The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

MARCH 28, 1759367the Lame Distemper, Yaws, and other scorbutical Disorders, as described in the Directionsabove annexed;Joseph Howard.Sworn before me, this 24th March, 1759.Thomas Wright. 36Ordered that Mr. Gadsden and Mr. Manigault do attend the Governorwith the Engrossed Message of Yesterday, Concerning the several Sums duefor Supplys to the South Carolina Regiment.“A Bill for impowering the Church Wardens and Vestry of the Parishof Saint Bartholemew, to dispose of the Pews in the Chappel lately Erectedat Edmundbury in the said Parish,” was read a Second time with Blanks,which were filled up, and several Amendments were made by the House tothe Bill.Ordered that Mr. Lowndes and Mr. Blake do carry the Bill to the Council;A Motion was made and the Question being put that the “Bill for raisingand granting to His Majesty the Sum of £ . . . for defraying the Chargesof this Government from the 25th Day of March 1758 to the 31st Day of December1758 Inclusive, and for other Services therein mentioned,” be Committedbefore the Second Reading thereof;It passed in the Negative.Then the House proceeded to give the said Bill a Second Reading.A Motion was made and the Question being put, that all the Landsgranted in this Province, be taxed according to their full Value;It passed in the Negative.Resolved (upon the Question) that the Words in the Bill, whereby a Taxis imposed on Black Cattle, be dashed.Ordered that the further Consideration of the said Bill be postponed.Then the House adjourned ’till this Afternoon three of the Clock.P.M.Ordered that the Order of the Day for taking the Report from the Committee(to whom the Consideration of proper Methods for Sinking the PublicOrders issued since 1753, and the Examination of the Treasurer’s Account of36South Carolina Gazette, April 7, 1759. The newspaper included Howard’s statement thanking theGeneral Assembly for purchasing the cure, which he assured them had “not failed one in twenty, andwhere it has, it has been for want of close application to the prescription, or making use of such things asis injurious to the efficacy of it.” Howard announced a schedule of times and places where he wouldexhibit the herbs to the interested public, and offered information to anyone who would apply to him “atBroughton-Hall in St. John’s parish, or at his own house at Santee.”