in New Jersey, he will use every exertion in his power and consistant with law to have them apprehended and brought to Justice, was received and read."

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable Samuel Dean, Esquire, for twenty-eight pounds ten shillings, in full of his attendance in Council, from the eighth of June last, untill this day incinded.

Upon consideration of the report of the persons appointed to view the road called Jones's lane, and the information contained in a letter from Richard Peters, Esquire,

Resolved, That the said Richard Peters and John Curwen be authorized and requested to have the new ground on which it is proposed to make the said road surveyed, and report to Council a draft thereof with the courses and distances, noting how far the road if made on the new ground will differ from the course of the old road.

Petitions from a number of citizens in favor of Colonel Eleazer Oswald, stating his confinement in the jail of this city in pursuance of the sentence of the Supreme Court, and praying Council to pardon him, were read, and the consideration thereof postponed until Monday next.

And it was,

Ordered, That the Secretary in the mean time request Mr. Burd to furnish Council with a copy of the proceedings of the Supreme Court, in the case of Colonel Oswald.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, July 21st, 1788.

PRESENT:

The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice President.

Three orders were drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Edward Burd, Esquire, Prothonotary of the Supreme Court, for three several sums making in the whole the sum of forty-two pounds and eleven pence, being the travelling expences of the Judges of the Supreme Court, the Prothonotary, Attorney General and their servants on the circuit to Lancaster, Louisburgh, Cumberland, Franklin and York, and returning to Philadelphia; and for Mr. Atlee's expences to Philadelphia and returning.

The proceedings of the Supreme Court in the case of Colonel Eleazer Oswald, were laid before Council and read, together with the petitions in his favor, the consideration whereof was postponed until this day; whereupon, it was moved by Mr. Dean, seconded by Mr. Smith, "That Council proceed to remit the fine and imprisonment of Mr. Oswald."

The previous question, to wit: "Shall the main question be now put? t?" was then called for by Mr. Ross, secouded by Mr. Kucher, and being put, was determined in the negative.

Upon which the yeas and nays were called, and were as follows, vizt:

The Honorable Mr. Redick having now returned from the States of New York and New Jersey, laid before Council Governor Clin

ton's proclamation, accompanied by a General Warrant from the Chief Justice of the State of New York, for apprehending and securing the rioters of Luzerne county, should they pass into that State, and he reported to the Board, that upon a conference with Governors Clinton and Livingston, they appeared to be fully disposed to afford to the Government of this State, every necessary aid and assistance in bringing the rioters to justice, whenever they should receive intelligence of their being within either of their governments.

On motion,

Resolved, That the Vice President be requested to write to the Delegates of this State, requesting them to make direct application to Congress, to permit the Continental troops, now preparing to march to the westward, to be employed for a limitted time against the Wioming insurgents, and to inform them that if such application should meet the approbation of Congress, proper steps will be taken to supply the said troops with all necessaries during their stay at Easton, on their march from thence, and while employed by the State.

Ordered, That the Secretary request Clement Biddle, Esquire, Quarter Master of the militia, to attend Council to-morrow, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to give the Board some information respecting the supply of the said troops.

A letter from Charles Thomson, Esquire, Secretary of Congress, dated July the seventeenth, inclosing a supplement to the ordinance of Congress, ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory,, which was passed by Congress the ninth of the same month, was received and read.

On motion,

Resolved, That to-morrow Council will go into the appointment of Surgeon and Surgeon's Mate, to the troops commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Harmar.

A letter from a number of freeholders in the county of Franklin, setting forth that they labour under great inconvenience from

the want of a Justice of the Peace in the town of Green Castle, in said county, and praying that the said town may be erected into a separate district, for the purpose of electing Justices of the Peace, was read, together with a certificate from the Justices of the Peace of the said county, that the said district is necessary, and will be usefull; thereupon,

Resolved, That the prayer of the petition be granted.

A letter from his Excellency George Clinton, Governor of the State of New York, dated the eighteenth instant, acknowledging the receipt of Council's letters of the second and eleventh of this month, and informing Council, that having conferred with Mr. Redick on the subject of the said letters, he has directed such measures to be taken on the part of that State as he has reason to hope will prove satisfactory and efficient, was received and read. On motion,

Resolved, That the petitions of Abraham Doan and Levi Doan, now confined in the jail of this city, under sentence of death, upon an outlawry, be transmitted to the Honorable the Judges of the Supreme Court, and that they be requested to inform Council whether any favorable circumstances appeared to them in the case of the petitioners in the course of the proceedings against them by the Court.

Clement Biddle, Esquire, attended Council, agreeably to notice.

Wednesday next was appointed for going into the consideration of the business relative to the sale of the reserved tract of land opposite Pittsburgh.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, July 24th, 1788.

PRESENT:

The Honorable PETER MUHLENBERG, Esquire, Vice Pre

sident.

Samuel Dean,

Henry Hill,

Abraham Smith,

Upon the petition of James

John Cannon,

David Redick, and Esquires.
Christopher Kucher,

Baird, of Cumberland county, and a recommendation from divers inhabitants of the borough of Carlisle in his favor,

Ordered, That the fine payable to the use of the State, which was imposed upon him by the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the county of Cumberland, upon being convicted of fornication and bastardy, be remitted.

The fine due to the State which was imposed upon Anne Shearer by the last Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail delivery, held in Dauphine county, was also remitted upon her petition.

Agreeably to the minute of yesterday, Council proceeded to the appointment of a Surgeon and Surgeon's mate, to the troops commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Harmar, and the ballots being taken, it appeared that Richard Allison was duly elected Surgeon and John F. Carmichael Surgeon's Mate.

An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable David Redick, Esquire, for sixteen pounds fifteen shillings and one pence, in full of his account, for his expences on a journey to Poughkeepsie by the way of New Jersey and New York, on the business of the State, undertaken at the request of Council.

A letter from the Honorable Edmund Pendleton, Esquire, of the State of Virginia, inclosing the ratification of the constitution proposed for the Government of the United States, by a convention of that State, and a copy of the amendments which the said convention wish to take place therein, was received and read.

The Attorney General informed Council that James McLaughlin now confined in the jail of this county, has been convicted of Jarceny upon three indictments, and that the pardon granted by