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Upon the second reading of the petition and recommendation in favor of Matthew Hare, of Montgomery county, praying remission of the fine of ten pounds, which has been imposed upon him by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the said county, upon his being convicted of fornication,
Ordered, That the said fine be remitted.
The several fines adjudged to be paid to the use of the Com- monwealth by James Spence, James Murphy, and John Gibbons, now confined in the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia for larceny ; and the fine of David Griffiths, confined in the same jail for an assault and battery, were also remitted upon their several petitions.
Petitions from John Lovely, Michael Rinn and Jacob Drayer, now confined in the jail of this city, praying remission of their fines and punishment at hard labour, to be released from con- finement; and also a petition from the Invalid Guards, praying that Captain McLean may be restored to the command of the said Guard, were read the second time and dismissed.
A petition from Messieurs Brown and Shortall, praying Council to grant them an order for forty-four pounds three shillings and one penny, payable out of the money which is said to be due to the children of Captain William Shippen, to pay them for lumber fur- nished to the guardian of the said children, for their use, was read the second time; and thereupon
Resolved, That Council cannot grant the prayer of the said peti- tion, and that the petitioners have leave to withdraw the same.
Petitions from Thomas McCormick and Thomas Jones, disabled soldiers, late of the army of the United States, stating their dis- tressed situation and praying Council to grant them some relief, were read and referred to the Comptroller General to report thereon.
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Petitions from William Augustus Patterson, late of the said army, and from George Palmer, late of the State Navy, praying relief, were read; and on consideration
Resolved, That Council cannot grant to the petitioners the relief prayed for, and that they have leave to withdraw their petitions.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, February 19th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles,
Abraham Smith,
Jame Read,
George Woods,
Richard Willing,
John Smilie,
Esquires.
Amos Gregg,
Christopher Kucher,
Frederick Watt,
Zebulun Potts, and
William Maclay,
Nathan Dennison,
Council took into consideration the case of Charles Read, con- victed of murder at the last Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gen- eral Jail Delivery, held in the city of Philadelphia for the county of Philadelphia, and now confined in the jail of the said county under sentence of death for the said crime, and the transcript of the record of his conviction being read, it was thereupon
Resolved, That a warrant issue under the lesser seal, command- ing the Sheriff of the said county to execute the sentence of the said court upon him the said Charles Read, on Saturday the twenty- eighth of this present month, at the usual place of execution.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, February 20th, 1789. PRESENT : His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles, Abraham Smith,
Amos Gregg,
George Woods,
Richard Willing, James Read,
John Smilie,
Esquires.
Christopher
Zebulun Potts, and
William Maclay, Frederick Watt,
Nathan Dennison,
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, February 21st, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Honorable Samuel Miles, Abraham Smith, 7
Amos Gregg, George Woods,
Richard Willing, John Smilie,
James Read,
Christopher Kucher,
Esquires.
William Maclay, Frederick Watt,
Zebulun Potts,
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Hon- orable James Read, Esquire, for forty-seven pounds five shillings, in full of his account for attendance in Council from the twentieth day of December, 1788, untill February the twenty-first, 1789, inclusively.
Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the petition from Colonel Christian Febiger, of the third instant, praying Council to direct the Treasurer to discount the sum of one hundred and twelve pounds thirteen shillings and two pence, out of interest due to him upon his certificates, to pay a ballance due by him to the State upon his quarterly account, as Auctioneer of the Northern Liberties.
Resolved, That it would be improper for this Board to grant the request of Colonel Febiger, contained in the said petition.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, February 23rd, 1789.
PRESENT : His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE Ross. Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles, Abraham Smith,
James Read, George Woods,
Amos Gregg, John Smilie,
Frederick Watt, Christopher Kucher, Esquires.
