Subject: 18 May 1758 Powder Receiver's Accounts
Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 22:57:59 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 02:00:46 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
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To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

Thursday the 18th day of May 1758. P.M.

"... Mr. Rattray Reported from the Committee appointed to Audit the Powder
Receiver's Accounts as follows:

That they Have Examined the Powder Receiver's Books and Receipts and find that
there is Twelve Thousand four hundred & forty seven Pounds Weight of Gun Powder
now in the Public Magazine Exclusive of three thousand Weight Borrowed from the
public by Captain Hale, Commander of his Majestys Ship Winchelsea, and two
Thousand Weight Borrowed by Capt. Arbuthnot of his Majestys Ship Garland, which
remainder of Powder now in hand the Committee have View'd in the Said Magazine
and find the Same in good Order.

Ordered that the Treasurer do Monthly advance to Mr. Benjamin Strodtman the
allowance resolv'd by this House to be provided for him for his Care of the
Artillery being Nine Pounds Six Shillings per Week.

Resolvd That this House will Provide for reimbursing The Treasurer in the Same.

And then the House adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock...."

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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