JOURNAL

HEOF T GENERAL A SSEMBLY

OF SOUTH C AROLINA

March 2 6, 1776-ApriI II, 1776

Editedy b A.. S SALLEY, JR. Secretary of the Historical Commission of South Carolina

Printed f or THE H ISTORICAL COMMISSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA By T he State Company, Columbia, S. C. 1906 INHE T GENERAL OF— ASSEMBLY—

SOUTH-CAROLINA. TUESDAY, the 26th day of March 1776.

THE C ONSTITUTION or form of Government, agreed to and resolved upon by the Representatives of South Carolina having been signed, by the President of the Congress and attested by the Secre tary. The Members of the General Assembly made choice of the Hon ourable The General William Assembly Henry Drayton, were then to adjourned be their Chairman to meet at : five o'Clock in AndTheAndTheThatMr.the afternoon. ChairmanMembersGeneralMr.the Charles ballotsChairman Assembly proceededPinckney, reported being being —5 cast met to seatedO'ClockHenry up ballot according Middleton, for P. aM.— to Legislative adjournment. Richard Council Richardson,

Rawlins Lowndes, LeRoy Hammond, Henry Laurens, David Oli- phant, Thomas Ferguson, Stephen Bull, George Gabriel Powell, Thomas Bee, Joseph Kershaw and Thomas Shubrick Esquires, were duly UponResolved, chosen Motion, members That the of President the Legislative and Commander Council. in Chief, and all other Officers to be chosen by ballot, be declared duly elected only by The the votesMembers of a majorityof the General of the membersAssembly, present. and of the Legislative

Council then proceeded to ballot for a president and Commander in Chief. And, as it appeared, upon casting up the ballots, that no

Person who had been ballotted for, had the votes of a Majority of the Members present, The Members of the General Assembly and of the L egislative Council again proceeded to ballot for a president and Commander AndMr. uponChairman, castingin Chief reported, up of the South ballots That Carolina. the Honourable John Rutledge

Esquire, was duly chosen President and Commander in Chief of South The Carolina. Members of the General Assembly, and of the Legislative

Council And upon then casting proceeded up tothe ballot ballots for a vice president of the Colony. Mr. C hairman, reported, That the Honourable Henry Laurens Esquire The Members was duly of chosen the General Vice President Assembly of the were colony. then Adjourned to nine TheTheHis o'Clock minutesExcellencyGeneral To-morrow. of Assembly Yesterday the President Wednesday met being according elect read the being 27th to adjournment. present,day of March addressed 1776. the

General Gentlemen,The very Assembly great in unsolicited nearly the and words unexpected following Honour which you have been pleased to confer on me has overwhelmed me with grati tude and concern — Permit me to return you my most sincere thanks for so distinguishing and unmerited a mark of your confidence and esteem — I have the deepest sense of this Honour — The being called by the free suffrages of a brave and generous people to preside over their well fare, is, in my opinion the highest any man can receive: But dreading the weighty and arduous duties of this Station, I really wish, that your choice had fallen upon one better qualified to discharge them; for, tho' in Zeal and Integrety, I will yield to no man, in abilities to serve you, I know my inferiority to many : Since, however, this, Gentlemen, is your pleasure, although I foresee that by submitting to it, I shall be ranked by our enemies, amongst am bitious and designing men, by whom they say the people have been deceived and misled, yet as I have always thought every mans best services due to his country, no fear of slander, or of difficulty or dan ger, shall deter me from yielding mine — In so perilous a season as the present I will not with hold them ; but in her cause every moment of my time shall be devoted : Happy indeed shall I be, if those services answer your Expectations, or my own wishes — On the candour of my w orthy countrymen I rely, to put the most favourable construc tion, as they hitherto have done, upon my actions — I assure myself of receiving in the faithful discharge of my duty, the support and assistance of every good man in the Colony ; and my most fervent Prayer to the omnipotent ruler of the universe, is, that, under his gracious providence, the liberties of America may be for ever pre served. AndHis Honour then the the President vice president elect withdrew. Elect in a speech, stating his rea sons for so doing desired leave to decline the appointment to the office of Vice President, and requested that the Members of the General Assembly and Legislative Council would proceed to a new choice HisAnd Honourof athe viceMembers then President withdrew. having of the taken Colony the subject— under their considera tion, directed Mr. Chairman to point out to his Honour the Vice president, the mistake he was under, touching his not being equal to act in the Chancery, and upon which he had founded his desire to decline the Vice presidentship — to acquaint him that his services in that Station were desired — and to report his determination there upon. And the vice President being sent to, to desire his presence in the

General Assembly, and his Honour signifying that he was much indisposed, The Members and begged of the to General be excused Assembly attending and forof the the present,Legislative

Council AndThatMr Chairman upon Theproceeded casting Honourable reported to up ballot the William forBallots a Chief Henry Justice Drayton Esqr was duly

elected The ChiefMembers Justice of the General Assembly and Legislative Council then proceeded in like Manner to the Choice of Four Assistant Judges AndThatMr Chairman the The Ballots Honourable reported being cast Thomas up Bee John Mathews Esquire and

the Honourable George Gabriel Powell were duly elected Assistant Judges by the Votes of a Majority of the Members present But that Mr Henry Pendleton who had the next Number of Votes had not such a Majority 6

A M otion was thereupon made to determine by a Question whether Mr. AndItColonel Pendletonpassed the PowellQuestion in the was Negative then duly being requestedelected put an LeaveAssistant to Judge decline accepting the

Appointment to the Office of an Assistant Judge of this Colony And giving such Reasons as were satisfactory to the House his Request was The granted Members of the General Assembly and Legislative Council thereupon AndMrThat Chairman the Joshua proceeded Ballots Wardreported being to ballot and cast Henry up for Two Pendleton Assistant Esquires Judges were duly

elected The MembersAssistant Judges of the General Assembly and Legislative Council then ThatAndMr proceeded Chairman the Alexander Ballots to reported ballot beingMoultrie forcast Esquirean up Attorney was Generalduly elected Attorney Gen

eral Colonel Parsons reported from the Committee appointed for that

Purpose the Draught of an Oath proper to be taken by His Excel lency the AndResolved the President said That Report the and following being Commander agreed Oath bein to ChiefAdministered in the General

Assembly to His Excellency the President and Commander in Chief to I qualify solemnly him promise for entering and swear upon theto preside Execution over of the his People office of this

Colony according to the Constitution or Form of Government agreed to and resolved upon by the Representatives of South Carolina on the 26th Day of March 1776 That I will cause Law and Justice in Mercy to be executed and to the utmost of my Power maintain and defend the Laws of God the Protestant Religion and the Liberties of America The Members So help me of theGod. General Assembly were then adjourned to meet The at General Five oClockWednesday Assembly in the Fivethe met Evening 27th oClock according Day P of M to March Adjournment 1776

And proceeded to ballot for the following Officers separately vizt AndThatThatTheTheThe TheMr John Chairman RegisterSheriffeSJudgeOrdinaryupon HughWilliamecretary castingHuger of Rutledge ofof reported theofBurrows CharlesMesne theEsquire up Admiralty theColony Esquire Conveyances EsquireTown Ballots was dulywas chosenDistrict was duly And duly chosen Secretary chosen Judge Ordinary of ofthe the Colony Ad

miralty That George Sheed Esquire was duly chosen Register of Mesne

Conveyances That Thomas And Grimball Esquire was duly chosen Sheriff for

Charles UponResolved TownMotion That District His Excellency the President and Commander in

Chief That sworn Colonel into Gadsden Office To-morrow be desired to And issue General Orders that the

Regulars and Militia in Charles Town do parade To-Morrow and that the Artillery be fired when His Excellency shall have taken the State Oath Also 'that the Salute be returned by the Navy And that Proclamation with all due Solemnity be made of His Excellency's being Resolved sworn Thatto the a Administration Similar Proclamation of Government be made by the several

Sheriffs Ordered of theThat Country Mr Chairman Districts be desired to wait on the President and And acquaint then the His General Excellency Assembly with the was above adjourned Resolutions till To-Morrow

Morning TheAndTheThe GentlemenNamesGeneral the nine Journal Thursdayofof Assembly thethe who of ClockMembers Yesterdayhad the met on 28th Tuesdayaccording were wasDay called readof last to March over byAdjournment the 1776 General Assembly

been elected Members of the Legislative Council withdrew to make choice On Motionof their own That Officers a Speaker of the General Assembly be now chosen Mr Chairman qutted the Chair 8

And T he Honourable James Parsons Esquire was Unanimously chosen TheMr Speaker House Speaker. proceeded having taken to the the Election Chair of their Clerk And Unani mously Mr Speaker made Choice and the of PeterRest of Timothy the Members to that Office having respectively taken the Oath of Fidelity required by the Constitution and the Oath of A Office Message being was also sent administered to the Members to the of Clerk the Honourable the Legis lative Council to acquaint them That the Members of this House having been duly sworn they were ready to receive the Legislative Council that the Oath of Fidelity might likewise be administered to them respectively in the General Assembly as required by the Con stitution The Honourable George Gabriel Powell Henry Middleton Thomas

Ferguson Charles Pinckney LeRoy Hammond Stephen Bull Thomas Shubrick and David Oliphant Esquires accordingly attended and took the AndThomas Oath then of Grimball Fidelitythey withdrew inEsquire the General who had Assembly been duly elected Sheriff of

Charles Town District attending at the Door he was called in and likewise Ordered That took 'the the Oath Honourable of Fidelity Mr required Drayton by Col° the Gadsden Constitution Col C. C.

Pinckney Col Daniel Horry Major Cattell and Capt Roger Smith be a Committee to wait on His Excellency the President and Comman der in Chief to acquaint him that the Members of this House having been sworn in and having made Choice of their Speaker they were now ready to receive His Excellency to Administer to him the Oaths necessary to qualify him to enter upon the Duties of that important Station to which by the Suffrages of a Free People he had. been And elected the Committee being returned and having introduced his

Excellency He took the Oath of Fidelity and also the Oath of Office in HisHis the GeneralHonourExcellency Assemblythe then Vice preceeded President And by also the took Sheriff the Oath bearing of Fidelity the Sword of State and the Officers of the Legislative Council and accompanied by His Honour the Vice President the Honourable the Speaker and the Members of the Legislative Council the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the General Assembly in solemn Procession pro ceeded to the Exchange where the Preamble and the Three subse quent C lauses of the Constitution or Form of Government being read and the Proceedings in the General Assembly on the 26th Instant whereby it appeared that His Excellency John Rutledge Esquire was duly chosen President and Commander in Chief and that His Honour Henry Laurens Esquire was duly chosen Vice President of this Colony being also read proclaimed by the Sheriff His Excellency with the sam Precession returned into the General Assembly Mr Speaker and the Members of the General Assembly first coming in and being seated His Excellency the President and Commander in Chief His Honour the Vice President and the Legis lative Mr CouncilSpeaker then reported entered to the And House the Proceedings since he had quitted His Excellency the Chair the President and Commander in Chief His Honor the The Vice General President Assembly and the then Legislative proceeded Council then to choose by withdrew Ballot a Mem ber of the Legislative Council in the Room of the Honourable Henry Laurens Esquire who by accepting the Office of Vice President of the And Colony it appearing had vacated upon his casting Seat therein up the Ballots that the Gentleman who had the greatest Number of Votes had not those of a Majority of The the MembersHouse again present proceeded to ballot for a Member of the Legis lative AndTheThatMr CouncilSpeaker Househaving the Honourable reportedballottedwas then accordinglyWilliam adjourned Moultrie to meet Esquire at Five was oClock duly elected in the

Afternoon Thursday the 28th day of March 1776

The House met according to adjournment And the Names of the Members being called over The House proceeded to ballot for Three Members of the Privy Council And upon casting up the Ballot it appeared And Mr Speaker

reported The Honourable James Parsons was declared duly elected a Mem

ber of the Privy Council by Majority of Votes of the Members present The House then proceeded to ballot for Two other Members of the

Privy Council IO And u pon casting up the Ballots it appeared And Mr Speaker reported That the Honourable William Henry Drayton was in like Manner duly The elected House a then Member proceeded of the toPrivy ballot Council for a Third Member of the

Privy And Council upon casting up the Ballots it appeared That none of the

Gentlemen ballotted for had the Votes of a Majority of the Members present The House thereupon again proceeded to ballot for a Third Mem ber ThatAndMr of Speaker thethe John Ballots Edwards reported being Esquire cast up was duly elected a Member of 'the

Privy Ordered That Council a Message be sent to the President acquainting his

Excellency That this House have chosen the Honourable James Par sons William Henry Drayton and John Edwards Esquires to be Members The following of the Privy Message Council was accordingly drawn and agreed to by the ThisMay House Houseit please having your chosenExcellency James Parsons William Henry Drayton and John Edwards Esquires Members of the Privy Council acquaint your Ordered Excellency That the therewith said Message be engrossed and that Mr Speaker do Ordered sign the That same Captain Roger Smith and Cap* Moultrie do wait on

His Ordered Excellency That with a Message the said be Message sent to the Legislative Council to acquaint their Honours that this House have chosen Col° William Moultrie The following to be a Member Message of was their accordingly House. drawn and agreed to by the ThisMay House Houseit please think Your proper Honours to acquaint your Honours that they have chosen William Moultrie Esquire a Member of the Legislative Coun cil in the Room of His Honour Henry Laurens Esquire Vice Presi dent Ordered of the That Colony the Message be engrossed and that Mr Speaker do sign the same II Ordered T hat Col C. C. Pinckney and Mr Gibbes do wait on their Honours Captain with Moultrie the said reported Message That he with Captain Roger Smith had waited upon His Excellency the President and delivered to him the It Message being represented they had in to Charge the House that there was an urgent Neces sity Ordered for immediately That Cap'. opening Moultrie the Ordinary's do wait uponOffice William Burrows

Esquire to acquaint him of his being chosen Ordinary of this Colony and that it is necessary he should properly qualify himself to enter upon Ordered That the Execution Mr of Loocock the Duties Captain of that Office as Trapier Col soon Thomas as possible Major Williamson Captain Winn Mr Beard Col Gervais and Mr Bull be a Committee to receive and report the Names of Candidates or other fit Persons to be chosen Sheriffs for the several Districts out of the Limits of Charles Town and that they do report the same as soon as may And be then To-morrow. the House adjourned till To-morrow Morning Nine of the TheCaptain Clock House Moultrie met Friday according reported the 2gth to That adjournmentDay he of had March. agreeable 1776 to the Order

of the House waited upon Mr Burrows with the Message he had in Charge That Mr Burrows expressed great Sensibility of the Honour conferred upon him by the House in electing him to the Office of Ordinary which he was willing to accept but that his present Indis position rendered it impossible for him to attend the General As sembly Ordered That to take the Col necessary Horry do Oaths on Account of Mr Burrows's present

Indisposition wait upon him at his own House and administer the Oaths Colonel to him Thomas there from the Committee on the State of the Militia,

in Orderedthe That interior Parts the of said the ReportColony bedelivered taken ininto a Report Consideration To

worthTrapiermorrow Ordered Pinckney be Thata Committee the Captain Honourable on Moultrie the State Mr Drayton Colonelof the Colony Colonel Gervais and Charles and to report Captain Cotes- to \-' s

the House such Bills and Ordinances as may be necessary to pass during the present Session of the General Assembly 12

Ordered T hat one of the Messengers be sent to desire the imme diate Attendance in this House of Captain Francis Ross one of the Members OnResolved Motion for That the Newa Message Acquisition be sent to the Honourable the Legisla^ tive Council to desire a Conference between a Committee of both Houses on the subject of a joint congratulatory Address to His Excellency TheTheMay following Generalit please the President yourAssembly Draught Honours and was think Commander accordingly it expedient preparedin Chief that a joint Address

from the Legislative Council and General Assembly should be pre sented to His Excellency the President congratulating him upon his being in Possession of the Administration of the Government and assuring him that both the Houses will support him in the same with their Lives and Fortunes If the Legislative Council are of the same Opinion the General Assembly will appoint six Members to manage the OrderedAnd free the Conference same That beingthe on Message their agreed part be to engrossedby the House and that Mr Speaker do sign Ordered That the same the Honourable Mr. Drayton and Cap* Roger Smith do Ordered wait upon That the Legislative Col. C. C. Council Pinckney with Col the Danielsaid Message Horry and Mr

Salvador be a Committee to inquire and report the Names of proper Persons to be appointed Magistrates in the different Districts of this Colony The Honourable Mr Drayton reported That he with Captain Smith had waited upon the Legislative Council and delivered the Message they ResolvedOn had Motion in ChargeThat this House will make Provision for the Payment of such reasonable Salaries as the Legislative Council may during their Session Ordered assign That to Mr.their Mathews respective and Officers Captain Skirving do wait upon the Peter Legislative Bacot Council Esquire with one a of thecopy of Commissioners the above Resolution of the Treasury requested Leave to resign that Office for Reasons which he stated and which OnHis motion Resignation were approved was therefore by the House accepted 13

Resolved T hat the Sheriffs for the several Districts out of Charles Town Ordered be now That balloted the Honourable for Mr. Drayton and Col C. C. Pinck- ney do wait on the Honourable the Legislative Council to request ' their attendance in the General Assembly to Join this House in the balloting Mr Matthews for the reported Sheriffs That he with Capt. Skirving had delivered the The message Honourable they had Mr. in Drayton Charge toreported the Legislative That he with Council Col. Pinckney hadHouse waited to request on the their Legislative Attendance Council in order agreeable to proceed to the to Order the Election of this V of Sheriffs And their Honours were pleased to answer they would attend Message presently from the Legislative Council by their Clerk Mr In Speaker Answer and to your Gentlemen Message proposing a free Conference on the

Subject Matter of a Joint Address to be presented to His Excellency the President by both Houses We acquaint you that we have ap pointed Col Charles Pinckney Thomas Ferguson and David Oliphant Esquires a Committee to confer with your Committee in the Con ference Room immediately or at such other Time as may be con venient, In the Legislative Council

The Members of the 2gthLegislative March. Council Geo1776 : Gab being : Powell, introduced Speaker they with the Members of the General Assembly immediately proceeded to AndThatMrballot Speaker the the for Ballots following the reported Sheriffs being Gentlemen cast up were duly elected by the Votes of a

Majority JohnRobertTheOrderedHenryLewisTunisEdward Members Wylly TeboutGolsonWilliam ofStark Martin That the Esquire EsquireofEsquireEsquireMembers the Harrington Esquire the Honourable Legislative for for forfor offorCamden Ninety-Six OrangeburgBeaufort Esquireboth George Mr.CouncilHouses then District forTownDraytonDistrict District CherawsDistrict present. District withdrewCol District .C. C. vizt Pinckney

Mr. Motte Captain Benjamin Elliott Mr. Rapley and Captain Roger 14 eSmith b a Committee to confer with a Committee of the Legislative Council on the Subject of an Address to His Excellency the Presi dent Ordered That William Williamson and Benjamin Young Esquires have And Leave then of the Absence House adjourned till To-morrow morning nine of the TheOrdered Clock House That met Major according Cattell Saturday to Captain adjournment the 3OthMaham Day and of Mr.March. Toomer 1776 be

a Committee to prepare and report proper Rules and Orders to be observed AndThe House the by Report the proceeded Members of the on ofCommittee the this Order House on of thethe DayState of the Militia in the ThomasThe interior said BeePartsReport Esquire of was the Colonydisagreed elected being a to Member debated of on the Honourable the

Legislative Council attended to take the Oath of Fidelity in this House And being introduced the said was administered to him accord ingly Ordered That Major Cattell and Mr. Cannon do attend Mr. Bee to the Legislative Council and acquaint their Honours that the Oath of Major Fidelity Cattell has been reported administered That he to with him. Mr. Cannon had delivered the Message Message from they the had Legislative in Charge Councilto the Legislative by their Clerk Council

In the the 3Oth Legislative March. Council 1776 Mr This Speaker House and hath Gentlemen taken into Consideration the Address which was prepared Jointly by a Committee of both Houses to be presented to His Excellency the President and have agreed to the same without any The Amendment By Committee appointed Order ofto preparethe House properGeo : Gab. Rules Powell to be Speaker observed by And the Membersthe said Report of this being House taken delivered into immediate in a Report Consideration was agreed to Ordered T hat the said Rules be engrossed and signed by Mr Speaker Ordered That Gideon Dupont Esquire be Cashier to this House

