Subject: 9 May 1758 Letter to the Governor
Resent-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:00:42 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 03:03:16 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
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Tuesday the 9th of May 1758.

"... According to Order the following Addresses to the Governor were Drawn.

May it Please Your Excellency,

The Sessions of the General Assembly having been hitherto protracted to a very
Great Length by the making provision for the Charges of Government up to the
25th day of March in every year, we have resolved to provide for the Charges of
the Current Year from the 25th of March Last to the 31st of December next & that
from thence forth such Charges be Annually Provided for from the 1st day of
January to the Last day of December, which we are persuaded will tend to
facilitate the Public Bussiness, to the Great Benefit of the Country Gentlemen
who are obliged to Attend the Service of the House at a Season of the Year when
their Attention is most requir'd to their private affairs.

And we humbly desire that Your Excellency will please to Order the Treasurer to
Give Public Notice of this our Resolution as soon as Conveniently may be, & to
Continue such Notice for a Reasonable Time that all the Accounts of the
Creditors of the Public may be ready to be Laid before us at our first meeting
after Christmass.

May it Please your Excellency,

We return your Excellency our most Sincere Thanks for what you were pleased to
Communicate to this House in your Message of the 28th Ultimate, and having
maturely Considered the Subject matter thereof and made Inquiry into the Present
State of the Fund provided for raising our Provincial Regiment, and finding that
upwards of Seventy five Thousand Pounds are Still remaining of that Fund
unexpended, we are of Opinion that the Same will be Sufficient to defray the
Expence of Levy Money & pay the whole Regiment for a Considerable Time after the
Year which they are to be Continued Shall be Expired; And therefore think it
will be unnecessary to make any Additions thereto, Nor can we be of Opinion that
it is proper to make draughts from the Militia to Compleat the said Regiment,
But that the most Effectual means for that purpose will be to Enable the
Magistrates to Inlist Vagrants as propounded by your Excellency, & we have
Orderd a Bill to be brought in accordingly; we are Likewise of Opinion that the
Sending Recruiting Officers to Inlist Men in the No[r]thern Colonies, will
further tend to the Speedy raising of the said Regiment. And with respect to the
giving a Larger Bounty to those who shall Enter into the Service, that Matter is
rested intirely with your Excellency (as it appears to us) by the Law for
raising the Regiment.

May it Please your Excellency,

Having Considered your Excellency's Message with regard to the Scout Boats, we
have resolved to insert the Sum of three Hundred Pounds to pay for the new Boat
in the Schedule to the present Tax-Bill, & to provide in the usual manner for
the several Articles Expressed in the Letter from the Commissioners for the
Scout Boats & the Lists of Stores therein referred to, when the Account of those
Charges shall be laid before this House.

And with regard to the Account of James Laurens & Company transmitted to us by
your Excellency, we beg Leave to Acquaint Your Excellency, that in An Account of
that Company's Laid before the Late Assembly, Last Session, these Articles for
the use of The Garrison at Frederica in Georgia, were inserted, which being a
Charge for the Use of a Garrison in another Colloney, that Assembly did not
think the same shoud be provided for by this Government; And this House, being
of Opinion that the Paying the Sum Mentioned in this Account (altho it be but a
Small one) may be productive of heavy Charges in time to Come, cannot make any
Provision for the Same.

And then the House adjourned till Tomorrow 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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