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3rd. In those instances in which it may be impracticable for you to make the exact amount of a new loan certificate or certificates with Continental certificates, you will issue a new certificate or cer- tificates bearing similar interests for the ballance or ballances.
4th. In a sett of books to be prepared for the purpose, you will keep exact and fair accounts of all certificates you may receive, deliver or issue with their numbers, principal sums and dates of in- terest.
5th. That the ballance of interest to be received or paid by the State according to Act of Assembly, may be ascertained, you will calculate the arrears of interest which may be due on all new loan certificates you may receive, as well as on all Continental certificates you may deliver.
6th. You will receive indents or facilities for all ballances of in- terest as may be due to the State, and out of the indents or facili- ties you have received or may obtain from the United States upon the Continental certificates in your possession, you will pay such ballances of interests as may be due from the State.
7th. You will keep exact accounts of all indents so received or paid in books prepared for the purpose.
8th. If you consider it necessary to your own security or to the regularity of your proceedings in the premises, you will demand receipts from all persons to whom you may deliver certificates or indents as well as require vouchers of the certificates or indents which may be delivered or paid to you.
9th. On the first Wednesday in every month you will produce to Council for their inspection, the books in which your transactions relative to the exchange of certificates, according to Act of General Assembly of the twenty-seventh day of March, 1789, are con- tained.
10th. If any difficulty or obstruction should occur in the execu- tion of the duties required of you by the act above mentioned of the twenty seventh of March last, by the foregoing instructions you will represent the same to Council that such difficulty or ob- struction if possible may be obviated or removed.
You will have the foregoing instructions sett up in your office for the information of all persons concerned.
THOMAS MIFFLIN.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, May 23rd, 1789. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles, John Baird,
. James Read,
Zebulun Potts,
Frederick Watt, Amos Gregg,
Esq'rs.
Abraham Smith,
Richard Willing,
John Smilie, Samuel Edie, and
David Redick, Christopher Kucher,
Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, an. order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of James Elliott, for ten pounds fourteen shillings and eleven pence, in full of his ac- count for sundry necessaries furnished to John Franklin, a State prisoner, during his late illness in the jail of this city.
The Comptroller and Register General's report upon the account of Henry Spiker, Esquire, Paymaster of the Militia of Berks coun- ty in 1778, 1780 and 1781, by which it appears that a ballance of two hundred and seventeen pounds six shillings and five pence in State money of 1781, is due him, was read and approved.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, May 25th, 1789. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
James Read, David Redick,
Frederick Watt, John Baird,
Richard Willing, Samuel Edie,
Amos Gregg, Zebulun Potts,
1 Esquires.
Abraham Smith, Samuel Miles,
John Smilie, Christopher Kucher,
Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Doctor James Ilutch- inson, for seventeen pounds four shillings and six pence, being the amount of his account for medicine and attendance upon the guard of Invalids from December the seventh, 1788, until May the first, 1789.
The reports of the Comptroller and Register General's upon the following accounts, were read and approved, vizt :
Of David Kennedy, Esquire, Secretary of the Land office, for ' fees received in the said office in the months of February, March
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and April, 1789, amounting to seven hundred and ninety-five pounds seven shillings and six pence.
Of Samuel Benezet, Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Bucks, of money received for tavern licences from the year 1783, until April the twenty-eighth, 1789, (the date of the Comptroller's report) amounting to three hundred and sixty-two pounds five shil- lings and ten pence, and for tax upon writs issued from March term, 1787, to December term, 1788, amounting to one hundred and forty-nine pounds fourteen shillings.
Of Jacob Krug, Esquire, Treasurer of the county of Lancaster, ·for monies received by him on account of taxes for 1787 and 1788, in said county, amounting to six thousand and six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, May 26th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles,
John Baird,
Amos Gregg,
Zebulun Potts,
Frederick Watt,
Richard Willing,
Abraham Smith,
Samuel Edie,
Esquires.
John Smilie, David Redick,
Christopher Kucher,
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Frederick Watts, Esquire, for thirty six pounds fifteen shillings, in full of his account for attendance in Council from the eighth day of April to the twenty-sixth of May, 1789, inclusively.
