The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

MARCH 17, 1758133this Year amount to a very Large Sum but I doubt not when you reflect howdeeply His Majesty’s Service is Concerned & the Particular Interest of thisCollony whose future tranquillity & welfare may in the highest degree dependupon the Success of this measure & be either fatally interrupted orpermanently Establish’d as it prospers or miscarries and how much it willtend to the Honour of this Government & prove its great importance in theScale of American Provinces, If it can send a Large Number of Indians uponthis most Essential Service when the No[r]thern Governments areUnhappyly but ill able to Engage many in Such undertakings, I Say I doubtnot you will With Chearfullness & Alacrity grant the Supplies I Ask.Lord Loudoun observes that his Majesty Looks for the Aid of hisfaithfull Subjects for Such Services as these, and has so Expressed himselfboth in his Instructions to his Lordship & in his Letters to His Governors onthis Continent. I have only to Add, that his Lordship says that without dispatchthe whole Service Expected from this Measure will be Lost, and thereforeI hope to know your resolutions as speedily as may be.Willm. Henry Lyttelton.And then the Messenger withdrew.And the Message being read,Ordered That the Message be referred to the Consideration of a Committeeand that they do Examine the Matter thereof & report their Opinionthereupon to the House.And it is referred to Mr. Ralph Izard, Mr. Lamboll, Mr. Lynch, Mr.Manigault, Mr. Broughton, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Trapier, Collo. Izard,Mr. Rattray, Mr. Wright, Mr. Mazyck, Mr. Guerard, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Laurens.Then The House (According to Order of Yesterday) proceeded to take intoConsideration the Report from the Committee to whom his Excellencys theGovernor’s Messages & Lieutenant Collonel Bouquetts Letter in relation toQuarters for the officers of the Forces garrisoned in Charles Town were referred.And the first Paragraph of the said Report being read a Second [time]was agreed to by the House.The second Paragraph being read a Second time, the House agreed tothe first Part of the said Paragraph that Provission shoud be made for dischargingthe Expence of the Accomodation of the Officers to the thirtiethday of November Last.Ordered that the Consideration of the Latter Part of the said Paragraph,That an Equivalent Allowance be made for that Time to all Such of the officersof the said Corps as either removed from their Quarters or had noneassigned them, be pos[t]poned till an Account of the Expence such Officerswere put to for Quarters Shall be laid before the House.