The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

FEBRUARY 9, 1760457wou’d please to be attended by the House, had been pleas’d to appoint tomorrowMorning, Eleven of the Clock, at His own House.Ordered That it be referred to the Committee who were appointed todraw up an Address to be presented to The Governor on the subject Matterof His Excellency’s Speech, that they do consider of, and report to thisHouse, their Opinion of the most effectual Measures of providing for thesecurity and defence of this Province against the Incursions of the Indians.Ordered That Mr. Moore, Mr. Berrisford and Mr. Glover be added tothe said Committee.Ordered That the said Committee do now sit.And then the House adjourned till to-morrow Morning Ten of theClock.Saturday the 9th of February 1760.Read the Journals of Yesterday’s Proceedings.Mr. Graeme reported from the Committee to whom it was referred toconsider of and report to the House, their Opinion of the most effectualMeasures of providing for the security and defence of this Province againstthe Incursions of the Indians, that the Committee had considered the sameaccordingly, and had come to several Resolutions thereupon, which they haddirected him to report to the House; and he read the Report in his Place,and afterward delivered it in at the Clerk’s Table; where the same was read,and is as follows; vizt.That in their Opinion, for the immediate protection of the Back-Settlements,or to prevent the further Incursions of the Cherokee Indians into thisProvince, Five Companies of Rangers shou’d be rais’d with all possible Expedition,Each Company to consist of 100 Men, and be commanded by aCaptain and two Lieutenants: And therefore your Committee recommendthat the House do provide for paying each Captain £50, Each of the first Lieutenants£35, Each of the Second Lieutenants £30, and each of the private Men£14 per Month, until the first Day of July next.And the Committee further recommend, that His Excellency be addressedto grant Commissions, as Captains, to such Persons only as can respectivelyraise an hundred Men to act under their Command; And that HisExcellency will be pleas’d to allow every of the said Captains to nominate hisown Lieutenants.And to invite all his Majesty’s Subjects in general effectually to annoythe Cherokee Indians, The Committee recommend, that £25, CurrentMoney, be paid for the Scalp of every Cherokee Indian upon the same beingdeliver’d up and destroyed, to the Person by whom such Indian shall be