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Resolved, That the Vice President, Mr. Miles, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Smith and Mr. Findley, be a Committee to confer with Governor St. Clair, (who is now in the city,) on the subject of the said requi- sition.
A letter from the Honorable Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Esquire, of the ninth instant, inclosing two copies of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States, dated the eighteenth of May last, respecting the time of the holding of the seats of the President, Vice President, Senators and members of the House of Representatives of the United States, was received and read, and a letter was written by the President to Mr. Muh- lenberg, acknowledging the receipt of the said letter and inclosures.
Abraham Stewart was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace, and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the coun- ty of Fayette, upon a return made according to law from the dis- trict of German township in the said county.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, August 19th, 1790.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Christopher Kucher, William Findley,. r
Samuel Miles, Benjamin Elliott,
James Read,
William Wilson,
Abraham Smith,
Nathaniel Breading,
Esquire.
Zebulun Fotts,
Richard Willing, and
James Martin,
Amos Gregg,
Frederick Watts,
An account of Captain David Crosby, for the pay of his com- pany of Chester county militia, for militia services in October, 1781, as settled by the Register General and Comptroller General, and which was read and approved in Council on the first of June, 1790, was this day laid before the Board, and an order directed to issue on the Treasurer in favor of the said David Crosby, for the sum of seventy pounds five shillings, payable out of the monies arising from militia fines in the said county, being the amount of the said account.
A letter from the Comptroller General relative to the account of this State with the United States, was received and read, and referred to the committee on the message.
The committee to whom was referred the letter which was re- ceived yesterday from General Richard Butler, Lieutenant of the county of Allegany, made a report, which was read and adopted, vizt :- The committee appointed to confer with Governor St. Clair on the letter from the Lieutenant of the county of Allegany, toge- ther with the Attorney General, whose advice was taken on the subject, met the Honorable Arthur St. Clair, Esquire, Governor of the Western Territory, in conference on his letter to the Lieuten- ant above mentioned, demanding five hundred men of the militia of this State. The Attorney General produced a law of the United States, entituled An Act for regulating the military establishment of the United States, passed the thirtieth of April, 1790, by which it appears that the President of the United States is authorized to call into service, from time to time, the militia of the States, re- spectively, &ca. As the constitution and laws of the United States vest this power with the President of the United States, your com- mittee conceive that it will be proper for the Executive of this State to interfere farther than to see that the militia of this State are regularly and compleatly organized agreeably to the laws of the State. Your committee therefore humbly submit this report to the Supreme Executive Council.
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Upon the petition of John Bridges, of the county of Westmore- land, and a recommendation from four of the Justices of the Peace of the said county in his behalf, for remission of the fine of ten pounds, which was imposed upon the petitioner by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the said county for keeping a tipling house, contrary to law, it was resolved to remit the said fine.
On motion,
Resolved, That the Lieutenant of the county of Washington be directed to transmit to Council, as soon as may be, a return of the officers of the militia of the said county, in order that commissions may issue to them, and that the Secretary write to the said Lieu- tenant and inclose him a copy of this resolution.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, August 20th, 1790. PRESENT :
The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.
Samuel Miles,
Benjamin Elliott,
James Read,
William Wilson,
Christopher Kucher,
James Martin,
Zebulun Potts,
Frederick Watts, Esquires.
Abraham Smith,
Richard Willing, and
William Findley, Nathaniel Breading,
Amos Gregg,
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honora- ble Christopher Kucher for the sum of twenty seven pounds, in full for his attendance in Council from the sixteenth of July until the twentyeth of August, 1790, inclusively.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, August 21st, 1790.
PRESENT :
The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.
James Read, Abraham Smith,
Samuel Miles, Richard Willing,
Zebulun Potts, Frederick Watts,
Richard Willing, James Martin, Esquires.
