The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

NOVEMBER 29, 1758239Mr. Berresford, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Gadsden, Mr. Moore, Mr. Manigault, Mr.Thomas Waties, Mr. John Waities.Ordered That a Committee to audit the Accounts of the Public Treasurerbe appointed, of Mr. Guerard, Mr. Middleton, Mr. Laurens, Mr. Blake,Major Stoutenburgh, Mr. Daniel Crawford, Mr. Moultrie, Mr. Wainwright, Mr.Glover.Ordered that a Committee to audit the Commissary General’s Accountsbe appointed, of Mr. Lamboll, Mr. Mazyck, Mr. Pringle, Captain Taylor, Mr.Freer.Ordered that a Committee to audit the Powder Receiver’s Accounts beappointed, of Mr. Ralph Izard, Mr. Broughton, Mr. Murray, Mr. Drayton, Mr.Faucheraud.Ordered that all Committees do sit this Afternoon.Then the House adjourned ’till to Morrow Morning Ten of the Clock.Wednesday the 29th Day of November 1758.The Journal of Yesterday’s Proceedings was read.Mr. Lynch reported from the Committee appointed to inspect the Actintitled “An Act to ascertain the manner and form of Electing Members torepresent the Inhabitants of this Province in the Commons House of Assembly&ca.” That the Committee had inspected the said Act and Consideredwhat Alterations and Amendments are necessary to be made thereto, andhad directed him to report the same, as it appeared to them, to the House,and he read the Report in his Place, and afterward delivered it in at theClerk’s Table, where the same was read and is as follows, Vizt.That it is their Opinion that the Qualification of Electors ought to beEvery White Man and no other Person, professing the Christian Religion whohas attained to the Age of twenty One Years and hath been a Resident andInhabitant in this Province for the Space of One Year before the Date of theWrits issued for that Election at which he offers to give his Vote, and hath aFreehold Estate in a settled Plantation or not less than three hundred Acresof Land unsettled for which he paid in the last preceding Tax or hath a Freeholdin Houses, Lands or Town Lots or parts thereof of the Value of SixtyPounds Proclamation Money, in Charles Town or any other Town in thisProvince, for which he paid in the last preceding Tax, or any free white Personof the Age of twenty One Years, who hath paid five Pounds Currency inthe last preceding Tax before such Election.That the Qualification of the Elected should be a free born Subject ofthe Kingdom of Great Britain or of the Dominions thereunto belonging ora foreign Person naturalized by Act of Parliament of Great Britain or Ireland