The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

362 COMMONS JOURNAL, MARCH 5, 1759–APRIL 7, 1759Bartholemew to dispose of the Pews, in the Chappel lately Erected atEdmundbury in the said Parish”;And the Same was received and read the first time.Resolved that the Bill be read a Second Time.Mr. Manigault presented to the House (according to Order) “An AdditionalBill to An Act of the General Assembly of this Province Intitled ‘AnAct for disposing of the Acadians now in Charles Town by Settling One fifthpart of their Number in the Parishes of Saint Philip and Saint Michael andthe other four Parts of them in the several other Parishes within this Province.’”And the same was Received and read the first time.Resolved that the Bill be read a Second time.And then the House adjourned till this Afternoon three of the Clock.P.M.Ordered that the Committee to whom the Commissary’s Accounts werereferred, do make their Report as soon as Conveniently they can.Mr. Guerard Reported from the Committee to whom the Considerationof proper Methods for sinking the Public Orders issued since 1753, and theExamination of the Treasurer’s Account of the Money Granted for the SouthCarolina Regiment were referred, that they had Considered the Matter toThem referred, and examined the Treasurer’s Account accordingly, and haddirected him to report the same, as they 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 they have Considered of proper Methods for Sinking all the PublicOrders and Tax-Certificates whose time of being Current is Elapsed andought to have been brought into the Treasury in Order to have been Exchangedand sunk, and do recommend that the Public Treasurer be orderedto insert An Advertisement in the Gazette and Continue the same a sufficienttime, that the Province in General may have Notice to bring in such Ordersand Tax-Certificates to be Exchanged, and also that a Standing Committeemay be appointed to visit the Treasurer’s Office at Stated Times to take anAccount of such Orders and Tax-Certificates, and to cause the Same to becancelled and filed, to be burnt when a Committee of this House shall bedirected to meet a Committee of the Council for that purpose; By theseMethods Your Committee are of Opinion the Ends intended will be the soonestand most effectually answered.Your Committee have also, in Pursuance of the Order of the House, Examinedthe Treasurer’s Account of the Money granted for raising and pay-