Amos Gregg, Benjamin Elliott,
William Findley, Nathaniel Breading, and --
Christopher Kucher, Henry. Taylor,
A petition from Jacob Winnamore, praying that Council would be pleased to remit that part of the forfeiture of one hogshead of
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rum, which was lately seized by the Collector of Excise of the county of Philadelphia, as not being entered according to law, was read the second time. together with a recommendation in his be- half and a deposition of James McCalpine, a porter, by which it appears that he was directed to enter the said rum but neglected to do it, and that there was no intention of fraud in the petitioner ; whereupon, it was resolved to remit the State's share of the said forfeiture.
Upon the second reading of the petition from Jacob Haga and Jacob Gorgas and Peter Martin, of the county of Lancaster, also praying Council to remit the State's share of a quantity of spiritu- ous liquors, lately seized from them by the Collector of Excise of the said county, accompanying a respectable recommendation and a certificate from the said Collector, stating that they were inad- vertently lead into the error, without design to defraud the State, and recommending the petitioners to Council as proper objects for a remission of their forfeitures, it was
Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioners be granted.
On motion,
Resolved, That the Register and Comptroller General be directed to examine and report on the account and application of Colonel John Gibson, for a new order of Council on the Treasurer to pay him a ballance due upon an order of Council dated the second of October, 1789, which ballance cannot now be paid upon the said last mentioned order.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, August 23rd, 1790.
PRESENT :
The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.
James Read, Frederick Watts,
Amos Gregg, Zebulun Potts,
William Wilson,
Abraham Smith,
Esquires.
William Findley,
Nathaniel Breading,
James Martin, Christopher Kucher,and
Benjamin Elliott, Henry Taylor,
The Register and Comptroller General's reports upon the follow- ing accounts were read and approved, vizt :
Of General John Gibson, for the ballance of an order of Council dated the second day of October, 1789, which is yet due to him, amounting to the sum of two hundred and seven pounds eleven shillings and seven pence, for which sum an order was drawn upon the 'Treasurer in favor of General John Gibson, payable out of the general funds of the State, and to be charged to the account of taxes of the county of Westmoreland.
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Of John Laird, for thirteen days' forage for four horses in Sep- tember and October, 1788, while employed in the public service in Bedford county, amounting to nineteen pounds ten shillings.
Of do., for sixty-eight days service of a waggon, four horses and a driver, for the use of Colonel Albright's battalion of York county militia, in October, 1778, by which a balance of seven pounds eighteen shillings appears to be due to the said John Laird.
Of the estate of Hugh Wilson, for the hire of a waggon and four horses from the twenty-first of August to the nineteenth of Octo- ber, 1777, for the use of Captain Dodd's company of York county militia, by which a ballance of six pounds six shillings and eight pence appears to be due to the said estate.
Of Mart Wirt, for two months' pension due to her on the first instant, according to a decree of the Orphans' Court of the county of Philadelphin, dated the fourteenth of June last, amounting to ten pounds, for which sum an order was drawn upon the Treasurer.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, August 24th, 1790.
PRESENT :
The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.
James Read,
Frederick Watts,
Christopher Kucher,
Zebulun Potts,
Amos Gregg,
Abraham Smith,
William Wilson,
Nathaniel Breading,
Esquires.
William Findley,
Henry Taylor,
James Martin,
Richard Willing, and
Benjamin Elliott,
Lord Butler,
The petition of Esther Eastburn, of the city of Philadelphia, stating that she became security for the appearance of her son Jonathan Eastburne, at the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the county of Chester, to answer to an indictment in the said Court -that her son not appearing, her recognizance became forfeited- and praying that Council would be pleased to grant her remission of the same, was read, with a recommendation in her behalf ;- whereupon it was resolved to grant the prayer of the said petition.
The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the follow- ing accounts, were read and approved, vizt :
Of Conrad Minich, for three hundred and nineteen pounds of beef, supplied the militia of Berks county, in October, 1780, amounting in specie to four pounds eighteen shillings and three pence.
