The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

542 COMMONS JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 4, 1760–AUGUST 6, 1760Resolved, That this House will, in the Afternoon, resolve itself into aCommittee of the whole House upon the said Bill.And then the House adjourned till Four of the Clock.P.M.A Message from the Council by Mr. Bassnett.Mr. Speaker,The Council have read a Memorial of Charles Woodmason Esqr. ofBlack-Mingo, addressed to the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly.And then the Messenger withdrew.And the House according to Order resolved itself into a Committee ofthe whole House upon the “Bill to enforce a due subordination and observanceof Military Discipline among the Forces employed in the Service ofthis Province.”Mr. Speaker left the Chair.Mr. Roper took the Chair of the Committee.Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.Mr. Roper reported from the Committee that they had gone throughthe Bill and made several Amendments thereunto, which they had directedhim to report to the House, and he read the Report in his Place, and afterwardsdelivered the Bill, with the Amendments, in at the Clerk’s Table:Where the Amendments were once read throughout, and then a Secondtime one by one; and severally agreed to by the House with Amendments tosome of them.Ordered, That Mr. Wragg and Mr. Guerard do carry the Bill to theCouncil.The Memorial of Charles Woodmason Esqr. setting forth,That in the Year 1751 50 The General Assembly passed an Act for buildinga Public Bridge over the North Branch of Black-River (commonly call’dBlack Mingo Creek) which Bridge was accordingly built and established asa Public Bridge, but was carried away in the great Hurricane of September1752 and not since rebuilt.That the necessity of a Bridge over the said Creek is far greater now thanformerly, as the Back Settlements are much improved and extended andBlack-Mingo become a great Thoroughfare for Travellers and Herds of Cattleto Charles-town, from Pedee, Lynch’s Creek, the Yatkin, Indian Town, andthe Cheraws.50The act establishing Black Mingo Bridge was passed not in 1751 but on May 29, 1744. See TheJournal of the Commons House of Assembly, September 14, 1742–January 27, 1744, pp. 554–55; Cooper and McCord,Statutes, 9: 135–36.