Subject: Accounts 27 April 1758
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Thursday the 27th of April 1758.

"... Mr. Pringle reported from the Committee appointed to Audit the Accounts of
the Creditors of the Public, that the Committee had Examined the Residue of the
Accounts which were referred to their Consideration & had directed him to report
the Same as they appeared to them, to the House, and he read the Report in his
Place & afterward delivered it in at the Clerks Table w[h]ere the Same was read
& is as follows, viz.

Report No. 5, from No. 465 to No. 473.

No. 465. An Account of Commissary Pinckney for Sundry Disbursments Amount[ing]
to £1958:3, allowed.

No. 466. A Second Account of Mr. Pinckney for wood amounting to £405 Supplied
from 8th of March to the 8 April, at which Time Mr. Wright refused to Supply
Wood, allowed.

No. 467. An Account of Samuel Prioleau amounting [to] £111:18:9 for Rent of a
House for the Highland Soldiers, which being dated the 15th of April are of
Opinion ought to Lye Over till provisions is made for defraying the Charges of
the Current Year.

No. 468. An Account of Hugh Branchman, Recommitted, for a Criminal Amounting
[to] £49:3, Sundry Overcharges Amounting to £20:2:3, Paid by the Treasurer £20
Ballance £9:0:9 allowed.

No. 469. An Account of John Milner, Gunsmith, Recommitted, Amounting [to]
£1120:1:3, In which we find Overcharg'd on 369 Bayonets Scabbards 10/ Each,
being upon the Examination of Several Tradesm[e]n Valued at Lowest Price at 12/6
Each, Likewise £266:12:6 Overcharg'd on 237 Scabbards not finished & deliver'd
till after the 25th of March, which your Committee are of Opinion Ought not to
be provided for till next Year, the Ballance being £668:18:9 we Recommend to be
allowed.

No. 470. An Account of John Kith, Indian Trader, Recommitted, amounting [to]
£821:10, In which we find Overcharg'd £487:10 in sundry Articles & £200 already
paid him by his Excellency the Governor by an Order on the Treasurer, the
Ballance being £134 we Recommend to be allowed.

No. 471. An Account of Daniel Pepper, Recommitted, Amounting [to] £4208 5/;
there has been three Letters writ to him about Same & to Send the Committee his
Journals. His Answer was that he was Sick & Could not Attend & as to his Journal
he did not Receive any Order or Directions to Keep one, neither did the Law
Pass'd for Regulating the Indian Trade Mention any Agent So doeing, So that your
Committee have not been able to Gett any further Enlight or Information Relating
to the Said Account, Therefore beg Leave to Submitt it to the Consideration of
the House.

No. 472. A Third Account of Commissary Pinckney amounting [to] £32:10 being for
Boat Hire to Carry Soldiers to Fort Johnson at Sundry Times, we Recommend to be
allowed.

No. 473. A List of the officers who have removed from their Quarters before 30th
November & of those who had never any assignd them: Captn. Harding, Ensign James
Grant, Lieut. Archibald Robertson, Lieut. William McKenzie, Lieutn. Duncan Bayne
& Lieutn. Collin Campbell, Ensign McDonald, Ensign Houston & Doctr. McLean.
Names Mentioned in the Said List have already been provided for at 50/ per Week;
as Collo. Montgomery Charges only £3:10 per Week for the Captains, 50/ whereof
has already been agreed to, the Committee recommend 20/ per Week more to be
added to the allowance for Captains Quarters & 50/ per Week to Major Tulliken.
And we recommend the further following allowances for Gentlemen who have had no
Quarters or have removed before the 30th November Last.

Collo. Montgomery, £62:10, Major Grant, £62:10, Lieut. Sutherland, £31:5,
Lieutn. Phillips, £43:15, Adjutant Stewart, £10, Lieut. Collo. Stevens, £62,
Captn. Mercer, £43:10, Lieutn. Stewart, £5:14, Captn. Lander, £21, Captain
Sinclair, £35, Captn. Hugh McKenzie, £35, Ensign Hagart, £2:10, Lieutn. Blagg,
£10:14, Ensign Jenkins, £43:15, Surgeons Mate Macdunnetts, £17:10.

And finish'd their Report.

The Committee having now Gone through all the Accounts take Leave to make A
General Observation or two, which have occurred to them in the Examination of
the Said Accounts. And 1st the Committee observe that as the Accounts are not
all Delivered to the Committee at the same Time they have not an Oppertunity of
ranging them under their proper Heads by which much Confusion is introduced;
2dly That as this House provides for the Charges of the Government from the 25th
March to the 25 of March it has been thought reasonable to Committ all Accounts
delivd before that Day by which Means the Sessions is protracted to an
unreasonable Length & Gentlemen from the Country are obliged to attend in Town
at a Time when their Presence in the Country is of the Utmost Consequence to
their Private Affairs.

To Remedy which Inconveniences the Committee recommend it to the House to
provide for Defraying the Charges of the Government for the future from the 1st
January to the 1st of January (Especially as the Style is now altered by Act of
Parliament). To receive no Accounts after the first Day of January next for the
Charges of the Current Year & to Order the Clerk to range every Account for
Distinct Services under their proper heads, So that the House may See at one
View the Charge for Every Different Services & the Tax bill may be passed Early
in the Spring.

Ordered that the said Report be Considered to Morrow Morning.

Mr. Guerard reported from the Committee appointed to audit the Treasurers
Accounts,

That in Obedience to the Order of the House they have Examined the State of the
Tax for the Year ending the 25th March 1756, & find the Treasurer has received
the Sum of £93,745:7:0 & that the Estimate annexed to the Tax Law of that years
amounts to £93,629:10:0 which being Substracted Leaves a Ballance of £115:17 in
the Hands of the Treasurer Exclusive of those Returns not yet finally Settled.

And then the House adjourned 'till to Morrow Morning Nine 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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