The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

MAY 3, 1758185Mr. Speaker,The Council have Agreed to the Bill intitled “an Additional Act to theActs for the Relief of the Poor of this Province” without any Amendments.And also,The Council have Agreed to the Bill intitled “an Act Establishing a RoadLately Laid out from Tippicut-Law Old Feild in St. Johns Parish to Murray’sFerry Road in St. Stephens Parish and for discontinuing Such Part of MurraysFerry-Road as is therein mentioned” without any Amendment.And then the Messenger withdrew.Ordered that the said Bills be ingrossed.Mr. Stobo reported from the Committee to whom the Petition of Severalof the Inhabitants of Edisto Island was referred, that the Committee had Examinedthe Matter of the said Petition & had directed him to report the same as itappears to them to the House, & he read the Report in his Place & afterwardsdelivered it in at the Clerks Table where the same was read and is as follows, Viz.That they observe several of the Subscribers to the said Petition are inthe Station of Overseers, & the Major Part of the Inhabitants, Possessors ofEstates on that Island, have Petitioned for a Road, and Ferry, your Committeeare therefore of Opinion the Prayer of this Petition ought to be rejected.The Said Report being read a Second Time was upon the Questionbeing put thereupon agreed unto by the House.And then the House adjourned till Tomorrow Morning Nine of the Clock.Wednesday the 3d of May 1758.The Journal of Yesterdays Proceedings was read.The House According to the Order of Yesterday took into Considerationthe Report from the Committee to whom his Excellency the GovernorsMessage of the 28th of Last Month in relation to providing for the Continuingthe Carolina Regiment in pay for another Year.And the first & Second Paragraphs of the said Report being severallyread a Second Time, were severally agreed to by the House.The third Paragraph, That the Compelling Vagrants to inlist in the SaidRegiment will not Answer the End proposed in as much as such PersonsCannot be relied on, being read a Second time & the Question being putthat the House do agree with the Committee in the said Paragraph.It Passed in the Negative.Ordered That a Bill be brought in for Compelling Vagrants to Inlist inthe South Carolina Regiment, And that Mr. Lynch, Mr. Gasden, Mr.Crawford, Mr. Leigh, Mr. Pinckney & Mr. Lowndes do prepare & bring in theSame.