Ordered That Major Andrew Williamson have Leave of Absence report the Colonel CharlesNames of C. proper Pinckney Persons from to the be appointedCommittee Magistrates to inquire and in , the different Districts of this Colony reported a List of the Names And the said List being immediately taken into Consideration Resolved That the following Persons are proper to put into the Commission The Members of the of Peace the Justices Legislativein the Quorum different Council Unus. Districts the of Members the Colony of theviz

Privy Council the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas the Judge of the Admiralty and the Speaker of the General Assembly all for the Time being respectively John Drayton Christopher Gadsden Paul Trapier Claudius Pegues John Chesnut John James Haig Richard JamesJamesJosephRapleyJohnJohnAndrewWilliamNathanielEdmondRichardEliasWilliamCapersLionelPeter BrailsfordBoone BallBonnetheau CarsanAkinChalmers BooneandBee CunninghamBohunCattellBoone Bellinger Broughton Junior Benjamin JusticesBaker Garden for Charles Esquires JamesJohnJohnJohnJamesThomasThomasLeviGabrielAlexanderWilliamSamuelCharlesPaul Town CoramDouxsaintDurandSandfordDeasDrake Clark Donnom CapersEllottCanteyDistrictFullerDewit Evance Eraser Dart

JosephWilliamJohnFrederickCulchethIsham Benjamin Glover Fullerton C layton Gibbes Gibbes GrimkeFuller JosephJobJohnJacobJohnHezekiahIsaac Marion Moore FriersonMotteMayzck Maybank Mayham i6

JohnBenjaminJosephRichardJohnJamesJeremiahRobertJohn RalphJohnJamesJamesJosJamesJohnDanielWilliamGeorgeThomasWilliamEdwardBenjaminWilliamGabr.ThomasAndrewWilliamWilliamThomasGabrielArthurGabrThomasBenjMelchiorMauriceIsaacPeter Marion Seabrook GaillardHugerSimonsIzardLivingstonSymeLegare SincklerGignilliatSmithIzardLynahLaroachSkirvingHamiltonHorryGJenkinsMiddletonHaigManigault HutsonJenkinsLynchibbesLynchSimonsHutchinsonLeitchLoganJermanHortLadsonSwintonHoptonHeywardGarnerSavageJenkins Smith Junior•JuniorJunior Johns Island Peter Mouzon William Mason William Massey Benjamin Marion Junior Ephriam Mitchell William Morgan Robert Murril Ephriam James Murray Sampson Neyle Hopkin Price John Pamor John Parker Philip Porcher Isaac Porcher William Parker John Poaug Hopson Pinckney JamesJames ReidLytton Richards

James Ravenell Isaac Rivers David Reynolds George Sheed Thomas Smith James Stobo James Skirving Jonathan Scott William Scott Henry Smith Philip Smith John Troup Joshua Toomer Edwd Thomas Junior Arnoldus Vanderhorst Robert Williams Robert Williams Junior Sims White John Wright Richard Withers Abraham Waight JamesWilliamJosephJohn CharlesRichard S cottSinckler Slann ShepheardStanyarne Park Son Stobo of Jonathan JohnJohnJosephRichardPeterBenjamin WilsonWigfall Witten Wigfall Walter Waring Wadmelah

JohnAndrewThomas Lewis AggnewT urner Bourquin Justices for Beaufort JasWill.Francis Gignilliatt -Harden District Young

JohnWilliamJohnWilliamRichard JosephJohnCorneliusEdwardDavidBenjaminNathanielBelamyPierce FrippBarnwellBChisolme ullGiroud ButlerBrailsford BrisbaneCrawfordDaviesGuerardElliott BarnwellGuerardDupont Senior Junior JamesRichardJohnThomasJohnAdrianHughThomasWill.Will.ThomasDanielWilliamSamuelWill. JoinerReynoldsRossMitchellHazard Rose Thomson DeSaussure Mayer PorcherRiversRutledgeProctorHughesStoutenburgh

Joseph Godin G Allston uerard Justices for George-Town Will.Thds WaightHenning District

Abr JosiasAnthonyWilliam Buckholts A llston Allston Bonneau Junior IsaacJohnThomasWilliam JamesMarion LynchMason

John B rockington Archd McDonald Capers B oone Adam McDonald Fras B ritton James McDonald John B axter Junr Kingston Will. Michau James C arey Sam1 Nesmith Alex C hovin John Plowden Sam1 D wight Thos Port Thos E rnes Job Rothmahler CharlesThos Greigher F yffe Will.Benjamin Snow Screven Benja HughRobertEliasDennisDanielDaniel Horry C Giles auseHugerHorryHHerriot Junior Anth.JohnPaulGavinPeterWill.Samuel Witherspoon TrapierWitherspoonWilson SimonsWhite Wragg Junior

Benjamin Huger Justices f or Orangeburg District Will.JonasGeorge RichdDonaldSam1.Peter Arthar BoykinBrownCorbinBeard ABruce ncrum JohnJohnMichaelBenj.TacitusRalphLewis FairchildChesnut Farrar HumphriesGolsan GaillardDickert

JamesJohnDavidIshamMichaelMalcolmJasEphriamHenrySamuel Pritchard Kensalow PouCornelleyClaytonPatrick RoweLeitner Clark Mikell JacobDavidJohnWillGeorgeArthurWill.Will.George Housell Savage ThompsonTuckerRichman Holmes StrawtherRobinsonSimkins Househill

Mich1 C hrist Rowe Thos Young

Justices f or Ninety-Six District WillDavidRobtJohn Will.JohnPatrick Anderson A BowieCaldwellCalhoun nderson Anderson Calhoun JamesRobt.JohnJasJas.ThosAndr Price Pollard PurvesPolkMcCreary Pickens Mayson John C aldwell of Enoree Jas P ritchard Jonathan Downs John R ogers John DelaHow Andr R ogers John Fairchild Jn°.JohnRalphJohnWill. GeorgeArthurGeorgeEdwardThomasBenj. Savage Lewis ThomasThomasTygerSutterwaiteWoffordTutt Smith RWhitefieldSimkins WilkinsonossWaddleton Mesnil Junior de St Pierre John Ford John Lewis Gervais James Griffin Senr Thomas Gordon Will. Henderson Elias Hollingsworth David Holmes James Hamilton John Johnston Junior Adam Grain Jones Will. Jones Will Kennedy Charles. King James Linley Jas. W illiams John Williams Will. W ood JasAndr Wood Allison Justices for Camden David District Z ubly

John P almer Robt Allison Jas P attern Fras Adams Philip P earson Richard Brown Thos P olk Will. Bratton Ezekiel P olk Will Byers Robert P atton Jos. Brown John R obinson Crowder's Creek Sam1 Baykin Richd J enkins Will. Brown Will. L ang John Canty JohnWill. ThosJohnRichdWill.JamesNath. NeelNixonNewmanRobinsonRichardsonM MooreRichardson Simpsonyers Oglethorp Mill Creek Jas Carey Thos Charlton Henry Cassels Mich1 Dickson Wood Furman Lewis Golson David Gordon Will. Gaston 20

John G aston Richard Richardson Junior Robt H ancock Matthew Singleton Will. H owell Will. Strother Geo: H ancock John Smith Henry H unter Alex. Turner David H opkins Thos. Taylor Andr H emphill John Winn Jas M ortimer Harris Richard Winn Simon I rons Thorn8. Woodward

JohnRobtEliasWilliamChas Gray EvansAlranDubose Dewitt Justices f or the Cheraws JohnHenryArthurThosGeorge LideKimbrough Wm HartDistrictHicks Harrington

William George Pawley H enry Mills WilliamPhilip Pledger Pegues

Claudius Pegues

The C ommittee of this House that were appointed Yesterday to confer with a Committee of the Legislative Council on the Subject of an Address to His Excellency the President reported a Draught thereof And the said Address being read and amended was agreed to by the Ordered House That the Honourable Mr Drayton and Col. C. C. Pinck- ney do wait on the Legislative Council and acquaint their Honours with the Amendment made to the said Address and desire their Honours The Committee Concurrence appointed therein Yesterday to report such Bills and

Ordinances as may be necessary to pass during the present Session of the OrderedAnd General the said That Assembly Report the Honourable being delivered taken inMrinto a Drayton Report Consideration Colonel and Charles agreed C.to

Pinckney Captain Multrie Colonel Gervais and Captain Trapier do forthwith A Bill to prepare punish and those bring who in shall the counterfeit following Bills or utter, knowing them to be counterfeit the Certificates issued by the late Houses of Assem bly or the Continental or Colonial Currency which hath been or shall be hereafter issued 21

An O rdinance for altering the Times of holding the next Circuit- Courts of General Sessions of the Peace and Common Pleas in Charles-Town An Ordinance to vest the several Powers therein mentioned for merly granted to the Council of Safety in the President and Privy Council to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act as to Commitments by them until! the $th Day of December next and to enable them to take Measures A Bill to for impower assisting the a NeighbouringCourt of Admiralty Colony to have Jurisdiction in

Case An of Ordinance Captures to and increase to establish the Number the Trial of by Fire Jury Masters in such in Cases.Charles-

Town and to enpower any Two of them to pull down a House (in order to prevent the spreading of Fire) without the Consent of a Justice An Ordinance of the Peace to repeal somuch of a former Act of Assembly as relates to the Appointment of Henry Peronneau and Benjamin Dart Esquires AA BillBill toJointto punish revive Public thoseand Treasurers continue who shall such of harbour this necessary Colony Deserters Acts as are expired or ResolvedOn near Motion expiring That an Ordinance be brought in appointing a proper

Oath to be taken by every Person previous to his entering upon Office under ResolvedOrderedOn theMotion present That That theConstitutionthe Honourable President of Mr. the Drayton late Congress do bring do give in the Certifi same

cates to the Members applying for the same for their daily At tendance therein till a Speaker was appointed and that Mr Speaker do give such Certificates from the Time of his being placed in the Chair Ordered That Col Gervais Major Williamson Capt Benjamin Elliott Mr Rapley and Mr Sinckler be a Committee to consider and report what Recompence and Provision should be made for several Persons wounded and disabled in the Public Service and also for the Families A Petition of such signed as may by Wilson be killed Cook in the in Behalf said Service of himself and other

Complainants AndOrdered then That the was House the presented said adjourned Petition and read do to lie Monday on the MorningTable nine of the

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OnInasmuch Motion as there, is no Paymaster Monday for t he Payment ist Day ofof Aprilthe Militia 1776. in the Service of the Colony doing Duty in and near Charles Town and there Resolved is immediate That the Occasion Demands for theirnow Paymentdue to such Militia be settled and adjusted by a Committee of this House and on being adjusted by such Committee be discharged by a Draught on the Treasury by his OrderedExcellency That the the President above andResolution Commander be sent in Chiefto the Legislative

Council Ordered for their That Concurrence the said Resolution and to His be Excellency ingrossed for and his Assent that Mr

Speaker Ordered do signThat the the same Honourable Mr Drayton and Mr. Chiffelle do wait Ordered on the That Legislative Mr Edwards Council Captain with the Roger said Resolution Smith and Mr Hall be a Committee to adjust and settle the Accounts due from the Public to The the Militia Honourable Mr Drayton reported That he with Mr Chiffelle had delivered the Resolution they had in Charge to the Legislative Council OnResolved Motion That the Acts of the General Assembly and the Journals of the Commons House of Assembly for two or three Years last past lately removed to Dorchester be forthwith brought down from thence The Rules and Orders to be observed by the Members of this

House agreed to Yesterday being ingrossed were signed by M* Speaker Message and from affixed the to Honourable the wainscot the for Legislative the Perusal Council of the Members by their

Clerk acquainting the House that they had read the Resolution sent to Ordered them from That this Mr House Thomas and concurred Waring and therein Mr. William Parker do wait Mr. on Waring His Excellency being returned the President reported with That the he said with Resolution Mr Parker had delivered the Resolution they had in Charge to the President and that His Excellency was pleased to say He would give Orders ac cordingly Message from the Legislative Council by their Clerk acquainting the House that they had agreed to the Amendment made in the Ad dress Ordered to His That Excellency the said the Address President be ingrossed And To His t he Excellencysame being Johningrossed Rutledge accordingly Esquire is Presidentas follows and Com mander The Address in Chief of in the and Legislative over the Colony Council of and South General Carolina Assembly

May We it the please Legislative your Excellency Council and General Assembly of South Caro lina convened under the Authority of the equitable Constitution of Government established by a free People in Congress on the 26^h Instant Nothing beg is leave better most known respectfully to your Excellency to address thanyour the Excellency unavoidable

Necessity which induced us as Members of Congress on the Part of the People to resume the Powers of Government and to establish some mode for regulating the internal Polity of this Colony and as Members of the Legislative Council and General Assembly to vest you for a Time limitted with the executive Authority Such constitu tional Proceedings on our Part we make no doubt will be construed into Acts of the greatest Criminality by that Dispotism which lost to all Sense of Justice and Humanity has already pretended that we are in actual Rebellion But Sir when we reflect upon the unpro voked cruel and accumulated Oppressions under which America in general and this Country in particular has long continued — Oppres sions which gradually increasing in Injustice and Violence are now by the inexorable Tyranny perpetrated against the United Colonies under the various Forms of Robbery Conflagration Massacre Breach alienableof public Rights Faith andand determinedopen War — to conscious make every of our Effort natural in our and Power un- to retain them we see Your Excellency's Elevation from the midst of us to govern this Country as the natural Consequence of such Outrages By the suffrages of a free People you, Sir, have been chosen to hold the Reins of Government — an Event as honourable to yourself as beneficial to the Public We firmly trust you will make the Con stitution the great Rule of your Conduct And in the most solemn manner we do assure your Excellency that in the Discharge of your Duties under that Constitution which looks forward to an Accommo dation with Great Britain (an Event which though Traduced and treated as Rebels we still earnestly desire) we will support you with our The Lives Honourable and Fortunes Mr Drayton from the Committee appointed to bring in certain Bills and Ordinances presented the following 24

A B ill to punish those who shall counterfeit or utter knowing them to be counterfeit the Certificates issued by the late Houses of Assembly or the Continental or Colonial Currency which hath been already An Ordinance or shall be for hereafter establishing issued an Oath of Office to be taken in

Manner A Bill therein to prevent Mentioned Sedition and punish Insurgents and Disturbers

of A the Bill Peace for the more effectual Prevention of the Desertion of the

Soldiers and Sailors in the Service of this Colony and for the Pun^ ishment A Bill of to those increase who the shall Number harbour of or Fire conceal Masters them in Charles Town and to impower any Two of them to pull down such Houses or other Buildings as they shall judge necessary for the stopping and pre venting An Ordinance the spreading to suspend of Fire the Habeas Corpus Act in Manner therein An Ordinance mentioned for making a Disposition of Monies for the Support of Government and to enable His Excellency the President and Com mander in Chief of South Carolina for the Time being to exercise certain Ordered Powers That in the manner Ordinance therein for mentioned establishing an Oath of Office to OrderedBeingTheOrderedbe taken same read toin That was beaManner Second accordinglyread Doctor a therein TimeSecond Haig read mentioned and Time a FirstMr Motte be Time now do and read carry the said Or

dinance Ordered to the That Honourable the Ordinance the Legislative for making Council a Disposition of Monies for the Support of Government and to enable His Excellency the President and Commander in Chief of South Carolina for the Time being to exercise certain Powers in manner therein Mentioned be read TheOrderedOn a Motion Firstsame That Time-was readto strike the said outaccordingly Ordinance the words be and read militia a Second in the Time latter Clause

of ResolvedAfterThe the second Question some in Section theDebate being Affirmative put 25

A M otion was made for an Amendment to the said Clause by inserting AndTheIt passed Clerkthe the Question in Words of the the Negative andLegislativebeing Militia put to Council Act in brought adjoining to Colony this House the

Ordinance for establishing an Oath of Office to be taken in Manner therein mentioned read a First and Second Time in the Legislative Council Read a Second Time the Ordinance for making a Disposition of

Monies for the Support of Government and to enable His Excellency the President and Commander in Chief of South Carolina for the Time OrderedOrdered being ThatThatto exercise Captainthe same certain Roger be sent Powers Smith to the inand Legislative Manner Capt Trapier therein Council do mentioned wait on

His Excellency the President to know when he will be pleased to receive And then this theHouse House with adjourned the Joint till Address To-morrow of both morning Houses nine of the

Clock OrderedThe House that met MrTuesday according Thomas the 2d Middleton to adjournmentDay of Junior April. and1776 Mr. Salvador do

carry the Legislative Council the Ordinance making Disposition of Monies for the Support of Government and to enable his Excellency the President and Commander in Chief for the Time being to exer cise The certain House Powers having in Mannerreceived therein Information mentioned That a Person who is suspected to have counterfeited some of the Certificates issued by the Authority of Congress resides somewhere near Col. Thomas's and also that Philip Hart had a considerable sum paid him in such counterfeit Ordered Certificates That Col. Thomas be desired to use his utmost En deavours to apprehend or cause to be apprehended and secured all and every Person or Persons in his Neighbourhood who shall be suspected of being concerned in counterfeiting or uttering any of the Bills Certificates or Orders issued by Authority of the General Assembly the Commons Houses of Assembly or Congresses of this Colony or of the Continental Congress so that such Persons may be brought Ordered to Justice That a Copy of the above Order be delivered to Colonel

Thomas 26 Ordered T hat Mr Verree Mr. Weyman and Mr. Ash be a Com mittee to inquire of Mr Hart touching the Sum he has received in counterfeit The Honourable Certificates Mr. Drayton presented to the House according to Order an Ordinance for altering the Time of holding certain Cir cuit Courts and of holding the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of General Sessions held in Charles Town in May and the same was received AResolved Bill and to punishThat read the the such Ordinance First as Timeshall be counterfeit read a Second or utter Time knowing them to be counterfeit the Certificates issued by the late Houses of As sembly or the Continental or Colonial Currency which shall have been already ResolvedA Bill or for shall That the be morethe hereafter Bill effectual be issuedread Prevention a was Second read Timeof a Firstthe Desertion Time of the

Soldiers or Sailors in the Service of this Colony and for the Punish ment of those who shall harbour or conceal them was read a First Time ResolvedOrderedOrdered That That That Mr Col°.the John Bill Thomas Berwickbe read Cap?. a have Second Winn leave Time Captof absence Williams and Mr

Beard An haveOrdinance Leave for of Absence altering the Time of holding certain Circuit

Courts and of holding the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of General Sessions usually held in Charles Town in May was read a Second Ordered Time That Mr Salvador and Mr Thomas Middleton Junior do carry A Bill the to Ordinance increase theto the Number Honourable of Fire the Masters Legislative in Charles Council Town and to impower any Two of them to pull down any such Houses or other Buildings as they shall adjudge necessary for the stopping and preventing ResolvedMr Salvador the That spreading reported the Bill ofthatbe Fire read he wasa with Second read Mr aTime Middleton First Time had delivered the An Ordinance Ordinance they to had suspend in Charge the toHabeas the Legislative Corpus Act Council in Manner therein AndResolvedOrdered the mentioned same ThatThat was Mrthe was McQueenOrdinanceread read a aSecond Firstand be readMr TimeTime Macpherson a Second Time do carry the said

Ordinance to the Honourable the Legislative Council 27 Ordered T hat Captain Daniel Horry Mr Benjamin Elliott the Hon ourable Mr Drayton Col. Charles. C. Pinckney and Captain Moultrie be a Committee to confer with a Committee of the Legislative Council on the proper Medium and of the proper Persons for carrying on the Intercourse and conveying Messages to and from the Legislative Council Captain and Roger this House Smith respectively reported That and to he report with thereon Captain Trapier together with the Honourable Mr Bee of the Legislative Council had according to Order waited on His Excellency the President to know when he would be Pleased to receive the Joint Address of the Gen eral Assembly and Legislative Council and that His Excellency was pleased to say he would receive the same To-morrow Twelve o'Clock in Ordered the Council That Chamber an Account of Mr John Champneys which by the late Congress had been referred to a Committee be referred to the following Committee of this House vizt Mr William Parker Mr. Cannon Information Mr Chiffelle being Cap*given Savage to the Houseand Mr of Bacot the Discovery of a coun terfeit Bill of the Denomination of Three Pounds issued by Authority of Ordered the late Congress That Captain Maurice Simmons, Capt. Roger Smith and Mr Powell be a Committee to make inquiry after and to have secured the Counterfeiters and Utterers of such Bills or Certificates in Imita tion of those issued by Order of Congress with Power to search Persons Message and from Houses and the InLegislative the seize Legislative upon Council such Council by counterfeit their Clerk Bills