Of Richard Stephens, for sundry provisions supplied to the said militia, at the same time, amounting in specie to the sum of twen- ty-one pounds sixteen shillings and eight pence.
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Of Ludwig Hanings, for twenty bushels of rye, delivered to Colonel Michael Lindemuth, for the use of the said militia, amount- ing to the sum of five pounds in specie.
James Mitchell, John Cannon, and Henry Grayham, Esquires, were appointed and commissionated Justices of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Washington, upon returns made to Council of elections held according to law in the following districts, vizt : James Mitchell, elected in the district of Peters township; John Cannon, in the district of Chartiers ; and Henry Graham in the district of Crosscreek.
Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the petition of William Kinsler, who committed larceny, under the wheelbarrow law, and was tried and convicted of the said offence since the said law was repealed, it was
Resolved, That the petitioner have leave to withdraw his peti- tion.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, August 25th, 1790.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
James Read, Benjamin Elliott,
Christopher Kucher, Zebulun Potts,
Abraham Smith, Henry Taylor,
Amos Gregg,
Nathaniel Breading, Esquires.
William Wilson,
Frederick Watts, and
William Findley, James Martin,
Lord Butler,
A letter from the Honorable Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, Secre- tary of State, of the eighteenth instant, inclosing the following re- solutions and acts of Congress, vizt :
A resolution making allowance for the service of the clerks em- ployed in the office of the Commissioners of Army Accounts.
A resolution to defray the expences of procuring seals for the Supreme, Circuit, and District Courts of the United States.
An Act making provision for the debt of the United States.
An Act to provide more effectually for the collection of the du- ties imposed by law on goods, wares, and merchandizes imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels.
An Act to continue in force for a limitted time an act entituled " An Act for the temporary establishment of the Post Office."
An Act for the relief of John Stewart and John Davidson; and
An Act to provide more effectually for the settlement of the ac- counts between the United States and the individual States, was received and read, and a letter was written by the President to Mr. Jefferson, acknowledging the receipt of the said letter and inclo- sures.
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The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt :
In favor of Timothy Matlack, Esquire, for the sum of ten pounds, payable out of the six hundred pounds which was appro- priated by a resolution of the General Assembly passed the thirty- first of March, 1790, for exploring the head waters of the Susque- hanna, Delaware, Lehigh, and Schuylkill, and the western waters within this State, and to be charged to the fund provided by an act of the General Assembly passed the twenty-eighth day of Septem- ber, 1789, for claims and improvements, the said sum being ad- vanced to the said Timothy Matlack, in part of his pay as one of the Commissioners for exploring the said western waters, for which he is to be accountable.
In favor of John Lawrence, for the sum of thirty-five pounds fourteen shillings and three pence, being the amount of his account for his salary as clerk in the office of the Register General of the accounts of this State, from the twenty-fourth of May until the twenty-fourth of August, 1790, according to the Register and Comptroller General's reports.
Mr. Wynkoop, Mr. Rhea, and Mr. Ryerson, a committee from the General Assembly, attending, were introduced, and informed Council that the House was now met, and ready to receive any busi- ness which Council might have to lay before them.
The committee were informed that a message was preparing, and would be transmitted to the House in the morning.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, August 26th, 1790. PRESENT : 1
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President. Christopher Kucher, William Wilson,
James Read,
Nathaniel Breading,
Abraham Smith,
James Martin,
Zebulun Potts, Benjamin Elliott, Esquires. Frederick Watts, Henry Taylor, William Findley, Samuel Miles, and Amos Gregg, Lord Butler,
A draft of a message from Council to the General Assembly be- ing laid before the Board and read, was agreed to as follows, vizt : A Message from the President and the Supreme Executive Coun- i cil to the General Assembly :
GENTLEMEN :- We send herewith the following acts and reso- lutions of the Congress of the United States, which we have re- ceived since your adjournment in September last :
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An Act for giving effect to the several acts therein mentioned, in respect to the State of North Carolina, and for other purposes.
