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In favor of Charles Pettit, Esquire, for one hundred and six pounds one shilling, being for his services as a member of Congress from the fifth of April to the nineteenth of May, 1787, both days included, and his travelling charges going to Congress and return- ing home, according to the Comptroller General's report.
A letter from his Excellency John Hancock, Esquire, informing Council that the General Court of Massachusetts have thought it expe- dient to repeal their resolution, passed the eighth of February, 1787, offering a reward for the apprehending Daniel Shays and others, and that their proclamation issued in consequence thereof, has been an- nulled, and requesting that the proclamation which was issued by this State may be recalled, was read.
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Upon information received from Colonel William Henry, that a vacancy has happened in the seventh battalion of militia of the city and county of Philadelphia, by the removal of Captain William Paulus out of this State,
Ordered, That the said Lieutenant be directed to hold a new election as soon as may be, for the choice of a proper person as Captain, to supply the number of musquets and bayonets received from the Colonels of the several battalions of the militia of the city and liberties of Philadelphia, amounting in the whole to seven hundred and fifty-six musquets and three hundred and ninety-seven bayonets, and requested the direction of Council concerning the delivering of them to the several battalions when repaired.
Ordered, That Colonel Henry be directed to return the said musquets and bayonets when repaired, to the battalions they were received from, anything in the order of Council of the twelfth of January last, to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Attorney General and the Land Officers attended agreeably to notice given them on the tenth instant, when Council and these gentlemen went into the consideration of the claim of Richard Peters, Esquire, to eleven acres of liberty land, in right of Jeremiah Langhorne, in whom Robert Sandiland's right as an origi- nal purchaser was vested, and it appearing upon examination of the several papers produced by Mr. Peters, in support of his claim, that the same is well founded.
Ordered, That a warrant issue under the less seal signed by the President or Vice President in Council, for surveying to Richard Peters, Esquire, the said quantity of eleven acres of liberty land.
Council then proceeded to the consideration of the claim of Charles Cecil, and some time being spent in examining his papers, the fur- ther consideration thereof was postponed.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, April 18th, 1788.
PRESENT :
The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi- dent.
Samuel Dean, Abraham Smith, 1 Esquires.
John Baird, Samuel Edie,
James Read, John Smilie,
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Captain James McLean, for sixteen pounds six shillings and three pence, being in full of his account for subsistence, in the months of Janu- ary, February, and March, 1788, and for house rent for one quar- ter, according to the Comptroller General's report.
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Upon application of Captain David Ziegler,
Ordered, That the Secretary write a letter to the Managers of the House of Employment, requesting them to permit Captain Ziegler to occupy an apartment in the Bettering House, for the reception of such soldiers as he may enlist during his stay in this city.
Nicholas Hunter, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace for the district of the townships of Cole- brookdale, Earl, and Oley, in the county of Berks.
And Andrew Long, Esquire, for the district of the townships of Warminster, and Warrington, in 'the county of Bucks, upon a return made according to law.
Nicholas Hunter and Andrew Long, Esquires, were also appointed and commissionated Justices of the Courts of Common Pleas in their respective counties.
Council taking into consideration the Act of the General Assembly passed on the tenth day of November, 1787, intituled " An Act for furnishing the quota of troops required by Congress, for the protec- tion of the Western frontiers, and other purposes therein men- tioned," and also, letters from the Secretary at War and Colonel Harmar, from which it appears necessary that Council should im- mediately go into the appointment of officers to take command of this State's quota of troops: Thereupon,
Ordered, That the following persons be continued in the com- mand of the troops aforesaid : Josiah Harmar, Lieutenant Colonel Commandmant, William Ferguson, Captain of the Artillery.
Captains-David Ziegler, David McCurdy, Joseph Ashton Of Infantry.
Lieutenants .- Ercurius Beatty,
Thomas Doyle, John Armstrong. 7 Edward Spear, of the Artillery. Ensigns-Ebenezer Denny, Nathan McDowell, Robert Thompson. Surgeon-John McDowell.
Of Infantry.
Mate-Richard Allison.
Resolved, That the officers aforesaid, rank agrecably to seniority of appointment, since they became officers in the said corps.
