and examined the said returns, and enumerated and ascertained the number of votes for each and every candidate, do hereby make known and declare that Frederick Agustus Muhlenberg, Henry Wynkoop, Thomas Hartly, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzimmons, Thomas Scott, Peter Muhlenberg and Daniel Heister are according to the said returns, highest in votes of the electors throughout this State, and in consequence are duly elected and chosen as representatives of and for this State in the Congress of the United States.

Given in Council under the hand of his Excellency Thomas Mifflin, Esquire, President, and the seal of the State at Philadel phia, this fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.

Attest-CHARLES BIDDLE, Sec'ry.

THOMAS MIFFLIN.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, January 6th, 1789.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.

'The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President.

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Samuel Miles,

John Cannon,

Abraham Smith,

Christopher Kucher,
Zebulun Potts, and
Richard Willing,

Esquires.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt: In favor of Thomas Bradford, for twelve pounds six shillings, in full of his account for six copies of the Pennsylvania Journal, on each day of publication, from January the first until December

31st, 1788, furnished for the use of Council, and for several single papers at different times.

In favor of Henry Bush, Sub-Sheriff of Northampton county, for eighteen pounds, in full of his account for his services and expences in removing John Franklin, a State prisoner, from the jal of the said county, to that of the city and county of Philadelphia, according to the Comptroller General's report.

In favor of Doctor James Hutchinson, for seven pounds five shillings and three pence, in full of his account for medicine and attendance upon John Franklin, in the jail of the city and county of Philadelphia, from July the twenty-fourth until August the fifth, 1788; and for the sum of thirty-five pounds five shillings and six pence, in full of his account for medicine and attendance upon the corps of Invalids from December the sixth, 1787, until the twentysixth of November, 1788, according to the Comptroller General's report.

In favor of the Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, for sixty-eight pounds one shilling and four pouce, being one year and nine months' pension due to David Grady; and one year twelve weeks and four days' pension due to Dennis Ford, and for the faneral charges of the latter, according to the Comptroller General's report.

Upon consideration of a letter from the Honorable Edward Shippen, relative to a suit now depending in the Supreme Court, for the recovery of a debt due upon a mortgage against the estate which was forfeited to the Commonwealth by the attainder of Beuedict Arnold, situate in the county of Philadelphia, and which was sold by the Agents of the said county for the term of his natural life;

Resolved, That the Attorney General be requested to appear in behalf of the State and use his best judgment in the case.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Friday, January 9th, 1789.

PRESENT:

His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, President. The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President

Agreeably to the Comptroller General's report an order was drawn

upon the Treasurer in favor of Captain James McLean, for fifteen

pounds five shillings and six pence, in full of his account for his subsistence as commandant of the Invalid corps, and for house rent due to him until the twenty-fourth day of December last, when General Nichola took command of the said corps.

A certificate of the division of Letterkenny township, in the county of Franklin, for a more convenient election of Justices of the Peace from the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the said county, which was received and read on the twentysixth of August last, was again read; and on consideration, Resolved, That the said division be confirmed.

On motion,

Resolved, That the Vice President be added to the committee appointed the third of December last, to take into consideration the account of William Hamilton, and report to Council thereon.

A letter was written by the President to General Knox, Secretary at War, in answer to his letter of the twenty-ninth of December, on the subject of calling out the militia of the Western Frontiers of this State, under a resolution of Congress of August

the twelfth last.

A letter was written by the Secretary of this Board to the Secretary of Congress inclosing the proclamation issued by Council on the fifth instant, declaring the eight persons highest in votes as Representatives of this State in the Congress of the United States, and also the returns received from the city and several counties of the elections of the said Representatives.

A petition from Eve Wittington, of Berks county, praying payment of an account of expences of certain State prisoners who were sent to Virginia by the way of Reading, in the year 1777, was read and referred to the Comptroller General to report thereon.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, January 10th, 1789.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt:

In favor of the Honorable Christopher Kucher, Esquire, for twenty-nine pounds five shillings, in full for his attendance as Councillor from the second of December, 1788, till January the tenth, 1789, inslusive.

In favor of Sebastian Gitz, for eleven pounds five shillings, payable out of the monies arising from militia fines in the county of Montgomery, being in part of his account for five quarters casks of gunpowder furnished by him for the use of the militia of the said county.

On motion,

Resolved, That the account of Colonel Andrew Porter against the State, for the value of a horse which died in the service of the commissioners who were, employed in running and marking the northern boundary, and for some expences of a trial at law between Colonel Porter and the owner of said horse, be referred to Colonel Willing and General Watt to report thereon.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, January 12th, 1789.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice Peesident.

Agreeably to the Comptroller General's report, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Daniel Humphreys, for ten pounds one shilling and eleven pence, in full of his account for six copies of the Pennsylvania Mercury furnished for the the use of Council on each day of publication, for one year, ending December the thirty-first, 1788, and for publishing in the said newspapers several proclamations and other proceedings of Council.

Upon the recommendation of the Honorable Robert Traill,

Ordered, That Enoch Beer and Jacob Abel, Esquires, two of the Justices of the Peace of Northampton county, be appointed and commissionated Justices of the Court of Common Pleas of the said county.

The Council met.

PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, January 13th, 1789.

PRESENT:

The Honorable GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Vice President.

Agreeably to the Comptroller General's report, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor for the sum of fifty pounds, being one quarter's salary due to his clerk on the tenth instant, according to act of Assembly dated the fourth day of April, 1785.

Upon consideration of the account for pension presented to Council by Eve Wittington, with the Comptroller General's report thercon.

Resolved, That the party applying be referred to the Justices of the Supreme Court for their revision of the proceedings of the Orphans' Court of Berks county, agreeably to an act intituled "An Act to alter and amend an act for the relief of officers, soldiers, and seamen, who, in the course of the late war, have been wounded, or otherwise disabled in the services of this State or of the United States," passed the tenth day of March, 1787, and that an order shall issue for any money, in pursuance of the proceedings of Orphans' Court aforesaid, granting to her the said pension, until a dicision of the said Supreme Court, and the Comptroller General's report thereon be obtained.

Agreeably to the Comptroller General's report, an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Mrs. Jane Roseborough, for the sum of three hundred and thirty six pounds two shillings and six, payable out of the monies arising from militia fines in the county of Northampton, being the ballance of the half-pay awarded to her by the Orphans' Court of said county, (in right of her husband, the Reverend John Roseborough, deceased, late Chaplain of Militia,) according to act of Assembly of the twentieth of March, 1780.