Subject: Quartering Soldiers, 18 March 1758
Resent-Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:34:04 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 02:36:28 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
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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

Saturday the 18th of March 1758.

"... According to order the following Message was Drawn, viz.

May it please your Excellency,

This House having maturely Considered your Excellencys Messages & Lieutenant
Collo. Bouquetts Letter Concerning Quarters for the Officers of the Forces
garrisoned in Charles Town & considering that Officers & Soldiers cannot be
Legally or constitutionally Quarterd in private Houses without the Special
Consent of the Owners or Possessors of Such Houses, and that the Provision which
we heretofore resolv'd to make for Subaltern Officers only, was a grant of
Favour, we cannot (respecting the Demand made of Quarters for all the Officers
without distinction) recede from our former Resolutions.

But in as much as upon the Arrival of the Forces divers Houses were taken &
hired for the recep[tion] & Accomodation of the Said Officers in pursuance of a
Resolution of the Late Assembly, we have resolv'd to provide for discharging
that Expence up to the 30th day of November Last.

And with respect to an Allowance for the Charges of Such Officers as have
removed from their Quarters or have never had any assignd them, we have
Postponed the Consideration thereof until we can know what those Charges are,
and therefore humbly desire that your Excellency will please to order such an
Account up to the 30th November Last to be Laid before this House.

Ordered That the said Message be presented to his Excellency the Governor by Mr.
Drayton...."

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