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Nathaniel Breading, Abraham Smith,
Richard Willing,
The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt :
In favor of John Houston, for the sum of eighty-eight pounds ten shillings, payable agreeably to an act of General Assembly passed the twenty-eighth of September, 1789, being in full of his claim against the Commonwealth for his services as a Deputy Sur- veyor in running one of the division lines of his district and part of another, under the direction of the Surveyor General, which lines were afterwards rendered useless by a subsequent order.
In favor of Jeremiah Talbot, Esquire, for the sum of seventy- six pounds sixteen shillings and six pence, payable out of the mo- nies arising from militia fines in the county of Franklin, being a ballance due to him upon his account as Lieutenant of the county aforesaid, according to the Comptroller and Register General's re- ports of the eleventh instant.
A paper signed Ephraim Walter, (the hand writing said to be his by the member for the county of Fayette,) Mr. Breading, re- questing Council to accept his resignation of the office of Justice of the Peace for the township and district of German, in the said county, which he has held for some time past, was read, and it was
Resolved, To accept the said resignation.
.A return of an election of Justices of the Peace for the district aforesaid, held before Council received Mr. Walters' resignation, being read, it was,
Resolved, That the same was irregular, and cannot be allowed,
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, February 13th, 1790.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles,
James Martin,
Christopher Kucher,
Benjamin Elliott,
James Read,
Lord Butler,
Jonas Hartzell,
Amos. Gregg,
Zebulun Potts,
William Wilson, (now > Esquires. returned,)
Henry Taylor,
Nathaniel Breading,
William Findley,
Abraham Smith,
Richard Willing,
Frederick Watt,
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honor- able Benjamin Elliott, for forty-four pounds ten shillings, in full of his account for attendance in Council from the thirtieth of De- cember, 1789, to the thirteenth of February, 1790, inclusively, and his mileage coming to Philadelphia and returning home.
A letter from Daniel Brodhead, Esquire, Surveyor General, of the second day of February instant, informing Council that he has appointed Messieurs David Redick and John Hoge Deputy Survey- ors of a district bounded and described as follows, vizt : Northerly by the great road leading from Fort Bird to the town of Washing- ton, thence by a direct course to the nearest head waters of Buffaloe Creek, and down the said creek to the State line, easterly by the Monongahela river, southwardly by the continuation of Mason and Dixon's line, and westerly by the State line aforesaid, and submitting the said appointment to Council for their approbation, agreeably to act of General Assembly passed the eighth day of April, 1785, was received and read ; and thereupon, .
Resolved, That Council approve of the said appointment, and that Colonel James Marshall and Andrew Swearinger, be accepted as sureties for the said Deputy Surveyors.
A petition from John Cessna, of Bedford county, praying pay- ment of his expences in coming to Philadelphia agreeably to an order of Council dated the seventh of November, 1786, to give evidence concerning a contested election of a Councillor for the said county, and returning home, was laid before Council and read ; and upon examining the proceedings of Council at that time, it appearing that the said John Cessna attended agreeably to the said order, and that a charge for fifteen days' attendance has been ad- mitted in favor of witnesses in like circumstances with the peti- tioner,
Resolved, That agreeably to the forty-first section of the acts of Assembly for regulating the elections of this Commonwealth,
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passed the thirtieth of September, 1785, a certificate of the said John Cessna's having attended fifteen days upon the business afore- said, be now issued under the lesser seal and signed by the Presi- dent.
The keeper of the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia having certified the times of servitude of William Ferguson, Jo- seph Snowden, and Christopher Carberry; now confined in the said jail, to be expired, and they having petitioned Council for remission of the fines due from them to the Commonwealth.
Ordered, That the several fines adjudged to be paid to the use of the Commonwealth by the said William Ferguson, Joseph Snow- den, and Christopher Carberry, be and they are hereby remitted.
Council Chamber.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, Feb'y 15th, 1790. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, Presid't.
Samuel Miles,
Lord Butler,
James Read,
William Wilson,
Amos Gregg,
Jonas Hartzell,
Christopher Kucher,
Zebulun Potts,
Esquires.