Mr Upon Speaker the Thirdand Gentlemen Reading the 2d Day of the of April.Ordinance 1776 establishing an Oath of Office to be taken in Manner therein mentioned this House is of Opinion that some Amendments are necessary to be made thereto We therefore desire your House will be pleased to appoint a Com mittee to confer with a Committee of this House in the Conference Room Our immediately Committee onare the such AmendmentsHonourable Colonel Pinckney and the Honourable Mr Bee By Order ofGeo. the Gab. House Powell Speaker Ordered T hat the Honourable Mr Drayton Capt Moultrie and Mr Matthews be a Committee to Confer with a Committee of the Hon ourable the Legislative Council upon the Amendments proposed in the Message Ordinance to the referred Legislative to in Councilthe foregoing Message Mr This Speaker House and have Gentlemen appointed a Committee to confer with a Com mittee of the Legislative Council on the proper Medium and of the proper Persons for carrying on the Intercourse and conveying Mes sages to and from the Legislative Council and this House respectively We therefore desire that your Honours will be pleased to appoint a Committee to confer with a Committee of this House in the Con ference Our Committee Room as soon are as Captain convenient Daniel upon Horry the above Mr. Benja. Business Elliott the Honourable Mr Drayton Col. Pinckney and Captain Alexander Moultrie Ordered That the said Message be signed by Mr. Speaker and carried to the Honourable the Legislative Council by Mr John Parker and Mr Mr. Parker John Izardreported That he with Mr Izard had delivered the

Message The Honourable they had in Mr Charge Drayton to the from Legislative the Committee Council upon a free

Conference with a Committee from the Legislative Council touching certain Amendments to an Ordinance intitled an Ordinance estab lishing an Oath of Office to be taken in Manner therein mentioned reported And the the said Amendments Amendments agreed being to bydebated the said read Committee and passed Three

Times Ordered That they be made Parts of the said Ordinances and sent Message to the Legislativefrom the Legislative Council Council by their Clerk

In the Legislative Council the 2d Day of April. 1776 Mr This Speaker House and Gentlemen received a Message just now from your House by Mr

Parker and Mr Izard the Address of which being to Mr Speaker and Gentlemen we suppose must be done through mistake as the mode hitherto used by your House hath been otherwise We therefore beg leave to return you the Message for Amendment By Order of House Geo. Gab. Powell. Speaker. 29 Ordered T hat the Words Mr Speaker and be taken out of the Mes sage Ordered referred That to and Mr theParker Word and Honourable Mr Izard do inserted carry the in theirsaid Message Stead as The Amended Clerk to of the the Legislative Legislative Council Council brought from that House the Ordinance establishing Oaths of Office to be taken in Manner therein mentioned having been read a Third Time in the Legislative Council OrderedResolvedOn That Motion and Thatpassed the His Ordinance Excellency 'be the ingrossed President and Commander in

Chief by and with the Advice and Consent of the Privy Council may and he is hereby authorized to design and cause to be made a Great Seal of South-Carolina and untill such a one can be made to fix upon Ordered a temporary That the Public above Seal Resolution be sent to the Legislative

Council for their Concurrence and to His Excellency the President for Orderedhis That Assent the said Resolution be ingrossed and signed by Mr Speaker And that Mr Weyman and Mr Rapley do carry the same to the Mr Legislative Weyman Council reported That he with Mr Rapley had delivered the

Resolution The Clerk they of had the inLegislative Charge to Council the Legislative brought Councilto this House the

Ordinance making Disposition of Monies for the support of Govern ment and to enable the President and Commander in Chief of South Carolina for the Time being to execute certain Powers in manner therein ResolvedIn proceeding mentioned, That on the readthe said Third Twice Ordinance Reading in the be Legislative thereof now read it appearingCouncila Third Time that the

Legislative Ordered CouncilThat Col had : Gadsden introduced and some the Honourable Amendments Mr Drayton do return the said Ordinance to the Legislative Council and point out to Messagetheir Honours from thethe Mistake Legislative Council by their Clerk

In the Legislative Council the 2d Day of April. 1776 Mr In Speaker Answer and to your Gentlemen Message of this Day we beg Leave to acquaint you that this House hath appointed the Honourable Colonel Pinckney 30 rand M Bee a Committee to meet in free Conference with your Com mittee on a proper Medium and of the proper Persons for carrying on the Intercourse and conveying Messages to and from the Two Houses Captain respectively Maurice Simons By Order from theof the Committee Geo. House Gab. to Powell Speakerinquire after the

Counterfeiters or Utterers of Money reported That they had made some And Progress That Mr Smithson and Mr. Askew were at the Door ready for

Examination Mr Smithson and Mr Askew being seperately called in and exam ined Ordered That they be put under the Care of the Militia Guard untill Ordered the Committee That the shallsaid Committeehave made doa further immediately Inquiry proceed in the said OrderedThe That further Committee Inquiry Mr to Weyman consider be what added Recompence to the said Committee and Provision should be made for several Persons wounded and disabled in the public Service and also for the Families of such as may be killed in the On said Motion Service delivered in a Report

AResolved Motion T was hat madethis House to adjourn will choose the House their Messengersto Six oClock by Ballotin the

Evening AndResolvedAnd thenthe Question inthe the House Affirmative being adjourned put Tuesday to six the of the 2d DayClock of in April the Evening 1776

TheCaptain House Simons met reportedaccording That to adjournment the Committee Six oClock to inquire P M after the

Counterfeiters of Money had prosecuted their Inquiry but made no further Ordered Discovery That Mr Smithson and Mr Askew be carried before some

Magistrate for Examination according to Law so that such Magis trate AndThe may Housethe proceed Ballots proceeded thereinbeing castto as ballot theup Case for maytheir require Messengers Mr S peaker reported That Mr John Vinyard was by a Majority of Votes duly elected First Messenger and Captain John Stevenson Second And theMessenger House adjourned till To-morrow Morning nine of the

Clock TheOnResolved Motion House That met according the Report Wednesday to Adjournmentof the Committee the 3d Day to of consider April. 1776 what

Recompence and Provision should be made for several Persons wounded and disabled in the Public Service and also for the Families of such as may be killed in the said Service be taken into Considera tion A To-morrow Bill to prevent Sedition and punish Insurgents and Disturbers of TheOn the MotionPeace following was readClause a Second was added Time to read twice and made a Part

of the Bill And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Fines and Penalties to be incurred by Virtue of this Act shall upon Recovery thereof be paid into the Colony Treasury to be applied to and for such Uses and Purposes as are herein before men tioned OrderedOrdered That That the Captain Bill be Lampriere sent to the and Legislative Mr Verree Council do carry the

same Ordered That to the Legislative the Honourable Council Mr Drayton and Doctor Haig be a

Committee for a free Conference with a Committee of the Legisla tive Council touching the Manner of signing and Mode of Delivery of Captain their joint Lampriere Address reported to His Excellency That he with the President Mr Verree had deliv

ered Captain the Bill Moultrie they had presented in Charge according to the Legislative to Order Council an Ordinance to repeal an Ordinance of the General Assembly passed 23d February 1771 appointing Henry Peronneau and Benjamin Dart Esquires Joint Public Treasurers and to appoint Commissioners to take a State of the TheResolved Treasury Honourable That And the the Mr Ordinance same Drayton was bereceivedreported read a and That Second read in Timea Compliance First Time with the Message from this House to the Legislative Council touching the Signing and Delivery of the joint Address to His Excellency the 33

President t hey appointed the Honourable Colonel Pinckney and Doctor Oliphant as a Committee to confer with the Committee of this House And it was agreed as the ingrossed Address was in the General Assembly the Speaker of this House should sign it first leaving Room for the Speaker of the Legislative Council to sign above That then the Address should be sent to the Legislative Coun cil OnResolved to be Motion signed That by the their House Speaker do in in the Presence present of Instance both Houses agree to the

Mode proposed in the above Report But that the same shall not be drawn Ordered That into Precedent Mr Speaker do sign the Joint Address of this House and Message the Legislative from the Council President That His Excellency is now in the

Council-Chamber AndMrThatThe Speaker Housebeing the Honourable returned accordingly reported ready to the receivewent Legislative into this the House Council Council with Chamber their having Address with this

House waited on His Excellency the President with their Joint Ad dress His Excellency was pleased to return them the following Answer Honourable MrMy Speakermost cordial Gentlemen & Gentlemen Thanks of theare of Legislativeduethe and General I request Council Assembly that you will accept them for this Solemn Engagement of Support in discharging the Duty of the honourable Station to which by your Favours I have been Be elected persuaded that no Man would embrace a Just and equitable

Accommodation with Great Britain more gladly than myself but until so desirable an Object can be obtained the Defence of my Coun try and Preservation of that Constitution which from a perfect Knowledge of the Rights and a laudable Regard to the Happiness of the People you have so wisely framed shall engross my whole Attention To this Country I owe All that I hold dear and valuable and would with the greatest Pleasure sacrifice every Temporal Felicity to estab lish AprilOrdered and 3d. perpetuate That 1776 the he Joint Freedom Address of this House and John the Rutledge Honour able the Legislative Council this Day presented to His Excellency 33 the P resident together with His Excellency's Answer be forthwith printed Message and from made the public Legislative In the Legislative Council Council by their Clerk

Mr In Speaker Answer and to Gentlemen the theverbal 3d Day Message of April just 1776 now received by Colonel

Gadsden and Mr Chief Justice relative to the Amendments made by this House to the Ordinance making Disposition of Monies for the support of Government and to enable His Excellency the President and Commander in Chief of South Carolina for the Time being to execute certain Powers in Manner therein mentioned we beg Leave to acquaint you that agreeable to your Request we have examined the Ordinance and cannot find any Mistake therein we therefore return the same and shall be glad you will point out to us either by message or Colonel at a free Pinckney Conference according of both to Houses ByOrder Order those Geo. presented of mistakesGab. the PowellaHouse Bill you to Speaker refer impower to

the Court of Admiralty to have Jurisdiction in all Cases of Capture of Ships or Vessels of the Inhabitants of Great Britain Ireland and the British West Indies and to establish the Trial by Jury in such Cases AnResolved Ordinance And the That same was to the repeal Bill bereceived an read Ordinance a and Second read of Time a the First General Time Assembly passed 23d February 1771 appointing Henry Peronneau and Ben jamin Dart Esquires Joint Public Treasurers and to appoint Com missioners Ordered to That take a Captain State of Townsend the Treasury and was Mr readJohn a Boone Second do Time carry the Message said Ordinance to the Legislative to In the the Legislative General Council Assembly Council

Honourable Agreeable Gentlemen to your the message 3d Day desiring of April. that 1776 a Committee should be appointed by this House to have a free Conference with a Committee of the Legislative Council on certain Amendments to an Ordinance making Disposition of Monies for the Support of Government and to enable His Excellency the President and Commander in Chief of 34 South C arolina for the Time being to execute certain Powers in Manner therein Mentioned we have appointed a Committee to have a free Conference with a Committee of your House in the Confer ence Room as soon as may be Our Committee are Col. Gadsden * the Ordered Honourable That Mr the Draytonsaid Message and Col. be ingrossed Pinckney and that Mr. Speaker

do Ordered sign the That same Colonel Pinckney and the Honourable Mr Drayton

do A carry Bill the for said the moremessage effectual to the Prevention Legislative of Council Desertion of the Sol

diers and Sailors in the Service of this Colony and for the Punish ment of those who shall harbour or conceal them was read a Second Time OrderedCaptain Simons That the from said the Bill Committee be sent to the appointed Legislative for thatCouncil Purpose

reported That they had continued a diligent Inquiry after Three Pounds counterfeit Bills but could discover none besides what had been produced to the House which probably had been Stolen And. that And Mr then Smithson the House and adjournedMr Askew till had To-Morrow been held Morningto Bail nine of

the TheCaptain Clock. House Simons met Thursday according from the the to Committee4th adjournment Day of to April make 1776 Inquiry after the

Counterfeiters of the Three Pounds Bills issued by Authority of Congress reported That notwithstanding the Report made by him Yesterday Evening more counterfeit Bills of that Denomination had been Ordered discovered That the said Committee do continue their Inquiry And

that they do also consider and report the best Ways and Means of suppressing Ordered That so dangerous the Commissioners an Evil of the Treasury do give a public

Caution against receiving such Bills of the Denominations of Two Pounds Two pounds and Ten Ten Shillings and Three Pounds as are Ordered signed by That Edw the Weyman Commissioners J Berwicke of andthe TreasuryM Simons do forbear to

issue any more Bills of the above Denominations and Signatures untill Ordered That the further OrderMr Philip of this Porchdr House on Account of the Illness of his

Family have leave of Absence 35 Ordered T hat Captain Roger Smith do wait on Hugh Rutledge and Joshua Ward Esquires to acquaint the former of his having been elected Judge of the Admiralty and the latter of his being chosen an Assistant Judge and to inquire of them respectively if they are will ing The to qualify Order of for the those Day Offices to take into Consideration the Report of the Committee on what Recompence and Provision should be made for several Persons wounded and disabled in the Public Service and also for the Families of such as may be killed in the said Service was proceeded in And the said Report having been debated and amended Resolved was That agreed the tofollowing and is as Recompence followeth and Provision be made to To wit the Family of James Birmingham who on the igth of Novem ber last was wounded through the Body and died the 22d of the same Month leaving a Widow and a large Family very poor One Hundred Pounds to be paid immediately to relieve their present Dis tresses and from the ist Day of April 1776 to the Widow an Annuity of One Hundred Pounds during her Widowhood and afterwards to the To Children William or Dunlap Child under who lost Twelve a Leg Years the 19th.of Age . . of November last and has a Wife and Two Children Pay to the ist March One hun dred and two Days Fifty one Pounds and from the ist March 1776 an To Annuity John Talbotduring whohis Life lost of his Ninety right ArmPounds and one Eye the 25th of

December last by firing a Swivel and has a Wife and Children to be paid immediately in Lieu of Pay to ist of April 1776 an Annuity during To Robert his Life of Cosby One who Hundred was Wounded Pounds through the Knee 2oth of

November last and who the Doctor believes will be impeded in Walk ing to be paid immediately in Lieu of Pay to the 1st of April Seventy Pounds To John Wilson who was wounded in the Wrist 2Oth of Novem ber last not yet cured and who it is believed will be disabled to have theNovember To same Provision not Patterson yet cured as Roberta Rangerdoubted Cosby who whether had he his ever Skull will fractured recover 2ist and be To in his Michael Senses Cane to have who the was same Wounded Provision through as Robert the Hand Cosby and cured

Pay from the 28th of November Last to the 2Qth of February 1776 36

included i s Ninety three Days at Ten Shillings Forty Six Pounds and Ten To Shillings John Ca'lhoun who was wounded in the Head 21 st Novembei

curedlast ToTo and a isGratuity. cured Boles Johnston a of Gratuity who Fifteen a was Ranger of woundedPounds Thirty wounded Pounds in the through Head the the 2ist Thigh of Noand

andvember ResolvedTo cured and in cured That Lieu Trentham theinof Lieu Pay Annuities wounded Twentyof Pay be paid Twenty fivein the Pounds every Neck five Pounds Six the Months2ist of November upon pro

ducing a Certificate signed by one of the Field Officers of the Regi ment Ordered and one That Magistrate a Copy of of the the foregoing District where Report such as agreedPersons to reside by this

House Colonel be sent Pinckney to the reported Legislative That Council he with for the their Hon Concurrence Mr. Drayton had delivered the Message they had in Charge Yesterday to the Legislative Captain Townsend Council reported That he with Mr Boone had delivered the Ordinance they had in Charge Yesterday to the Legislative Council Message to His Excellency the President

May To it the Intent please your that Excellency your Excellency may commissionate the several

Civil Officers chosen agreeable to the Constitution of Government we OrderedThe herewith Clerk That send of thethe you saidLegislative a List Message of their Council be Names ingrossed brought to this House an

Ordinance to repeal an Ordinance passed 23d February 1771 ap pointing Henry Peronneau and Benjamin Dart Esquires Joint Public Treasurers and to appoint Commissioners to take a State of the Treasury Captain read Roger twice Smith in the reported said Council That he had according to Order waited on Mr Hugh Rutledge and Mr Joshua Ward with the Message he had in Charge And that Mr Rutledge declared his Willingness to qualify for the Office to which he had been chosen but Mr. Ward said it would be inconvenient for him to accept the Place for an Assistant A Bill to Judge punish and such therefore as shall he counterfeitdeclined that or Honour utter knowing them to be counterfeit the Certificates issued by the late Houses of Assem bly or the Colonial or Continental Currency which hath been or shall be hereafter issued was read a Second Time 37 Ordered T hat Mr William Parker and Mr Theodore Gaillard do carry Mr the Parker said reported Bill to the That Legislative he with Council Mr Gaillard had delivered the

Bill Ordered they had That in Charge the Bill to forthe theLegislative more effectual Council Prevention of the

Desertion of the Soldiers or Sailors in the Service of this Colony and for the Punishment of those who shall harbour or conceal them be carried to the Legislative Council by Mr William Skirving and Mr MacPherson Mr Skirving reported That he and Mr MacPherson had according to Order delivered the Bill they had in Charge to the Legislative Council Mr Speaker reported That Captain Stevenson who on the 2d

Instant was chosen one of Messengers to this House having been sent for to take upon him that Office had begged Leave to decline accepting it on Account of his being severely afflicted with the Rheu matism A Bill to increase the Number of Fire Masters in Charles-Town and to empower any Two of them to pull down any such Houses or other Buildings as they shall adjudge necessary for the stopping and preventing MrOrdered Parker the That reported spreading the said That ofBill Fire he be with sent was toMr read the Gaillard a Legislative Second had Time delivered Council the

Bill On they Motion had in That Leave Charge to thebe givenLegislative and a Council Committee appointed to bring in several Clauses to be added to the Bill for increasing the Number Ordered That of Fire-Masters Leave be at given the Thirdaccordingly Reading and thereof that Colo. Pinckney the Rev Mr Tennent Captain Roger Smith Mr William Parker and Mr The Toomer Honourable be a Committee Mr Drayton for that from Purpose the Committee of Conference with a Committee of the Legislative Council on a proper Medium and proper Persons for carrying on the Intercourse between the Two Houses reported that the Legislative Council would send their Mes sages A Motion by the wasMaster made in ChanceryThat this andHouse in his do Absenceresolve not by totheir receive Clerk the

Messages TheAndA Debate previousthe from Question ensued the Question Legislative being whether moved Council for that byQuestiqn their Clerk should be now put

was moved for and put .38

AndtThe Housei was beingdetermined informed in the that Negative the Master in Chancery attended at A the Motion Door with was a made Message That from this the House Legislative do resolve Council not to receive

Messages TheAndIt passed Masterthe by Question in the thein Master Chancery Negative being in putChancery brought to this House a Bill to prevent

Sedition and punish Insurgents and Disturbers of the Public Peace read Ordered a Second That Time the in Messenger the Legislative to summon Council Doctor Farrar to attend his A Duty Bill into this prevent House Sedition at the meeting and punish thereof Insurgents To-morrow and morningDisturbers of Resolved the Public That Peace the was Bill read do apass Third and Time that the Title be an Act to prevent Sedition and punish Insurgents and Disturbers of the Public Peace Ordered That the said Bill be sent to the Legislative Council And that OnResolved Captain Motion McQueenThat the andCommissioners Mr Thomas of Middleton the Treasury do carry are the by same the

Resolve of Congress of the 24th of last Month authorized to pay the Allowances to the Delegates from this Colony to the Continental Congress Colonel Pinckney gave notice that he would Tomorrow move the

House to resolve to make Provision for the necessary Expences of the A said Petition Delegates of Thomas - Singleton was presented to the House and read Ordered That the said Petition be referred to the following Com mittee Mr William Parker Mr Cannon Cap Savage Doctor Haig and And Mr then Kalteisen the House adjourned till To-morrow Morning nine of the TheMr. House Clock Speaker met laid Friday according before the the 5th to House adjournment Day of three April Letters 1776 from the Hon

ourable Edward Rutledge one of the Delagates representing this Colony in the Contiental Congress dated Philadelphia nth I4th and Ordered That 1 5th March 1776the said Letters be read 39 AndA Motion t hey were was readthereupon accordingly made That this House do resolve That this Colony will not enter into any Treaty or Correspondence with Great Britain or any Commissioners Authorized by that Court but through Mr Speaker the Medium laid before of the the Continental House a Letter Congress from Alexander Cam eron Esquire one of Mr Stuart's Deputies dated Toquoh in the Chero kee Country 5th March. 1776 to Preston Hampton a Trader in the Valley An Ordinance making Disposition of monies for the Support of

