The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

JUNE 6, 1760619for Payments to Officers and Men in the annexed List, which leaves a Balanceof £97:10 to be yet accounted for or deducted from Colonel Powell’s pay.Mr. Pringle reported from the Committee who were appointed to auditthe late Powder Receiver’s Accounts that they had examined the saidAccounts accordingly, and had directed him to report the State of the Same,as it appears to them, to the House, and he read the Report in his Place, andafterward delivered it in at the Clerk’s Table: Where the same was read, andis as follows; vizt.That having examined the said Accounts they find the Balance of GunPowder at present in the Magazine belonging to the Public to be 4228 lb. Andwhich agrees with the Quantity which has been delivered into the Custodyof James Reid, the present Powder Receiver, as appears by his Receipt for thesame.Besides which there are Nineteen Barrels of Gun Powder, containing1900 lb. Weight put into the Magazine by John Hume being sent here byGeneral Amherst for the use of the Ordnance.Also a Balance of the Account for Beacons and Buoys in the hands ofJacob Motte junr., late Powder Receiver, being £190:4:5.Ordered That Mr. Joseph Nutt, Commissary on the late Expeditionagainst the Cherokee Indians, do lay before this House an Account of theIssues of the Sum of One Thousand Pounds Sterling, which was resolved bythis House to be applied to the use of the Militia Men employed on the saidExpedition in Part of their Pay: And also an Account of the Sale or in whatmanner the twenty Chests of Firelocks were disposed of that were sent to theCongrees to be sold by the Commissary, upon Credit, to such of the Militiaas should be desirous of purchasing the said Firelocks.Ordered That a Committee be appointed to inquire into the presentState of the Acadians in Charles Town; and to consider and report to theHouse such Measures as they shall be of Opinion will most effectually preventany Mischief being done by the said Acadians in this Time of PublicDanger; of the following Gentlemen, vizt., Mr. Manigault, Mr. Rattray, Mr.Middleton, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Taylor.The House (according to Order) took the Report from the Committeewho were appointed to audit the Accounts of the Public Treasurer, intoConsideration.And the said Report being read a second time throughout.Resolved, That this House will provide the Sum of £1683:4:3 due to thePublic Treasurer on account of the general Duty Fund.Resolved, That the Sum of £2445:7:11 being the Balance in the Fund arisingby Licences for retailing of Spirituous Liquors, be applied in aid of Taxto be raised for defraying the Charges of the last Year.