William Maclay, Zebulun Potts, and
Richard Willing, Nathan Dennison,
Agreeably to the Comptroller General's reports, the following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt :
In favor of the Honorable Tench Coxe, Esquire, for ninety pounds, in full for his attendance as a Delegate from this State to Congress untill the sixteenth of this month, inclusively.
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And in favor of the Honorable Richard Peters, Esquire, and Mr. John Curwen for three pounds, in full of their account of cash advanced by them to Nathan Gibson and B. Cochran, for survey- ing Jones's lane, agreeably to instructions from Council dated July the nineteenth, 1788.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, February 24th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles,
George Woods,
James Read, John Smilie,
Richard Willing, Frederick Watt,
Abraham Smith, Christopher Kucher,
Esquires.
Zebulun Potts,
Nathan Dennison, and
William Maclay, Amos Gregg,
Upon consideration of the report of the Committee to whom were referred the several applications for payments of rewards for appre- hending Luzerne county rioters,
Resolved, That an order be drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Matthias Hollenback, for the sum of five hundred dollars, being the amount of the several rewards offered by Proclamation of Coun- cil, dated the eighth day of July last, for apprehending Aaron Kill- burn, Joseph Killburn, Zebulun Cady, Nathan Abbott and Benja- min Abbott, to be by him paid to the several persons concerned in taking the said rioters according to their several shares therein.
Resolved, That no reward be paid for apprehending Darius Parks.
On motion,
Resolved, That the representation of Mr. Woods, relative to the conduct of the Surveyor General in depriving him of part of his district, be sent to the Surveyor General.
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The Council met.
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PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, February 25th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles,
Zebulun Potts,
James Read, George Woods,
Abraham Smith,
John Smilie,
Frederick Watt,
Christopher Kucher,
Esquires.
Richard Willing,
Nathan Dennison, and
William Maclay, Amos Gregg,
Agreeably to the Comptroller General's report, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Matthias Hollenback, Esquire, for four pounds seventeen shillings and two pence, amount of his ac- count for carriage of fifty stand of musquets from Lancaster to Wioming by the way of Middletown, and for cash paid to George Fry for storing the same.
Upon consideration of the several petitions and recommendations in favor of Benjamin Williams and Nicholas Yundt, the former convicted of an assault and battery, and the latter for fornication and bastardy, in the county of Lancaster, for remission of their fines,
Resolved, That the several fines adjudged to be paid to the use of the Commonwealth by the said Benjamin Williams and Nicho- las Yundt, upon their being convicted as aforesaid, be remitted.
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of His Excel- lency Thomas Mifflin, Esquire, for three hundred and seventy-five pounds, being one quarter's salary as President of the State, for which sum he is to account.
Upon consideration of the report of the Committee, to whom was referred the return of an election of Justices of the Peace, lately held in the second district of the county of Luzerne,
Resolved, That the election for Justices of the Peace, held on the twentieth day of January last, in the second district of the county of Luzerne, was not conducted according to law, and therefore, that the proceedings at said election, and the return thereof be quashed.
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'e Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, February 26th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles,
Zebulun Potts, 1
James Read, Nathan Dennison,
Abraham Smith, George Woods,
Frederick Watt, William Maclay,
Richard Willing,
John Smilie, and
Christopher Kucher, Amos Gregg,
Esquires. 1
Robert McIlhaney, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace, and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of York, upon a return made according to law from the district of the townships of Germany and Mountjoy in the said county.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, February 27th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles, Zebulun Potts,
Amos Gregg, Nathan Dennison,
Abraham Smith, George Woods,
Frederick Watt,
William Maclay, and
Esquires.
Richard Willing, Christopher Kucher,
John Smilie,
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honora- ble William Maclay, Esquire, for thirty-one pounds two shillings, in full for his attendance in Council from the twenty-sixth day of January, until the twenty-seventh day of February, 1789, inclu- sively.
