The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

550 COMMONS JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 4, 1760–AUGUST 6, 1760time of pestilential Sickness daily increasing in the said Drain is greatly offensiveand may if not timely removed become of dangerous Consequencenot only to the Petitioners, but to many others of His Majesty’s good Subjects.And praying that a Bill may be brought in and passed into an Act fortheir relief in the premises.Ordered, That the Petition be referred to the Consideration of a Committee;and that they do examine the Matter of the said Petition, and reportthe same, with their Opinion thereupon, to the House.And it is referred to Mr. Guerard, Mr. Wragg, Mr. Mazyck, Mr. Gadsden,Mr. Lamboll, Mr. Laurens.And then the House adjourned till to-morrow Morning Nine of theClock.Wednesday the 7th Day of May 1760.Read the Journals of Yesterday’s Proceedings.Mr. Lamboll reported from the Committee to whom the Petition of theCommissioners for the Markets in Charles Town was referred, that they hadexamined the Matter of the said Petition and had directed him to report thesame, as it appeared to them, to the House; and he read the Report in hisplace and afterward delivered it in, at the Clerk’s Table: Where the samewas read, and is as follows, vizt.That the Committee having examined the said Commissioners and theallegations of their Petition, and also view’d the Old Market House heretoforebuilt on the North-Eastern Part of the Land originally reserved and allottedfor a Market Place in the said Town; And also admeasured the saidLand, recommended for the building a New Market on, do find the saidPetition to be reasonable, the said Old Market House gone to decay and theSituation thereof incommodious, as it lies too near southward to the NewChurch of St. Michael’s Parish, and Westward to the State House, both whichBuildings were erected since the setting up of the said Old Market House.Wherefore the Committee beg leave to offer it as their Opinion that as thesaid Market Place is near the Center of the said Town, it will be most properto build a New Market House, suitable for the purpose with convenient Stallsand Accommodations thereto on the North side of the said Market Squareand of the said Old Market House; leaving a Space of Twenty nine feet orthereabouts in breadth, North and South, on the North side of the saidMarket Square and of about Twenty four feet in breadth East & West on theEast End of the said Square for Passage, whereby a Space of about One hundredand twenty feet will be left from the Front or North Side of St. Michael’s