Henry Taylor,
William Findley,
Nathaniel Breading,
Abraham Smith,
Frederick Watts,
Richard Willing,
James Martin,
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, February 16th, 1790. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
James Read, Lord Butler,
Amos Gregg,
William Wilson,
Christopher Kucher,
Jonas Hartzell,
Henry Taylor,
Zebulun Potts,
Esquires.
Nathaniel Breading,
William Findley,
Frederick Watts,
Abraham Smith, and
James Martin,
Richard Willing,
The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer :
In favor of the Honorable Christopher Kucher, Esquire, for thirty-six pounds fifteen shillings, in full for his attendance in
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Council from the twenty-eighth of December, 1789, to the six- teenth of February, 1790, inclusively.
In favor of the Honorable Lord Butler, Esquire, for the sum of seventeen pounds five shillings, in full for his attendance in Coun- cil from the twenty-eighth of January to the sixteenth of February, 1790, and mileage coming to Philadelphia.
John Shaw, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated a Jus- tice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Northampton, upon a return made according to law from the district of the township of Hamilton, in the said county.
A petition from Catherine Tantlinger, of the county of Bedford, praying that Council would be pleased to remit the fine of ten pounds to which she was sentenced by the Court of General Quar- ter Sessions of the Peace of the said county, upon being convicted of bastardy, and for which she is now confined in the jail of the said county, being unable to pay the same, was read, together with a recommendation from several inhabitants of the said county ; whereupon, it was,
Resolved, To remit the said fine.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, February 17th, 1790.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles, Lord Butler,
James Read,
William Wilson,
Christopher Kucher, Henry Taylor.
Abraham Smith,
Jonas Hartzell,
Esquires.
Nathaniel Breading;
Zebulun Potts,
Frederick Watts, James Martin,
William Finley, and Amos Gregg,
Upon the petition of Joseph Plowman, and a recommendation from five of the Justices of the Peace of the county of Philadel- phia in his favor, for remission of a fine of five pounds which was imposed upon him by the last Mayor's Court, upon being convicted of an assault and battery upon a certain John Kingston, it was Resolved, To remit the said fine.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, February 18th, 1790.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
James Read, Frederick Watts, .
Amos Gregg, James Martin,
Samuel Miles,
Lord Butler,
Jonas Hartzell,
Abraham Smith,
William Wilson,
Zebulun Potts,
Esquires.
Christopher Kucher,
William Finley, and
Henry Taylor,
Richard Willing,
Nathaniel Breading,
The Comptroller and Register General's reports, upon the fol- lowing accounts, were read and approved, vizt :
Of Joseph Brown, for one month's pay as a volunteer militia man while stationed at one M'Donald's, for the defence of the frontiers of the county of Washington, in August, 1782, amount- ing to five pounds five shillings.
Of Samuel Brown, for forty days' pay as a militia man in Cap- tain Robert Miller's Company, stationed on the frontiers of the said county, in the year 1782 and 1783, amounting to four pounds.
Of Alexander Lashley, for a horse which was taken into public service, and lost on the Sandusky expedition against the Indians, under Colonel Crawford, in the year 1782, valued at twelve pounds and allowed.
Of George Sharp, for bacon and flour furnished the militia of Washington county, under his command, on the frontiers of said county in March, 1785, amounting to two pounds four shillings.
Colonel Wilson laid before Council two receipts signed by the agents for the sale of confiscated estates in Northumberland county, for the payment of the purchase money, in full for two tracts of land, late of Alexander Bartram, an attainted traitor, sold by them on the twenty-sixth of February, 1787, to Philip Dadder, one of three hundred and thirty-two and a half acres, and the other of one hundred and sixty-five acres and forty-three perches, for the sum of one hundred and twenty-eighty pounds; and one tract of three hundred and thirty-one acres and a half, sold as late the estate of said Bartram, to Cornelius Low, for seventy-one pounds ten shillings, and requested that deeds might issue to the purchases, agreeably to law.
Whereupon, it was
Ordered, That deeds be issued accordingly.
