[Charleston] Tuesday the 15th Day of October 1776
Message to the Legislative Council Honourable Gentlemen
On the 11th Instant we sent you for your Concurrence therein a Resolution "That the Commissioners of the Treasury as a further Encouragement to the Commander and marines belonging to the Vessel called the Revenge do pay and advance to the said Commander and men out of the amount of the sales of the Cargo taken from on board the transport Brigan- tine called the Glasgow Packet One Sixth of the neat amount of sales of the said Cargo" And we now desire to know if your Honours have concurred accordingly and if you have, that you will please to order the same to be sent to His Excellency for his assent
1. Salley, ed., South Carolina General Assembly Journals, 120, 122.
