The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

422 COMMONS JOURNAL, JULY 2, 1759–JULY 14, 1759pleas’d to communicate to this House all such Informations as You have receiv’d relativethereto, as likewise what Steps have been taken by Your Excellency upon the receiptof such Information for demanding Satisfaction of the said Indians, andpreventing the like Outrages for the future; And what Answers the said Indians havegiven Your Excellency to such Demands.Order’d That the said Address be presented to His Excellency by Mr. Elliott andMr. Canty.Order’d That the Committee who were appointed to receive Proposals of Personsfor methodizing the Laws of this Province be reviv’d.And then the House adjourn’d till Four of the Clock.P.M.Resolv’d That this House will, to-morrow Morning resolve itself into a Committeeof the whole House, to consider of the Message and other Papers brought downthis Morning from His Excellency the Governor.Mr. Gadsden reported from the Committee appointed to receive Proposals ofPersons relating to methodizing the Laws of this Province as follows, vizt.That they have receiv’d two Proposals on this Matter, one from a Sett of Gentlemenwho conceal themselves under the name of Decemviri, and don’t chuse to beknown till they can tell whether their Terms will be accepted; but their Proposals (vizt.£1100 Sterling, besides having a fair Copy of the Laws made out for them) so greatlyexceeding our Limitation, that the Committee think it needless to offer them to theHouse.The other is from Mr. Pritchard whom the Committee have seen and beg leaveto submit his Proposals to the House, as his Offers are a little beyond this Limitation.Then the Proposals of James Pritchard for digesting the Laws of this Provincewere read.Order’d That the said Report do lie upon the Table.And then the House adjourned till to-morrow Morning, Ten of the Clock.Thursday the 12th Day of July 1759.The Journal of Yesterday’s Proceedings was read.A Message from the Governor, by Mr. Bassnett.Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen,I send you herewith the Papers you applied to me for by your Message ofthe 11th Instant, 44 and have only to add that as the Indians declined giving Sat-44Dobbs to Lyttelton, May 25, 1759, Demere to Lyttelton, June 1, 1759, Lyttelton Papers, ClementsLibrary (microfilm at SC Archives, reel 3); Lyttelton to Old Hop and the Little Carpenter (with reply),BPRO Transcripts, 28: 215–20; Coytmore to Lyttelton, May 8, 1759, in William L. McDowell, Jr., ed., DocumentsRelating to Indian Affairs, 1754–1765, The Colonial Records of South Carolina, series 2 (Columbia,1970), pp. 487–88. No copies of the other documents have been found.