Upon the verbal report of the Committee to whom it was referred to consider of and report to Council, on the propriety of granting credentials to the Senators and Representatives of this State in the Congress of the United States,
Resolved, That no farther order be taken by Council thereon.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, February 28th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles, Richard Willing,
Amos Gregg, Zebulun Potts,
Christopher Kucher,
Abraham Smith,
Frederick Watt,
George Woods,
Esquires.
Nathan Dennison,
William Maclay, and
John Smilie,
David Redick,
Upon the report of the Committee to whom was referred the peti- tion from Joseph Perkins and Abraham Morrow,
Resolved, That an order be drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the said Joseph Perkins, for one hundred and nineteen pounds nineteen shillings, payable out of the monies arising from militia fines in the city and liberties of Philadelphia, being the amount of his account for repairing arms belonging to the city and liberties of Philadelphia, agreeably to the Comptroller General's report of the fourteenth day of February instant.
Upon consideration of a letter received from his Excellency Wil- liam Livingston, Esquire, Governor of the State of New Jersey, demanding that a certain Andrew Allen, now in the custodyof the Sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia, and who stands charged with a forgery committed in the said State, be delivered up, in order to be removed to the State of New Jersey, having jurisdiction of his offence,
Resolved, That the Sheriff of the city and county of Philadel- phia be authorized and directed to deliver up the said Andrew Al- len to the order of the Honorable David Brearly, Esquire, Chief Justice of New Jersey, in order that he may be removed to the said State, to answer for the said offence.
Eleazer Jenkins, Esquire, was appointed and commissioned a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in' and for the county of Washington, upon a return made according to law, for the district of the township of Bethlehem, in the said county.
Two petitions, one from Charles Read, now confined in the jail of this city, under sentence of death for murder, and the other from his mother, Ann Read Wardel, praying a pardon of the said offence, accompanied by a recommendation of him for mercy from the jury and a number of citizens, were laid before the Board and read. A letter from the Honorable the Judges of the Supreme Court, requesting that a reprieve might be issued for the prisoner until Saturday, the fourteenth day of March next, was also received
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and read. Council taking into consideration the said request of the Judges, it was thereupon
Resolved, To reprieve the said Charles Read until Saturday, the fourteenth day of March next; and the Sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia was instructed accordingly.
On motion,
Resolved, That agreeably to the supplement to the act of As- sembly intituled An Act to alter and amend an act intituled An Act to remedy the defects of the several acts of Assembly here- tofore made for regulating the elections of Justices of the Peace throughout this State, &ca., passed the twenty-seventh day of February, 1788, the inhabitants of the district in which the town of Sunbury is situate (in the county of Northumberland) are inti- tled to and shall be allowed a third Justice of the Peace, upon an election of such Justice being held within the said district by the freeholders thereof, and return made to Council according to law.
Upon application of James Dinwiddie, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor for twenty-five pounds six shillings and three pence, ballance due upon his account for riding express to the western counties to bring to Council the returns of Electors.
On motion,
Resolved, That a procept be now issued for holding a new elec- tion of Justices of the Peace in the second district of the county of Luzerne on the fourteenth day of April next.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, March 2nd, 1789. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles, Richard Willing,
James Read,
George Woods,
Amos Gregg,
Christopher Kucher,
Frederick Watt,
Zebulun Potts,
Abraham Smith, Nathan Dennison, and
Esquires. John Smilie,
David Redick,
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Robert Martin, Esquire, for twenty-seven pounds ten shillings, amount of his account for his services and expences in attending at Wyoming in the year 1784, by direction of Council, to quiet the disturbances at that place, according to the Comptroller General's report.
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An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Griffith Ev- ans, for seven shillings and one penny, for writing paper furnished by him and used by the Commissioners for ascertaining the claims of settlers at and near Wyoming.
Agreeably to the Comptroller General's report and an Act of Assembly dated the twentieth of March, 1780, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Mary Cline Smith, for forty-eight pounds ten shillings, being her pension from July, 1780, until Au- gust the seventh, 1788, as adjudged to her by the Orphans' Court of Northumberland county, in right of her late husband, Baltzer Kline Smith, late private in the militia of said county.