Government and to enable His Excellency the President and Com mander in Chief of South Carolina for the Time being to exercise certain The House Powers was therein moved mentioned for Leave was to read bring a in Third a Clause Time by way of

Amendment VIILeave And being be to givenitthe further said the Ordinance Ordainedfollowing by was the accordingly Authority broughtaforesaid in That in Case of the Sickness of the President and Commander in Chief for the Time being or of his absence from Charles Town in other Parts of the Colony the Vice President being duly authorized by Warrant under the Hand and Seal for the President shall and may have and exercise the same Powers touching the Premises herein before AndResolvedOrderedOrdered That mentioned the said That That Clause the theas the are same same Ordinance being hereby be be sentread made given do to three thepassa to part LegislativeTimesor vestedof this and the Ordinance Councilpassed President for their

Concurrence Ordered That Mr Charles Elliott and Captain Mayham do carry the OrderedMr Thatsaid McQueen Ordinance reported Captain to the That Cuming Legislative he with have Council Mr. Leave Middleton of Absence had delivered the Mr Bill Elliott they hadreported in Charge That tohe the with Legislative Captain Maham Council had delivered the Ordered Ordinance That they Mr had John in GaillardCharge to and the Mr Legislative Simon Berwick Council do carry the Report of the Committee to consider what. Provision should be made for the Persons therein mentioned disabled in the Public Service as agreed to by this House to the Honourable the Legislative Council for their Concurrence 40 » Mr G aillard reported That he with Mr Berwick had delivered the said Report to the Legislative Council The M essage to His Excellency the President to accompany a List of the Civil Officers chosen agreeable to the Constitution being ingrossed Ordered T hat Mr Speaker do sign the same and that Mr. Mat thews and Captain Roger Smith do deliver the said Message to His Excellency The C lerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House an Act to prevent Sedition and punish Insurgents and Disturbers of the Public OrderedCaptain That Peace Roger which the Smith had Act been reportedbe ingrossed read Thata Third he with Time Mrand Matthews passed. had delivered the Message and List they had in Charge to His Excel lency The the Clerk President of the Legislative Council brought from that House an

Ordinance for making Disposition of Monies for the Support of Government and to enable his Excellency the President and Com mander in Chief of South Carolina for the Time being to exercise certain Powers in Manner therein mentioned which had been read there OrderedOn That a motion Third ThatTime the thisand Ordinance passedHouse dobe ingrossed make Provision for paying the

Expences of the Delegates from this Colony at the Continental Con gress And several the Question Sums were being proposed put on a Motion to allow at the Rate of

Six Hundred Pounds Sterling a year for that Purpose' to each Delegate AnIt was Ordinance Resolved to in repeal the Affirmative an Ordinance of the General Assembly passed the 23d of February 1771 appointing Henry Peronneau and Benjamin Dart Esquires Joint Public Treasurers And to appoint Commissioners to take a State of the Treasury And also to impower the said Commissioners to settle the Accounts of the late Powder Receiver Ordered That was read the a Third said Ordinance Time be sent to the Legislative Coun cil Orderedfor That their Concurrence Captain Simons and Mr McDonald do carry the same The to Clerk the Legislative of the Legislative Council Council brought from that House a

Bill for the more effectual Prevention of the Desertion of the Soldiers 41 and S ailors in the Service of this Colony and for the Punishment of those who shall harbour of conceal them or who shall purchase re ceive or conceal the Arms Cloaths or Accoutrements of Deserters And also a Bill to punish such as shall counterfeit or Utter knowing them to be counterfeit the Certificates issued by the late Houses of Assembly or the Colonial or Continental Currency which hath been or shall be hereafter issued Both r ead Twice in the Legislative Council Captain S imons reported That he with Mr. McDonald had deliv ered the Ordinance they had in Charge to the Legislative Council A B ill to punish such as shall counterfeit or utter knowing them to be counterfeit the Certificates issued by the late Houses of Assembly or the Colonial or Continental Currency which hath been or shall be hereafter issued was read a Third Time Resolved T hat the Bill do pass and that the Title be an Act to punish such as shall counterfeit or Utter knowing them to be counter feit the Certificates issued by the late Houses of Assembly or the Colonial or Continental Currency which hath been or shall be here after issued Ordered T hat Captain Trapier and Captain Leger do carry the said Act to the Legislative Council for their Concurrence The C lerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House an Ordinance to repeal an Ordinance of the General Assembly passed the 23d Day of February 1771 appointing Henry Peronneau and Benjamin Dart Esqrs Joint Public Treasurers And to appoint Com missioners to take a state of the Treasury and also to impower the said Commissioners to settle the Accounts of the late Powder Re ceiver read a Third Time and passed in the Legislative Council Ordered T hat the said Ordinance be ingrossed Captain T rapier reported That he with Captain Leger had de livered the Bill they had in Charge to the Legislative Council A B ill for the more effectual Prevention of the Desertion of the Soldiers and Sailors in the Service of this Colony and for the Pun ishment of those who shall harbour or conceal them or who shall purchase receive or conceal the Arms Cloaths or Accoutrements of Deserters was read a Third Time Resolved T hat the Bill do pass and that the Title be an Act for the more effectual Prevention of the Desertion of the Soldiers and Sailors in the Service of this Colony and for the Punishment of those who shall harbour or conceal them or who shall purchase receive or conceal the Arms Cloaths or Accoutrements of Deserters 42

Ordered T hat the Bill be sent to the Legislative Council for their Concurrence And that Captain Harlston and Mr Loocock do carry the A same. Bill to impower the Court of Admiralty to have Jurisdiction in all Cases of Capture of Ships or Vessels of the Inhabitants of Great Britain Ireland and the British West Indies and to establish the Trial by OnResolvedOrderedJury That Motion in such That Casesthe the Bill Members was be sentread ofto a thethisSecond Legislative House Time do Councilpunctually Attend

the Service thereof at the Hour of Adjournment To morrow under a Fine And of then Five the Pounds House adjourned till To-morrow Morning Nine of the OnResolvedThe Clock Motion House That met the according House towill Saturday Adjournment make suitablethe 6th Day Provision of April for 1776 a Sec

retary and other Necessary Officers to the Honourable the Privy Council OnResolved Motion That this House will make Provision for the Pay of a

Clerk to the Commissary of Stores for the regular Forces not ex ceeding Captain Five Harlston Hundred reported Pounds That Currency. he with Mr Loocock had delivered the OnResolved Bills Motion they That had the in Charge Commissioners to the Legislative of the Treasury Council be and they are hereby authorized to pay to Mrs Sarah Stuart during the Time that she may be restrained of her Liberty the Sum of One Hundred Pounds Curreny per Month for her Maintenance And that the same shall be reimbursed out of the Profits of Mr John Stuart's Estate by the Committees in whose Custody and Possession or charge the same now OnWhereas is Motion the Honourable the Continental Congress hath Resolved

That in the present Situation of Affairs it will be very dangerous to the Liberties and welfare of America if any Colony should separately petition the King or either House of Parliament And Whereas no step should be left unessayed to promote the General Welfare And 43 Whereas t he sending Commissioners from Great Britain to treat with the different Colonies is dangerous to the Stability of the Liberties of America Therefore Resolved That it is the Opinion of this House that no measures should be left unessayed to establish the Liberties of America and to place them as far as may be out of the Reach of fraudulent schemes to subvert them by negociation and that this Colony should not enter into any Treaty or Correspondence with the Court of Great Britain or with any Person or Persons under that Authority Resolved but also through That it the is the Medium Opinion of of the this Continental House That Congress if any Per son or Persons sent from Great Britain to treat with the several Colonies shall arrive in this Colony by Water such Person or Persons and their Retinue or Company should not upon any Pretence be allowed to Land or to remain in the Colony longer than Forty eight Hours Wind and Weather permitting or while so remaining to hold any Communication with any Person in this Colony but through His Excellency the President and if any such Persons shall arrive by Land they should be forthwith carefully escorted out of the Colony and not be permitted to hold any Intercourse with Persons not for that Purpose authorized by the President and that merely for the Purpose Ordered of AccommodationThat the foregoing Resolutions be forthwith printed and made Ordered public That a Message be sent to the President with a Copy of the said Resolutions requesting that Copies thereof may be forwarded to The Georgia following North Message Carolina Virginia was accordingly and the drawn Continental and agreed Congress to by the MayIn House the it presentplease your Conjuncture Excellency of Affairs this House has thought it expedient to come to the Resolutions a Copy whereof is herewith sent to your Excellency And we request that you will be pleased to forward Copies of them to Georgia North Carolina Virginia and the Ordered Continental That Congress the Message be engrossed and that Mr Speaker do sign the same • Ordered T hat Captain Trapier and Captain Roger Smith do wait on The His Clerk Excellency of the therewith Legislative Council brought from that House a

Bill to punish those who shall Counterfeit or Utter knowing them 44 eto b Counterfeit the Certificates issued by the late Houses of Assem bly or the Continental or Colonial Currency which hath been or shall be hereafter issued read the Third Time and passed in the said Council Also a Bill for the more effectual Prevention of the Deser tion of the Soldiers and Sailors in the Service of this Colony and foi the Punishment of those who shall purchase receive or conceal the Arms Cloaths or Accoutrements of Deserters also read a Third Time and OrderedThe That passed Clerk in of the the the Legislative Legislativesaid Bills Council.be Council ingrossed likewise brought from that

House a Bill to increase the Number of Fire Masters and to impower any Three of them to pull down any such Houses, or other Buildings as they shall adjudge necessary for the stopping and preventing the spreading Captain of Moultrie Fire read a according Second to Time Order in presented the Legislative a Bill toCouncil revive and

Continue for the Time therein mentioned the several Acts and Clauses of Acts of the General Assembly therein particularly mentioned And the AOrdered That same Bill wasto increase received the Bill the and be Number read read a a FirstofSecond Fire Time TimeMasters in Charles Town

and to impower any Three of them to pull down any such Houses or other Buildings as they shall adjudge necessary for the Stopping and Colonel Preventing Pinckney the spreading according of to Fire Order was readpresented a Third several Time Clauses v which Leave had been moved for to be brought in and added to the said And Bill. the same were received read Three several Times amended

and IV passed And and be it are further as followeth Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in

Case any Fire shall break out in the Night Time in Charles Town every Owner or Tenant of every inhabited House in the said Town shall put up a Light in such House in one of the windows fronting the Street or a Lanthorn lighted at the Street Door and shall suffer the Light to remain there during the whole Time of the Fire on Pain of forfeiting the Sum of Five Pounds current Money to be recovered by Warrant of Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods by any one Justice V And of the be Peaceit further for theEnacted District by ofthe Charles Authority Town aforesaid That the

said Fire Masters shall purchase and provide a Sufficient Quantity of Ladders and Buckets to be kept with the Fire-Engines or in such other convenient Place and Places in Charles Town as the said 45 Fire-Masters s hall think proper and the Expence of providing such Ladders and Buckets shall be borne and paid by the Landlords and Owners VI And of Houses be it further in Charles Enacted Town by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful for each Fire Master and he is hereby im- powered to choose Two Assistants who Business it shall be under the Direction of the Fire Masters to form Lanes procure Water and take Care that the Inhabitants do properly and to the utmost of their Strength and Power and Abilities aid and assist at the Fire And to the Intent that the said Fire Masters and Assistants may be known and distinguished the said Fire-Masters shall attend such Fires with the usual Fire Staves carried by them and the said Assistants re spectively shall carry in their Hands a white Staff And in Case any Person or Persons shall wilfully and obstinately refuse or neglect to give reasonable Aid and Assistance when commanded by the said Fire Masters or their Assistants or any of them he and they shall forfeit Twenty Pounds lawful current Money each one Moiety to the said Assistants and the other Moiety to the said Fire-Masters to be given by them as a Gratuity to such Person or Persons as shall exert and distinguish themselves in doing any considerable service at the Fire to be recovered in Manner above mentioned And all Persons whatsoever who shall do or execute a Matter or Thing whatsoever for the preventing or extinguishing Fire in Obedience or in Pursu ance to the Command or directions of the said Fire Masters or their Assistants are hereby indemnified and saved harmless against all and every OrderedOrderedResolved That Person ThatThat and the theMr Persons said VerreeBill Clauses do whatsoever passand Captainbe and made that Stone Partsthe Title doof thecarry be anBill the Act said Bill

to The the Legislative Clerk of the Council Legislative Council brought from that House an

Ordinance for altering the Time of holding certain Circuit Courts and of holding the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of General Sessions usually held in Charles Town in May read a Second Time in MessageMrThisthat Speaker House House from andhath the Gentlemen read Legislative a Second Council Time by an their Ordinance Clerk for altering

the Time of holding certain Circuit Courts and of holding the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of General Sessions usually held in Charles Town in May and now return the same to your House But 46 inasmuch a s this House is of Opinion that the said Ordinance being a matter of Importance requires several great Alterations to be made thereto do therefore propose a Conference should be held on the same to sit without Delay and request you will be pleased to appoint a Committee to meet a Committee of this House on this Business — Our Committee are the Honourable Colonel Pinckney and the Hon ourable Ordered Mr BeeThat Colonel By Geo Pinckney order : Gab of the: the Powell House Honourable Speaker Mr Drayton Mr

Salvador and Mr Matthews be a Committee to confer with a Com mittee of the Legislative Council upon the Subject mentioned in their Message Message to the Legislative Council

Honourable Agreeable Gentlemen to the Message just now received from your House we acquaint you that we have appointed a Committee to confer with a Committee of your House on the Alterations necessary to be made in the Ordinance for altering the Time of holding certain Circuit Courts and of holding the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of General Sessions usually held in Charles Town in May — Our Com mittee are Colonel Pinckney the Honourable Mr Drayton and Mr. Matthews Ordered That the Message be ingrossed and that Mr Speaker do sign Ordered That the same Mr McQueen and Mr Cordes do carry the said Mes sage MrOrdered to McQueen the ThatLegislative reported Mr John Council That Parker he have with Leave Mr. Cordes of Absence had delivered the

Message Ordered they That had the in Charge Honourable to the MrLegislative Drayton Council do with one of the

Members of the Legislative Council compare the ingrossed Ordin ance establishing an Oath of Office to be taken in Manner therein mentioned Ordered with That the Colonel original Pinckney Draught do with one of the Members of the Legislative Council compare the ingrossed Ordinance for making Disposition of Monies for the support of Government and to enable His Excellency the President and Commander in Chief of South Carolina for the Time being to execute certain Powers therein men tioned with the original Draught 47 Charge TheColonel Honourable had P inckney been compared Mr reported Drayton according That reported the to OrdinanceOrder committed That and the wasOrdinance found to rightcom his '/ mitted to his Charge had according to Order been compared and was found Message right to His Excellency the President

May This it please House your having Excellency Two Ordinances of great Importance and islativeExigency Council to present being to youradjourned Excellency till To for morrow your Assent twelve and oClock the Leg-, we beg leave to request your Excellency will be pleased to call them to meet at Five oClock this Afternoon to the Intent the said Ordinances may Ordered That be then presented the Message for your be Excellency's ingrossed and Assent that Mr Speaker do sign Ordered the same That Mr Hall and Mr. McQueen do wait on His Excel lency Captain with Rogerthe said Smith Message reported That he with Captn Trapier had waited on the President and delivered to His Excellency the Mes sage Mr and Hall Resolutions reported they That had he in with Charge Mr McQueen had delivered to the President the Message they had in Charge And that His Ex cellency Ordered was That pleased Captain to say Savagehe and would give Mr Orders Rapley accordingly do wait on the

President with the ingrossed Ordinances which are to be presented for his Assent and request that His Excellency will be pleased to cause Mr. the Rapley Seals reported to be affixed That thereto he with Captain Savage had delivered the ingrossed Ordinances they had in Charge to the President And that His Excellency was pleased to say he would cause the Seals to be The affixed House accordingly was moved for Leave to bring in an Ordinance for ap pointing and ascertaining the Duties of a Muster Master General of thisColonel AndOrdered Colony Then Pinckney That the LeaveHouse and Col Gervaisbeadjourned given to dobringtill prepare six such of the anand OrdinanceClock bring in in the the and Even same that , '

ing 48

TheMessage House from met the according President to Saturday by adjournment the Clerk t he 6thof the of CouncilApril 1776 P M

Mr His Speaker Excellency the President is now in the Council Chamber

ready to receive this House with any Bills they may have ready to present AndAccordingly then for his Messenger AssentMr Speaker withdrew with the House went into the Council

Chamber AndMr Speaker being returned reported That this House and the Legislative Council

had attended His Excellency the President in the Council Chamber and An presented Ordinance to himestablishing an Oath of Office to be taken in Man

ner An therein Ordinance mentioned for making And Disposition of Monies for the Support

of Government and to enable His Excellency the President and Com mander in Chief of South Carolina for the Time being to execute certain To both Powers of which in Manner His Excellency therein mentioned had been pleased to give his

Assent Mr. Verree reported That he with Captain Stone had delivered the UponOrdered Ordinance Motion That they a Message had in Charge be sent to to the the Legislative President Councilrequesting that

Hi£ Excellency will give Orders that proper Measures may be taken by sinking Cheveaux de Frize and other ways to obstruct the Bar of the Resolved Inlet to Stono That this House will make Provision for the Expence attending the sinking such Cheveaux de Frize and making such other Obstructions on the Bar of the Inlet to Stono as His Excellency the President Ordered shall That order a copy to be of madethis Resolution be sent to the Honourable the Legislative Council for their Concurrence and to His Excellency for OrderedOrdered Thathis Assent That MrMr SpeakerSalvador do and sign Mr the DeSaussure do same carry the said

Resolution Mr. William to the Parker Legislative from Council the Committee to whom Mr John

Champneys's Account was referred delivered in a Report 49 MrOrdered Salvador T hat reported the Consideration That he with thereof Mr De be Saussure postponed had till delivered Monday the On Resolution Motion theyThat had this in House Charge do to adjourn the Legislative to To-morrow Council twelve oClock AndTheIt passed Question then in the the Housebeing Negative put adjourned till Monday Morning nine of the

Clock TheOrderedThe OrderHouse That ofmet the Mondaythe according Consideration Day the being 8th to readadjournment Day of the of April.Report 1776 on Mr. Champneys's

Account ThisMessageMay it House be please to postponed His thinking your Excellency Excellency it necessary the President That Obstructions should be

laid on the Bar of the Inlet to Stono have come to a Resolution to make Provision for the Expence of that Service which they request you A will Bill give to revive Orders and to havecontinue executed for the Time therein mentioned, the several Acts and Clauses of Acts of the General Assembly therein particularly mentioned and to appropriate certain Penalties and con firm the Powers of the Commissioners of the Roads Paths Bridges Creeks The HouseCauseys was and moved Water for Passages Leave was to bring read ain Second several Time additional

Clauses TheAnd followingLeave to the being said were Bill given presented accordingly received severally read twice and passed Also and such are Parts as followeth and Clauses of an Act intitled an Act for ap pointing Commissioners to lay out a Road or Causey our Lynch's Island situate in Santee River and for establishing Ferries therein passed the nth Day of March 1737 as respects the Establishment of the Ferries therein mentioned Also an additional Act to an Act intitled an Act for the better Regulation of Taverns and Punch Houses passed the 8th Day of March. 1741 Also an Act for the better establishing and regulating of Patrols in this Colony passed the 1 7th Day of June 1746 Also an Act for regulating the Assize of Bread passed the i6th Day of March 1749 Also such Parts and So fClauses o an Act intitled an Act for reviving and continuing several Acts of the General Assembly of this Province therein mentioned and for amending one of the said Acts intitled an Act for the better Reg ulation of the Militia of this Province and for repealing the former Acts for regulating the Militia and for repealing an Act for the further Security and better Defence of this Province passed the i4th Day of May 1755 as respects the amending the Militia Law of this Colony Also such Clauses and Parts of an Act intitled an Act to revive and continue such Acts and Clauses of Acts of the General Assembly of this Province and for amending some of the said Acts in Manner herein mentioned passed the 7th Day of April 1759 as respects Boats passing of Fort Lyttelton and the impow- ering of the Governor and Council to limit the Number of Tavern Licenses And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where in any of the said Acts any Power or Authority is given or Duty en joined to the Governor or any ol His Majesty's Justices of the Peace Constables or to any other Officers that in all such Cases His Excel lency the President for the Time being and the Justices Constables and other Officers respectively appointed or to be appointed under the present Constitution of the Colony shall have full Power and Authority to exercise all and every such Powers and Authorities and to do and perform the several Matters and Things in the said Acts respectively And be it enjoined further or Enacted required. by the Authority aforesaid That all

