A letter from Charles Thomson, Esquire, informing that Elias Boudinott, Esquire, was on the fourth

dent of Congress, was read, and

Ordered, To be filed.

On application,

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An order was drawn on the Treasurer in favor of Captain Joseph Stiles, Commissary of Military Stores, for the sum of one hundred pounds, specie, for repairing arms for the State, for which he is to account.

On application, and a pass from head quarters being produced, Ordered, That a pass to Maryland be granted to William Bay.

A committee of the Council and a committee of the General Assembly having conferred together,

Agreed, That the etiquette of the election, and proclamation of the President and Vice President, be in the form of last year, except only that the procession return to the State House instead of going to the City Tavern; that the bells be rung; and that thirteen cannon be fired on the proclamation being read.

Ordered, That the City Lieutenant do call out a proper number of the Artillery Militia, to conduct the Artillery on the day of the election of a President and Vice President; and that orders be given to fire thirteen cannon in the State House yard immediately after the proclamation.

Ordered, That the Secretary direct the bells to be rung im mediately after the proclamation of the President shall have been read.

Ordered, That the agents of the State, in the case of the Connecticut claims, and the Solicitor, be requested to attend in the Council Chamber, on Friday next at eleven o'clock, for the purpose of a free conference on that subject, more especially respecting the state of the evidence collected thereupon.

A return of Justices for the district of West Nantmell and East Caln, in the county of Chester, was now received and read, by which it appears that John Culbertson and James Moore, Esquires, were duly elected.

On consideration,

Ordered, That James Moore, Esquire, be appointed a Justice of the Peace for the county of Chester, and that he be commissioned accordingly.

A pass was granted to Mary Thomson to go to New York, not to return again.

A pass was granted to Daniel Buckwater and Christian Marie, to go to Boston and Salem, in the State of Massachusetts, and to

A pass was granted to Catharine Jones to go to Dobbs' Ferry, on the North river, and to return.

The Clerk of the Honorable House of General Assembly attended in Council and informed the Council that the House of Assembly is now ready to proceed to the election of a President and Vice President. Thereupon,

Ordered, That the Secretary of the Council do attend the House and inform them that the Council is now ready to meet the General Assembly in the Assembly room, and to proceed to the election of a President and Vice President of the Council.

The Honorable the Vice President and the members of the Council met the General Assembly in the Assembly room; and thereupon,

The Secretary of the Council and the Clerk of the House proceeded to take the votes for President.

And the votes were as follow, vizt:

For John Dickinson, Esquire, forty-one.
For James Potter, Esquire, thirty-two.

The Council and General Assembly then proceeded to the choice of a Vice President, and the votes being taken were as follow, vizt:

For James Ewing, Esquire, thirty-nine.
For James Potter, Esquire, thirty-four.

And thereupon,

It was declared that JOHN DICKINSON, Esquire, was then duly elected to be President, and JAMES EWING, Esquire, was then duly elected Vice President.

And the following declaration of the said election being read, was signed by his Excellency John Dickinson, Esquire, President, the Honorable James Ewing, Esquire, Vice President, and the other members of the Council then present, and the same was signed by the Honorable Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Esquire,, Speaker of the General Assembly, and by the members of the General Assembly then present, vizt:

To all People to whom these presents shall come, or may concern, the General Assembly and Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania send greeting:

Know ye that we, the Representatives of the freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, in the State House at Philadelphia, together with the members of the Supreme Executive Council of the said Commonwealth, in the same place convened, to elect a President and Vice President of the said Council, have, agreeable to the direction of the nineteenth section of the Constitution of the said Commonwealth, duly and fairly elected and chosen by ballot his Excellency John Dickinson, Esquire, President, and the Honorable James Ewing, Esquire, Vice President of the said Supreme Executive Council; and to the end that due regard and obedience may be paid to them in the execution of their respective offices on all occasions, we do hereby make known and declare, that the said John Dickinson is the Presi dent, and James Ewing is the Vice President of the said Supreme Executive Council.

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, the seventh day of November, in the seventh year of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two.

And the said John Dickinson, Esquire, is hereby proclaimed to be Captain General and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Signed,

John Steinmetz,

Samuel Meredith,

Sharp Delany,

Matthew Holegate,

George Gray,
Isaac Gray,
Thomas Rees,
Henry Hill,
Samuel Penrose,
James Morris,
Samuel Ashmead,
Jacob Rush,
Thomas Long,
James Tate,

Joseph Thomas,
Percifor Frazier,
Thomas Strawbridge,

Robert McPherson,
Moses McClean,
Michael Schmyser,
Michael Hahn,
Patrick Scott,
Thomas Lilley,
Stephen Duncan,
William Brown,
John Carothers,
James McLene,
James Johnston,

David Thomas,

Benjamin Brannon,
John Lindsay,
James Boyd,

Evan Evans,

Joseph Montgomery,
Christopher Kucher,
John Whitehill,
Samuel J. Atlee,
Abraham Scott,
James Jacks,
John Craig,
Matthias Slough,
William Brown,
James Mercer,

John Hay,

Joseph Magoffin,

Christian Lower,

Abraham Lincoln,

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John Patton,

Jonas Hartzell,

Jacob Arndt,

Jacob Stroud,

Robert Lattimore,
Charles Cessna,
William Montgomery,
William Cook,

William Maclay,

Nehemiah Stokely,

Jonathan Hoge,

Patrick Maxwell,
Daniel Clymer,

John Carnahan,

Members of the General Assembly.

Agreed, unanimously, that the said declaration of the election of the President and Vice President of the said Supreme Executive Council be publicly read at the Court House in the city of Philadelphia by the Secretary of the Council; and that the Secretary of the Council do then proclaim the President in the following words, viz :

And the said JOHN DICKINSON, Esquire, is hereby proclaimed to be the President of the said Supreme Executive Council, Captain General and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Agreed, that the order of the procession to the Court House be as follows, vizt:

Constables with their staves.
Sub-Sheriffs with their wands.
High Sheriff with his wand.

Coroner with his wand.

Judges of the Supreme Court.

Prothonotary of the Supreme Court.

Judge, Register, & Marshal of the Admiralty.
Naval officer.

Treasurer and Attorney General of the State.

Secretary of the Land office, Receiver & Surveyor General of the State.

Justices of the Peace.

Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, & Clerk of the Court of Quarter Session.

Clerk of the City Court.

Master of the Rolls and Escheator General.
Secretary of the Council.

His Excellency the President & the Hon'ble the Vice Presi dent.

Members of the Council, two and two.
Doorkeeper of the Council.

Sergeant-at-Arms with the mace.

The Honorable the Speaker of the General Assembly.
Clerk of the House.

Members of the General Assembly, two & two.

Doorkeeper of the General Assembly.

Provost and Faculty of the University.
General and Field officers of the militia.
Citizens.

The Secretary reports, that the declaration of the President was read at the Court House, and the President proclaimed according to the order of the Council.

His Excellency John Dickinson, Esquire, President, in consequence of his election to that office, now took the oath of allegiance and oath of office required by the Constitution of the State. And the Honorable James Ewing, Esquire, Vice President, elected to that office at the same time, took the oath of allegiance and oath of office required by the Constitution as aforesaid.