The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

FEBRUARY 10, 1760461As to the Matter the Committee had in charge, relative to the Small-Pox,as that Distemper is now in several Parts of the Town, and becomes moregeneral every Day, The Committee conceive, and are of Opinion any meansthat may be proposed for putting a Stop to it wou’d be ineffectual.Ordered, That the said Report be considered next Monday.And then the House adjourned till to-morrow Morning Nine of theClock.Sunday the 10th Day of February 1760.Read the Journals of Yesterday’s Proceedings.According to Order the following Address was drawn, Vizt.May it please Your Excellency,Having considered the several Matters contain’d in Your Excellency’sSpeech delivered to us the 7th Instant, as likewise the Advices you werepleased to lay before us since, concerning the Hostilities of the CherokeeIndians; we have come to such Resolutions, for the immediate protection ofthe Back-Settlements and to prevent the further Incursions of those Indians,as we are hopeful will prove effectual: Which we humbly beg leave to laybefore Your Excellency, Vizt.We have resolved to make provision to enable Your Excellency to raiseseven Troops of Rangers, each Troop to consist of a Captain, two Lieutenantsand seventy five private Men to be continued in the Pay of this Provincetill the first Day of July next. The Pay which we have resolv’d to provide foreach of the said Captains is Fifty Pounds per Month, for each of the first LieutenantsThirty five Pounds per Month, for each of the second LieutenantsThirty Pounds per Month, and for each private Man fifteen Pounds perMonth: The said Officers and private Men furnishing themselves, at theirown expence, with Horses, Arms, Ammunition and Provisions.And, to invite all His Majesty’s Subjects, in general, effectually to annoythe Cherokees, we have resolv’d to make provision for paying Twenty fivePounds, Current Money, for the Scalp of every Cherokee Indian Man, uponthe same being deliver’d up and destroy’d, to the Person by whom such Indianshall be slain, upon a Certificate thereof by one of the Captains of thesaid Troops, or any two of the Lieutenants, or other proof being made of thesame before your Excellency.And we are of Opinion that the Persons who shall subdue, and take anyof the said Indians alive, or any of their Effects, shall have an absolute propertytherein, but shall be oblig’d to ship off to some of the West-India Islands,or to sell, for Exportation thither, all such Indian Men as shall be so takenalive.