The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

JULY 12, 1759423isfaction for the Murders committed in Rouan County by the Men of Settico,I have issued the necessary Orders for the removal of the Trader from thatTown.William Henry Lyttelton.And then the Messenger withdrew.And Mr. Speaker read the Message to the House.Read also a Petition of sundry of the Inhabitants of the Catawba Riverand the Waters thereof address’d to the Governor.Read also a Copy of a Letter from Colonel Alexander Osburn to GovernorDobbs of North-Carolina, Dated 29th April 1759.Read also Extract of a Letter from Governor Dobbs to his ExcellencyGovernor Lyttelton, Dated 25th May 1759.Read also a Copy of a Letter from the Governor to Old Hop and theLittle Carpenter, Cherokee Chiefs.Read also Copy of Old Hop’s and the Little Carpenter’s Answer to thesaid Talk.Read also Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant Coytmore to his Excellencythe Governor, dated Fort Prince George 8th May 1759.Read also Extract of a Letter from Captain Paul Demeré to his Excellencythe Governor, Dated Fort Loudoun 1st June 1759.Read also Extract of a Letter from a Gentlemen at Brunswick NorthCarolina Dated 6th July 1759.Order’d, That the said Message & other Papers be referr’d to the Considerationof the Committee of the whole House to whom His Excellency’sMessage brought down Yesterday is referr’d.Then the House resolv’d itself into the said Committee.Mr. Speaker left the Chair.Mr. Pringle took the Chair of the Committee.Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.Mr. Pringle reported that the Committee had come to two Resolutionswhich they had directed him to report, when the House will please to receivethe same.Order’d, That the said Report be now receiv’d.And accordingly Mr. Pringle read the Report in his Place and afterwarddeliver’d it in at the Clerk’s Table: Where the same was read and is as follows,Vizt.