The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

APRIL 27, 1758171Ordered That it be an Instruction to the said Gentlemen That they doinsert a Clause or Clauses in the Said Bill for Establishing a Ferry fromCharles Town to Hobcaw, to Grays Landing in Christ Church Parish & toDaniels Island.Mr. Pringle reported from the Committee appointed to Audit the Accountsof the Creditors of the Public, that the Committee had Examined theResidue of the Accounts which were referred to their Consideration & haddirected him to report the Same as they appeared to them, to the House,and he read the Report in his Place & afterward delivered it in at the ClerksTable w[h]ere the Same was read & is as follows, viz.Report No. 5, from No. 465 to No. 473.No. 465. An Account of Commissary Pinckney for Sundry DisbursmentsAmount[ing] to £1958:3, allowed.No. 466. A Second Account of Mr. Pinckney for wood amounting to£405 Supplied from 8th of March to the 8 April, at which Time Mr. Wrightrefused to Supply Wood, allowed.No. 467. An Account of Samuel Prioleau amounting [to] £111:18:9 forRent of a House for the Highland Soldiers, which being dated the 15th ofApril are of Opinion ought to Lye Over till provisions is made for defrayingthe Charges of the Current Year.No. 468. An Account of Hugh Branchman, Recommitted, for a CriminalAmounting [to] £49:3, Sundry Overcharges Amounting to £20:2:3, Paidby the Treasurer £20 Ballance £9:0:9 allowed.No. 469. An Account of John Milner, Gunsmith, Recommitted, Amounting[to] £1120:1:3, In which we find Overcharg’d on 369 Bayonets Scabbards10/ Each, being upon the Examination of Several Tradesm[e]n Valued atLowest Price at 12/6 Each, Likewise £266:12:6 Overcharg’d on 237 Scabbardsnot finished & deliver’d till after the 25th of March, which your Committeeare of Opinion Ought not to be provided for till next Year, the Ballance being£668:18:9 we Recommend to be allowed.No. 470. An Account of John Kith, Indian Trader, Recommitted,amounting [to] £821:10, In which we find Overcharg’d £487:10 in sundry Articles& £200 already paid him by his Excellency the Governor by an Orderon the Treasurer, the Ballance being £134 we Recommend to be allowed.No. 471. An Account of Daniel Pepper, Recommitted, Amounting [to]£4208 5/; there has been three Letters writ to him about Same & to Send theCommittee his Journals. His Answer was that he was Sick & Could not Attend& as to his Journal he did not Receive any Order or Directions to Keepone, neither did the Law Pass’d for Regulating the Indian Trade Mentionany Agent So doeing, So that your Committee have not been able to Gettany further Enlight or Information Relating to the Said Account, Therefore