The Receiver. General of the Land office having informed Coun- cil that John Hamilton has neglected to comply with the terms of
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payment for Chartiers Island in the river Ohio, within the time limited by the resolution of Council of the sixteenth of November, 1788, but that he is now desirous of obtaining a grant, and paying for the sum in such manner as Council shall direct.
Resolved, That the Receiver General of the Land office be, and he is hereby authorized and instructed to dispose of the said Island, containing one hundred and thirty six acres and twenty-one perches, to John Hamilton, at fifty shillings per acre, payable in certificates of this State.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, February 19th, 1790.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles, James Martin, 7
James Read, Nathaniel Breading,
Christopher Kucher, Henry Taylor,
Jonas Hartzell,
Lord Butler,
Abraham Smith,
William Findley, and
>Esquires.
Fredeaick Watt, William Wilson,
Zebulun Potts,
The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the ac- count of Benjamin Elliott, Esquire, Treasurer of the county of Huntington, for the taxes received within the said county, in the years 1788 and 1789, amounting to five hundred and eight pounds ten shillings and five pence, was read and approved.
Upon the report of the committee to whom was referred the peti- tion and papers relative to the Nescopeck road, returned to Coun- cil from the Assembly,
Resolved, That Mr. Hartzell, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Gregg, be a committee to confer with a committee of the General Assembly, (should the House think proper to appoint a committee for the pur- pose,) on the subject of a petition from a number of the inhabitants of the county of Northampton, residing on or near the Nescopeck road.
Upon the second reading of a petition from John Hagey, now confined in the jail of the county of Chester, for horse stealing, praying remission of the fine and punishment at hard labor, to which he was sentence for the said offence, and the petitioner being re- commended to Council, by a number of respectable inhabitants of said county,
Resolved, That he be pardoned.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, February 20th, 1790.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
James Read, James Martin,
Samuel Miles,
Nathaniel Breading,
Christopher Kucher,
Lord Butler,
Esquires.
Abraham Smith,
William Findley,
Henry Taylor,
Zebulun Potts, and
Federick Watts, William Wilson,
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the estate of Benjamin Flower, Esquire, deceased, late Lieutenant Colonel of Artillery Artificers, for two hundred and ninety-two pounds and one penny, being five years' interest due upon his depreciation certi- ficate, according to acts of Assembly dated the twenty-first of March, and twentieth of September, 1783, and twenty-fifth of March, 1786, payable out of the funds therein mentioned.
Council being informed that Samuel Hulings, who had a right of pre-emption to an island in the river Allegheny, called Hulings Island, containing near forty acres, has not complied with the terms prescribed by Council on the twenty-ninth day of November, 1788, it was on motion of General Watt, seconded by Mr. Martin,
Resolved, That he be allowed four months from this date, to make his application to the Receiver General of the Land office, and to pay eighteen shillings and nine pence per acre, in certificates of this State for the said island.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, February 22nd, 1790.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles, Nathaniel Breading,
Christopher Kucher,
William Wilson,
James Read,
Abraham Smith, Henry Taylor, Esquires.
Amos Gregg,
Jonas Hartzell, Lord Butler,
Frederick Watts,
James Martin, and
William Findley, Zebulun Potts,
The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the ac- count of Charles Biddle, Esquire, Secretary, for fees received in
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his office, between the twenty-third of October, 1789, and twenty- third of January, 1790, amounting two hundred and fourteen pounds fifteen shillings and three pence, was read and approved.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, February 23rd, 1790.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles,
Nathaniel Breading,
Christopher Kucher,
William Wilson,
James Read,
Henry Taylor,
Amos Gregg, Lord Butler,
Esquires.
Jonas Hartzell,
James Martin,
Frederick Watts,
Abraham Smith, and
William Findlev, Zebulun Potts, 7
Upon application of Clement Biddle, Esquire, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor, for the sum of six pounds four shillings and eight pence, being the amount of interest due to seve- ral persons on money borrowed by him for the relief of the disabled pensioners, in consequence of orders of Council, and in conformity with the act of General Assembly passed the twentieth day of No- vember, 1789, entitled "An Act for granting present relief to the wounded and disabled soldiers, who have received pensions from this State."