The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the account of Samuel Turbutt, Esquire, Collector of Excise in the county of Lancaster, for excise collected by him from the second of October, 1788, till the eighth of May, 1789, amounting to two hundred and eighty-six pounds eighteen shillings and six pence, was read and approved.
Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the petition of Evan Owen,
Resolved, That the said Evan Owen be and he is hereby appointed to compleat the road commonly called Nescopeck road, lying between, the river Susquehannah at the Falls of Nescopeck and the Lehigh, at or near the Union saw mill, according to an act of the General Assembly passed on the twenty-seventh day of March last, and. that he be allowed ten shillings paper money of the emission of 1785, per diem, for his services in compleating the said road. An
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order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor, was thereupon directed to issue for the sum of one hundred pounds, being two- thirds of the sum allowed by the said act of Assembly for the pur- pose above mentioned, he to be accountable.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, May 27th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Richard Willing,
John Smiley,
Amos Gregg,
Zebulun Potts,
James Read,
David Redick,
Esquires.
Frederick Watt,
John Baird,
Abraham Smith,
Samuel Edie,
Christopher Kucher,
The reports of the Comptroller and Register General upon the following accounts, were read and approved, vizt :
Of David Espy, Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Bedford, for tavern licence fees received from July sessions, 1717, untill October sessions, 1788, amounting to sixty-four pounds sixteen shillings.
Of Hugh Barclay, Esquire, Lieutenant of the county of Bedford, for cash due to him and persons employed by him in militia ser- vices, and for militia stores, amounting to eighteen pounds eight shillings and five pence.
The petition from George Ingram and wife, for a pardon, was dismissed.
Upon application of Mr. Redick, in behalf of William Wilson of Pittsburgh, for an extension of the time allowed him for complying with the terms of his purchase of an island in the Allegany river, occupied by him,
Resolved, That he be allowed the further time of two months from the sixteenth instant, to comply with the said terms.
The account of Anthony Wright for sundry artillery stores, &ca., purchased by him and used upon the arrival of the President of the United States in this city, was read, and referred to the Comp- troller General to examine the same and report thereon.
Upon the petition of John Schultz, convicted of an assault and battery in the county of Berks, and a recommendation from the person injured,
Ordered, That the fine of twenty-five pounds imposed upon him by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the said county, for the said offence, be remitted.
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The fine of ten pounds imposed upon Thomas Brown of the county of Bucks, for not performing the office of a Collector of militia fines in the said county, (he being conscientiously scrupu- lous against the duties required,) was remitted, agreeably to the prayer of his petition.
Agereably to the minute of yesterday, Mr. Evan Owen was fur- nished by the Secretary with a letter of instructions relative to the compleating the road commonly called the Noscopeck road, between the river Susquehanna and Lehigh.
On motion,
Resolved, That Friday next be assigned for the further consid- eration of the motion to rescind the resolution of the Board of the fourteenth of November, 1787, relative to public officers.
John Hewson, of the Northern Liberties, calico printer, attended " the Board, and offered Mr. Peter Smallwood, of this city, as his security for the faithfull application and re-payment of fifty pounds, granted by act of Assembly dated the twenty-seventh of March last, to enable him to enlarge and carry on the business of calico printing and bleaching within this State, and Mr. Smallwood being recommended as an industrious, reputable citizen,
Resolved, That an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the said John Hewson for the aforesaid sum of fifty pounds, and that Mr. Smallwood be accepted as security for the repayment thereof, agrecably to the meaning of the said act of Assembly.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, May 29th, 1789. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles, John Smilie, 7
Amos Gregg,
David Redick,
James Read, Samuel Edie,
Esquires.
Richard Willing, John Baird,
Frederick Watt, Zebulun Potts, and
Abraham Smith, Christopher Kucher,
A petition from Patterson Bell of Chester county, accompanyed by a recommendation from the Justices of the Peace of said county, for the pardon of his servant James Carson, who was convicted of larceny at the last Court of General Quarter Sessions, held in the said county, was read, and thereupon ; it was
Rsolved, That the fine of four pounds due from the said James Carson to the Commonwealth, and the punishment at hard labour to which he was sentenced by the said Court for the said offence, be remitted.