Colonel Willing was appointed to attend the Board of Property for the present month, Doctor Gregg, whose turn it was, not having it in his power to attend this month.
The Council met.
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PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, March 3rd, 1789. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles, John Smilie,
James Read, Richard Willing,
Amos Gregg, George Woods,
Esquires.
Christopher Kucher, Zebulun Potts,
Frederick Watt, Nathan Dennison, and
Abraham Smith, David Redick,
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honora- ble Nathan Dennison, Esquire, for twenty-four pounds, in full for his attendance from January the twenty-eighth until the twenty- eighth of February, 1789, inclusively.
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Frederick Sneider, for fourteen pounds two shillings, in full for his attendance as doorkeeper to Council from the first until the twenty-eighth day of February, 1789, inclusively, and cash paid for sweeping two chimneys.
Absalom Baird and John Douglass, Esquires, were appointed and commissionated Justices of the Peace, the former for the district of the town of Washington, and the latter for the district of the town- ship of Peters, in the county of Washington, upon returns made according to law from the said districts.
The said Absalom Baird and John Douglass, Esquires, were also appointed and commissionated Justices of the Court of Common- pleas in and for the said county of Washington.
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Mr. Miles, Mr. Smith, Mr. Dennison, Mr. Woods, and Mr. Redick, were appointed a committee to confer with a committee of the Gen- eral Assembly and the Judges of the Supreme Court, on the case of John Franklin a state prisoner in the jail of this city.
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Lewis Nicho- la, Esquire, for thirty-nine pounds seven shillings and six pence, being one month's pension due to the Invalid Guard, according to the Comptroller General's report and an act of Assembly, dated the twenty-second day of September, 1785.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, March 4th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS' MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles, Abraham Smith,
James Read,
David Redick,
Amos Gregg,
George Woods,
Esquires.
Richard Willing,
John Smilie, and
Christopher Kucher,
Zebulun Potts,
Frederick Watts,
The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt :
In favor of Frederick Antes, Esquire, of Northumberland county, for the sum of two pounds twelve shillings and four pence, State money of the emission of April, 1781, and the sum of fourteen pounds two shillings, of the last emission of paper money, being the ballance due upon the settlement of his accounts as late Trea- surer of the said county, according to the Comptroller General's report.
In favor of Edward Burd, Esquire, Prothonotary of the Supreme Court, for the sum of seven pounds, being the expences of the Hon- orable Judge Atlee in coming to and returning from a Supreme . Court and a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delive- ry, held at Philadelphia in January last, according to the certificate of the Judges of the Supreme Court, dated the fifth day of Febru- ary last.
In favor of Lord Butler, Esquire, Sheriff of the county of Luzerne, for ten pounds twelve shillings, amount of his account for Sheriff's fees and expences for carrying John Franklin a State prisoner from Easton, in the county of Northampton, to Wyoming, in the county of Luzerne, and for bringing him back to Easton.
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In favor of James Elliott, for the sum of four pounds ten shil- lings, amount of his account for boarding John Franklin, a State prisoner, in the month of February, 1789, according to the Comp- troller General's report.
Upon consideration of the petition and recommendation in favor . of William Jones, for remission of the fine to the Commonwealth and the punishment at hard labour to which he has been sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the county of Washington, upon being convicted of larceny,
Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner be granted.
Upon the petition of John Tate, convicted in the county of Bed- ford, of an assault and battery upon a certain Samuel Crossan, ju- nior, and Thomas Crossan, of the county aforesaid, praying remis- sion of the fines of twenty pounds and two pounds ten shillings to which he has been sentenced for the said offence,
Resolved, That the fine aforesaid be remitted.
