upon his account for repairing the public arms belonging to the said city and county, for which sum he is to account. On motion, Ordered, That the fine of ten pounds which was adjudged by the last Supreme Court, to be paid to the use of the State by Colonel Eleazer Oswald, be remitted. The fine of three pounds imposed upon Nicholas Rummel, by the last Court of General Quarter Sessions held in Philadelphia county, was also remitted upon his petition and a recommendation in his favor. A letter from the Honorable the Delegates of Pennsylvania, dated the eleventh instant, acknowledging the receipt of Council's letter of the sixth instant, and informing Council that they will take the earliest opportunity to communicate the contents thereof to Congress, was read. The Council met (at the President's house.) The express who carried the dispatches from Council of the fifth instant, to Colonel Pickering, in Luzerne county, now returned with a letter from him dated August the ninth, inclosing the deposition of Garret Smith, relative to the late outrages, and informing Council that although the whole county is at present in peace, (all the insurgents who have not surrendered themselves or been taken having fled into the neighboring States,) yet it is his opinion that in order to establish the peace of the county of Luzerne, it is necessary to fix a military post at Tioga. Upon application of John White, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor, for the sum of eighteen pounds, in full for his services as an express employed in carrying public dispatches to the county of Luzerne and returning to this city. Upon consideration of a petition from a number of freeholders of the county of Lancaster, in favor of Henry Ream, and a recommendation of him from the Justices of the said county, Ordered, That the said Henry Ream be appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Lancaster. Petitions from a considerable number of the citizens of Philadelphia, and inhabitants of the county of Bucks, in favor of Abraham Doan, and Levi Doan, now confined in the jail of this city under sentence of death, were laid before Council and read; and on consideration, it was Ordered, That the said Abraham and Levi Doan, be respited until the end of four weeks from this date, anything contained in the warrant from this Board of the sixth instant to the contrary notwithstanding. A letter from Charles Thomson, Esquire, Secretary of Congress, inclosing an act of Congress of the twelfth instant, requesting the Executives of the State of Virginia and Pennsylvania, to hold in readiness the militia of their respective frontiers, for acting in conjunction with the Foederal troops in protecting and defending the frontiers against Indian hostilities, whenever the Governor of the Western Territory shall think necessary to request such aid, the number to be employed not to exceed one thousand for Virginia and five hundred for Pennsylvania. Council Chamber. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, August 21st, 1788. PRESENT: The Honorable William Maclay, James Read, and Esquires. John Reynolds, Gaoler, representing to Council that a certain Benjamin Hall, a free negro, undertook to execute the Doans, and that he is in danger of his life if he remains in jail. Ordered, That the fine and punishment to hard labour of the said Benjamin Hall, be remitted. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of the Honorable James Read, Esquire, for sixty-five pounds five shillings, in full for his attendance in Council from May the twenty-eighth, until August the twenty-second, 1788, inclusively. In favor of the Honorable Samuel Dean, Esquire, for twenty-six pounds five shillings, in full for his attendance in Council from the twentieth day of July, untill the twenty-second day of August, 1788, inclusively, and his mileage. In favor of George Weicher, for seventy-four pounds, in full for principal and interest due upon a certificate which was granted to Michael Musslemen, for a hosre furnished by him for public service in the year 1780, according to the Comptroller General's report. In favor of Samuel Fisher, for four pounds five shillings, in full of his account for riding express to Easton with public dispatches and returning to this city. A letter from the Honorable Francis Hopkinson, Esquire, Judge of the Court of Admiralty, inclosing a warrant of survey lately is. sued by Phineas Bond, Esquire, British Consul, for ascertaining the damage sustained at sea by the brigantine Adventure, on a voyage' from Barbadoes, and stating as his opinion that the said Phineas Bond, by issuing such warrant hath exceeded his powers as British Consul, and that as this transaction seems to touch the sovereign rights of this State, therefore submitting the same to the consideration of Council, was read, and on consideration an order taken that the said letters and inclosures be referred to the Honorable the Judges of the Supreme Court and the Attorney General, for their opinion thereon. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of the Honorable John Cannon, for fifty-two pounds fifteen shillings, in in full for his attendance in Council untill the twenty-third of August, 1788, and his mileage. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Colonel James Marshall, Lieutenant of Washington county, for seventyseven pounds eighteen shillings and four pence, payable out of the monies arising from militia fines, being in full of two several accounts for militia services on the frontier of said county, in September and October, 1787, and in March, April and May, 1788, according to the Comptroller General's report. An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of James Chambers and William Marshall, for fifty pounds nineteen shillings and seven pence, payable out of the militia fines of the county of Washington, in full of their account for repairing the public arms belonging to the said county, according to the Comptroller General's report. An order was also drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of John ́and George Rowan, for sixteen shillings and ten pence, in full öf their account for some repairs done to the artillery of this city, according to the Comptroller General's report, this sum payable out of the militia fines of the city and liberties of Philadelphia. VOL. XV.-34. On motion, Resolved, That the letter from General St. Clair, dated at Fort Harmar, July the twenty-fourth, 1788, and the act of Congress dated the twelfth instant, for holding in readiness the militia on the frontiers of this State, and that of Virginia, to act in conjunction with the Foederal troops, in protecting and defending the western frontiers when it shall become necessary (which were received and read on the twentieth instant,) be transmitted to the General Assembly at their next meeting. A petition from John M. Taylor, in behalf of Mrs. Mary Meredith, praying that a patent may be granted to her for the lots numbered 2124 and 2125, purchased by Mr. John Hood in October, 1787, and that Davis Bevan's Caveat, which was entered against granting such patent may be now dismissed, was read, and on examination of the several papers produced, it appearing that Mr. Bevan is in possion of his full quantity of ground mentioned in his patent, and that his Caveat is not supported; therefore, Resolved, That the same be dismissed, and that a patent issue to Mrs. Mary Meredith, for the lots so purchased by John Hood, whose right is vested in said Mary Meredith. To-morrow was appointed for going into the consideration of the several return of Justices now before the Board. The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of Messieurs Kline and Reynolds, for six pounds two shillings and six pence, in full of their account for advertizing for six months in the Carlisle Gazette, the drawing of a lottery for the distribution of the donation lands, and for advertizing in the same Gazette for thirteen weeks, the resolution of Council for receiving proposals to clear the Conemaugh road, according to the Comptroller General's report. In favor of Daniel Humphreys, for five pounds one shilling and three pence, in full of his account for advertizing extracts from the acts of Assembly dated the sixteenth day of March, 1785, and twenty-fifth of March, 1786, and also public accounts and the time |