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Agreeably to the report of John Nicholson, Esquire, Comptroller General, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor, for seventy-eight pounds two shillings and eight pence, being the amount of money expended by him in repairing that part of the bank of Mud Island which by contract is to be kept up by the State.
Agreeably to the order of the day, Council proceeded to the con- sideration of the motion to rescind the resolution of the Board, of the fourteenth day of November, 1787, relative to public officers ; when it was on motion,
Resolved unanimously, That so much of the resolution of the Board, of the fourteenth of November, 1787, as declares that the Secretary of Council shall be annually appointed the eighth day after the election of President and Vice President, be and the same is hereby rescinded.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, May 30th, 1789. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles, Samuel Edie,
James Read,
John Baird,
Frederick Watt,
Christopher Kucher,
Esquires.
Abraham Smith,
Zebulun Potts,
John Smilie, David Redick,
Richard Willing,
Upon application of the Secretary, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor, for one hundred and twenty-five pounds, to- wards defraying the expence of the lamps, &ca., placed in the State house yards, and for paying the watchmen employed in guarding the public offices, agreeably to an act of Assembly passed at the last sessions.
Mr. Baird was appointed a member of the Board of Property.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, June 2nd, 1789. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles', John Baird,
Richard Willing, Amos Gregg,
James Read,
Samuel Edie,
Christopher Kucher, Zebulun Potts, and 1 Esquires.
Abraham Smith,
John Smilie,
David Redick,
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Frederick Sneider, for fifteen pounds ten shillings, being one month's pay due to him as doorkeeper to Council, ending the thirty-first of May last.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, June 3rd, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles, David Redick,
Amos Gregg, John Baird,
Richard Willing,
Samuel Edie,
James Read,
Zebulun Potts, and
Esquires.
Christopher Kucher, Abraham Smith, 7
John Smilie,
Upon consideration of a recommendation from the Honorable Chief Justice Mckean and Judges Atlee and Bryan, for the par- don.of a certain John Murphy, who was convicted of larceny at the last Court of Oyer and Terminer held in the county of York,
Ordered, That the fine due to the Commonwealth, and the pun- ishment at hard labour to which the said John Murphy was sen- tenced by the said Court, be remitted.
A letter from Robert Parker, Esquire, Collector of Excise in the couuty of Franklin, inclosing his commission, and requesting Coun- cil to accept his resignation of the said office, was received and read, and the said resignation accepted agreeably to his request.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, June 4th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles, David Redick,
James Read, John Baird,
Richard Willing,
. Samuel Edie,
Amos Gregg,
Zebulun Potts, and
Esquires.
Christopher Kucher,
John Smilie,
Abraham Smith, 1
Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Robert Ait- ken, for fifteen pound thirteen shillings and four pence, amount of his account for printing one ream of certificates, and for ruling and binding them into books, for the purpose of keeping the amount of certificates which are to be exchanged agreeably to act of Assembly dated the twenty-seventh day of March last.
A petition from Samuel Brigs, of the city of Philadelphia, with a model of a machine for making nails, screws, and gimblets, re- questing the same (being in a box covered with white paper, bound longitudinally and traversely with purple tape, and secured by four seals,) should remain in the possession of the President untill called for by the Congress of the United States or General Assem- bly of Pennsylvania, to whom he has addressed memorials on the subject, was received in Council, and the said petition being read, it was thereupon agreed that the Secretary of this Board take charge of the said model to deliver it when called for, as stated in the petition.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, June 5th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles, John Smilie,
Richard Willing, John Baird,
Amos Gregg, Samuel Edie,
Esquires.
Christopher Kucher, Abraham Smith,
Zebulun Potts,
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Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the letter of the eighteenth of May last from William Heslit and Philip Scott, Esquires, two of the Justices appointed by Council to investigate the complaint against an election of Jus- tices of the Peace lately held in the district of London Grove New Garden and London Britain, in the county of Chester, ,
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Resolved, That the election aforesaid be confirmed, and that. Da- vid Mackey, who had the highest number of votes, be appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common Pleas for the said county.