A petition from William Price, praying Council to direct the . settlement of the account of Jacob Rudolph for the pay of his company of Chester county militia, for militia services in 1777, was read and referred to the Comptroller General to report thereon.
The Comptroller General's report upon the several petitions of Thomas McCormick and Thomas Jones, disabled soldiers late of the army of the United States, were received and read, and on consideration it was,
Resolved, That Council cannot grant the relief prayed for, and that the said Thomas McCormick and Thomas Jones have leave to withdraw their several petitions.
The petition of Mary Blair, of Cumberland county, praying Council to direct that the order which she received upon the mili- tia fines of said county may be made payable out of the common treasury, was read ; and thereupon,
Resolved, That the prayer of said petition cannot be granted, and that the petitioner have leave to withdraw the same.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, March 5th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles, George Woods,
James Read,
John Smilie,
Amos Gregg,
Zebulun Potts,
Christopher Kucher,
Nathan Dennison, L- Esquires.
Abraham Smith,
David Redick, and
Richard Willing,
Frederick Watts,
A petition from Henry Ream, Deputy Surveyor of a district of the county of Lancaster, praying that the townships of Bart, Lit- tle Britain, Drumore, Lancaster, Manor and Conestogoe, may be annexed to his district, was read, and an order taken that the said petition be referred to the Surveyor General to take order thereon.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, March 6th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles, Christopher Kucher,
Richard Willing, George Woods,
Zebulun Potts,
James Read, Amos Gregg, Nathan Dennison, 1 Esquires.
Frederick Watt, John Smilie, and
Abraham Smith, David Redick,
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The committee to whom was referred the account and vouchers of Evan Owen, for the expence of opening and clearing the Nesco- peck road, delivered in a report, which was read, and on motion and by special order, the same was read the second time, and adopted, as follows, vizt :
The committee to whom was referred tbe account of Evan Owen, beg leave to report :
That it appears to your committee that Council, by their act of April the seventh, 1787, did appoint Evan Owen to mark the best rout for the public road provided for by act of Assembly of the twenty-ninth day of March, in the same year, intituled "An Act for opening a road between the river Susquehanna, at the falls of
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Nescopeck, and the Lehigh, at or near the Union Sawmill." That it further appears by act of Council of June the twenty-third, 1788, that the said Evan Owen was appointed to open the said road, leading from the falls of Nescopeck to the Lehigh, to be made sixty feet wide; that it further appears, that one hundred and fifty pounds only has been appropriated by law for the pur- poses aforesaid, and that the account of the said Evan Owen amounts to two hundred and thirty-one pounds fourteen shillings and seven pence, a difference of eighty-one pounds fourteen shil- lings and seven pence ; therefore your committee recommend the following resolution :
Resolved, That the account of Evan Owen, with the vouchers and extracts of the several acts of Council relative thereto, be transmitted to the Honorable General Assembly.
Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the petition of the members of Assembly from the county of Northampton, praying that Thomas Hartman might be removed from the offices of Justices of the Peace and Justice of the Court of Common Pleas,
Resolved, That the prayer of the said petition cannot be com- plied with.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, March 7th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President, The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles, Chris. Kucher,
James Read,
Zebulun Potts,
Amos Gregg, John Smilie,
Frederick Watt,
David Redick,
Esquires.
Abraham Smith, Nathan Dennison, and
George Woods,
Richard Willing,
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, March 9th, 1789. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire President.
Samuel Miles, Christopher Kucher,
James Read, John Smilie,
Frederick Watt,
David Redick,
Amos Gregg.
Nathan Dennison,
Esquires.
Abraham Smith,
Richard Willing, and
George Woods, Zebulun Potts,
Mr. Dennison laid before the Board an account of sundry arti- cles of necessary cloathing furnished to John Franklin, a State prisoner, agreeably to the minute of the seventh instant, amounting to four pounds sixteen shillings ; which being read, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Mr. Dennison, for the said sum, to enable him to pay for the said cloathing.
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