The Attorney General and the Land Officers attending Council, went into consideration of the petition of Richard Howe, and John Elliot, by their Attorney, Miers Fisher, and it appearing from the papers produced that Thomas Farmborough, under whom the pe- titioners claim, was an original purchaser of five thousand acres of land, and that his right is now vested in the petitioners.
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Resolved, That the claim of the petitioners, to the said five thou. sand acres and city lots appurtenant, be admitted.
Council then took into consideration the petition of Joseph Mitchell, claiming divers city lots under the original purchases of James Wallace and Bazelion Forster, and his papers being exam- ined :
Resolved, That his claim under the said James Wallace, be dis- missed, the same not being supported.
Resolved, That the said petition so far as respects the claim un- der Bazelion Forster, be referred to the Comptroller General, who requested to make some inquiry, and inform Council whether the City Lots appurtenant to the said purchase have been sold by the Commonwealth.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, April 19th, 1788. PRESENT :
The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi- dent.
Samuel Edie,
Samuel Dean,
John Baird, John Smilie, and
Esquires.
Abraham Smith, Henry Hill,
James Read,
Council being informed that Captain Ziegler cannot procure a place in the Bettering House for his recruits,
Ordered, That Clement Biddle, Esquire, be directed to procure a house that will answer the purpose of Captain Ziegler, on the best terms he can.
The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt :
In favor of John Nicholson, Esquire, for the sum of two hundred pounds, being one quarter's salary due to him as Comptroller Gene- ral on the thirteenth instant, and for the sum of fifty pounds for one quarter's salary due to his Clerk on the tenth day of this month.
General Mifflin and Captain Connelly, a Committee from the Officers of the Artillery were introduced and presented to Council the thanks of the said officers for the attention of the Board in di- recting the repair and equipment of the artillery of this city.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, April 21st, 1788.
PRESENT :
The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi- dent.
Samuel Edie,, John Baird, Abraham Smith,
James Read, - Esquires.
Samuel Dean, John Smilie,
The petition of Godfrey Fellker, complaining of Benjamin Van Campen, Esquire, with a letter from the Honorable Robert Traill, and the defence of Mr. Van Campen, being read, and it appearing the charges against Mr. Van Campen were not supported,
Ordered, That the petition of Godfrey Fellker be dismissed.
A remonstrance from a number of Freeholders residing in the district of the townships of Colebrookdale, Earl and Oley, in the county of Berks, against an election of Justices of the Peace late- ly held in the said district, was read and an order taken, that John Otto, Jacob Weaver and Paul Grosscup, Esquires, Justices of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, living near the said district, · be authorized and directed to investigate the facts stated in the said remonstrance upon the oath of such witnesses as may be adduced, and make report thereof to this Board in manner and form prescribed in and by an Act of Assembly intituled "An Act to remedy the defects of the several acts of Assembly 'heretofore made, for regu- lating the elections of Justices of the Peace throughout this State, &ca."
Upon application of Captain David Ziegler, an order was drawn in his favor upon the Treasurer for fifty-six pounds five shillings, toward defraying the expence of the Recuiting service, under an Act of Assembly passed the tenth of April, 1787, for which sum he is to account.
The Attorney General and the Land officers attending in Council, the business of examining claims to City lots, &ca., under old rights, was resumed.
Upon the several petitions of Anthoney Cuthbert and Mary Jenkins, respecting their claims to certain City lots,
Ordered, That the said Cuthbert be notified to attend Council as soon as possible with a draft of the lot or lots claimed by him, mark- · ing thereon any interference which may appear either with any of the public grounds or private property, and also inserting the names . of such persons as have lots bounding thereon, agreeably to the discription contained in certain letters pattent to Reese Price, dated the sixteenth of the ninth month, 1691, under which the said Cuth- bert derives his title.
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And that the said Mary Jenkins also have notice to attend Coun- cil with further proof, (if any can be obtained) respecting Benja- min Marsh, being nephew and heir at law of Joseph Allibone, the original purchasor, as she the said Mary sets forth in her petition.