Commissioners of High-Roads and private Roads or Paths Bridges Creeks Causeys or for cleansing of Water Passages in this Colony or for altering laying out cleansing or amending the same who have hitherto been appointed by Virtue of any Act or Clause or Clauses of any Act or Acts of the General Assembly now in Force or any such as are revived by this Act or by .appointment of any Governor of this Colony hitherto Or by Election in any Parish or District in this Colony or by any Resolution of Congress shall have and exer cise as full and ample Powers and Authorities to all Intents and Pur poses whatsoever as any Commissioners of High Roads or Private Roads Paths Bridges Creeks Causeys or Water Passages whatever have hitherto had enjoyed or exercised by Virtue of any Law or Laws Resolution or Resolutions of Congress heretofore made for that And Purpose be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in Case any of the Commissioners nominated or appointed as aforesaid shall refuser o neglect to act all and every such Commissioner who shall so refuse to act or neglect his Duty shall forfeit and pay the Sum of One Hundred Pounds current Money one Half to be applied to the Use of this Government and the other Half to him or them who shall Ordered sue for That the samethe said Clauses be added to and made Parts of the

Bill ResolvedOrderedAnd That the Question in the Mr Affirmative Bull being and put the That Reverend the Bill Mr do Tennent dopass a Second carry Time the

said Ordered Bill to theThat Legislative Captain Moultrie Council do together with one of the Mem bers of the Legislative Council examine and compare with the origi nal Draught the ingrossed Copies of a Bill to punish those who shall counterfeit or utter knowing them to be counterfeit the Certificates issued by the late Houses of Assembly or the Continental or Colonial Currency which hath been or shall be hereafter issued And an Ordi nance to repeal Part of an Ordinance of the General Assembly passed the 23d Day of February 1771 appointing Henry Peronneau and Ben jamin Dart Esquires Joint Public Treasurers and to appoint Com missioners to take a state of the Treasury and also to impower the said Commissioners to settle the Accounts of the late Powder Re ceiver Ordered That Captain Roger Smith do with one of the Members of the Legislative Council examine and compare with the original Draught the ingrossed Copies of a Bill for the more effectual Pre vention of the Desertion of the Soldiers and Sailors in the Service of this Colony and for the Punishment of those who shall harbour and conceal them or who shall purchase receive or conceal the Arms Cloaths or Accoutrements of Deserters And a Bill to prevent Sedi tion Captain and punish Moultrie Insurgent reported and That Disturbers he with of onethe Public of the Peace. Members of the Legislative Council had examined and compared the Bill and the Ordinance Captain Rogerhe — had Smith in Charge That heand with they a were Member found of the correct Legislative

Council had examined the ingrossed Bills he had in Charge and found Colonel them Pinckney right according to Order presented an Ordinance to ascertainSea the Forces in Dutiesthe Service of a of Muster-Master this Colony And General the same of the was Land received and » and read a First Time 52

AnOrdered Ordinance T hat tothe ascertain Ordinance the be Duties read aof Second a Muster-Master Time General

of the Land and Naval Forces of this Colony was read a Second Time On Motion to fill up a Blank for the daily Pay of the Muster Mas

ter ATheIt General passed Motion Question within Fivewas the being then Negative put Pounds made to fill up the said Blank with Four

Pounds ResolvedAndA Motion the and Question in Tenbeing the Shillings Affirmative made being to put fill up the Blank for the Daily Pay of a

Deputy AndAThe Motion Question it to passed the was Muster was in then the put Mastermade Negative to General fill up the with said Three Blank Pounds with Fifty-five

Shillings ResolvedAndOrderedResolvedOrdered the Question ThatThatin That the itCaptaintheAffirmative Trapier be being Ordinance sent putto the do Legislative and pass Mr Berwick Council do carry the said

Ordinance to the Legislative Council , / O rdered That the Honourable Mr Drayton and Colonel Pinckney do wait on His Excellency the President with the Message of this Date and also the Ordinance and Three Bills that have been ingrossed and examined and to request that he will be pleased to cause the Seals to be affixed thereto and also to signify his Pleasure when he will An receive Ordinance this House for altering to present the Time the same of holding for his the Assent Circuit Courts

and the Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions in Charles Town and for other Purposes therein mentioned was read a Third Time Ordered That the Ordinance be sent to the Legislative Council for

their Ordered Concurrence That Mr Elias Horry and Mr Salvador do carry the same

to OnResolved the MotionLegislative That thisCouncil House will make Provision for supplying all

the Forces in the Service of the Colony with necessary Salt not ex 53 ceeding O ne Qtiart per Month each Man instead of One Pint hither to OnResolved allowed. Motion That every Member of this House now in Charles Town do punctually attend the meeting thereof To-morrow Morning under a Fine OnResolved Motion of Five That Pounds this House to be paid will Toimmediately morrow Afternoon Five OClock proceed And then to choose the House by Ballot adjourned such tillOfficers To morrow as remain morning to be nine chosen of the

Clock UponThe House Represention met Tuesday according made the gthtoto adjournmentthis Day House of April. that 1776 Gabriel Manigault

and Lionel Chalmers Esquires requested to be excused from being of the Commissioners appointed by Congress on the 24th March last to appraise and Value the Houses in Charles Town being too far advanced in Years and infirm to perform that Service And that the Number of Commissioners then appointed were insufficient for the Purpose Resolved That Mr Manigault and Doctor Chalmers be excused agreeable to their Request And that Messrs. Samuel Prioleau Joshua Ward John McCall John Hopton Joseph Dill William Miller Hopkin Price Jonathan Sarrazin Daniel Legare William Doughty and Thomas OnResolved Motion Doughty That the be addedSum of to One the Thousandsaid Commissioners Pounds be allowed and paid to Peter Timothy Secretary to the late Congress in full for his Services Resolved in thatThat Station His Excellency to the 26th the of President March lastbe authorized to issue his Orders to the Commissioners of the Colony Treasury for the Payment of the said sum of One Thousand Pounds to the said Peter Timothy and also of his Salary as Secretary to the late Council of Safety and also for Payment of such Accounts as shall appear to be due OnResolved to Motion him for That Printing His Excellency for the Public the of President this Colony be impowered to order Payment of whatever shall appear to be due to Peter Bbn- neatheau Esquire as Assistant to the Secretary of the late Congress during their last Session and for such other Services 'as he has per formed which have not yet been provided for 54 The R eport of the Committee to whom the Petition of Thomas Singleton was refered being taken into Consideration and agreed to Resolvedby the House That the Sum of Six Hundred Pounds Currency be paid out of the Colony Treasury to Thomas Singleton in full of all his Demands against the Public for Damages he sustained by the Intrenchment being laid through his Land on Charles Town Neck and for the Purchase of his Boat which was taken into the Public Service Captain in NovemberTrapier reported last. That he with Mr Berwick had delivered the Mr. Ordinance Bull reported they had That in he Charge with the to Reverendthe Legislative Mr Tennent Council had de livered Mr. Elias the Bill Horry they reported had in Charge That he to with the LegislativeMr Salvador Council had delivered the A Ordinance Motion was they made had That in Charge this House to the Legislativedo resolve to Council choose another

Delegate AfterThe previous some to the Debate QuestionContinental was Congress moved for 1 and put whether that Ques tion AndThe should Clerkit passed be of now the in put the Legislative Negative Council brought from that House a

Bill to increase the Number of Fire-Masters in Charles Town and to impower any Three of them to pull down any such Houses or other Buildings as they shall adjudge necessary for the stopping and pre venting OrderedAndOrdered That That the the same Spreading Colonelbeingthe Bill of ingrossed PinckneybeFire ingrossed read together a Third Time with one in that Member House of the

Legislative Council do examine and compare the same with the origi nal Colonel Draught Pinckney reported That having examined and compared the Ordered Bill according That the to said Order Bill the be same carried was to found His Excellency right the Presi dent OnResolved in Motion order That to have this the House seal affixedwill make thereto like Provision the present

Year 1 To take for thethe place Cloathing of John of Rutledge, the First who had and been Second elected Regiments president on Marchof Infan- 26th.

Prior to that date South Carolina had had six delegates: John Rutledge, Thomas Lynch, Arthur Middleton, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., and Thomas Lynch, Jr. Thereafter only five delegates were elected annually. 55 try a nd the Regiment of Rangers in the Service of this Colony as was Ordered made for That them the by following Resolution Gentlemen of Congress be a for Committee the year past to pur chase and ship such Commodities as may be necessary to be shipped and sold for Payment and procuring of Cloathing for the First and Second Regiments of Infantry and the Regiment of Rangers in the Service of this Colony and for the hiring or purchasing and fitting out proper Vessels for that Purpose viz George Abbott Hall Roger Smith Thomas Corbett Robert William Powell and Aaron Loocock Esquires Colonel Pinckney .reported That he had delivered the several in- grossed Bills and Ordinances he had in Charge to His Excellency the President to have the Seals affixed to them And that His Excellency was pleased to say he would have the Seals affixed accordingly and that he would receive this House in the Council Chamber at Six oClock with such Bills as they may then have ready to present for his Resolved Assent That the Commissioners of the Treasury do advance and pay to George Abbott Hall Roger Smith Robert William Powell Thomas Corbett and Aaron Loocock Esquires such sums of money as may be necessary for the Purchase of Rice or other Produce of this Colony to be shipped by them to a Foreign Market in order to be sold and the Produce thereof applied in the Purchase of Cloathing for the First and Second Regiments of Infantry and the Regiment of Rangers in the Service of this Colony and also for the Hire or Purchase Ordered and That fitting this out Resolution of proper be Vessels sent to for the that Legislative Service Council for their Concurrence and to His Excellency the President for his Assent Ordered That the said Message be ingrossed and that Mr Speaker do Ordered Thatsign the same Colonel Pinckney and Mr. Chiffelle do carry the said

Message The Report to the of Legislative the Committee Council to whom Mr Champneys's Account

was referred being taken into Consideration was agreed to by the House That viz Mr Champneys for the sundry Articles enumerated in his

Account for which he charges the Public Five Hundred Pounds is entitled to no more than Fifty Pounds for Damage at his Plantation That Seventy-five Pounds be allowed him for the Hire of Stores at his Plantation That a Commission of Five per Cent be allowed him 56

on s ixteen Hundred and Fourteen Pounds Eleven Shillings and Eleven Pence the Amount of Rice retailed for the Public Benefit which is Eighty Pounds Fourteen Shillings and Six Pence And that One Hundred and Seven Pounds and Ten Shillings be allowed him for Boards delivered to Mr Cannon for the Public Use And that these Allowances made (the Congress having before disallowed the Charge he made of Five Hundred and Eighty one Pounds Four Shillings and Five Pence for buying and selling Rice) leave a Balance due from Mr Champneys to the Public on Sale of Rice Thirteen Hundred and One Pounds Seven Shillings and Three Pence subject in the Opinion of the Ordered Committee That the to the Discretionsaid Balance of of this Thirteen House Hundred and One Pounds Seven Shillings and Three Pence in the Hands of Mr John Champneys due to the Public be by him paid into the Colony Treas ury The within House One being Month informed That several Sums of Money remain

due Ordered That to the Public Mr for Gibbes Rice sold Mr William Parker Mr Corbett Mr Blake Mr. Chiffelle Mr Roger Smith Mr. Simons Mr Dupont and Mr. Hall be a Committee to inquire and report what Quantities of Rice and other Commodities have been received and purchased on the Public Account by the Commissioners appointed for that Purpose under the Authority of Congress and also to inquire and report what other Rice and Commodities have been purchased or shipped by Order of the Secret Committee and Council of Safety how the same has been disposed of — and what Sums or Balances are now due to the Public on Ordered the Score That of such Rice the said and Commissioners Commodities have Power to send for

Persons and Papers and to Demand and receive from all Persons who shall appear to ,be indebted to the Public on the foregoing Ac counts the several Sums from them respectively due and to pay over John the Neufville same into Esquire the Hands one ofof thethe CommissionersCommissioners ofof thethe TreasuryTreasury

requested Leave to resign that Office and persisting in his Request it was A grantedPetition of Henry Aitken late Master of the Ship Port Hender

son Ordered That was presented the and said read Petition be referred to the following Com mittee The viz Clerk Mr of Dupont the Legislative Mr Roger Council Smith and brought Mr. Chiffelle from that House a

Bill to impower the Court of Admiralty to have Jurisdiction in all 57 Casesf o Capture of the Ships and other Vessels of the Inhabitants of Great Britain Ireland the British West Indies Nova Scotia and East and West- Florida to establish the Trial by Jury in the Court of Admiralty in Cases of Capture and for the other Purposes therein mentioned read a Second Time in that House Also an Ordinance to ascertain the Duties of a Muster-Master General of the Land and Sea Forces in the Service of this Colony read Twice in the Legis lative OrderedOrderedThe Council Ordinance ThatThat Mrthe being Middleton same then read do pass' and a MrThird Bull Time do carry in this the House said Ordin

ance The to Clerk the Legislative of the Legislative Council Council brought from that House ah

Ordinance for altering the Time of holding the ensuing Circuit Courts and the Courts of Common Pleas and the General Sessions in Charles Town and for other Purposes therein mentioned read a Third ResolvedAOrdered That Bill Time to Thatimpower in that thethe House theOrdinanceOrdinance Court of dobe Admiralty ingrossedpass to have Jurisdiction in

all Cases of Capture of the Ships and other Vessels of the In habitants of Great Britain Ireland the British West Indies Nova Scotia and East and West Florida to establish the Trial by jury in the Court of Admiralty in Cases of Capture and for the other Purposes therein ResolvedOrdered mentioned ThatThat the Mr was Bill Bull read do and a pass Third Mr and Salvador Time that the do Title carry be thean Act Bill to the

Legislative And then Council the House for adjournedtheir Concurrence till half past Five of the Clock in the TheMessage Afternoon House from met the according President 5 OClock to by adjournment the P Clerk M of the Council

Mr His Speaker Excellency the President is now in the Council Chamber ready

to receive this House with any Bills they may have to present for his Assent AccordinglyAnd then the Mr Messenger Speaker withdrewwith the House attended His Excellency in Andthe Council being returned Chamber 58 Mr S peaker reported That this House with the Legislative Coun cil having attended His Excellency in the Council Chamber and presented to him the following Ordinance and Bills he had been pleased An Ordinance to give his to Assent repeal to Part them of viz an Ordinance of the General

Assembly passed the 23d Day of February 1771 appointing Henry Peronneau and Benjamin Dart Esquires Joint Public Treasurers and to appoint Commissioners to take a state of the Treasury and also to impower the said Commissioners to settle the Accounts of the late An Powder Act to Receiverincrease the Number of Fire Masters in Charles Town and to impower any Three of them to pull down any such Houses or other Buildings as they shall adjudge necessary for the Stopping and preventing the Spreading of Fire and for altering and repealing such An Parts Act toof punishan Act asthose is therein who shall mentioned counterfeit or Utter knowing them to be counterfeit the Certificates issued by the late Houses of Assembly or the Continental or Colonial Currency which hath been already An Act or for shall the be more hereafter issued effectual Prevention of the Desertion of the ishmentSoldiers ofand those Sailors who in shall the Service harbour of and this conceal Colony them and orfor who the Puri-shall purchase receive or conceal the Arms Cloaths or Accoutrements of Deserters TheOrdered House That then the proceeded latter Act with be forthwith the Members printed of and the madeHonourable public the Legislative Council who attended in the General Assembly for that Purpose to ballot for Two Commissioners of the Colony Treasury AndMr Speaker the Ballots reported being That cast upWilliam Parker Esqr. one of the Gen tlemen balloted for appeared to have the Votes of a Majority of the Members Both House present then and proceeded he was accordinglyto ballot for declared another Commissionerduly elected of the AndMr Treasury Speaker the Ballots reported being cast That up Edward Blake Esquire was duly elected And athen Commissioner the House ofadjourned the Treasury till To-morrow morning nine of the Clock 59 TheAAfter Petition House which ofWednesdaymet the David according Member Baty t he towas who loth adjournment presented Daypresented of April. and it readrequested 1776 Leave to

with AndOn drawn Motionit That was the withdrawn same this Houseaccordingly do resolve That it is necessary a

Commander of the Navy of this Colony subordinate to the President should be appointed AndTheAIt Debatepassed Clerkthe Question inarose of the the negative Legislative being put Council brought from that House a

Bill to revive and continue for the Time therein mentioned the sev eral Acts and Clauses of Acts therein particularly mentioned And to appropriate certain Penalties and confirm the Powers of Commis sionersvesting The Houseof certain Roads was Powers read moved a Second and for Authorities Leave Time to in bring the in Legislative Subordination in an Ordinance Council to thefor •

President in the Commander in Chief for the Time being of the First Rate AndResolvedOrdered Vessel the Question inThatin thethe such Colony affirmative being an Service put Ordinance be brought in and that the

ColonelHonourable Pinckney Mr Drayton and Cap* Captain Moultrie Lampriere do prepare Captain and bringJohn Huger in the (/ same Mr Dupont reported from the Committee to whom the Petition of Henry Aitken was referred and he read the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was That read having and is examined as followeth the Accounts of the Petitioner they found a Balance of Three Thousand One Hundred and Fifty-eight Pounds and sixteen Shillings due from the Ship Port Henderson of which Five Hundred and Fifty eight Pounds and Twelve Shillings for Wages That the Sum of Three Hundred and One Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Nine Pence appears to be a Bill of Exchange paid to Mr. Nathaniel Russel which Bill being drawn upon himself is now of no Value They therefore recommend That these two Sums making together Eight Hundred and Sixty Pounds Eight Shillings 6o and N ine Pence Currency be paid to Captain Aitken out of the Pro ceeds of the Cargo of the Ship Port Henderson also the sum of Four Hundred and sixty nine Pounds Eight Shillings and Nine Pence which Captain Aitken has received from sundry Passengers and expended on the said Ship and is now demanded of him by the said Message Passengers from the InLegislative the Legislative Council Council by their Clerk

the loth Day of April. 1776 Mr Upon Speaker the Thirdand Gentlemen Reading of the Bill to impower the Court of Ad miralty to have Jurisdiction in all Cases of Capture of Ships or Vessels of the Inhabitants of Great Britain Ireland the British West Indies and to establish the Trial by Jury in such Cases this House is of Opinion that some Amendments are necessary to be made thereto— We therefore desire your House will be pleased to appoint a Committee to confer with a Committee of this House in the Con ference Room immediately on such Amendments — Our Committee are the Honourable Mr Bee and the Honourable Doctor Oliphant Message to the LegislativeBy Order of Council the House Geo: Gab: Powell Speaker

Honourable Agreeable Gentlemen to a Message Just now received from your House this

House have appointed a Committee to confer with a Committee of your House on such Amendments as may be necessary to be made to the Bill to impower the Court of Admiralty to have Jurisdiction in all Cases of Capture of Ships or Vessels of the Inhabitants of Great Britain Ireland and the British West Indies and to establish the Trial by Jury in such Cases — Our Committee are Colonel Pinckney and Ordered the Honourable That the Mr Message Drayton be ingrossed and that Mr Speaker do sign Ordered the same That Colonel Pinckney and the Honourable Mr. Drayton do Colonel carry the Pinckney said Message from to the the Committee Legislative of Council Conference reported several Amendments proposed in the Conference which being read were A Bill severally to revive agreed and to continue and ordered for the to Timebe made therein Parts mentioned of the Bill the several Acts and Clauses of Acts of the General Assembly therein particularly mentioned was read the Third Time 6i

OrderedResolved That T hat the the Bill Bill be do sent pass to and the that Legislative the Title Councilbe an Act for their

Concurrence Ordered That Captain Moultrie and Mr. Bacot do carry the same to Captain the Legislative Moultrie Council reported That he with Mr Bacot had delivered the A Bill Petition they had of in Thomas Charge toFletchall, the Legislative Robert Council Cunningham Patrick

Cunningham Robert Pearis Elisha Robinson Pinkothman Hawkins James Alexander Thomas Wisdom William Dodgen Henry Green and Robert Proctor Prisoners in Charles Town Jail principal Actors in the late Commotions in the interior Parts of the Colony was pre sented AAfter Motion and some read was Debate made thereon and seconded for Leave to withdraw the

Petition OrderedTheAndIt passed Clerk the QuestionThatin of the the the negative Legislative beingPetition put do Council lie on the brought Table from that House a

