late army of the United States, amounting, each of them, to the sum of forty-five pounds. A certificate from the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Washington county, that a division of the township of Amwell, in the said county, for the more convenient election of Justices of the Peace is become proper and will be usefull, which was read the seventh of November last, was read the second time; thereupon, Ordered, That the said division for the purposes aforesaid be and the same is hereby confirmed. Upon the petition of Michael Rinn, praying remission of a fine of fifty pounds to which he was sentenced by the City Court held in November, 1788; and it appearing to Council that his term of servitude is expired, it was Resolved, To remit the said fine. Upon the petition of William Porter, confined in the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia for larceny, praying a pardon, Resolved, That the said William Porter be pardoned, on 'condition of his leaving the United States in one month from this date, not to return. On application of Captain Jeremiah Fisher, of the Artillery, Ordered, That one of the carriages of a twelve pounder cannon, which has been broken and rendered unfit for use, be now repaired, the expence of which repairs not to exceed five pounds ten shillings specie. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, June 25th, 1789. PRESENT: His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable John Smilie, for fifty-nine pounds five shillings, and in favor of the Honorable John Baird, for fortyseven pounds five shillings, in full of their several accounts for attendance in Council untill the twenty-sixth of this month inclusive, and for mileage coming to Philadelphia and returning home. A letter from Governor Clinton, inclosing a resolution of the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York, being an application to Congress on the subject of amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and requesting Council to communicate it to the General, Assembly of this State, was received and read. |