The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

JANUARY 26, 1759287now in Force for regulating the several Patrolls in this Province is defective,That an Alteration be made therein, that the several Owners or Other Personswho have the Care and Management of Slaves be obliged to make outlists once in the Year at least, to contain not only the Numbers but the Namesof the Slaves they respectively own or have the Care of, to be delivered to theCaptain or Commanding Officer of the Company, and by him to the Personsappointed to Command the several Patrolls within his Command, That theCommanders of Patrolls may have Power to call over such Lists in the severalPlantations, and to punish by whipping or Otherwise such Slaves as arefound to be absent from their respective Plantations, unless good Reasonsare given for their so being absent, & therefore praying the Premisses maybe taken into Consideration.Ordered that a Committee be appointed to take the said Petition into Consideration,and that they do examine the matter thereof, and Report the same,as it shall appear to them, to the House, And It is referred to Captain Taylor, Mr.Izard, Mr. Broughton, Mr. Cantey, Mr. Pringle, Mr. Freer, Mr. Horry.Mr. Laurens presented to the House (according to Order) “A Bill forTaxing Transient Persons.”And the Same was received and read the first Time.Resolved that the Bill be read a Second Time.A Motion was made and the Question being put that the “Bill for repealingall former Acts and Paragraphs of Acts of the General Assembly ofthis Province relating to Discounts and for Comprising in One Act the severalActs and Paragraphs of Acts of the General Assembly of this Provincewith regard to Discounts,” and the “Bill for Taxing transient Persons,” be reada Second Time to Morrow Morning.It passed in the Negative.And the Question being put that the said Bills be read a Second Timeon Monday Morning next.It passed in the Negative.Resolved that this House will on Tuesday Morning next give the saidBills a Second Reading.The Order of the Day for taking into Consideration the Report from theCommittee appointed to agree with a Printer to print the Acts of the GeneralAssembly lately passed in this Province which have not yet been printed, was read.Then the first Paragraph of the said Report was read a Second Time.Resolved that Two hundred Copies of the Acts of the General Assemblyof this Province be printed.The Second, third, fourth and fifth Paragraphs being severally read, aSecond time; were severally agreed unto by the House.The Sixth Paragraph being read, a Second Time;