The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

324 COMMONS JOURNAL, JANUARY 15, 1759–FEBRUARY 16, 1759Mayne was referred, That they had considered the matter of the said Memorial,and had directed him to report the same, as it appear’d to them, to theHouse, and he read the same in his Place, and afterward delivered it in atthe Clerk’s Table, where the same was read and is as follows (Vizt.)That they find that Mr. Mayne ought to have shipped the Indigo mentionedtherein on or before the 17th of March 1758, in Order to avail himselfof the Drawback, but Your Committee submit it to the Consideration ofthe House, whether they will be pleased to grant the Prayer of the Memorialistfor the Reason he assigns.Resolved that the said Report be now taken into Consideration.The said Memorial was read a Second Time;Then the Report being read a Second Time,A Motion was made and the Question being put that a Resolve of thisHouse do pass for the Public Treasurer to pay Mr. Mayne the Draw-back, asprayed for in the Memorial.It passed in the Negative.Resolved that this House will grant His Majesty a Sum sufficient to defraythe Charges of the Government of this Province from the 25th Day ofMarch 1758 to the 31st Day of December 1758 inclusive.Ordered that leave be given to bring in a Bill on the said Resolution,and that Mr. Lamboll, Mr. Daniel Crawford, Mr. Mazyck, Mr. Laurens, Mr.Gadsden, do prepare and bring in the Same.Ordered that Mr. Lynch and Mr. Moultrie do wait upon the Governorand humbly desire His Excellency’s Leave to adjourn ’till Monday the 5th Dayof March next.And the said Gentlemen withdrew.A Message from the Council by Mr. Simpson.Mr. Speaker,The Council have twice read “a Bill for repealing all former Acts andParagraphs of Acts of the General Assembly of this Province relating to Discounts,and for Comprizing in One Act the several Acts and Paragraphs ofActs of the General Assembly of this Province with regard to Discounts.”The Council have read the Petition of Thomas Hailes, addressed to theGovernor, Council and Assembly, 32And then the Messenger withdrew.Ordered that It be an Instruction to the Committee to whom the PublicTreasurer’s Accounts were referred, that they do, in Conjunction withsuch Members of the Council as shall be appointed for that Purpose, see such32No copy of this petition has been found. The Upper House Journal notes a petition of Hailes “inbehalf of himself and many of the Inhabitants of this province,” but gives no abstract of its contents.