The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

576 COMMONS JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 4, 1760–AUGUST 6, 1760Agent in Great-Britain, for the purchasing of Cloaths and other Articles forthe Use of the said Regiment; We humbly desire, that Your Honour will bepleased to order such Accounts (if any such there be) as Mr. Wright hathtransmitted to this Province, relative to the Expending of the said Two thousandPounds, to be laid before this House.Ordered, That the said Addresses be presented to the Lieutenant Governorby Mr. Pinckney and Doctor Carne.Then the House proceeded to take the Report from the Committee towhom the Public Accounts were referred, into consideration.And the first Paragraph of the Report on the Muster-Roll of ColonelRichardson being read a Second time, was, upon the Question being putthereupon, disagreed with by the House.Ordered That the further consideration of the Report be adjourned tillto-morrow Morning.Resolved (upon the Question) That every Member of this House nowin Town, who shall not attend the Service of the House, to-morrow Morningat Ten of the Clock shall pay a Fine of Forty Shillings.And then the House adjourned till to-morrow Morning, Ten of theClock.Thursday the 22d Day of May 1760.Read the Journals of Yesterday’s Proceeding’s.A Message from the Lieutenant Governor by Mr. Bassnett.Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen,Lieutenant Colonel Howorth, Commander of Fort Johnson, havingrepresented to me, that the House in that Fort built for the Accommodationof the Commander thereof, is, at present in some need of repair; I orderedthat a Workman should view what Repairs were necessary, and report to mean Estimate of the Expence thereof, which hath accordingly been done, andwill amount to about One hundred & Sixty Pounds Currency.It is also necessary that there should be a convenient large Canoo readyat all times at that Fort, for the transporting Provisions and military Stores,as well as the relieving and reli[e]ved Detachments of Soldiers doing garrisonduty there; as the hiring Boats for such purposes is much more expensive;and as it may so happen that the Service may require a Communicationwith this Town on some emergent Occasion arising at that Fort.There is one Matter more, relative to that Fort, which I shall at presentlay before you, in order to give some Relief not only to the Garrison but tothe adjacent Plantations, and that is the want of Firewood for the Soldiers