Several of the members present agreed to meet at the President's house in the afternoon. The Council met the same day, P. M., at the President's house. PRESENT: His Excellency BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Esquire, President. The Hon'ble John Smilie, John Baird, David Redick, and } Esquires. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable George Ross, Esquire, for fifty pounds, to be paid by him agreeably to Act of Assembly, dated this day to the person or persons who was or were concerned in apprehending and securing a certain George Sinclaire, who hath been out-lawed. Resolved, That to-morrow Council will meet at the President's house, to take into consideration the Act of Assembly, to establish a Board of Wardens for the Port of Philadelphia, and for other pur poses therein mentioned, dated the fourth instant, so far as relates to the appointment of said Wardens. Mr. Woods was appointed a member of the Board of Property. The Council met. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, October 7th, 1788, at the President's House. PRESENT: His Excellency BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice President. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable George Ross, Esquire, for the sum of seventy-five pounds, in full for his attendance in Council from the ninth of July, until the sixteenth of October, 1788, inclusively. A letter was written to the Honorable the Delegates of this State, requesting them to make application to Congress for a prolongation of the time allowed the Commissioners for examining and settling the accounts of this State with the United States, in which letter was inclosed a copy of a resolution of the General Assembly, dated the fourth instant, authorizing such application, Agreeably to the Minute of yesterday, Council took into consideration the Act of General Assembly, passed the fourth instant, eutituled "An Act to establish a Board of Wardens for the Port of Philadelphia, and for other purposes therein mentioned;" And on motion, it was Resolved, That Samuel Caldwell, Esquire, be re-appointed Col lector of Tonnage. The Board then proceeded to the appointment of Wardens under the before mentioned Act of Assembly, and the ballots being taken for the several candidates, it appeared that the Gentlemen here after named were duly elected, vizt: John Maxwell Nesbitt, James Craig, junior, William Allibone, Nathaniel Falconer, Robert Paisley, Francis Gurney and Philip Benezet. The petition of John Glen, for a remission of the militia fincs imposed on him from the first of November, 1777, to the first of May, 1781, and sundry certificates proving that during that time he was employed by Colonel Benjamin Flower as contractor for lumber, &ca., for the United States, being read, Ordered, That the said John Glen's militia fines from the first of November, 1777, until the first of May, 1781, be remitted. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable William Augustus Atlee, Esquire, for one hundred and fi ty pounds, being one quarter's salary as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, ending the twenty-fifth of September last, according to the Comptroller General's report. In favor of the Honorable Samuel Dean, Esquire, for fourteen pounds five shillings, in full for his attendance in Council from the twenty-second of September until the ninth of October, 1788, inclusively, and his mileage. A petition from divers inhabitants, freeholders of the district of the townships of Colebrookdale, Earl, and Oley, in the county of Berks, complaining of irregular proceedings at the last election of 'Justices of the Peace held in the said district, and praying that an inquiry may be made according to law, and if it shall appear that the said election was illegally conducted, that the same may be set aside and a new election ordered, was read. And the question, "Shall the prayer of the petition aforesaid be granted, and an enquiry ordered," being put, it was determined in the negative, vizt: Colonel Isaac Meleher represented to Council, that seven patents from the Commonwealth, granted him for lands within this State, have been so defaced by fire as to be rendered useless, and request ed that the great seal may be affixed to the like number of copies, and that the same may be signed by the President; it was thereupon, Resolved, That Mr. Melcher's request be granted, upon his producing a certificate from the Master of the Rolls that the said copies have been by him carefully compared with the record, and found to agree therewith. Resolved, That George Wallace, Esquire, be appointed President of the Courts of Common Pleas and General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery, and of the Orphans' Court, of the county of Allegany. Ordered, That to-morrow be appointed for the consideration of the case of the children of Captain William Shippen, relative to their pension, and that the Attorney General be requested to attend Council at ten o'clock, upon the said business. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable William Augustus Atlee, Esquire, for twenty-five pounds; and in favor of the Honorable George Bryan, Esquire, for the same sum, for the purpose of defraying their expences as Judges of the Supreme Court and of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery of this State on the ensuing circuit, for which several sums they are to account. In favor of Andrew Ellicott, Esquire, for forty-four pounds, to reimburse him for two horses lost when in the employ of the State, in the business of running and marking the northern boundary of Pennsylvania, according to the Comptroller General's report. In favor of Benjamin Ellicott, for one pound five shillings, in full of his account for making a map of the new acquired territory on Lake Erie, for the purpose of information to the Commissioners appointed to purchase the claim of the natives to the said territory, according to the Comptroller General's report. In favor of Valentine Hoffman, for six pounds twelve shillings, for bushing one cannon belonging to the State and for bringing the same to Philadelphia, according to the Comptroller General's report, to be paid out of the monies arising from militia fines in the city and liberties of Philadelphia. Upon consideration of the petition of Henry Grim, and a recommendation from the Collector of Excise and two of the Justices of the Peace of the city and county of Philadelphia, Ordered, That the moiety of the forfeiture of eighty-one gallons of rum, which belongs to the Commonwealth, incurred by him for neglecting to enter the same in due time with the said Collector of Excise, be remitted. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of John Nicholson, Esquire, for fifty pounds, being one-quarter's salary due to his Clerk on the tenth instant, according to the Comptroller General's report, and an act of Assembly dated the fourth day of April, |