The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

APRIL 29, 1760533May it please your Honour,For Answer to your Message of this Morning, recommending to us tomake some provision for subsisting the Catawba Indians; we beg leave toacquaint Your Honour, that we have resolved to provide a Sum not exceedingSeventeen Hundred Pounds Currency, for a Supply for Fifty Warriors,with Blankets, Guns and other Necessaries; and proper Cloathing and Provisionsfor one hundred and fifty Women and Children.Ordered That the said Address be presented to His Honour by Mr.Pringle and Mr. Laurens.And then the House adjourned till to-morrow Morning Ten of the Clock.Tuesday the 29th Day of April 1760.Read the Journals of Yesterday’s Proceedings.The Order of the Day, for the House to resolve itself into a Committeeof the whole House, upon the Lieutenant Governor’s Message and severalLetters relating to providing for Presents to be given to the Creeks andChickesaw Indians to induce them to join us in the War against the Cherokees,being read.Ordered, That the said Message and Letters be referred to the saidCommittee.Then the House resolved itself into the said Committee.Mr. Speaker left the Chair.Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.Resolved, That Mr. Lowndes be Chairman of the Committee of thewhole House.Then Mr. Speaker left the Chair.And Mr. Lowndes took the Chair of the Committee.Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.And Mr. Lowndes reported from the said Committee that they hadmade some progress in the Message and Letters and that he was directed bythe Committee to move that they may have leave to sit again.Resolved, That this House will in the Afternoon, resolve itself into aCommittee of the whole House to consider further of the said Message andother Papers.And then the House adjourned till Three of the Clock.P.M.The House (according to Order) resolved itself into a Committee of thewhole House to consider further of the Lieutenant Governor’s Message and