William Wills and William Jackson, Esquires, were appointed and commissionated Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Northampton, upon returns made according to law, the former for the district of the township of Lower Smithfield, and the latter for the district of the townships of Delaware and Upper Smithfield in the said county.
The said gentlemen were also appointed and commissionated Justices of the Court of Commonpleas in and for the county afore- said.
The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of Joseph Chapman, Esquire, treasurer of the county of Bucks, for taxes received and paid by him, and outstanding in the said county, was read and approved.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, February 24th, 1790. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles, Abraham Smith,
James Read, William Wilson,
Christopher Kucher,
Lord Butler,
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Amos Gregg,
Henry Taylor,
Esquires.
Jonas Hartzell,
James Martin,
Frederick Watts,
Zebulun Potts, and
William Findley, Nathaniel Breading, J
Council taking into consideration the petition of Colonel Clem- ent Biddle, together with the report of the committee to whom it was referred, and it appearing that the petitioner connot at present pay any part of the debt due by him to the Commonwealth.
Resolved, That execution on the judgement obtained by the State against Colonel Clement Biddle for duties due to the Com- monwealth previous the twenty-eighth of February, 1785, be stayed for the term of six years from the date hereof, on the following conditions, to wit : that the said Clement Biddle pay one fourth of said debt on or before the twenty-eighth day of February, which shall be in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and the other three-fourths thereof in annual payments in the three succeeding years.
Upon the petition and recommendation of a number of respecta- ble inhabitants of the county of Montgomery, in favor of Jacob Jeans and Jesse Hallowell, Overseers of the Poor in the said county, for remission of two fines, one of four pounds and the other of twen- ty shillings, which were imposed upon the said Jacob Jeans and Jesse Hollowell by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the said county, upon being convicted of disobeying an order issued by two Justices of the Peace for the maintenance of a pauper, pursu- ant to actof Assembly ; it was
Resolved, 'To remit the said fines.
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'The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, February 25th 1790.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
The Hon'ble GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles, Nathaniel Breading, 2
James Read,
James Martin,
Christopher Kucher,
Frederick Watt,
Amos Gregg,
Lord Butler,
Esquires. L
Abraham Smith,
Zebulun Potts,
William Wilson,
William Findley, and
Henry Taylor, Richard Willing,
A letter from Daniel Brodhead, Esquire, Surveyor General, dated February twenty-third, iustant, informing Council that he has appointed George Palmer, Esquire, Deputy Surveyor of all the county of Northampton, and submitting the said appointment . to Council for their approbation, agreeably to act of Assembly passed the eighth day of April, 1785, was received and read; and thereupon
Resolved, That Council approve of the said appointment, and that Jonas Hartzell and John Arndt, Esquires, be accepted as sureties for the said Deputy Surveyor.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, February 26th, 1790. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Amos Gregg, Nathaniel Breading,
Christopher Kucher,
Lord Butler,
James Read,
William Wilson, Esquires.
Abraham Smith, Zebulun Potts,
James Martin, William Finley,
Frederick Watts, Henry Taylor,
The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of James Watts, of Northumberland county, for a rifle gun which he delivered to John Brady, who was in actual service in the militia, and was wounded, and lost the same at the battle of Brandywine, valued at seven pounds ten shillings, was read and approved.
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A letter from His Excellency the President of the United States of the twentieth of February, 1790, inclosing an act passed in the second session of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, entitled "An Act for giving effect to the several acts therein mentioned in respect to the State of North Carolina, and other purposes," was received and read, and a letter written by the President of the State acknowledging the receipt of the said letter and inclosure.
Upon application of William Todd, Esquire, of the right of pre-emption to a certain island in the river Allegany, nearly opposite to and above the mouth of Buffaloe creek, containing about twenty-five or thirty acres, upon which he has made a small improvement, it was
Resolved, That the said island be granted to the said William Tod upon his paying for the same at the rate of twenty five shil- lings per acre in certificates of this State, interest to be computed from this date.
