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Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative Council.
Mr Speaker and Gentlemen,
On considering Captain Lamprieres Letter herewith sent and other Representations respecting the Ship Prosper it was thought expedient at the Time of the late Invasion to apply her Guns to the use of some of the Batteries and put her out of the way of Danger.
In my Opinion it will be most for the Public...
Date: 21 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Ordered That the Order of the Day to ballot for another Commander of the Brigantine Comet be discharged
Ordered That a Committee be appointed to receive the Names of Persons desirous or proper to be appointed to the Command of the Brigantine Comet that they do sit forthwith for that Purpose and give Public notice thereof
Date: 23 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Order of the Day being read...
A Petition of John Berwick Esquire was presented to the House and read in the words following
That on or about the night of the 16th of July last while your Petitioner was called from the Care of his private Concerns and bearing Arms in Charles Town in Defence of this State against the cruel Invaders of its just Rights and Priviledges an armed Vessel supposed to...
Date: 25 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Mr [Aaron] Loocock reported from the Committee to consider and report the Quantities and different Articles necessary to be imported from Philadelphia under the Direction of the Delegates of this State And he read the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was read in the following words
That it is their Opinion application should be made to our...
Date: 30 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
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...
Date: 1 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The House proceeded to a Third Reading of a Bill for establishing a Board of Commissioners to superintend and direct the naval affairs of the State of South Carolina
But it appearing upon Reading the First Clause of the Bill that the Honourable the Legislative Council had struck out the name of one of the Commissioners who had been ballotted for by this House and inserted the name of another...
Date: 4 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
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...
Date: 8 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Resolved 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 Brigantine called the Glasgow-Packett One Sixth of the neat Amount of Sales of the said Cargo
Date: 11 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House an Ordinance for allowing and keeping in Repair a Pilot Boat to attend the Bar and Harbour of Beaufort and for regulating the Pilotage of the said Harbour Read a Third Time in that House
Date: 12 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Mr [John] Neufville reported from the Committee to examine the Public Treasury accounts and to report to the House an exact and circumstantial Account of the state of the Treasury what sums have been issued and for what particular Service arranging under distinct Heads the particular Services for which the monies have been expended, And he read the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered it...
Date: 14 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
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...
Date: 15 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Resolved That it is the Opinion of this House That the Commissioners of the navy do forthwith furnish and supply Colonel [Christopher] Gadsden with all the assistance of vessels and Hands in their power to Procure to carry on the Public Work he is now about And that a copy of this Resolution be served on the said Commissioners
Message from the Legislative Council by their Clerk
Mr Speaker and...
Date: 16 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Message to the President
May it please Your Excellency
This House being informed That the Trade of this Place is subject to many Inconveniences by the Delay attending Vessels being obliged to call at Fort Johnson and Fort Moultrie both in going out and coming in request your Excellency will give Orders that in future Vessels coming in may only be obliged to call at Fort Moultrie and going out at...
Date: 19 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6