An Act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States.
An Act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety. 1
An Act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization.
An Act to prevent the exportation of goods not duly inspected according to the laws of the several States.
An Act to except a session of the claims of North Carolina to a certain district of western territory.
An Act to promote the progress of useful arts.
An Act further to suspend part of an act, entituled An Act to regulate the collection of the duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandizes imported into the United States, and to amend the said act.
An Act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States.
An Act for regulating the military establishment of the United States.
An Act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeiture and 1 penalties accruing under the revenue laws in certain cases therein mentioned.
An Act to continue in force an act passed at the last session of Congress, entituled An Act to regulate processes in the Courts of the United States.
An Act to prescribe the mode in which the public records and act and judicial proceedings in each State, shall be authenticated so as to take effect in every other State.
An Act for the government of the territory of the United States south of the river Ohio.
An Act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned.
An Act for finally adjusting and satisfying the claims of Fred- erick William De Steuben.
An Act for giving effect to an act, intituled An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States within the State of North Carolina.
An Act supplemental to the act for establishing the salaries of the Executive officers of government with their assistants and clerks.
An Act for giving effect to the several acts therein mentioned in respect to the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
An Act for the relief of Thomas Jenkins and company.
An Act for giving effect to an act, intituled An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States within the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
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An Act providing the means of intercourse between the United States and Foreign nations.
An Act to satisfy the claims of John McCord against the United States.
An Act for the relief of Nathaniel Twining.
An Act for giving effect to an act, intituled An Act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, in respect to the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
An Act to authorize the purchase of a tract of land for the use of the United States.
An Act to establish the temporary and permanent seat of gov- ernment of the United States.
An Act further to provide for the payment of the invalid pen- sioners of the United States.
An Act for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchants' service.
An Act imposing duties on the tonnage of ships or vessels.
An Act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes.
An Act providing for holding a treaty or treaties to establish peace with certain Indian tribes.
An Act to amend the act for the establishment and support of light houses, beacons, buoys and public piers.
An Act to continue in force for a limited time, an act intituled An Act for the temporary establishment of the post office.
An Act for the relief of John Stewart and John Davidson.
An Act making provision for the debt of the United States.
An Act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandizes imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels.
An Act to provide more effectually for the settlement of the accounts between the United States and individual States.
A resolution respecting the arrears of pay due to the troops of the lines of the States of Virginia and North Carolina.
A resolution for the publication of treaties made, or which shall be made under the authority of the United States.
A resolution making allowance for the service of the clerks em- ployed in the office of the Commissioners of army accounts; and
A resolution to defray the expence of procuring seals for the Supreme, Circuit and District Courts of the United States.
We transmit a letter from the Delegates of this State in Con- gress of the United States, on the subject of the temporary and permanent seat of the general government.
THOMAS MIFFLIN.
COUNCIL CHAMBER, Philadelphia,
August the twenty-sixth, 1790.
The Comptroller General and Register General's reports upon the following accounts, were read and approved, vizt :
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Of Mary Harrison, for two hundred and fifty-five lb. of leaden spout taken down from her house by Messieurs Worrall, Allison, and Evans, for public use, agreeably to an order of Council of the first of September, 1777, amounting to ten pounds nine shillings and four pence halfpenny.
Of Mordicai Morgan, for militia services as Captain in the mili- tia of the county of Chester from the year 1781 to the year 1789, amounting to fourteen pound six shillings and three pence, for which an order was drawn on the Treasury, payable out of the mi- . litia fines of the county of Chester.
Upon the petition of James Berry, who was convicted in March last of a burglary, at a Court of Oyer and Terminer held in the county of Philadelphia, and is now confined in the jail of this city at hard labour, and a certificate from the Jailor that the petitioner is not able to work, by reason of lameness, and that he has be- haved peaceably during his confinement, it was
Resolved, That the said James Berry be and he is hereby par- doned.