Agreeably to the Comptroller and Register General's reports, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer for one pound ten shillings, in favor of John Scull, amount of his account for inserting in the Pittsburgh Gazette an order of this Board of the twelfth day of De- cember, 1788, requiring public officers to render their accounts into the Comptroller General's office for settlement, according to law.
A petition from Ann Woodley, in behalf of her son John Wood- ley, who was convicted at the last Court of General Quarter Ses- sions of the county of Philadelphia of an assault and battery upon a certain Catharine Knuckle, praying remission of the punishment to which he was sentenced for the said offence, was read. A re- commendation from the Grand Jury, signed by the foreman, Jacob Morgan, being also read, it was thereupon,
Resolved, That the fine and imprisonment to which the said John Woodley was sentenced by the said Court, be remitted.
Council Chamber.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, June 6th, 1789. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Richard Willing, John Baird,
Amos Gregg,
Samuel Edie,
Christopher Kucher,
Zebulun Potts,
Esquires.
Abraham Smith,
David Redick, and
John Smilie,
James Read,
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, June 8th, 1789.
PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. James Read, John Baird,
Amos Gregg,
Samuel Edie,
Abraham Smith,
David Redick, and & Esquires.
John Smilie,
Samuel Miles,
Christopher Kucher,
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honora- ble James Read, Esquire, for twenty-three pounds five shillings, in full for his attendance in Council until this day, inclusive.
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The Council met. 1
PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, June 9th, 1789. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President
Samuel Miles, Samuel Edie,
Richard Willing,
Christopher Kucher,
Amos Gregg, John Baird,
James Read,
David Redick,
Esquires.
Abraham Smith,
Zebulun Potts,
John Smilie,
The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt:
In favor of the Honorable Abraham Smith, Esquire, for thirty pounds in full of his account for his attendance in Council, from the first of May, until the ninth day of June, 1789, inclusively.
In favor of Messieurs Joseph Rakestraw and William Colliday, for five hundred pounds, in part of the sum of eleven hundred pounds granted by resolution of the General Assembly, dated the twentieth day of March last for repairing the State House, for which first mentioned sum they are to account.
The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the fol- lowing accounts, were read and approved, vizt :
Of Michael Moser, for thirty bushels of rye furnished to Colonel Lindemuth's detachment of Berks county militia while in service on the frontiers in the year 1780, amounting to seven pounds ten shillings.
Of John Miller, for six beef cattle supplied to the said detach- ment of militia in the year 1780, while employed as aforesaid, amounting to sixteen pounds five shillings and nine pence.
The committee to whom was referred the motion of Colonel Miles and Colonel as follows, vizt : " That an addition to the instructions of Council to the Comptroller General on the twenty-first of May last, relative to the exchange of certificates, be directed to make a fair statement of each transaction in the said exchange, and to transmit the same to the Register General, to- gether with all certificates intended to be received or delivered, in order that the same may be examined, and proper entries thereof · made in the books of the said Register; the certificates after such entry to be returned to the Comptroller General," with an instruc- tion to consult the Judges of the Supreme Court thereon, reported verbally : that having consulted the Chief Justice and Judge Rush, agreeably to the direction of Council, the said Judges were of opinion that Council had the power to order the mode or man- ner of setling accounts relative to the exchange of certificates as they should think best.
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Council proceeded to the consideration of the said motion of Colonel Miles and Colonel Willing, when it was moved by Mr. Edie, seconded by Mr. Redick, to amend the said motion as fol- lows, vizt : "to the Register General, and that proper entries thereof be made in the books of the said Register;" and on the question to agree to the said amendment, the yeas and nays were as follows, vizt :
YEAS. NAYS.
NAYS.
Mr. Kucher, Mr. President, Mr. Potts,
Mr. Edie,
Mr. Read,
Mr. Baird.
Mr. Redick, Mr. Smilie, Mr. Miles,
Mr. Gregg, Mr. Smith,
Mr. Willing.
So it was determined in the negative.
