[Charleston] Tuesday the 1st Day of October. 1776
Resolved That this House will ballot for Commissioners to superintend and direct the Naval Affairs of the State of South Carolina
And the House having proceeded to ballot accordingly
It appeared That Edward Blake Thomas Savage, Josiah Smith junior
Thomas Corbett Roger Smith George Abbot Hall and the Honourable Thomas Shubrick Esquires had the Majority of Votes
A Bill for establishing a Board of Commissioners to superintend and direct the naval affairs of the State of South Carolina was read a Second
Time
And the names of the Commissioners being inserted and several amendments made to the Bill
Ordered That the Bill be sent to the Legislative Council
1. Salley, ed., South Carolina General Assembly Journals, 70, 72.