The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

JULY 13, 1759425Pounds per Month. To each Private Man Fourteen Pounds per Month.Resolv’d That the said Rangers do furnish themselves with Horses, Accoutrementsand Provisions.Resolv’d That the said Troops of Rangers be continued in the Pay ofthis Province till the first Day of November next or till the next meeting ofthe General Assembly after, if His Excellency the Governor shall judge theirService so long necessary.Order’d That an Address be prepared to be presented to The Governorupon the said Resolutions.And accordingly the following One was drawn, vizt.May it please Your Excellency,We have very maturely consider’d the Messages which Your Excellencywas pleas’d to send this House the 11th & 12th Instant with the several Paperswhich accompanied the same, and, after solemnly debating the subject matterof the said Messages and other Papers, we have resolv’d that no Provisionbe made by this House for continuing the Regiment in the Pay of this Province:But do adhere to the Resolutions which we communicated to YourExcellency in our Address of the 9th Instant.And, with respect to the Inroads made by the Indians, we came to thefollowing Resolutions, vizt.That this House will make a provision to enable Your Excellency to raisetwo Troops of Rangers, each to consist of a Captain, Lieutenant and twentyprivate Men; to patrol in such part of the Back-Settlements as your Excellencyshall judge necessary.That the Captain’s Pay be Thirty five Pounds per Month each. The LieutenantsTwenty five Pounds per Month each, and each private Man’s, FourteenPounds per Month; they furnishing them-selves with Horses,Accoutrements and Provisions.That the said Rangers be continued in the Pay of this Province till thefirst Day of November next, or until the next meeting of the General Assembly;if Your Excellency shall judge their Service so long necessary.Order’d That the said Address be presented to the Governor by Mr.Crawford and Mr. Pinckney; and that they do humbly desire his Excellency’sleave to this House to adjourn till Monday the 19th of November next.Mr. Crawford reported to the House, That they went to attend the Governorwith the Address, but his Excellency being indisposed they gave theAddress to his Excellency’s Secretary to be deliver’d to his Excellency, andat the same time desir’d the Secretary to acquaint The Governor that thisHouse desir’d his Excellency’s leave to adjourn: And that the Secretaryinform’d them his Excellency had been pleas’d to say that he had a Messageof importance to send to this House to-morrow Morning.