The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

188 COMMONS JOURNAL, APRIL 17, 1758–MAY 19, 1758the assessors from rating Goods consigned to Factors to dispose of as Factorsonly.And the Said Amendment was upon the Question being put thereupon,disagreed with by the House.Another amendment was proposed, viz.That Overseers & other Persons who receive Wages in the Country betaxed.And the said Amendment was upon the Question being put thereupon,disagreed with by the House.Another Amendment was proposed Shall all Tradesmen & others inCharles Town, the Profits of whose Buiseness do not Exceed £500 per Annumbe Exempted from Paying any Part of the Said Tax.And the said Amendment was upon the Question being put thereupon,disagreed with by the House.Then the Question being put that Such Profits under the Value of £400per Annum be Exempted from Paying any Tax.It Passed in the Negative.And the Question being put that Lands & Buildings, monies at Interest& Stock in Trade in Charles Town be rated Equally to make up the Residueof the Sum to be raised on the Parishes of St. Philip & St. Michael afterComputing what the Tax upon the Lands on Charles Town Neck, the Slaves,Black Cattle & the Poll Tax upon Free Negroes will raise.It Passed in the Negative.Another amendment was proposed, Viz., That Houses & Land & Stockin Trade in Charles Town be rated the same as Monies at Interest.And the said Amendment was upon the Question being put thereupon,agreed unto by the House.Ordered that the farther Consideration of the Bill be adjournd.A Message from the Council by Mr. Bassnett.Mr. Speaker,The Council have read a Petition of Joseph Ash and also a Petition ofthe Inhabitants on the north side of Black River in St. Marks Parish, as faras Lynches Creek, severally addressed to the Governor, Council & Assembly. 17And then the Messenger withdrew.And then the House adjourned ’till Three of the Clock.17The journal contains no text of the Black River petition, nor any reference to its being read. TheUpper House Journal contains an abstract of it, and there is also an extant manuscript copy (with signatures)printed in South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 26 (1925): 122–23.The petitioners prayed that David Anderson, Henry Cassels, Samuel Jones, Robert Lewis, andJohn Newman might be appointed commissioners for laying out such roads as might be commodious tothem in bringing to town their produce.