Upon consideration of the petitions and claims of John Penn, junior, and John Penn, Esquires, under John Brock's original pur- chase, and of Joseph Mitchell, in right of the original purchase of Bazelion Forster,
Ordered, That the respective claims of the petitioners to certain City lots in right as aforesaid be admitted and confirmed, provided that due and legal proof be made on the part of Messrs. Penns, that Ralph Brock was the son of the said John Brock, the original purchaser, and had a right to convey the premises in question.
The several petitions and claims of John Penn, junior, and John Penn, Esquires, in right of Thomas Brassy's original purchase, and of John Lee, under the original purchase of Thomas Bowrne, " of Crawley, &ca.," and as Attorney in fact for Francis Wallis, Wil- liam Green and others, who claim under several original purchases, were read, and on due consideration dismissed as being unsupported.
The petition of Timothy Matlack, Esquire, in behalf of the heirs of Robert Dimsdale, an original purchaser, which was read on the ninth instant, was again read ; and thereupon,
Ordered, That the same be kept under consideration.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, April 22nd, 1788.
PRESENT :
The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi- dent.
Samuel Edie, John Smilie,
John Baird, James Read, and
Abraham Smith, Henry Hill, ? Esquires.
The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt :
In favor of Francis Bailey, for fifty-four pounds, in full of his account for printing six reams of blank certificases of the funded debt of this State, according to the Comptroller General's report of the twenty-first instant.
In favor of Samuel Coutty, for fifteen pounds, towards defraying the expence of repairing the public arms belonging to the county of Philadelphia, for which sum he is to account.
Sharp Delany, Esquire, who was re-appointed Collector of the Customs on the ninth of November last, attended in Council and took the oath required by law for his faithfully discharging the duties of the said office.
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Mr. Delany at the same time made report of the several sums of money which are now due in his office for impost, in compliance with the resolution of Council of the fourteenth instant.
The petition of Joshua Elder, stating that he can prove by Wil- liam Todd, Esquire, that he entered a scire facias instead of an appeal, and praying Council to suspend their determination on his application for an appeal, untill he can see Mr. Todd, was read ;
Resolved, That the further consideration on his request for an appeal be postponed.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, April 23d, 1788. PRESENT :
The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi- dent.
Samuel Eddie, John Smilie, and
John Baird, James Read,
Esquires.
Abraham Smith,
On motion,
Ordered, That James Hanna, Esquire, be appointed and com- missionated a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Bucks.
A dedimus potestatum was issued under the great seal, directed to Samuel Benezet, Esquire, the Prothonotary, and James Hanna, Esquire, the Recorder and Register of the said county of Bucks.
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the guardian of Captain William Shippen's children for one hundred pounds, in part of the pension due to the said children.
The Attorney General and the Land Officers attending Council proceeded to the consideration of the claims to city lots, &ca., un- der old rights; and thereupon
A petition from Joseph Egg was read, setting forth his right to a city lot, forty-nine and a half feet front on Sassafras street and three hundred and six feet in depth; and his deeds and papers accompanying the said petition being examined, and having pro- duced to Council a copy of the record of a patent by which it ap- pears that the said lot has been sold and granted by the Common- wealth to Edward Pole;
Resolved, That Council are of opinion the claim of the petitioner is well founded, and that he is entitled to an equivalent therefor in the mode prescribed in and by the act of Assembly passed on the tenth of April, 1781.
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The petition of Peter Thompson, claiming under a certain Thomas Andrews, was read; and thereupon
Resolved, That the said petition and claim be dismissed, Coun- cil being of opinion that the same is not within the meaning of the act of Assembly passed on the tenth day of April, 1781, intituled An Act for the better support of the public credit, &ca.
The memorials of Thomas Mason, Joseph and Henry Rodgers, William Harris, Lydia Harris and Martha Harris, Joshua and Joel Evans, John Price and Benjamin Humphreys, Jonathan Thomp- son, Edward May, William Sheaf, Daniel Quare, Nicholas Young, the heirs of Richard Hill, Richard Peters, Esquire, Samuel Morris, Esquire, attorney to John Taylor and other heirs of Hugh Cham- berlain, Peter Thompson, William Roberts, alias Edwards, George and William Hunter, Ephraim Blaine, Charles Hurst, James Pear- son, in behalf of himself and others, James Andrews, Thomas But- ler and Benjamin Hockley, containing claims under original pur- chasers, being read, and it appearing that many of them were unsupported by vouchers ; therefore,
Resolved, That Council will on the twenty-third day of June next finally decide on such of these claims as are now before them, and were made before the time limitted by law expired; and that all such memorials as shall then remain unsupported by sufficient vouchers to establish their titles, will be dismissed.
