The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

418 COMMONS JOURNAL, JULY 2, 1759–JULY 14, 1759Mr. Crawford reported from the Committee who were appointed toconsider of ways and means to raise Money for paying the three Companiesintended to be continued in the Service of this Province, that the Committeehad consider’d the same, and had come to several Resolutions thereupon,which they had directed him to report to the House, and he read theReport in his Place, and afterward deliver’d it in at the Clerks Table: Wherethe same was read, and is as follows, vizt.That a Sum of Fifteen Thousand Pounds, current Money of this Province,will be sufficient to discharge the Expence of Six Month’s Pay of ThreeCompanies, consisting of One Captain, two Lieutenants, one Ensign, and oneHundred private Men each, at the several Rates and Proportions in theSchedule hereunto annex’d.That an Aid be granted to His Majesty, by laying a Tax, or inland Dutyof Five Pounds Current Money per Head on the first Purchasers of all sizeableNegro Slaves, and two Pounds per Head on all Slaves under size hereafterto be imported into this Province, to be applied toward discharging thePay of the said Companies.That the said Tax or inland Duty shall commence . . . Months after thepassing of an Act of the General Assembly for that purpose and be continuedduring the space of two Years and no longer.That the Sum of £15,000 shall be borrow’d and taken out of the Moniesnow lying in the Treasury belonging to the Township-Fund, and be appliedtoward the present Pay of the said three Companies, and shall bereplaced again into the said Fund, out of the Monies arising from the Taxor inland Duty on Slaves aforesaid.An Estimate of the Pay of Three Companies, consisting of One Captain,two Lieutenants, One Ensign and one hundred private Men each for sixMonths.3 Captains at 8/ Sterlingper Day £ 1: 4: 06 Lieutenants at 4/ 1: 4: 03 Ensigns at 3/2 9: 612 Serjeants at 1/ 12: 012 Corporals at 8d 8: 06 Drummers at 8d 4: 02 Surgeons at 2/6 5: 0270 private Men at 6d 6:15: 0Sterling £ 11: 1: 6Equal to £77:10:6 Currencyfor 183 Days is £ 14,187: 1: 6