The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

MAY 6, 1760547Resolved That the Bill be read a Second time.And the Question being put that the Bill be read a Second time this DayFortnight.It passed in the Negative.Resolved (upon the Question) that the Bill be read a Second time thisDay Se’nnight.A Message from the Council by Mr. Simpson.Mr. Speaker,The Council have Twice read “a Bill to enforce a due subordination andobservance of Military Discipline among the Forces employed in the Serviceof this Province.”And then the Messenger withdrew.Ordered, That the Bill be read a Third time to-morrow Morning.Ordered, That as many Copies of the Election Act made the 21st Dayof September 1721, and an Additional Act to the said Act made the 7th Dayof April 1759 be printed as Mr. Manigault and Mr. Gadsden shall direct forthe use of the Returning Officers of the several Parishes in this Province.Resolved, That this House will provide for defraying the Expence ofprinting the said Acts.A Petition of James Reid of Charles-Town, was presented to the Houseand read, setting forth,That the Petitioner understanding Colonel Brewton’s Death will necessarilyproduce the appointment of another Powder Receiver at this meetingof the General Assembly, he therefore humbly hopes Your Honours willexcuse this his Supplication as a Candidate for that Office.He hopes no Member will construe it either to disrespect or indifferencethat he has not followed the customary Practice in writing to the several Membersfor their Votes and Interest on this Occasion, conceiving he can’t expectSuccess (but it’s contrary) from this Method, as he imagines every Member willkeep that in reserve till it comes under the deliberation of the House in theGeneral Assembly, and back’d with this further consideration, that he is check’dby may be too modest a diffidence from having been hitherto unsuccessful inattempts of this Nature; It is from a happy Administration and their kind Indulgenceif this is admitted a hearing; Yet as it is the Legislature’s Province only tomake choice of the fittest Object so he must think it his Duty humbly to acquiesceand submit to what their superlative Wisdom seems meet.And a Petition of William Logan was presented to the House and read,setting forth,That the Office of Powder Receiver being now vacant by ColonelBrewton’s Death, and that by many misfortunes the Petitioner is greatly reduced,whose place of residence in Charles Town and Ability, he humbly