The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

JULY 14, 1759429And then he withdrew.Order’d That a Committee be appointed to enquire whether the Contractors,for supplying the Kings Forces in North-America with Provisions,are liable to pay for the carriage of Provisions to the Out-Posts and Garrisonsin this Province; and to write to the Agent for the Inhabitants of thisProvince in Great-Britain, to make enquiry there concerning the same; ofthe following Gentlemen, Vizt., Mr. Wragg, Mr. Rattray, Mr. Lowndes, Mr.Mazyck, Mr. Pinckney, Mr. Guerard, Mr. Graeme, Mr. Leigh, Mr. Laurens.Order’d That the said Committee have power to sit notwithstanding anyAdjournment of the House.Order’d That the said Committee have power to send for Persons, Papers,and Records for their better Information.Mr. Rattray reported to the House, that The Governor having beenwaited upon pursuant to their Order humbly to desire his Excellency’s leaveto this House to adjourn till Monday the 19th Day of November next; HisExcellency was pleas’d to give the House leave to adjourn till that Day.And accordingly the House adjourn’d till Monday the Nineteenth Dayof November next.Return to contents ➔