Ordered, That the foregoing resolution be published.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, April 24th, 1788.
PRESENT :
The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi- dent.
Samuel Dean, James Read,
John Baird, Samuel Edie, and
Esquires.
Abraham Smith, Henry Hill,
John Smilie,
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Colonel James O'Ilarra for three hundred and seventy-five pounds, in part of seven thousand dollars, which on the tenth day of January last Council agreed to pay to him for supplying the troops in the western country with provisions, for which sum he is to account. This sum to be charged to the United States.
A letter was written to the Justices of the Orphans' Court of the county of Northampton, recommending Mrs. Jane Roseborough, relict of the Reverend John Roseborough, deceased, for such fur-
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ther provision for herself and children as may be consistent with the laws of the State.
Whereas, The General Court of Massachusets have repealed their resolution passed the eighth of February, 1787, offering a reward for apprehending Daniel Shays, Luke Day, Adam Wheeler and Eli Parsons, and His Excellency Governor Hancock having requested that the Proclamation issued by this State may be recalled ;
Resolved, That the Proclamation issued by this Board, offering the additional reward by. this State to the reward given by the State of Massachusets for apprehending the said Daniel Shays, Luke Day, Adam Wheeler and Eli Parsons, be annulled.
A letter was written to his Excellency Governor Hancock, in an- swer to his letter of the third instant, and inclosing the foregoing resolution.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, April 25th, 1788. PRESENT :
The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi- dent.
Samuel Dean, James Read, John Baird, Samuel Edie and 2 Esquires.
Abraham Smith, Henry Hill, }
Three orders were drawn upon the Treasury, in favor of his Ex- cellency Benjamin Franklin, Esquire, for the sum of seven hundred and fifty pounds each, amounting in the whole to the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds, being eighteen months' sal- ary, due to him as President of the State.
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Messieurs Jervis and Morrell, for three pounds, in full of their account for sixteen yards of canvas to cover the ammunition boxes belonging to the Artillery of this city, this sum to be paid out of the monies ari- sing from Militia fines in the city and county of Philadelphia.
Upon the petition of James Reynolds, and a recommendation in his favor,
Ordered, That the punishment at hard labour to which he was sentenced by a court of Oyer and Terminer, held at Philadelphia, on the twenty-sixth of December, 1786, upon being convicted of a misdemeanor, be remitted.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, April 26th, 1788. PRESENT :
The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi- dent.
John Baird, Abraham Smith,
James Read,
Samuel Edie, and
Henry Hill,
Esquires.
A memorial from Turnbull, Marmie and Company, was read, wherein they set forth that an order from the Board of Treasury to the United States, was granted them on the receiver of the Con- tinental taxes of this State, for the sum of eight thousand dollars, of which five thousand dollars, were paid in paper currency, and that the sum of three thousand dollars is yet due for which this State has credit with the United States, and praying that they may be reimbursed the loss they have sustained by receiving the first pay- ment in depreciated paper currency, and that the ballance may be paid in specie, or that the origonal warrant from the Board of Treas- ury may be returned. Council having considered the same,
Ordered, That Messieurs Turnbull, Marmie and Company, be informed that Council cannot allow depreciation on the paper cur- rency, that as it appears by the accounts of the Treasury of this State, that the order aforesaid for the three thousand dollars, hath not been paid by him, they be refer to the Board of Treasury of the United States, by whom the warrant was granted.
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of George Pass- more, for four pounds eight shillings and six pence, State money, of the emission of April, 1781, being a ballance due upon his cer- tificate for a steer, furnished by him for the use of the Continental army in the year 1780, according to the Comptroller General's re- port and a resolution of Assembly, dated the eighth of April, 1782.
On motion,
Ordered, 'That none of the newspapers taken by Council be filed but those of Dunlap's and Claypool's and Bradford's.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, April 28th 1788. PRESENT :
The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi- dent.