Council then resumed the consideration of the original motion, and on question to agree to the same, the yeas and nays were as follows, vizt :
YEAS-Mr. President, NAYS-Mr. Read, Mr. Redick,
Mr. Miles,
Mr. Kucher,
Mr. Smith,
Mr. Willing,
Mr. Smilie,
Mr. Potts, and
Mr. Baird, and
Mr. Gregg.
Mr. Edie.
Council being equally divided the question was lost.
Upon consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the petitions of Patrick Jack and James Henry, of the county of Franklin, praying Council to remit the forfeiture's to the State which they have incurred by reason of the non-appearance of a certain Hugh Furfey, to answer to a charge of perjury, for whose appearance the petitioners became bound,
Resolved, That the several sums forfeited to the Commonwealth by the petitioners as aforesaid, be remitted.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, June 10th, 1789. PRESENT :
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles, James Redick,
James Read, John Baird,
Amos Gregg, Samuel Edie,
Esquires.
Christopher Kucher,
Zebulun Potts, and
John Smilie, Richard Willing,
The Comptroller and Register General's reports upon the fol- lowing accounts, were read and approved, vizt :
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Of Joseph Stiles, Commissary of Military Stores and Superin- tendent of the Magazine of gunpowder, amounting to eighty-six pounds three shillings and four pence.
Of Adam Hubley, Esquire, Auctioneer of the district of South- wark, for State duty upon goods sold at auction from February the twenty-sixth till May the twenty-first, 1789, amounting to seventy pounds ten shillings and three pence.
Of Nicholas Brosius, Esquire, Collector of Excise in the county of Berks, for excise collected from August, 1786, till August, 1787, amounting to one thousand one hundred and ninety-nine pounds fifteen shillings and ten pence three farthings.
A petition from Barent Jacobs, praying to be discharged from the payment of six pounds due from him to the State for excise, was read, and an order taken that the same be dismissed.
Upon the petition and recommendation in favor of John Stark, who was convicted of fornication at the last Court of Quarter Ses- sions for Philadelphia county, and sentenced to pay to the use of the Commonwealth a fine of ten pounds, &ca , praying remission of the said fine,
Resolved, That the said fine of ten pounds be remitted.
Upon further consideration of the petition and recommendation in favor of Peter Cleare, of Chester county, praying remission of the fine and punishment at hard labour, to which he was sentenced by a Court of General Quarter Sessions, held in said county in August, 1788, upon being convicted of horse stealing,
Resolved, That the said Peter Cleare be, and he is hereby par- doned.
The several fines of ten pounds and two pounds ten shillings, due to the Commonwealth, which were imposed upon Joseph Mc- Gaghan, by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of Chester county, held in May last, upon his being convicted of assault and battery upon two indictments, were remitted, agreeably to the prayer of his petition and a recommendation accompanying the same.
Upon application of Colonel Francis Mentges,
Resolved, That during the time he acted as Inspector of the militia of this State, he executed the several duties of the said office to the satisfaction of the Board.
A certificate from the Deputy Prothonotary of the Suprme Court, that Mr. Robert Smith, of the city of Philadelphia, merchant, hath entered into a recognizance in the sum of fifty pounds, conditioned that William Turnbull shall prosecute with effect, an appeal from the settlement of his account by the Comptroller General, agreea- bly to act of Assembly dated the eighteenth of February, 1785, was read, and an order taken that the appeal of the said William Turnbull be allowed.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, June 11th, 1789. PRESENT !
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.
Samuel Miles, Zebulun Potts,
James Read, John Smilie,
Amos Gregg, John Baird,
Esquires.
Richard Willing,
Samuel Edie, and
Christopher Kucher, David Redick,
A petition from the faculty of the University, stating that the University is now to be kept in the Philosophical Hall near the State House, and that as there is no bell belonging to that build- ing, praying to have the priviledge of ringing the bell of the State House at eight o'clock in the morning during the summer season, and at nine in the winter, and at two of the clock in the afternoon of both, for the purpose of giving notice to the students of the regular and prescribed time of attendance on their studies in that institution, was read ; and thereupon, it was
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