The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

50 COMMONS JOURNAL, NOVEMBER 14, 1757–DECEMBER 9, 1757be allotted for the Hospitals; & also of Wood & Candles for the Guard Rooms.I Can not admit that the Provision you have resolv’d to make is as Ampleas the Circumstances of your Constituents can afford, & I do recommend itto you in the Strongest manner to come to Such Resolutions, concerning theseveral Matters I have herein propounded to you, as may be most correspondentwith your Duty to the Crown & the Sense you Express of His Majestysgreat Goodness to you.William Henry Littleton.Also a Message from the Council.Mr. Speaker,The Council have Twice read “a Bill providing certain Regulations concerningHis Majestys forces in the Province of South Carolina & to prevent their desertion& for the better carrying on his Majestys Service in the said Province.”And then the Messenger withdrew.Resolvd that this House will to morrow Morning Ten of the Clock takethe said Message into Consideration.The House being informed that Charles Canty Esqr., duly Elected as aMember to Serve in this present General Assembly for the Parish of St.Stephens, attended at the door, he was Called in & Mr. Speaker ask’d him ifhe was willing to Qualify himself as a member of this house. To which heAnswer’d in the Affirmative.Order’d That Mr. McQueen & Mr. Murray do wait upon the Governorwith Mr. Cantey & humbly desire his Excellency to permit him to take theOaths & to make & Subscribe the Declaration & to take & Subscribe the oathof Abjuration pursuant to the Laws made for those purposes.According to Order, the following Message was Drawn, vizt.May it please your Excellency,A Committee having been appointed by this House to consider whatProvission was necessary to be made by this Government for theAccomodation of the Forces now here; they had Occasion to Call beforethem Mr. Doyley (Who has transacted the Commissarys Buiseness for him,ever Since his Sickness) & Mr. Marlow, the Carter, (who Furnish’d the forceswith Firewood) to be informed of some Matters, relative to what they hadunder Consideration. And having acquainted the House, that they had receivedsome information from the said Mr. Doyley & Mr. Marlow of an Intentionof one of the Officers of the Highland Battallion to defraud thePublic, the Committee were ordered to report that Matter, as it appeared tothem, with their Opinion thereupon to the House, which they accordinglydid in the following Words, vizt.“That in Obedience to the Order of the House they had Examined Mr.