Bill to impower the Court of Admiralty to have Jurisdiction in all Cases of Capture of Ships or Vessels of the Inhabitants of Great Britain Ireland and the British West Indies Nova Scotia and East and West Florida and to establish the Trial by Jury in such Cases — read TheOrdered That the Clerk Third of Time the the LegislativeBilland bepassed ingrossed Councilin that House brought from that House an Ordinance to ascertain the Duties of a Muster-Master General of the Land and Naval Forces in the service of this Colony read a Third OrderedThe TimeHouse That and was passedthe moved Ordinance in That the Legislative a be Committee ingrossed Council be appointed to prepare an Address to be presented to His Excellency the President and Commander in Chief requesting that he will be pleased to order a Day of solemn Fasting Prayer and Humiliation to be observed throughout Ordered this That Colony Colonel Pinckney and the Reverend Mr. Tennent be a Ordered Committee That to Captain prepare McQueen and bring Mr in Verree the same and Mr Chiffelle be a

Committee to inquire require and report the Names of such Persons 62 amongst t he late Insurgents as are proper to be excepted in a De claration Resolved of Pardon That Mr or Amnesty Speaker do issue Writs for the Election of

Members of the General Assembly to fill up such Vacancies as have already happened or may from Time to Time happen in any of the Parishes OnResolved Motion and That Districts this Housethroughout will nowthe Colony proceed to ballot Jointly with the Honourable the Legislative Council for a Captain of the Ship Prosper The members of the Legislative Council being introduced into the AndTheMr General Speaker Balloting the Ballots Assembly reported was being proceeded for that That reckoned Clement Purpose in accordingly Lampriere Esquire was duly

elected OnResolved Motion Captain That and the Commander Certificates of issued the Colony and toShip be of issued War inProsper Pur suance of the Resolutions of the Congress of the I4th of June 1775 which have not been signed by Mr. Neufville and Mr Bacot two of the late Commissioners of the Treasury shall be numbered and signed by Mr Gibbes and the other Commissioners nominated yes terday On Motion That the Report of the Committee on Henry Aitken's

Petition AndTheAnd Questionit then be passed now the takenin wasHouse the put under Negative adjourned Consideration till To-morrow morning nine of

the TheColonel Clock House Pinckney Thursday met according from the the nth Day toCommittee adjournment of April. to prepare 1776 a Message to

the President to request that His Excellency will issue his Proclama tion Message appointing to the a PresidentGeneral Fast reported the following

May The it Houseplease yoursensible Excellency of their Dependence upon the supreme Ruler of all Events and impressed with Sentiments of Gratitude for the many signal Interpositions of Heaven in favour of American Lib erty in general and of this Colony in particular more especially in the 63 late h appy Establishment of a Constitution of Government framed by the Representatives of this Colony for their Security and good Order until an Accommodation shall take Place between Great Britain and the Colonies Do request That your Excellency will please to issue your Proclamation appointing a Day of Fasting Humiliation and Prayer to be observed throughout this Colony ex horting and Commanding the People of every Denomination to con fess and deplore their Sins against Almighty God thankfully to acknowledge his unmerited Goodness earnestly to implore his Bless ing upon all Endeavours for the Security of American Rights that he would be pleased to direct the United Councils of these Colonies and prosper their Arms for the Defence of their Lives Liberties and Properties against the Cruelty of their Invaders and that he would Aid and bless the present Constitutional Authority of this Colony And this House do likewise request That your Excellency would be pleased Strictly to enjoin all Clergymen to make proper Prayers and AndOrdered deliver the same proper That being the Discourses Message agreed to uponbe by ingrossed the the House Occasion and that Mr Speaker do carrysign MessageOrdered the the same said to That Messagethe PresidentColonel to His Daniel Excellency Horry theand President Colonel Pinckney do \/

May This it pleasebeg Leave your to Excellency acquaint your Excellency that Clement Lam- priere Esquire was yesterday duly chosen by the Members of the Honourable the Legislative Council and of this House to be Captain and Ordered Commander That of the the Message Colony Ship be ingrossed of War Prosper and that Mr Speaker do Orderedsign That the same the Honourable Mr Drayton and Colonel Pinckney do carry the Message to the President And that they do at the same acquaint His Excellency that this House have several Acts and Ordinances ready to be presented for his Assent as soon as it may be Colonel his Pleasure Pinckney to receive reported them That he with Colonel Horry had de livered the Message they had in Charge to the President And that ' His Excellency was pleased to say he would issue a Proclamation as requested in the Message 64 The H onourable Mr Drayton reported That he with Colonel Pinckney had delivered the Message they had in Charge to the Presi dent and that His Excellency was pleased to say he would acquaint the Ordered House when That heCaptain should Simons be ready and to Mr receive Elias Horry them do wait on the

President with such Bills and Ordinances as are ingrossed and desire His Excellency will be pleased to cause the Seals to be af fixed Ordered That thereto the Honourable Mr Drayton and Captain Savage do make immediate Inquiry of Edward Blake Esquire Commissary of the Naval Department and yesterday chosen one of the Commis sioners of the Colony Treasury which of the two Departments he choose Mr Elias to act Horry in reported That he with Captain Simons had waited on the President with the ingrossed Bills and Ordinances they had in Charge and that His Excellency was pleased to say he would cause Ordered the Seals That to be Mr affixed Loocock thereto Mr Rapley and Mr Salvador be a

Committee to inquire and report proper Places of Election for such Districts as are not yet fixed or divided into Parishes and also proper Persons The Honourable to attend and Mr receive Drayton the Votes reported of the That Electors he with Captain

Savage had made the Inquiry they were ordered of Captain Blake And that Captain Blake said he chose to act as a Commissioner of the Treasury and to decline the Office of Commissary of the Naval Department Colonel Pinckney presented according to Order an Ordinance to appoint a Commander of the Navy of this Colony subject to the im mediate Command of the President and Commander in Chief and the OrderedOrdered That That same was received theMr. Ordinance Corbett and read Mr be a Bacot First read MraTime Second Powell Time and Mr. Chiffelle be a Committee to examine the Receipts of the Pay masters of the several Regiments in the Service of this Colony and to compare them with the Pay Bills which are or ought to be lodged in the Treasury and to order the Balance if any in such Pay masters Hands to be paid into An the Ordinance Colony Treasury. to appoint a Commander of the Navy of this Colony subject to the immediate Command of the President and Commander in Ordered Chief was That read the a OrdinanceSecond Time be sentand topassed the Legislative Council 65 Ordered T hat Mr Dupont and Mr Berwicke do carry the same to the A Legislative Motion was Council. made That this House do resolve to make Provision for a Chaplain to each of the Regiments as soon as such Regiments respectively AndAResolved Motion the Question inhave was the Twomade Affirmative being Hundred That put such Men Chaplains be allowed a Salary of

One AndAIt Thousandpassed Motion the Question in was the Pounds then Negative being a made Year put Thateach and the Two Salary be seven Rations per Day Hundred

Pounds AndTheResolved Reportthe a Year Question in theofeach the Affimative andbeing Committee Two put Rations on Captain Aitkens per Day Petition being

taken into Consideration the same was debated on Paragraph by Par agraph and Resolved Thatagreed the to Commissioners after a Question appointed being put by upon the late each Congress for the Sale of the Cargo of the Ship Port Henderson Henry Aitken late Master be Authorized to pay to the said Henry Aitken out of the Proceeds of such Sales the Sum of Five Hundred and Fifty-eight Pounds and Twelve Shillings Currency due to him for Wages also the sum of Three Hundred and One Pounds sixteen Shillings and nine pence for a Bill of Exchange paid to Mr Nathaniel Russel which being drawn upon himself is now of no Value and also the sum of Four Hundred and sixty nine Pounds Eight Shillings and nine Pence Currency which Captain Aitken has received from several Pas sengers and expended on the said Ship and is now demanded of him by Ordered the said Passengers That a Copy of the above Resolution be sent to the Leg islative Council for their Concurrence and to His Excellency the President Ordered for That his the Assent said Resolution be ingrossed and that Mr Speak er Ordereddo That sign the same Mr Dupont and Mr Corbett do carry the said Mes sage OnResolved to Motion the Legislative That this House Council will make Provision for the Payment of all reasonable Charges attending the cure of any Militia Men who shall fall sick while draughted and doing Duty in the service of the 66

Colony u ntil a General Hospital shall be established — provided that the said Militia Men shall not be in the Judgment of this House in Circumstances MayMessageThe itCongress please to the to your ondefray President theExcellency that 28th Expence of November last Resolved That a

General Hospital for the Sick and Wounded Men of the Provincial Land Forces for Seamen and the Militia should be established and that a Director General thereof should be appointed And Ordered That the then Council of Safety should carry the said Resolution into Execution which Service has not yet been done Wherefore and as this House are of Opinion that such an Establishment and ap pointment ought to take Place they request your Excellency will give proper Orders for the Purpose and in the mean time direct that proper Care be taken of the Country Militia doing Duty in Charles Town Ordered That as have or the shall said fall Message sick or beget ingrossed hurt in the and Service that Mr Speaker

do Orderedsign That the same Colonel Pinckney and Colonel Horry do carry the v Message Mr Dupont to His reported Excellency. That he with Mr Berwick had delivered the

Ordinance Mr Loocock they reported had in Charge from the to the Committee Legislative to inquireCouncil and report

proper Places of Election for such Districts as are not yet fixed or divided into Parishes and also proper Persons to attend and receive the Votes of the Electors And he read the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered it at the Clerks Table where the same was read and Resolved agreed to That as followeth the Election of Members of the General Assembly

in the District Eastward of the Wateree River should be held at the Court House in Camden and that the Commissioners to attend and receive the Votes of the Electors be John Wylly, Richard Richardson Junior Mathew Singleton George Douglas and James Bradley Esquires That the Election for the District of Ninety-six should be held at

the Indian Camp near Major Andrew Williamson's — and that the Commissioners be Major Williamson Captain Anderson Captain Hammond That the Election Patrick Calhoun for the District and William of Saxe-Gotha Moore Esquires should be held at

Granby on the Congaree River — and that the Commissioners be Wil liam Arthar Benjamin Farrar Ralph Humphries Jacob Richman Esquires and Mr Jacob Friday 67

That t he Election for the District between Broad and Saludy Rivers i . For being the subdividedLower should be District Four as Members follows to be elected at or near

' the Meeting House near Adam Summers's and that the Commission ers be Adam Summers senior Michael Leitner George Strother Jonas 2 For Beard and the Middle Mr George or Little-River Swighead District Four Members to be elected at Captain Hammond's old Store — and that the Commission ers be John Williams James Williams James Linley Robert McCreary and 3 Jonathan For the Upper Downes or Esquire Spartan District Four Members to be elected at or near the Meeting-House Fair Forrest and that the Commission ers be Colonel Thomas Captain Andrew Berry Captain Thomas Brandon That the Capton Election Ralph for Smith the District and John between Thomas Btoad Junior Esquires and Catawba

Rivers should be at Captain Winn's old Place and that the Commis sioners be Captain Robert Patton Captain William Lang and Messrs William That the Strother Election Joseph for Kirkland the new-Acquision and Charles be Darrel at or Bradford near Colonel And

Thomas Neel's — and that the Commissioners be Colonel Neel Wil liam Ordered Byers JohnThat Howethe Clerk Francis do cause Adams the and foregoing Samuel ResolutionsWatson Esquires to be forthwith And then made the public House by adjourned Hand Bills till and Five also of the in the Clock News this Papers After noon CaptainThe House McQueen met according reported 5 OClock to from adjournment Pthe M Committee to inquire and

report the Names of such Persons among the late Insurgents as are proper to be excepted in a Declaration of Pardon or Amnesty And he read the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the That Clerks the Table Persons where whose the Names same was are read herein and after is as mentioned followeth should be excluded to wit Henry O'Neal Jacob Bockman alias Jacob Bow man Thomas Fletchall Robert Cunningham Patrick Cunningham Richard Pearis Elisha Robinson Pinkethman Hawkins James Alex ander Thomas Wisdom Henry Green Robert Proctor William Dod- gen Resolved Stephen That Prosser this and House John do Morgridge agree with the Report of the Com mittee and that it be made a Resolution 68

Colonel P inckney reported That he with Colonel Horry had de- , • livered the Message they had in Charge relative to a General Hos pital and that His Excellency was pleased to say the Request of the House Ordered should That be thecomplied Honourable with Mr Drayton and Colonel Pinckney

be a Committee to confer with a Committee of the Legislative Coun cil The on a Honourable proper Time Mr for : Drayton both Houses from tothe adjourn Committee to of Conference

reported That Tuesday the First Day of October next was agreed on Resolved as a proper That Time this to House adjourn will to adjourn to Tuesday the First Day

of MessageMrHis October Speaker Excellency next from the the President President by is nowthe Clerk in the ofCouncil the Council Chamber ready

to receive this House with such Bills as they have to present for his Assent. AccordinglyAnd then the Mr Messenger Speaker withdrew with House attended His Excellency in

the AndMr Council Speaker being Chamber returned reported That this House and the Legislative Council

had attended His Excellency the President in the Council Chamber and presented to him the following Five Ordinances and Acts to wit An Ordinance for altering the Time of holding the ensuing Cir

cuit Courts and the Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions in An Charles Ordinance Town and to ascertain for other the purposes Duties therein of a Muster mentioned Master Gen

eral An of Act the Landto prevent and Naval Sedition Forces and in to the punish Service Insurgents of this Colony and Dis

turbers of the An Act to impower Public Peace the. Court of Admiralty to have Jurisdiction

in all Cases of Capture of Ships or Vessels of the Inhabitants of Great-Britain Ireland the British West Indies Nova Scotia East and West An Florida Act to and revive to establish and continue the Trial for by the Jury Time in suchtherein Cases mentioned

the several Acts and Clauses of Acts of the General Assembly therein particularly mentioned and to appropriate certain Penalties and to confirm the Powers of the Commissioners of Roads Paths Bridges Creeks Causeys and water Passages 69

AfterTo a ll which which His the PresidentExcellency had was been pleased pleased to deliver to give the his followingAssent

SpeechHonourable to both Gentlemen Houses of the Legislative Council Mr It Speaker has afforded and Gentlemen me much of Satisfaction the General to Assembly observe that though the

Season of the Year rendered your Sitting very inconvenient your private Concerns which must have suffered greatly by your long and close Application in the late Congress to the Affairs of this Colony requiring your Presence in the Country yet continuing to prefer the Public Weal to Ease and Retirement you have been busily engaged in framing such Laws as our peculiar Circumstances ren Havingdered absolutely given my necessary Assent to to them be passed I presume you before your are Adjournment now desirous — of On a Recess my Part a most solemn Oath has been taken for the faithful

Discharge of my Duty — On Yours a solemn Assurance has been given to support me therein — Thus a public Compact between us Stands recorded — you may rest assured that I shall keep this Oath ever in mind — the Constitution shall be the invariable Rule of my Conduct — My Ears shall always be Open to the Complaints of the Injured — Justice in Mercy shall neither be denied or delayed — Our Laws and Religion and the Liberties of America shall be main tained and defended to the utmost of my Power — I repose the most perfect And nowConfidence Gentlemen in your let Engagement me entreat that you will in your several

Parishes and Districts use your Influence and Authority to keep Peace and good Order strict Observance of and ready obedience to the Law — If any Persons therein are still Strangers to the Nature and Merits of the Dispute between Great Britain and the Colonies you will 'explain it to them fully and teach them if they are so Un fortunate as not to know their inherent Rights — Prove to them that the Privileges of being tried by a Jury of the Vicinage acquainted with the Parties and Witnesses of being taxed only with their own Consent given by their Representatives freely chosen by and sharing the Burthen equally with themselves not for the aggrandizing a rapacious minister and his dependent Favourites and for corrupting the People and subverting their Liberties but for such wise and salutary Purposes as they themselves approve and of having their internal Polity regulated only by Laws consented to by competent Judges of what is best adapted to their Situation and Circumstances ;o equally b ound too by those Laws are Inestimable and derived from that Constitution which is the Birthright of the poorest Man and the best Inheritance of the most Wealthy— Relate to them the va rious unjust and cruel Statutes which the British Parliament claim ing a Right to make Laws binding the Colonies in all Cases what soever have enacted and the many sanguinary measures which have been and are daily pursued and threatened to wrest from them those invaluable Benefits and to enforce such an unlimited and destructive Claim — To the most Illiterate it must appear that no Power on Earth can of Right deprive them of the hardly-earned Fruits of their honest Industry Toil and Labour — even to them the impious attempt to prevent many Thousands from using trie Means of Subsistence provided for Man by the Bounty of his Creator and to compel them by Famine to surrender their Rights will seem to call The for Endeavours Divine Vengence by Deceit and Bribery to engage barbarous Na tions to imbrue their Hands in the innocent Blood of helpless Women and Children and the Attempt by fair but false Promises to make the ignorant Domesticks subservient to the most wicked Purposes are Acts Shew at which your HumanityConstituents must then revolt the indispensable necessity which there was for establishing some Mode of Government in this Colony the Benefits of that which a full and free Representation has estab lished and that the Consent of the People is the Origin and their Happiness the End of Government — Remove the Apprehensions with which honest and well meaning but weak and credulous minds may be alarmed and prevent ill impressions by artful and designing Enemies — Let it be known that this Constitution is but Temporary — till an Accommodation of the Unhappy Differences between Great Britain and America can be obtained and that such an Event is still desired by men who yet remember former Friendships and -intimate Connections though for defending their Persons and Properties they are Truth stigmatized being known and treated will asprevail Rebels over Artifice and Misrepresenta tion — Conviction must follow its Discovery — In such Case no Man who is worthy of Life Liberty or Property will or can refuse to Join with you in 'defending them to the last Extremity — Disdaining every sordid View and the mean paltry Considerations of private Interest and present Emolument when placed in Competition with the the Liberties of Millions and seeing that there is no Alternative but absolute unconditional Submission and the most abject Slavery or a Defence b ecoming Men born to Freedom he will not hesitate about the Choice although superior Force may by the Permission of Heaven lay waste our Towns and ravage our Country it can never eradicate from the Breasts of Freemen those Principals which are ingrafted in their very Nature — such Men will do their Duty neither knowing or regarding Consequences but submitting them with hum ble Confidence to the Omniscient and Omnipotent Arbiter and Director of the Fate of Empires and trusting that His Almighty Arm which has been so signally Stretched out for our Defence will deliver The Eyesthem of in aEurope righteous nay Cause of the whole World are on America —

The Eyes of every other Colony are on This — a Colony whose Repu tation Generosity and Magnanimity is universally acknowledged — I trust therefore it will not be diminished by our future Conduct that there will be no Civil Discord here and that the only strife amongst Brethren will be who shall do most to serve and to save an op pressed and injured Country John Rutledge

Ordered That the Speech nth this April Day 1776 delivered by His Excellency

the President and Commander in Chief of this Colony to both Houses be Orderedforthwith That printed a sufficient as well in Number the News- of Papers Copies as of otherwise all the Acts and

Ordinances passed in the present Session for each Member of both Houses and every Magistrate to have one be printed with all pos sible OnResolved Expedition Motion That it is the Opinion of this House That such Crown-

Officers as were confined by the late Congress to Charles-Town should have Liberty (if they choose it) to depart this Colony and that this House will make Provision for the Payment of their Passages and OnResolved necessary Motion That Sea His Stores Excellency to Europe be or desired the West-Indies to issue a Declaration

of OnResolved Pardon Motion with That certain His Exceptions Excellency be desired to cause all Public

Papers and Effects in the Possession of all or any of the Crown Officers Whereupon to be immediatelythe following secured and properly taken Care of 72

Message w as drawn and agreed to by the House May We it request please your That Excellency your Excellency will as soon as may be cause the Resolution of the I3th of last Month respecting the sending cer tain Persons therein named to Connecticut to be carried into Execu tion and that when the Persons therein named shall be without the Limits of the Colony that your Excellency will then publish a De claration of Pardon and Amnesty to the late Insurgents then in the Colony with such Exceptions as your Excellency shall think proper with the Advice of the Privy Council We do also acquaint your Ex cellency that this House have resolved That such Crown Officers as were confined by the late Congress to Charles-Town should have Liberty (if they choose it) to depart this Colony and that this House will make reasonable Provision for the Payment of their Passages and necessary Sea Stores to Europe or the West-Indies and upon this Resolution your Excellency will be pleased to cause such Meas ures to be taken as that the Resolution may have its proper Effect And to the Intent that the Public Papers and Effects in the Posses sion of all or any of those Officers may be properly secured and taken Care of we request your Excellency will order proper Persons immediately Ordered That to take the Possession Message be of ingrossed such Public and Papers that Mr and Speaker Effects do sign Ordered That the same the Honourable Mr. Drayton and Captain McQueen do Mr carry Speaker the said then Message adjourned to the His House Excellency to Tuesday the President the first Day of

October next — after the Members thereof had sat in Congress and in General Assembly Seventy-one Days 73

MEMBERSF[This list of members O ofTHE the General GENERAL Assembly ASSEMBLY during the session

covered by this journal does not form a part of the manuscript journal, but was compiled by the Editor from the list of members elected to the second Provincial Congress in August, 1775, as pub lished in The South-Carolina Gazette for Thursday, September 7, 1775, and from the journals of the two sessions of the second Pro vincial Congress. The Provincial Congress having, on the 26th of March, 1776, resolved itself into a general assembly the list here given is of those members of the Provincial Congress who in that manner became members of the first General Assembly under the new government.] Charles St. Pinckney, P hilip's and St. Michael's Christopher Parishes (Charles Gadsden, Town).

