In Council. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, February the 16, 1782. The Council resumed the consideration of the Philadelphia, county election; and Mr. Ingersoll, counsel in behalf of the said election, proceeded in his arguments, and spoke from ten till two o'clock; and then The Council adjourned till three o'clock in the afternoon. The Council met pursuant to adjournment, 3 o'clock, Saturday, P. M., February 16, 1782. As in the morning. PRESENT: Mr. Ingersoll, counsel in behalf of the Philadelphia county election, continued and closed his arguments in support of the said election about half past five o'clock. Mr. Sergeant, the colleague, then prayed the Council to postpone the further hearing till ten o'clock on Monday morning; thereupon, Ordered, That the further hearing in the case of the Philadelphia county election be postponed accordingly, till ten o'clock on Monday morning. An order was drawn on the Treasurer in favor of Colonel Clement Biddle, Quarter Master General of the militia of this State, for the sum of three hundred and sixty pounds, for paying for sail duck for making tents for the militia, for which the said Quarter Master General is to account. The Council resumed the consideration of the Philadelphia county election; and thereupon, Mr. Sergeant, counsel in behalf of the said election, next spoke, (from half past ten till three o'clock,) and then the further hearing was postponed till Wednesday at three o'clock, P. M. On consideration, Ordered, That the Honorable John Piper, Esquire, Bernard Dougherty, George Ashman, James Martin, and Hugh Davison, Esquires, of the county of Bedford, be appointed and commissioned to try and determine, according to the laws and customs of this Commonwealth [Blank in Council book.*] now confined in the gaol of the county of Bedford, charged with having Note to the Printer. [Blank in Council book.*] In Council. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, February 19, 1782. PRESENT: His Excellency the President. The Honorable the Vice President. (now first returned from his family.) Mr. Ewing, Mr. Van Campen, Mr. Piper, and An order was drawn on the 'l'reasurer in favor of Colonel Richard Hampton, for the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds specie, for the purpose of recruiting the Pennsylvania line, for which he is to account. Mr. Wynkoop and Mr. Culbertson, a committee of the Honora ble House of Assembly, attended and informed the Council that the House was now met and ready to receive any business the Council may have to lay before them: Whereupon, General Ewing and Mr. Van Campen laid before the House the several papers relative to public business, which have come to hand during the recess of the House, which are as follow, vizt: A letter from the President of Congress of the 6th, and resolutions of Congress of the 2d & 3d January, 1782, respecting seizure and condemnation of British manufactures, and makeing up depreciation to Doctors Glentworth, Smith, Fallon, Duffield, and Halling. Letter from ditto and resolutions of Congress of the 11th, ascertaining what captures on water shall be lawful. Letter from the Honorable Robert Morris, Esquire, of the 3rd January, 1782, on the subject of revenue, especially on the 5 per cent. impost recommended by Congress. Ditto, of the 8th, inclosing ordinance of Congress of the 31st of December last, incorporating the subscribers to the bank, and copies of resolutions of Congress of the 26th and 31st of December last, relative to the said bank. Letter from Matthew Clarkson, Assistant to the Secretary at War, inclosing resolutions of Congress of the 21st of December last, for appointing one or more places of rendezvous in each State for recruits until they shall join the army. Letter from his Excellency General Washington of the twentysecond day of January, 1782, on the subject of supplies for the year 1782. Letter from the President of Congress of the twenty-seventh of January, 1782, and resolutions of Congress of the twenty-fifth, respecting shipwrecked property and establishing a speedy mode of administering justice between the subjects of his most Christian Majesty and the citizens of these States. Letters from the Honorable Robert Morris, Esquire, of the thirteenth of February instant, on the subject of supplies for the year 1782. And also a letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, requesting returns from the several States of the property destroyed by the enemy. An order was drawn on the Treasurer in favor of Mr. Peter Dehaven, for the sum of five pounds five shillings, for his services in finding out and making returns of public lots possessed by private persons. A deed was examined and signed by his Excellency William Moore, Esquire, President, to William Bailey, of Yorktown, conveying a two story messuage and lot of ground, situate in the town of Lebanon, in the county of Lancaster: Seized as the estate late of Nicholas Houssecker, an attainted traitor, and sold agreeably to law, to the said William Bailey, for the sum of two thousand two hundred pounds certificates of depreciation, subject to one-fourth of the said sum to be reduced to a yearly ground rent, payable to the Trustees of the University of this State, the remaining threefourths being paid to the Agents of Coufiscated Estates in Lancaster county aforesaid. Deed dated this day. An order was drawn on the Treasurer in favor of Doctor Joseph Eaker, for the sum of twenty pounds specie, in part for his services in attending Captain Robinson's company of Rangers as a physi cian and supplying them with medicine, for which he is to account. A like order, in favor of his Excellency the President, for one hundred pounds specie, in part of his salary, for which he is to account. A letter from Thomas Willing, Esquire, dated Philadelphia, the 9th of February instant, inclosing a petition stiled "The petition of the President, Directors, and company of the Bank of North America," to the Honorable the Representatives of the Freemen of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met," the said letter requesting the said petition may be laid before the General Assembly; and On consideration, deferred for further consideration till to morrow. The Council adjourned till three o'clock in the afternoon. The Council met. 3 o'clock P. M., Wednesday, February 20, 1782. PRESENT: As in the morning, except Mr. Bayard. The Council resumed the copsideration of the Philadelphia county election; and thereupon, Jacob Rush, Esquire, for the petitioners against the said election, took up the argument in support of said petition, and spoke from half-past three till eight o'clock, and then The Council adjourned till ten o'clock to-morrow morning. In Council. PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, February 21, 1782. As yesterday. PRESENT: The Council resumed the consideration of the letter from Thomas Willing, Esquire; & thereupon, Ordered, That it be transmitted to the Speaker of the General Assembly, together with the said petition. A petition from Martha Todd, praying a pass to Elizabethtown and to return, was read. Ordered, That the same be granted. The Council resumed the consideration of the Philadelphia county election; and thereupon, Mr. Lewis closed the arguments in support of the petition against the said election: then the Council postponed the further consideration of the said election till the 26th of February, 1782. The following orders were drawn on the Treasurer in favor of the following persons, vizt: In favor of Colonel Jacob Morgan, late Superintendant of the Commissioners of Purchases, for the sum of one hundred and sixtynine pounds nineteen shillings and eight pence specie, for paying for supplies purchased for the use of the army, for which he is to account. In favor of the Honorable Joseph Montgomery, for one hundred and thirty eight pounds specie, in full for his pay as a member of Congress for this State to the twenty-first instant. In favor of Henry Taylor, Esquire, for the sum of twelve pounds ten shillings specie, to be by him paid to Andrew Hood, as a reward for taking an Indian scalp in the county of Westmoreland, agreeably to Proclamation of this Board. |