Subject: Free School Act of 1712
Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 23:41:12 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 02:43:59 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
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To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

Friday the 24th Day of November 1758.

"... Mr. Lamboll reported from the Committee to whom the Memorial of the
Commissioners for founding, Erecting, Governing, Ordering and Visiting a School
for the Use of the Inhabitants of the Province of South Carolina was referred,
That the Committee had examined the Matter of the said Memorial and had directed
him to report the same to the House, and he read the Report in his place, and
afterward delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was read and is as
follows, Vizt.

That for the Reasons set forth in the said Memorial It appears to your Committee
necessary that a convenient piece of Ground should be purchased or procured as
near as possible can be to the Centre of Charles Town and that a commodious
Brick House of suitable Form and Dimensions should be constructed thereon,
Containing Commodious Rooms as well for teaching the Scholars as for
accomodating the Masters of the said School agreeable to the Intent and Meaning
of the Original Free-School Act passed the 12th of December 1712, That for
effecting and Compleating the same a Sum not exceeding . . . should be provided
and applied as shall be hereafter appointed.

Resolved that this House will on Thursday Morning next take the said Report into
Consideration...."

Source:
The Colonial Records of South Carolina
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly
Published by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-62239
ISBN: 1-880067-28-5

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