It being suggested to the House that there was no Pilot or Pilot Boat for the Bar and Harbour of Beaufort nor any Fund from which they could be supplied and maintained

Ordered That Mr [Daniel] DeSaussure Captain [John] Joiner Colonel [Benjamin] Garden Captain [Thomas] Savageand Major [Keating] Simons be a Committee to consider and report proper ways and means of procuring maintaining and regulating a Pilot Boat to attend the Bar and Harbour of the Port of Beaufort

Mr Speaker reported That this House having attended the President in the Council Chamber he had presented to His Excellency

An Ordinance for providing Juries for Beaufort District at the next November Courts

And also,

An Act for establishing a Board of Commissioners to superintend and direct the naval affairs of South Carolina

To both which His Excellency had been pleased to give his Assent