A petition from John Ubell, who was convicted at the last May- or's Court of receiving money which had been stolen from Colonel Lewis Farmer by a certain Frederick Croner, knowing it to have been stolen, praying that Council would be pleased to grant him a pardon, being read the second time, with a recommendation in his behalf, it was, thereupon,
Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner be granted.
The Council met.
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PHILADELPHIA, Friday, August 27th, 1790.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
James Read, Nathaniel Breading, ?
Amos Gregg, James Martin,
Abraham Smith, Benjamin Elliott,
Christopher Kucher,
Henry Taylor, Esquires.
Frederick Watt,
Zebulun Potts, and
William Findley, William Wilson,
Lord Butler,
A letter from the Attorney General on the subject of a certifi- cate which was some time ago offered to Council for authentication, was read and referred to the Committee on the Message.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, August 28th, 1790. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Zebulun Potts,
William Findley,
Christopher Kucher,
William Wilson,
Samuel Miles,
James Martin,
Abraham Smith, Benjamin Elliott, 1. Esquires.
Nathaniel Breading,
Henry Taylor, and -
James Read, Frederick Watts,
Lord Butler,
A letter from the Honorable Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, Secre- tary of State, of the twenty-third of August, 1790, inclosing the following acts of Congress, vizt :
An Act making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States.
An Act to enable the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line, on Continental establishment, to obtain titles to certain lands lying north-west of the river Ohio, between the Little Miami and Sciota.
An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to finish the . light house on Portland Head, in the district of Maine.
An Act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the States of Maryland, Georgia, and Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations.
An Act for the relief of the persons therein mentioned or de- scribed.
An Act for the relief of disabled- seamen and soldiers lately in the service of the United States, and of certain other persons.
An Act to alter the times for holding the Circuit Courts of the United States in the district of South Carolina and Georgia, and providing that the district Court of Pennsylvania shall in future be held at the city of Philadelphia only.
An Act making certain appropriations therein mentioned.
An Act making provisions for the reduction of the public debt.
And a resolution directing that a return of certain surveys of lands in the western territory be made to and perfected by the Se- cretary of the Treasury, was received and read, and a letter was written by the President to Mr. Jefferson, acknowledging the re- ceipt of the said letter and inclosures.
John Bartholomew, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Chester, upon a return made according to law, from the district of the townships of Charles Town, Trediffrin, East and West Whiteland, in the said county.
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The reports of the Comptroller and Register Generals upon the following accounts, were read and approved :
Of Moses Cook, for a horse which was lost on the Sandusky ex- pedition against the Indians, in the year 1782, amounting to fif- teen pounds.
Of James Brownlee, for flour furnished to the Militia of Wash- ington county, in the months of May, June and July, 1787, under the command of Colonel Marshall, amounting to nine pounds three shillings and three pence.
A letter from Mr. Findley, member of this Board, respecting the road from Frankstown to Conemaugh, which he was requested to view, was read, and it was agreed to transmit the same to the Gen- eral Assembly.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, August 30th, 1790. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
The Honorable GEORGE Ross, Esquire, Vice President.
Christopher Kucher, Amos Gregg, -
Abraham Smith, Henry Taylor,
Frederick Watt, Nathaniel Breading,
William Wilson, Lord Butler, and
Esquires.
James Martin, Benjamin Elliott,
Frederick Watts,
The Comptroller General and Register General's report of the twenty-seventh instant, upon the account of Jacob Schreiber, for taking care of the Barracks, public Store, and Powder Magazine in the borough of Lancaster, from the twenty-third of April, 1784, to the first day of June, 1788, being four years and one month, ac- cording to resolution of Assembly dated April first, 1784, amount- ing to twenty-four pounds ten shillings, was read and approved, and an order was drawn upon the Treasurer for the said sum.
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