Subject: Carolina Regiment - Draft Unconstitutional, Northward Recruits
Resent-Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 23:31:57 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 02:34:29 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
Organization: gamecock@yours.com
To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

Tuesday the 2d of May 1758.

"... Mr. Lamboll reported from the Committee to whom the Governors Message in
relation to making provission for the Carolina Regiment for one year Longer was
referred, that the Committee had Considered the matter of the said Message & had
directed him to report their Opinion thereupon to the House & he read the Report
in his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerks Table, Where the same
was read & is as follows, Viz.

The Committee have Inquired into the Present State of the Fund provided for
defraying the Charges of the Carolina Regiment, intended to Consist of Seven
Companies for one Year, to End the fifth of July next, & find by the Treasurers
Account thereof, that besides the Expence of Cloathing sent for to Great Britain
& other Charges & Disbursements incurr'd to this Time & also deducting the Sum
of £20,000 Lately resolved by the House to be taken & used for raising a Body of
Cherokee Indians to march to the Assistance of His Majestys Northern Collonies
against our Enemies there, is Still remaining unexpended upwards of £75,000
Current Money, which the Committee are of Opinion will be Sufficient to defray
the Levi-money & pay off the whole Regiment a Considerable Time Longer after the
Said Year Shall be Expired, and therefore think it will be unnecessary to make
any additions thereto. The Committee humbly conceive the making Draughts from
the Militia to Compleat the said Regiment is unconstitutional.

That the Compelling Vagrants to inlist in the said Regiment will not answer the
End proposed in as much as Such persons cannot be relied on. But the Committee
are of Opinion that the most [proper] Method of procuring Recruits for filling
up the said Regiment will be by sending Officers to the Northward & inlisting
Volunteers for that Purpose. And as to the Bounty-Money for Inlisting, it does
not Appear to the Committee that any Sum was Limited in that Case by the Act of
Assembly.

Ordered that the Said Report be Considered To morrow Morning...."

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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