Roger S mith, John Neufville, John E dwards, William Johnson, Peter L eger, Arthur Middleton, Henry M iddleton, Edward Rutledge, Thomas C orbett, Alexander Moultrie, Daniel C annon, Joseph Verree, George A bbott Hall, Peter Timothy, Thomas H ey ward, Jr., Edward Weyman, Peter B ocquet, Cato Ash, Paul T ownsend, James Brown, Henry L aurens, Robert William Powell, Michael K alteisen, Anthony Toomer, Peter B acot, Alexander Gillon, Thomas S avage, Christ Church John Parish. Berwick.

ClementJohnArnoldus R utledge, Lempriere, Vander Horst, JohnGabrielIsaac Boone. Legare, Capers, 74 St. J ohn's Parish, Berkeley. Job M arion, Maurice Simons, Elias Ball, Jr., James Cordes, Jr., John Cordes,

St. A ndrew's Parish. Thomas F uller, William Cattell, William S cott, Benjamin Stone, ThomasBenjaminDavidThomasBenjamin Oliphant, Waring,B ee, Waring, Singellton, St. St. James's George's Parish, Parish, JohnRichardThomasIsaacRichard Goose Dorchester. Mathewes, Rivers. Waring,Walter. Creek. Middleton, Jr., son of

JohnBenjamin Parker, Smith, John Henry. Izard.

John Wright,

St. T homas and St. Denis's Parish. JamesJohnWilliam Huger, A kin, Parker, JosephThomasIsaac Harleston, Fogartie, Shubrick.

St. B artholomew's Parish. Rawlins JamesWilliam Parsons, LSkirving, owndes, JamesThomasPhilip Smith,Skirving, Osborn. Jr.,

BenjaminThomasCharles Elliott, Ferguson, Elliott, St. P aul's JohnRobertGeorgeParish. McQueen. Ladson, Haig, 75 JohnThomasThomasThomasDanielTheodoreDanielEliasBenjaminAnthonyThomasPaul Douxsaint,Barnwell,Horry, Horry,Heyward, Rutledge,Lynch,Horry,Port, White, Gaillard,Huger, Jr., Prince Jr., Jr., St.Prince St. James's George's H Frederick's elena's Parish, Parish, JohnJohnJosephJacobThomasWilliamDanielBenjaminArchibaldCapersPaulBenjamin Boone, de Parish. Santee.Parish. James,Trapier,Joyner, Motte, Winyah.Allston, Lynch,Moultrie, Young,Screven,Saussure.McDonald, Sr. Jr. Jr.

/ WilliamCharles Cotesworth Gibbes, Pinckney, S t. John's Parish, ThomasRalph Colleton. Izard, Tucker,

IsaacWilliamJohnThomasBenjaminGideonStephen Bull,Motte, Dupont, Evance,Williamson,Bull Garden, Prince St.William Peter'sWilliam's Brisbane. WilliamThomasWilliamIsaacBenjaminPhilotheos Parish. Harden. Parish. McPherson, liam. Bull,Middleton, Jenkins. Chiffelle, Jr., son of Wil- 76

JohnPhilip Gaillard, Porcher, St. S tephen's HezekiahCharles Parish. Cantey, Maham,

Peter S inkler, Joseph Palmer.

St. M atthew's Parish. JohnRev.George George Paul Caldwell, KGabriel ing, Turquand, Powell, St. David's AlexanderHenryWilliamSimon Parish. Felder,Berwick, Fludd. Mclntosh,

JamesDistrictWilliamH.BenjaminWilliamCfaudius W. Wilson, Harrington, BetweenHenry Arthur, P Farar, egues, Drayton, the North Saxe-Gotha Fork ofAndrewRalphHenryDr.GeorgeSamuel District. Edisto Jacob Humphries, Patrick, Pawley.Wise, Gumming, and Richman. Savannah Rivers

George R obison, John Salley, John C ollins, James Jones.

Ninety S ix District. James M ayson, Richard A. Rapley, Andrew W illiamson, Francis Salvador, LeRoy H ammond, Rev. John Harris, Patrick C alhoun, William Moore, ThomasAaronJoseph JohnRichardMatthew L ewis Loocock, Kershaw, Richardson,Sumter, Singleton, Gervais, District Eastward of WilliamJamesRev.RobertWilliam Wateree William Bradley, Patton, Massey.Richardson, River. Tennent, . 77 JonasJohnJohnWilliamWilliamThomasWilliamMichael Winn,Thomas, Beard, Lower Taylor,UpperHowell,Lang,Strother,Leitner, District DistrictDistrict B etween BetweenBetween Catawba BroadBroad JohnJohnJohnWilliamWilliamHenryWilliam and andand Nixon,Turner,Prince, Hunter.Broad Barrow,Wofford,Lee,Henderson,Saluda Saluda Rivers. Rivers. Rivers. .

JonathanJohnCaptain Caldwell, John Downs, Caldwell, of Enoree, John Lindsey. JamesJohn Williams,Rogers, Williams,

JohnAlexanderWilliamThomasRobertEzekielSamuel Howe, McAfee, Polk,Watson, Byers,Neel, Love, The N ew Acquisition. WilliamJosephThomasRobertJamesFrancisFrancis Carson, Dickey, Howe, Adams,Ross,Janes,McColloch, INDEX

Act 60(2), a ppointing 61, 68. Public Treasurers, Alexander,Alran,Allston,Aitken,Agnew,Allston,Anderson,Allston,Allison,Amnesty,Arthur,Allison,Akin,Anderson,America,Ancrum,Appropriations,Anderson, 46,24(2), 47, 25(2), 48. James, John, Henry,William,Andrew,Joseph,Josias,William,Robert,Andrew, George, 5, pardon David,Capt.William, James, 23, 20. 15, 56,42,17. 17,29,Robert,19. ordinance18,18.or,17.Jr.,74.18.19.61, 59-60,43,75. 33, 69,18.66, 62, 70, 17.67. 67, 33-34,76. 18, 62, 66.72. 65(4).making, 71. 39, 40, Act ordinance for laying to repeal, out 21. a road over

ActAct Lynch's forfor better better Island, regulating regulating 49. taverns patrols, and 49.

Act punch for houses, the more 49. effectual preven

tion of desertion of soldiers and sailors and for the punishment of those harboring or concealing them or purchasing or concealing the arms, clothes or accoutrements of,

Act 41. for regulating the Assize of Act Bread, for 49. reviving Acts and for

amending an Act regulating the Act militia, granting 50, 68.the Court of Admiralty

jurisdiction in cases of capture, 57,68. Artillery, 7. Act r especting boats passing Fort Ash, Cato, 26, 73. Act Lyttelton, to increase 50. the number of fire Askew, Mr., 30(3). Assistant, Judges, 5, 6, 36. masters in Charles Town and to Assize of Bread, 49. grant them power to pull down Attorney General, 6. houses to prevent the spreading of Bacot, Peter, 12, 27, 61(2), 62, 64, 73. ActAct fire, to to 58. prevent prevent desertion, sedition 58. and punish Baker, Richard Bohun, 15. Ball, Elias, Jr., 15, 74. Barnwell, John, 17, 75. ActAddressAdams, insurgents, to punish Francis, accepting 68. counterfeiters, 19, 67, the 77. presidency, 58. Barnwell, Nathaniel, 17. Barrow, William, 77. Barry, Capt. Andrew, 67. Baty,Baxter, David, John, 59. Jr., of Kingston, 17.

4-5;31-33; 12, 13, congratulatory to 14, president 20, 22, 23, 25, 27, requesting to president, him 31, Beard, Jonas, n, 18, 26, 67, 77. Beaufort District, 13, 17. to order a day of fasting and Bee, Joseph, 15. prayer, 61, 62; by president at clos Bellinger,Bee, 46, Thomas,60, 74. Edmund, 3, 5, 14(2), 15. 27(2), 30, ing of session, 69-71. Admiralty, Judge of the, 7, 15, 35; jurisdiction in cases of capture Berkeley County, 74. granted to, 21, 33, 42, 56-57, 57, Berwick, John, 26, 34, 52, 54, 65, 66,73- So

Berwick, S imon, 39, 40, 76. Brockington, J ohn, 17. Billo t grant jurisdiction to the Court Broughton, N athaniel, 15. of Admiralty in cases of capture, Brown, J ames, 73. 21, 33, 42, 56-57, 57, 60(2), 61. oBill t increase the number of fire Brown, J oseph, 19. masters in Charles Town and to Brown, R ichard, 18, 19. empower them to pull down houses, Brown, W illiam, 19. 24, 26, 37(2), 44(2), 54; amend Bruce, D onald, 18. ment to, 44. Buckholtz, A braham, 17. oBill t prevent desertion, 24, 26, 34, 37, 40-41, 41, 44, si. Bull, J ohn, 17, 75. Billo t prevent sedition and to punish Bull, C ol. Stephen, 3, 8, 75. insurgents, 24, 31, 38, 40. Bull, W illiam, Jr., 11, 51, 54, 57(2), oBill t punish counterfeiters, 20, 24, 75- 26, 36-37, 41(2), 43-44, 51. Burrows, W illiam, 7, 11(4). Billo t punish the harborers of de Butler, Pierce, 17. serters, 21, 24, 26, 34, 37, 40-41, Byers, William, 19, 67, 77. 4i, 4 4- Caldwell, Capt. John, 18, 77. Billo t revive expiring Acts, 21, 44, Caldwell, John, of Enoree, 19, 77. 49-51, 59, 60. Caldwell, John, of St. Matthew's Bills a nd Ordinances, committee on, Parish, 7 6. 11, 20, 23, 55, 58, 64. Calhoun, John, 36. Birmingham, J ames, 35. Calhoun, Patrick, 18, 66, 76. Blake, M r., 56. Calhoun, William, 18. Blake, C apt. Edward, 58, 64(3). Camden, 66. Bockman, J acob, 67. Camden District, 13, 19. Bocquet, P eter, 73. Cameron, Alexander, 39. Boles, , 3 6. Cane, Michael, 35. Bonneau, A nthony, 17. Cannon, Daniel, 14, 27, 38, 56, 73. Boone, C apers, 15, 17, 75. Cantey, Charles, 15, 76. Boone, J ohn, 33, 36, 73. Cantey, John, 19. Boone, W illiam, 15. Capers, Gabriel, 73. Bounetheau, P eter, 15, 53. Captures, bill to grant jurisdiction to Bourquin, J ohn Lewis, 17. the A dmiralty Court in cases of, Bowie, J ohn, 18. 21, 3 3, 42, 56-57, 57, 60(2), 61, 68. Bowman, J acob, 67. Carey, James, 17, 19. Boykin, S amuel, 18, 19. Carsan, James, 15. Bradford, C harles Darrel, 67. Carson, James, 77. Bradley, J ames, 66, 76. Cashier, 14. Brailsford, J oseph, 17. Cassels, Henry, 19. Brandon, C apt. Thomas, 67. Catawba River, district between Bratton, W illiam, 19. Broad R iver and, 67, 77. Bread, A ssize of, 49. Brisbane, W illiam, 17, 75. Cattell, Major William, 8, 14(2), 15, British W est Indies, 33, 42, 57(2), 74- 60(2), 61, 68. Chalmers, D r. Lionel, 15, 53(2). Britton, F rancis, 17. Champneys, 56(2). John, 27, 48, 49, 55(2), Broad R iver, districts between Sa- luda River and, 67, 77; district be Chancery, 5. tween Catawba River and, 67, 77. Chaplains, 65. 8i

Charles Commissioners property T inown Charles to (Charlestonappraise Town, and 53. value from Commons 25, 36. House of Assembly, 22, 1783), 7, 22, 53, 71, 72, 73; ordin ance for altering time of holding CongareeCongress, River, Provincial, 66. 21, 23, 27(2), 52,courts 57, 68;in, 21, ordinance 26(2), increasing 45, 45-46, the 46, 38, 50, 55, 56, 65, 71, 72(2), 73; number of fire masters in and em president of, 3; secretary of, 3, 53; powering them to pull down houses assistant secretary of, 53; certifi in, 21 ; bill to the same effect, 24, cates or bills issued by, 25, 27(2), 26, 37(2), 44(2), 44-45, 46, 54, 58; 62; Continental, 25, 38(2), 39, 40, commissioners to appraise and Charles value property Town in, (Charleston 53. from ConstitutionConnecticut, 42, 43(3), 54- 72. of South Carolina of

1798) District (County from 1868), 50,March 63,26, 69, 1776, 70(2) 3, 6, ;8, 23,additional 36, 40, sheriff of, 7(2), 8, n, 13; jail of, Chief-Charlton,CherawsCherokeeChesnut,Chiffelle,Charles 61 ; Justice justices Town District,John, Country,Thomas,Philotheos, of for, Neck, 15, South 13, 39. 15.18.19. 54.20. 22(2), Carolina, 27, 55, 5. Continental clauses40, 42, 43(3), of Congress, adopted, 54. 9. 25, 38(2), 39,

Cook, Wilson, 21. Coram,Corbett, John, Thomas, 15. 55(2), 56, 64, 65, 73.

Corbin, Peter, 18. Cordes, James, Jr., 46(2), 74. 56(2), 61, 64, 75. Cordes, John, 74. Chovin,ChristChisolm,Civil officers, Church Alexander, J ohn, Parish, message 17. 17. 73. to president Cornelley, James, 18. Cosby, Robert, 35(3). Council 27, 32, Chamber48(3), 55, (Charles 57(2), 58, Town), 68(2).

containing list of, 36, 40; elections Council of Safety, 21, 53, 56. of, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 53, 58. Counterfeit 27, 30, 34, 36, bills 40-41, or 4i,certificates, 43-44, 51- 26, Clark,Clark, Clayton,Clerk,Clothing JMalcolm,8. ames, Isham,for the 15. 18.15,regular 18. regiments of Counterfeiters, 26, 36-37, 41(2), bill 43-44, to punish, 5i; Acts 20, 24, to

the same effect, 58; persons sus Court, pected ordinance of being, 25,for altering 27, 30, 34. time CommissaryCollins,Colleton South John, Carolina,County, of 76. the 75. 54, Navy 55(2). Department of holding in Charles Town, 21, 26(2), 45, 45-46, 46, 52, 57, 68; Ad miralty, 7, 15, 21, 33, 35, 42, 56-57, Commissary of South Carolina, of Stores, 64(2). 56; clerk of, CrownCuningham,Cumming,Damages,Dart,Cunningham,Crawford,Dart,Cuningham,Crowder's 57,51, 58. 60(2), Benjamin,John officers, 54. Capt.Bellamy,Creek, Sanford, 61,Robert,Patrick, 68. Andrew, 71(2), Andrew,21, 31,19. 33, 36,17.61, 40,15.61, 67. 41, 72. 67. 15. 39, 76.

CommissionersCommissioners 42. of of Election, Roads, 66-67. Bridges,

Creeks, Causeys and Water Pas Commissioners sages, 49, 50, 59. of the Treasury, 12,

3i, 33, 34(2), 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 51, 53, 5 5, 56(2), 58(3), 62, 64(2). Davies, deDeas,deDelegates for, LaSaussure, John,64, Howe, E dward, 66-67. to 15. Daniel, Dr. the 17. John, Continental 17, 48,19. 49, 75. Con Elliott,Elliott,Elliott, 28, 74- Charles,Samuel,William, Capt. Benjamin, 39(2),15. 17. 74. 13, 21, 27,

DeputyDeserters, gress, Muster-Master-General, 38, 54. bill to punish harborers 52. of, Ernes,Evans,EnoreeEurope,ExchangeFairFerguson,Felder,Evance,Fairchild,Farar,Fast,Ferries,Fire Forest, 61,Masters, TDr. Charles,Henry,homas,River, 49.Thomas,71, 62. John, Thomas,(CharlesBenjamin, 72.67. ordinance76.19, 18.20.18, 19.15, 77. 3, Town), 75. 18, 8, 13, 38,to 66, 74. the, increase 76. 8.

21, 24, 26, 34, 37, 40-41, 41, 44, 51 ; Desertion, Act to the bill same to prevent, effect, 58.24, 26, 34,

37, 40-41, 41, 44, 51; Act to the Dewitt, same effect,William 58. (Charles Town Dis

Dewitt, trict), William 15. (Cheraws District),

Dickert,Drayton,Drake,Dickey,Dickson,Downs,Douxsaint,Dill,Dorchester,Doughty,Dodgen,Donnom,Doughty,Douglas,Drayton, 20. Joseph, John, Robert,Jonathan, Michael, William,Michael,John,George,James,Thomas,William, William Paul, 22, 74.53. 15. 15.77. 15,15.18. 66.61,19.19, 53.53. 67. Henry, 75. 67, 77. 3, 5, 8,

the number of in Charles Town, 21 ; bill to the same effect, 24, 26, 37(2), 44(2), 44-45, 54; Act to the Fires, same ordinance effect, 58. to enable fire mas

ters to pull down houses to prevent the spreading of, 21 ; bill to the same effect, 24, 26, 37(2), 44(2), Gadsden,Gaillard,Furman,Fyffe,Fripp,Fullerton,Fuller,Ford,Frierson,FortFraser,Friday,Fludd,Florida,Fogartie,Fletchall, John, 29,44-45. Lyttelton,33,Charles,John, 34,William,Benjamin,Col. 73- Alexander,Jacob, 54 57(2), John,Wood, Joseph,John,Thomas,Col.John, ; Act19.Thomas,Sr., 66. Christopher,16,18. 61,50. 15.to76.15. 19.17. 74. 15. 39,the61,68. 40,15. 67. 76. 15, same 74. effect, 7, 8, 58.15,

10(3), 11, 12(2), 13(2), 20(2), 21, 22(2), 23, 26, 27, 28(3), 29, 31(2), 33, 34(2), 36, 37, 46(3), 47, 52, 59,

DuPont,DuBose,DuPont, 60, 63, 64(3),Cornelius,Elias, Gideon, 20. 68(2), 17. 15, 72, 56(2), 76. 59,

65(2), 66, 75. Dwight,Dunlap, Durand,EastEdisto Florida, River, W Rev.Samuel, illiam, 57(2), Levi, district 35.18. 15. 61, between 68. north

Elections,Edwards, fork of John,and 3, 4,Savannah 5, 10(3), 6, 7, 22, River,8, 73. 9, 10,76. 13, Gaillard, Tacitus, 18. Gaillard, Theodore, Jr., 37(3), 75. 30-31, 53, 54, 58, 62(2), 66; places Garden, Benjamin, 15, 75. Garner, Melchior, 16. Gaston,Gaston, Haig,Haig, to president JohnDr. JWilliam, ohn, George, James, 20. to 19. suspend, 16, 15. 24, 31, 38, 21, 24, 74. 26. Hamilton,Hall, 56, 73- George James, Abbott, 16, 19. 22, 47(2), 55(2),

GeneralCause, Gazette, B Assemblyenjamin, The South-Carolina, 18. of South Carolina, 73. Hammond, store of, 67. Capt. LeRoy, 3, 8, 66, 76;

chairman of, 3 ; speaker of, 7 ; cer Hampton, Preston, 39. tificates for pay of members of, 21 ; Hancock, George, 20. Acts and journals of to be returned Hancock, Robert, 20. from Dorchester, 22; currency is Handbills, 67. sued by, 25 ; election for members Hankins, Dennis, 18. GeneralGeorge of, 66; Town Hospital, list of District members 66, 68. (Georgetown of, 73-77. Harden, William, 17, 75. Harleston, Capt. Isaac, 42(2), 74. Harris,Harrington, 76. James Henry Mortimer, William, 20. 13, 20, Georgia,Gervais, from 1798), Col.43(2). John 13, 17. Lewis, 11(2), 19,

Harris, Rev. John, 76. Hart, Arthur, 20. Giles,Gillon,Gignilliat,Gibbes,Glover,Gibbes,Gignilliat,Gibbes,Governor,GooseGordon,Golson, Joseph, 20, 21, 47,Hugh, Creek,Alexander, Robert,William,Culcheth, Lewis, David,Thomas, James,presidentGabriel, 76. 18. 74. 13,15.16.19. 18, II, 17.15.19. 73. 16. vested 15, 19. 56, with 62, 75. pow Hart, Philip, 25, 26. Hawkins, Pinkothman, 61, 67. Hazzard, William, 17. Hemphill, Andrew, 20. Henderson, William, 19, 77. Henning, Thomas, 17. Heriot, Robert, 18. Heyward, Daniel, Jr., 75. Heyward, Thomas, Jr., 16, 54, 73. Hicks, George, 20. Hollingsworth, Elias, 19. Holmes, David, 18, 19. Hopkins, David, 20. Granby,GreatGray, ers formerlyRobert, Britain, 66. 20. 33,vested 39, 42, in, 50. 43, 57(2), Hopton, John, 53. Hopton, William, 16. Horry, 27, 28, Col. 63(2), Daniel, 66, 68, 75. 8, II, 12, 16, 18,

60(2), 61, 63, 68, 69, 70; an ac Horry, Elias, Jr., 18, 52, 54, 64(2), 75. commodation desired with, 23, 32; Horry, Thomas, 75. Green,Greigher,Griffin,Grimball,Grimke,Guerard,Guerard,HabeasGuerard, commissioners Henry, James, CorpusFrederick, Benjamin,David,Godin,Richard, Thomas,Thomas, 61,Sr., 67. 17.17.from,Act, 17. 7,18.19. 15.17. 8. power 43(2). granted Hort, William, 16. Hospital, General, 66, 68. Houseal,Housechild,Howe, John, William, 67, ,77. 18. 18.

