The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

DECEMBER 1, 1758241and take and subscribe the Oath of Abjuration pursuant to the Laws madefor those Purposes.Mr. Moultrie reported that Mr. Richardson had taken the Oaths beforeHis Excellency.Ordered That John Rattray Esquire, a Member of this House and Oneof His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, do administer the Oath, appointed bythe Election Law to be taken by all Persons who shall serve as Members ofthe General Assembly, to Mr. Richardson.And Mr. Rattray adminstred the said Oath accordingly.And then Mr. Richardson took his Seat as a Member of the House.Ordered That the Order of the Day for Considering the Report fromthe Committee to whom the Memorial of the Commissioners for foundinga School for the Use of the Inhabitants of South Carolina be now read.And the said Order being read accordingly.The said Memorial was read a Second Time.And the Report being read a Second Time.The Act for founding the said School was read.Then the said Report was, upon the Question being put thereupon,disagreed with by the House.Ordered That all Committees do sit this Afternoon.And then the House adjourned ’till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock.Friday the first Day of December 1758.The Journal of Yesterday’s Proceedings was read.Mr. Lynch reported from the Committee appointed to inspect the Lawswhich impose any Duty or Tax on transient Persons, that the Committee hadinspected and examined the said Laws, and had directed him to report thesame, as it appeared to them, to the House, and he read the Report in hisPlace, and afterward delivered it in at the Clerk’s Table where the same wasread and is as follows, Vizt.That They are of Opinion the present Act imposing a Duty on transientPersons is insufficient to answer the Purposes thereby intended, especially as theyfind a great part of it repealed by the last Clause of the General Duty Law,wherefore they recommend that a Clause or Clauses in the next Tax-Bill maybe framed obliging Every Master of a Vessel or other transient Person whoshall import or bring into Charles Town any Goods or Merchandize for Saleto make an Oath (a form of which shall be inserted in the Act) of a true andjust Entry of the said Goods or Merchandize with the Prime cost of them tothe Comptroller immediately on his Arrival in the Harbour under a Forfeiture,and that the Comptroller shall forthwith send a Copy of such Entry to