Abraham Smith,
John Baird, and )
Samuel Edie,
James Read, Esquires.
Samuel Dean,
On motion,
Ordered, That the Comptroller. General be requested to take up David Ziegler's order on the Treasurer for fifty six pounds five shillings, and furnish him with the amount of the said order in specie.
A letter from William Turnbull of the twenty-eighth of Febru- ary last, was read.
Ordered, That the said letter, with the accounts and papers of William Turnbull, be referred to the Comptroller Ceneral, for his final report.
A petition from Michael Connor was read, stating that he had received material injury from Bryan Connor, as well with regard to his health as estate ; that the said Bryan Connor, in consequence of the attempt made upon him, the said Michael Connor, had been sentenced by the Supreme Court to hard labour for the term of two years; that in consequence of this sentence he, the said Mi- chael Connor, is deprived of receiving any compensation for the heavy losses he has sustained, to the great injury of himself and family, and therefore praying that Council would be pleased to re- mit the sentence passed upon Bryan Connor, on condition that he make compensation to him, the petitioner, for his losses sustained, and immediately quit the United States ; and it appearing to Coun- cil, from Bryan Connor's petition, and other information, that the said Bryan Connor is rendered totally unfit for hard labor by a rupture and other bodily infirmities, and Messieurs William Bell and Joseph Carson having pledged themselves to Council for the performance of the aforesaid condition ; thereupon,
Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner be granted.
Council being divided upon the foregoing resolution, the yeas and nays were called and were as follows, vizt :
YEAS.
YEAS. NAYS.
Mr. Vice President, Mr. Edie, Mr. Baird,
Mr. Read,
Mr. Hill.
Mr. Smith.
Ten orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, for the sum of one hundred each, in favor of John Nicholson, Henry Drinker, Tench Coxe, Mark Wilcox, and Tench Francis, Commissioners appointed
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to carry into execution the act of Assembly passed the twenty- eighth day of March last, for opening and establishing certain roads in the counties of Northampton and Luzerne, amounting in the whole to the sum of one thousand pounds, which is appropriated by said act for the purpose aforesaid.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, April 29th, 1788. PRESENT :
"The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi- dent.
Henry Hill,
Abraham Smith,
John Baird, James Read, and 2 Esquires.
Samuel Edie, Samuel Dean,
On consideration of the Comptroller General's report upon the petition of Thomas Armor, referred to him on the third instant, Ordered, That the petition aforesaid be dismissed.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, April 30th, 1788. PRESENT :
The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi- dent.
Henry Hill,
Samuel Edie,
Samuel Dean, James P.ead, and
Abraham Smith, John Baird,
Esquires.
John Smilie,
Upon a letter from William Bradford, Jun'r, Esquire, and Wil- liam Lewis, respecting the application of David Neiss for the mo- ney arising from the sale of one hundred barrels of flour, said to be forfeited by John Rheiner,
Ordered, That the several papers relating to the said application be refered to the Honorable the Judges of the Supreme Court, for their opinion and report thercon.
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Frederick Sneider, for thirty pounds ten shillings in full for his attendance as Door-keeper to Council from March the first until the last day of April, 1788, inclusively.
An estimate was laid before the Board by the Lieutenant of the city, requesting a certain quantity of powder to enable him to fur- nish the different battalions of the city with thirteen cartridges
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per man, agreeably to a supplement to the acts for the regulation of the militia, passed the twenty-second day of March, 1788.
Thereupon,
Resolved, That in compliance with the law, Council are ready to issue an order for so much money as shall be necessary to pur- chase the powder, on the fund arising from fines on delinquents, for their non-attendance on militia duty.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, May 2nd, 1788. PRESENT :
The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Presi- dent.
Abraham Smith,
Samuel Dean,
Samuel Edie,
James Read, and Esquires.
John Baird,
John Smilie,
On application of Colonel William Henry, Lieutenant of the city and liberties of Philadelphia,
Ordered, That Captain Joseph Stiles, Commissary of Military Stores be directed to deliver to him or order, all the musket car- tridges which are filled and now in the magazine, together with such number of empty cartridges as Colonel Henry shall judge neces- sary for the use of the militia of the said city and liberties on the ensuing muster day.
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