The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

442 COMMONS JOURNAL, OCTOBER 4, 1759–OCTOBER 13, 1759Resolved That this House will not at this Time make any further Provisionfor continuing the said three Companies in the Pay of this Province.The Article relating to the Firelocks and Bayonets remaining of thosepurchas’d with Public Money being read a Second time, was upon the Questionbeing put thereupon, disagreed with by the House.Then the Question being put that one Hundred Stand of the said Armsbe deliver’d out for the Use of the Provincials Companies.It passed in the Negative.Resolved (upon the Question) that Twenty Chests of the said Arms becarried as far as the Congarees (if His Excellency shall think the same necessary)to be disposed of by the Commissary upon Credit to such of the Militia(desirous of purchasing the said Arms) as shall go upon the intendedExpedition, and that the Price of the said Arms be deducted out of the Pay,that shall become due to the Men who shall purchase the same.Order’d That the further Consideration of the said Report be adjourned.And then the House adjourned till Four of the Clock.P.M.The House resumed the adjourned Consideration of the Residue of theReport from the Committee to whom His Excellency’s Messages and theother Papers relating to the Cherokee Indians were referred.And the Article relating to an Adjutant General and Quarter MasterGeneral being read a Second time, was, upon the Question being put thereupon,agreed to by the House.The several Articles as far as the Article for building a Fort in theCatawba Nation being read a Second time, were severally agreed to by theHouse.And the said Article relating to building a Fort in the Catawba Nationbeing read a Second time, was, upon the Question being put thereupon,disagreed with by the House.Order’d that the further Consideration of the said Report be adjourned.And then the House adjourned till to-morrow Morning Nine of theClock.Thursday the 11th Day of October 1759.Read the Journals of Yesterday’s Proceedings.The House resumed the adjourned Consideration of the Residue of the