The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

718 COMMONS JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 4, 1760–AUGUST 6, 1760And several Amendments were made by the House to the Bill.Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the Title be “an Actimpowering the Persons therein named to receive in Great-Britain on behalfof the Province of South-Carolina the Sum of Money therein mentioned.”Ordered, That Mr. Gadsden do carry the Bill to the Council and desiretheir Concurrence.According to Order the following Address was drawn, vizt.May it please Your Honour,In Answer to your Message delivered to us Yesterday desiring this Houseto make provision for purchasing such Presents to be given to the CreekIndians now on their way to see your Honour as are not in the King’s Storeand for such other Creek Indians as you have reason to expect soon here;we beg leave to acquaint your Honour that we have resolved to provide a Sumnot exceeding Seven Hundred Pounds, as an Auxiliary Fund to The King’sPresents to be distributed and laid out, for the said Indians at your Honour’sDiscretion.A Message from the Council by Mr. Bassnett.Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen,Upon reading a third Time the “Bill for raising and granting to HisMajesty the Sum of £163,710:6:1 1 /4 and applying £17480:11:5 &c.,” We are ofOpinion that the Clause in the 6th Page of the said Bill beginning at the Endof the third Line, and ending five Lines from the Bottom, should be struckout by reason of its insufficiency to answer the end for which it seems intended:We therefore desire Your House to strike out the said Clause accordingly.In the Upper House of Assembly, The 18th Day of July 1760.By Order of the House, Othniel Beale.And then the Messenger withdrew.Ordered, That Mr. Mazyck do carry the Tax-Bill to the Council and acquaintthem that the Commons House of Assembly having received the Tax-Bill with a Message proposing an Amendment to that Bill, look upon it as aviolation of their Privileges, and that it is calculated to destroy the goodHarmony which now subsists between the Council and this House.And then the House adjourned till to-morrow Morning Ten of theClock.Saturday the 19th Day of July 1760.Read the Journals of Yesterday’s Proceedings.