The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

DECEMBER 2, 175747Resolv’d that this House will this afternoon take the said Report intoConsideration.A Message from the Council by Mr. Bassnett.Mr. Speaker,The Council have twice read “a Bill for forming & Establishing an ArtilleryCompany of the Militia in Charles Town.”And then the Messenger withdrew.And the House proceeded to read the said Bill a third time.The Amendment made by the Council to the Preamble of the Bill beingtwice read was disagreed with by the House.And the following Amendment was proposed, viz., leave out Preamble& insert “Whereas severall well disposed Persons, Inhabitants of CharlesTown, have by their humble Petition to his Excellency the Governor voluntarilyoffered to Serve as an Artillery Company & humbly prayed to beformed into Such a Company which his Excellency having been pleased togrant & to Commission officers for that Purpose.”And the said Amendment was upon the Question being put thereupondisagreed with by the House.The Councils amendment to Leave out the first Section was disagreedwith by the House.Another Amendment of the Council, viz., Line 12 Insert “with the approbationof his Excellency the Governor” was upon the Question being putthereupon disagreed with by the House.And the Bill was read a third time throughout & Several Amendmentswere made by the House to the Bill.Resolv’d that the Bill do pass and that the Title be “an Act for forming& Establishing an Artillery Company of the Militia in Charles Town.”Ordered that Mr. Manigault do carry the Bill to the Council & desiretheir Concurrence.And then the House adjournd till Three of the Clock.P.M.Mr. Berresford reported from the Committee to whom the Governorsorders to the Commissary for Supplying the Forces now in Charles Town withNecessaries were referred, that the Committee had Enquired into the Matterwhich they had Yesterday in Charge, with respect to the Intention of oneof the Officers of [the] Highland Battallion to defraud the Public & had directedhim to report the same as it appeared to them to the House, and heread the report in his place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerks TableW[h]ere the same was read & is as follows, Viz.