The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the ac- count of 'Towers and Evans for glass, and of George Flake for glazing windows, which were broke by the discharge of cannon at the proclamation of the President and Vice President, on the eleventh day of November, 1789, amounting to eight pounds five shillings and four pence, was read and approved; for which sum an order was drawn upon the Treasurer.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, February 27th, 1790.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles, Lord Butler,
James Read,
William Wilson,
Christopher Kucher,
Amos Gregg,
Abraham Smith, .
Zebulun Potts,
Esquiers.
James Martin,
William Findley,
Nathaniel Breading,
Henry Taylor, and
Frederick Watts,
Richard Willing,
John Barclay was re-appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Bucks, upon a return of an election held according to law in the district of the townships of Springfield, and Haycock, in the said county, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the said Barclay's former commissions for the said offices.
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On motion, it was
Resolved, That John Barclay, Esquire, be continued in the offices of President of the Court of Common Pleas and of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery of the county of Bucks, and he was commissionated accordingly.
Upon farther consideration of the petition of Thomas Wright of Bucks county, and a respectable recommendation from the Repre- sentatives of the said county in Convention and Assembly, from several Justices of the Peace, and a number of inhabitants, it was
Resolved, That the sum of fifteen pounds, now due by the peti- tioner to the Commonwealth, being the remainder of a fine of fifty pounds to which he was sentenced by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of said county, for an assault and battery upon Joseph Thomas, be and the same is hereby remitted.
On motion,
Resolved, That Thursday next be assigned for the consideration of the memorial of Edward Williams, relative to his claim against the State for his services as Chief Clerk in the late Military Hos- pital department.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, March Ist, 1790.
PRESENT :
The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.
James Read, William Wilson,
Abraham Smith, Amos Gregg,
Christopher Kucher, Zebulun Potts,
Jonas Hartzell,
Richard Willing, 1 Esquires.
Nathaniel Breading,
Henry Taylor,
James Martin,
Frederick Watts, Lord Butler, William Findley, J
The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of Jacob Krug, Esquire, Treasurer of the county of Lancaster, of monies received by him for taxes of the years 1787, 1788 and 1789, amounting to eleven thousand eight hundred and seventy- four pounds eight shillings and nine pence, was read and ap- proved.
Mr Martin was appointed a Member of the Board of Property for the present month.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, March 2d, 1790.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles, Amos Gregg, 7
Christopher Kucher, Zebulun Potts,
Abraham Smith,
Richard Willing,
Frederick Watts,
Henry Taylor,
Esquires.
Lord Butler,
James Martin,
Nathaniel Breading,
William Findley,
. William Wilson,
The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt :
In favor of Charles Biddle, Esquire, for the sum of fifty pounds, for defraying the expence of lighting the lamps in the State House yard, and for paying wages to the watchman employed in guarding the public offices in and about the State House and the Public Treasury, pursuant to act of Assembly passed the twenty-seventh day of March, 1789.
In favor of Frederick Sneider, for fourteen pounds, seven shil- lings and six pence, in full of his account for one month's wages as Doorkeeper to Council, ending the twenty-eighth of February, 1789, and cash paid for carrying up wood.
The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of William Nichols, for a gun delivered to one of the Sub- Lieutenants of Chester county in the year 1778, for public use, valued at six pounds ten shillings Continental money, amounting in specie to one pound twelve shillings and six pence, was read and approved.
Upon the petition of James Moore, of Lancaster county, for the pardon of his Negro man Joseph, who was convicted of a Robery at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, and General Jail Delivery held on the twelfth day of May, 1788, in the said county, and sentenced by the said Court to undergo a servitude at hard labour for the term of seven years, &ca ; it was
Resolved, That the said Negro Joseph be and he is hereby par- doned.
The further consideration of the petition Edward Williams for commutation of pay as Chief Clerk in the Hospital Department was postponed untill Thursday next.
A petition from Walter Hood, of Chester county, praying that Council would be pleased to remit a fine of ten pounds, which was
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imposed upon him by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the said county for keeping a tipling house contrary to law, was read the second time, and it appearing that the said Court has since the conviction recommended the petitioner for a licence to keep a public house,
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