The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

DECEMBER 6, 1758247The Committee beg leave to submit the Same to the Consideration ofthe House.And concerning An Act Intitled,No. 30. “An Additional, Explanatory Act to An Act Intitled ‘An Act toimpower the several Commissioners of the High-Roads, Private Paths &ca.’”Passed the 17th of May 1751 to be in force for 7 Years.The Committee are of Opinion that the same be Continued for 5 Years,Excepting such Parts of the same as have been altered or amended by anySubsequent Act or Acts passed since the said 17th Day of May 1751.Resolved That this House will on Thursday Morning next take the saidReport into Consideration.Mr. Pringle reported that Mr. Wragg had taken the Oaths before HisExcellency.Ordered that Robert Pringle Esqr., 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. Wragg.And Mr. Pringle administred the said Oath accordingly.And then Mr. Wragg took his Seat as a Member of the House.Ordered That Collonel Richardson be added to the Committee Towhom the Petitions of the Inhabitants on Pedee in St. Mark’s Parish, and ofthe Inhabitants of Pedee in Craven County are referred.And The House adjourned till to morrow Morning Ten of the Clock.Wednesday the 6th Day of December 1758.The Journal of Yesterday’s Proceedings was read.Ordered That The Order of the Day for Considering The Report fromthe Committee appointed to inspect the Laws for Electing Members to representthe Inhabitants of this Province in General Assembly, be now read.And the said Order being read accordingly,The “Act for enlarging the Qualifications of the Electors, as well as thePersons to be Elected to serve as Members of the General Assembly of thisProvince,” passed the 25th of May 1745, was read.And the first Resolution of the Committee (vizt.) That It was the Opinionof the Committee that the Qualification of Electors ought to be “Everyfree 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 Dates of theWritts issued for that Election at which he offers to give his Vote, and hath aFree hold Estate in a settled Plantation or not less than three hundred Acres