Subject: Armory Report, 17 March 1758
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 02:29:22 -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

Friday the 17th of March 1758.

"... Ordered that no member do presume to go out of Town without the Leave of
the House.

Mr. Blake reported from the Committee appointed to View the arms in the Public
Armory that they had view'd the Said Arms Accordingly and had directed him to
report the State of the same to the House. And he read the Report in his Place &
afterward delivered it in at the Clerks Table, Where the same was read & is as
follows, Viz.

The Committee View'd in the Armory 1267 Stand of Arms fit for Service;

Ten Stand of Arms & two Buckaniers given by Richards to the Public;
Five Musketts, wanting Stocks;
Three not worth mending;
154 Cutlasses without Scabbards;
4 Halberts, 4 Pistols;
369 Bayonetts with Scabbards;
639 Bayonetts without Scabbards;
269 Single Cartridge Boxes filled;
34 double Cartridge Boxes filled;
11 Cartridge Boxes Empty;
220 Stand of Arms deliverd to the Buffs with as many Bayonets & Cartridge Boxes;
24 Indian trading Guns which were ordered to be sold by the House Still remain
in the Armory.

Ordered that the said Report do Lie upon the Table.

An Account of Oliphant & Garden amounting to £37:7:6 for Medecines administred
to Prisoners of warr was read.
Ordered that the said Account be referred to the Consideration of the Committee
appointed to Audit the Accounts of the Creditors of the Public.

Ordered that the Several Committees do Sit this Afternoon.

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

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