Howe, Joseph, 77. Howcll, William, 20, 77. Huger, Benjamin, 18, 75. Huger, Daniel, 18. Huger, John, 7, 59, 74. Hughes, Thomas, 17. Humphries, Ralph, 18, 66, 76. Hunter, Henry, 20, 77. Hutchir.son, Thomas, 16. Insurgents,Lee,Lads«fi, Ladson,Lang,IndianLaurens,Legare,Legare,Hutson, Indians, William, Capt. Camp, Daniel,Isaac,RThomas,70.R Henry,obert, ichard, bill William, 66.77.16, 53. to 74. 3,16.16. 4,73. punish, 9, 19, 10, 67,24, 77. 73. 31, 38, Leger,Legislative Capt. Council, Peter, 41(2), elections 73. for

members of, 3, 9; election of offi- . cers of, 7 ; committee of General 40; Act to the same effect, 68; par Assembly to confer with committee Jenkins,Johnson,Joyner,Jones,Jenkins,Jones,John'sJerman,James,Jenkins,Judges,Johnston,Jones,Jenkins,Izard,James,Izard,Irons,Ireland, don John,orRalph,James,William,Simon,Adam Island,Thomas,John,John, electionsRichard,William,Edward,33,Benjamin,Joseph, William, amnesty 42,John, 16, Crane,16,Sr.,17,76.20., 16. 36.28(3),Jr.,19.57(2), 77.Jr.,75.75. 19.16.16.of,17,73.to, 16, 19. 19.16. 61-62,75.5, 29,75.60(2), 6, 74. 767. ; 61, made 68. of relative to the medium of ex changing messages, 27, 28(2), 37; Leitner,Lempriere,Leitch, speaker Aridrew, Michael, of, Capt. 27, 16.28,18,Clement, 67, 30, 33, 46, 77. 31(2), 60. 59,

Lide,LittleLoocock,Logan,Lindsey,Linley,Livingston, 62, 63, Thomas,River James, William, John,73.Aaron, John, district, 19, 20.77. 11, 16. 16.67. 42(2),67. 55(2), 64,

Lynch'sLynah,Lynch,Lyttelton,Lynch,Lowndes,Maham,Love,Magistrates, Fort, 66, 76. Alexander, James,Thomas,Thomas, Island, Rawlins,Capt. 12, 16. 49. 50. 15.Jr., 16,Hezekiah, 77. 17, 3, 16, 74. 54,54, 75. 75. 14, 15,

Jury, Justices bill toof establishthe Quorum, trial 15. by in ad

miralty cases, 21, 33, 42, 56-57, 57, 60(2), 61; Act to the same effect, Martin,Marion,Marion,Manigault,Marion,Mason,Marion,Massey, 39(2), William, Edward,Isaac,Job, Gabriel,Benjamin,William,76. Gabriel, 15, 17. 74. 16,16.13. of 17. Jr., 16, Charles 53(2). 16. Town, JusticesJusticesLaRoche,KingstonKinsler,Kimbrough,King,Kalteisen,Kennedy,Kershaw,King,Kirkland, 68. Charles,George, QuorumofJohn, Township,Joseph,James,William, Joseph, Michael, the John, 18.76.19.Peace, Unus, 16.3, 20. 67. 19. 76.38, 17. 15-20. 15. 73.

Massey, 76. William, of the district east MasterMathewes, ward ofin Wateree Chancery,John, 5, River, 12, 13, 37, 38(3). 76. 28, 40(2),

Mayer,Mazyck,Mayson,Maybank, 42(2), Adrian, MajorIsaac,74. Joseph, 15.James, 17. 15. 18, 76.

M.cAfee,McCall, John, R obert, 53. 77. McCreary,McColloch,McDonald,McDonald,McDonald, Neufville, John,Robert, Archibald,Adam,WJames, illiam, 56, 18,17.17. 62,77. 67. 17, 73. 40, 41, 75. Neyle,NinetyNewspapers,NewNixon,NorthNorth Acquisition, forkCarolina,Sampson, SixJohn, District, of 67, 19, Edisto 71. 43(2). 16.77.12, 13,67, 18, and 77. Savannah66, 76.

Mclntosh,McPherson,McQueen, 46(2), 47(2), L t.-Col.Capt. Isaac, 61, John, 26,Alexander, 67, 37(2), 72, 74. 26, 75. 38(2), 76.

NovaOath rivers, Scotia,for distrct the 57(2), president, between, 61, 68. 6, 76. 7, 8; for

Messengers, 30(2), 31, 37. Mesne Conveyances, Register of, 7. other officials, 21, 24(2), 25, 27, Michau, William, 17. Middleton, Arthur, 16, 54, 73. OathOliphant,Oglethorpe, 28(2), of Fidelity, 29, Dr. John 46, 47, 48. David, 8, Newman, 14. 3, 8,19. 13, 32, Middleton, Henry, 3, 8, 73, 74. Middleton, 38, 39, 57, Thomas, 75- son of William,

Middleton, Thomas, son of Henry, O'Neall,OrangeburghOrdinance 60, 74. Henry, establishing District, 67. 13, an 18. oath for 25, 2 6(2), 74. Middleton, William, 75. Mikell, Ephriam, 18. officers, 21, 24(2), 25, 27, 28(2), Militia, 50, 65, 7, 66, 68. II, 14, 22(3), 24, 25, 30, Ordinance 29, 46, 47, for 48. appointing a com Mill Creek, 19. mander of the Navy of South Car Miller, William, 53. Ordinance olina, 64(2). for altering the times of Mills, William Henry, 20. Mitchell, Ephriam, 16. holding court in Charles Town, Mitchell, John, 17. Moore, John, 15. Ordinance 21, 26(2), for 45, appointing 45-46, 46, 52, 57, and ascer 68. Moore, Nathaniel, 19. taining the duties of a muster-mas Moore, William, 66, 76. Ordinance ter-general, making 47, 51, 57, 61, appropriations 68. Morgan, William, 16. Morgridge, John, 67. and granting certain powers to the Motte, Lt.-Col. Isaac, 75. president, 24(2), 25(2), 29, 33, Motte, Jacob, 13, 15, 24, 75. 33-34, 39, 40, 46, 47; amendment Moultrie,Moultrie, 61(2),20, 27, 73- Capt.Col. 28(2), William, Alexander, 31, 44, 9, 51(2), 10(2),10, 11(4), 75.59, Ordinance thereto, 39, to 48.increase the number of

fire masters in Charles Town and to empower them to pull down Mouzon, Peter, 16. houses, 21. (See bill to the same Murray, James, 16. Ordinance effect.) to repeal the Act appoint Murrell. Robert, 16. Muster-Master-General, 57, 61, 68; Deputy, 52. 47, 51, 52(2), ing Dart and Peronneau Public Treasurers, 21, 31, 33, 36, 40, 41, Myers, William, 19. 5i, 58. Navy commissary59, 68;of South commander of, Carolina, 64(2). of, 7, 61, 51, 64(2); 52, 57, Ordinance t o vest power in president and Privy Council to suspend Ordinances, Habeas Corpus committee Act, 21, on 24, 26. bills and, Neel, Col. Thomas, 19, 67(2), 77. Nesmith, Samuel, 17. Ordinary, ii. 20, 23, 55, 58, 7, 11(2). 64. 86

Osborn,Palmer,PardonParker,Parker,Pou, D avid, William,orJohn,John,Joseph,T homas, Amnesty, 18. 16,16, 76. 16, 74.19.28(3), 22(2), 62, 67, 29, 46, 27, 72. 37(4), 74. PowderPowell, George Receiver, Gabriel, 40, 41, 3,51, 5, 58. 6, 8, 13,

Powell, 14, 27, Robert28, 30, 33, 46,William, 60, 76. 27, 55(2),

President 64, 73- of South Carolina, election 38, 4 8, 56, 58, 74- of, 3, 4; address of acceptance of, Parliament (British), 42. 6; inauguration of, 7, 8, 9; con Parsons, Col. James, 6, 8, 9, 10(2), gratulatory address to, 12, 13, 14, 20, 22, 23, 25, 27, 31, 31-33; power Patrols,PPattern,Patterson,Patton,Pawley,Pay atrick,74- of Capt.member49.Henry,George,James, Robert, , 19.35.18, 20,of 76. 76. the 19, General 67, 76. As to suspend Habeas Corpus Act granted to, 21, 24, 26; authorized to draw on treasury for pay of mil itia, 22 ; ordinance granting certain powers to, 24(2), 25(2), 29, 33, 33-34, 39, 40, 46, 47, 48; authorized to have a great seal made, 29; Paymaster,Pegues,Pendleton,Pearson,Pegues,Peans,Pensions,Peronneau, sembly, Richard, Claudius,William, Philip, 21,21. 31,Henry,22,Henry, 64. 19.61,35,20. 39.15, 5, 21,67. 31,20, 6(2). 33, 76. 36, 40, message to, enclosing list of civil officers, 36, 40; representatives of the British Government to have communication with no one other than the, 43; requested to give or ders for obstructing Stono Inlet, 48, 49; power that formerly vested in the governor vested in, 50; au thorized to pay Peter Timothy and 41, 51, 58. Peter Bounetheau, 53 ; address to Philadelphia,Pickens,Pinckney, Andrew, Col. 3 8. Charles, 18. 3, 8, 13, 27, requesting the ordering of a day of fasting and prayer, 61, 62; re quested to give orders for the establishment of a general hospital, Pinckney, 29, 32, 46(2), Lt.-Col. 73. Charles Cotes- 65 ; requested to publish declaration worth, 8, 11(2), 12, 13(2), 15, Prince,Prioleau,Pritchard,PrivyPrincePrice,Prince of pardon Council,Hopkin, James,William's Frederick'sJohn, Samuel, James, and 77. 18.72 16, amnesty, ;Parish, 18, 53.53.elections Parish, 19. 75. 72. for75. mem 20(2), 27, 28, 33, 34(2), 36, 37, 38, 44, 46(3), 47, 51, 52, 54(2), 55(2), 59, 60(2), 61, 62, 63(2), 64(2), 66, 68(2), 75- PortPinckney,Plowden,Porcher,Polk,Pledger,Poaug,Polk,Port,Porcher,Pollard,Porcher, Henderson, Thomas,Thomas,Ezekiel, John, James, Philip,Philip,Samuel,Isaac,John, H opson, 16. 19, 18,18, 17.18.16.20.16, 56,77. 59,17. 19.75. 16.34, 76. 60, 6s.

bers of, 9-10, 15; power to sus pend Habeas Corpus Act granted to president and, 21 ; secretary and Prosper,Proclamations,Proctor,Prosser, other officers Robert,Richard,62(2),Stephen, 7.of 63. 61. 17.67.the, 42, 48. Provincial tO, 1 2, 13, 14, C ongress 20, 22,of 23, 25, 27, South Caro 31, 31-33; address of at closing of ses lina, 23, 27, 55, 56, 73 ; president of, Rutledge,Salaries,Salt,Salley,Salvador, sion, 52-53. John,A.69-71. 12. Thomas, Francis,S, 76. Jr., I, 17,12, 73- 75. 25, 26(2), 46, 3 ; president of to give certificates to members of for pay, 21 ; secretary °f, 3. 53! assistant secretary of, Public 53; currency Treasurers, issued 21, by,31, 25,33, 36, 40, 62, 65.

41, 5 1, 58. Rangers,Rapley,Purves, RichardJ 35,ohn, 36, 18. 55(3>- Andrews, 13, 15, 21, Saluda 48, 49, 52,River, 54, 57, districts 64, 76. between SanteeSarrazin,Satterwaite,Savage, Broad River, Jeremiah,Capt.John, River Jonathan, John, 49,Thomas, 18, and, 75. 19.16.19. 53. 67, 27,77. 38, 47(2),

Ravenel,RegisterRegulars,Reid,Richards,Reynolds,Richardson,Rice,Richardson,Robinson,Roads,Rivers,Richman,Rivers,Robinson, William, 29(2), 55,James, 49,Thomas,Isaac, ofJames,47(2), 56(5). 7,Dr.JamesDavid, John,Elisha,William, 50,Mesne Richard, 59,Col.54-55, 16. Jacob,16, 64,16. of17.Leyton, 16.74.Richard,61,68.Conveyances, 64. 67. 76.Crowder's 17. 18,Jr., 19, 66, 20,76.16. 66. 3, 76. 19, Creek, 7. 76.

Savannah 64(2), 73- River, district between the Saxe-Gotha,Scott,Scott,Seal,Screven,Seabrook, north the Jonathan,William,John, fork ofBenjamin, Joseph,president 66,son 76. Edistb16, 16, of 16. 74. 17.18,Jonathan,and 75. River council and, 17. au 76.

thorized to order a great, 29; a SecretSecretarySedition, temporary Committee, billof Southpublic, to prevent, 56. Carolina, 29. 24, 31,7. 38,

Robinson,Ross,Rothmahler,Ross,Robison,Rogers,Rose,Ross,Rowe,RulesRowe, 19. Capt.William,Hugh,George, Samuel,and Michael John, George, John, Francis,Orders Job, 17. 19, 19. 17.18. of Christopher, 18, 77.18. Mill of12,76. Creek,77.General 18. 19. As

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dress of accepting presidency, 4-5; tivecongratulatory Council and address General of Assembly Legisla- ' 88

Skirving,Strother, William, C apt. William, 20, 67, 77. 12, 13, Thomas,Tebout,Taylor,Summer,Stuart,Stuart,Talbot,TavernsSwighead,Sumter,Syme,SwordSwinton,Tennent, 61, 76. John, ofMrs.John,John,Thomas, Tunis,Thomas, andEdward, William,Adam, Rev.State, George, Sarah, 16.punch39,35. 13.William, 8.20, 42.Sr., 76.Jr., 67. 16. 42. 77.houses, 67(2). 16. 37, 49, 51, 50- 54, '

Smith,Slann,Smith,Smith,Smith, 37(2), James,Joseph,Henry,John,Philip,Capt.Benjamin,Capt. 74. Ralph,Roger,20. 16.16, 16. 16. 74.16, 19,8, 74. 10, 67. n, 12(2),

13-14, 22, 25, 27(2), 35, 36, 37, 40(2), 43, 47, 51(2), 55(2), 56(2), 73- South-CarolinaSmith, SpartanSmithson,Snow,Speaker, William, T homas,District, elected, Mr., 30(3). Gazette,18. 16. 67. 7, 8; made The, 73. a Jus

Thomas,Thomas, 26, 67, John,Col.77. John, Jr., 19, 11(2), 67. 19, 25(3),

Thomson, James, 17. St.St.St.St.St.St.St.St.St.St.St. tice John'sAndrew'sHelena'sDavid'sJames'sJames'sBartholomew'sPaul'sJohn'sPhilip'sMichael'sMatthew'sPeter'sGeorge's Pierre, of the Parish,Parish,Parish, Parish, Parish,Parish,Parish,Parish, John Parish, Quorum, Parish, Parish,Parish, Parish, 74. Colleton,LewisBerkeley,Parish, 75.73.76. GooseSantee, 75. 74.73.Dorchester, 76.15. du 74.Creek, 75.75. 74. Mesnil 74.74. Thomson, William, 18. Timothy, Peter, 8, 53(2), 73. Toomer, Anthony, 14, 37, 73. Toomer, Joshua, 16. Toquoh,Townsend, 39. Capt. Paul, 33, 36, 73.

Trapier, Capt. Paul, Jr., 11(2), 15, 18, 2 0, 25, 27, 41 (2), 43, 47, 52, 75. Treasurers, 41, 51, 58. Public, 21, 31, 33, 36, 40,

Treasury, 41,of the, 42; 51,12, 53,22, 55, 31, 33,56, 64; 58(4), 34(2), Commissioners 62,36, 64. 38, 40,

Verree,VanderTroup,Tucker,Trentham,Tucker,Turner,Turner,Turner,Turquand,Tyger,Treaty,Tutt, 61, 73- Benjamin, John,John, 39.Horst,Alexander,William,Thomas,Thomas,John, Joseph, Rev. 19.16. 77., Arnoldus, Paul,36.19. 26,75.17.18. 20. 31(2),76. 16, 45.73. 48,

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74- Stanyarne, W illiam, 17. Starke, Robert, 13. Stevenson, Capt. John, 31, 37. Stobo, James, 16. Stobo, Richard Park, 17. Stone, Capt. Benjamin, 45, 48, 74. StonoStoutenburgh, of, 48,Inlet, 49. obstructions William, 17. for the bar Vinyard,Vice- 5, 8, President 10. John, of31. South Carolina, 4,

Strother, George, 18, 67. Virginia, 43(2). Waddleton,WadmalawWaight,Ward,WaterWaring,Waring,Walter,Waight,Watson,WatereeWilliams, 66, 76. Passages,Joshua, Richard, Richard,Abraham,Thomas,Benjamin,William,Samuel,River, Robert, TIsland, homas, 6, district49, 67,17,35,74.22(2), Jr.,17. 16.17. 17,50, 19. 74.77.36(2), 16. 68.74. eastward 74. 53- of, Williamson, Major Andrew, n, 15,

Williamson,Wilson,Wilson, 66(2), James, 76.John, William, of 76. Ninety 14, 75. Six Dis

Wise,Withers,Wisdom,WinyahWinn,Witherspoon,Wofford,Wilson,Winn,Witherspoon,Witten,Wilson,Wood,Woodward,Wood,Wylly,Wragg,Wright,Yonge,Young,Zubly,Young, trict, Capt. Richard,Capt. David,James,35.John,William,Francis, Benjamin,Peter,Thomas,John,William,Samuel,Bay,John, Richard,Thomas,William, Thomas,Samuel,John, John,75.13,Gavin, of17. 19.19.16, 20. 17. 19. 18.66.Wadmalaw,18.18. 61,11,16.14,19,74. 18. 76. 18.20.20,67.77.75. 26, 67, 17. 77.

West Florida, 57(2), 61, 68. West 60(2), Indies, 61, 68, British, 71, 72. 33, 42, 57(2),

White,Weyman, 73- Anthony, Edward, 18, 26, 75. 29(2), 30, 34,

White, Sims, 16. Whitefield, George, 19. Wigfall, John, 17. Wigfall, Joseph, 17. Wilkinson, Edward, 19. Williams, Capt. James, 19, 26, 67, 77. Williams, John, 19, 67, 77. Williams, Robert, 16.