The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

AUGUST 1, 1760749Officers or Soldiers but for such only as shall be necessarily employed in thecarriage of Camp Baggage, Stores or Artillery.But the Committee especially recommend, That the said Forces raised orto be raised for the service aforesaid be modell’d and regulated in the samemanner and subjected to the same Pains and Penalities as are prescribed to HisMajesty’s Forces by the Mutiny Act, without which the Committee think it impossibleto render any Levies of Forces of real use or service to the Province.The Committee beg leave to remark before closing this Report, ThatHis Honour the Lieutenant Governor in his said Message acquaints theHouse, that it is General Amherst’s intention that Colonel Montgomery’sDetachment shou’d remain in this Province until they compleat the End forwhich they were sent hither, vizt., the most effectual punishment of theCherokees and their Abettors. And as the Committee are of Opinion thatthese Ends are not yet answered, inasmuch as the Cherokees and their Abettorsare not yet effectually punished, do therefore recommend this Matterto the Consideration of the House, that proper measures may be taken byHis Honour the Governor to press the further Services of the said Detachmentin prosecuting what appears to the Committee to be the obvious Intentionof General Amherst.And with respect to his Honour the Lieutenant Governor’s other Messagerequesting a new Grant for Contingent Services, The Committee begleave to recommend a further Sum of Three Thousand Pounds. And theCommittee herewith lay before the House an Account of the particular Applicationof the Monies formerly granted by this House for Contingenciesas the same was delivered by the Public Treasurer. On which Account theCommittee have declined making any Remarks as the same will hereafterundergo the Examination of a Committee on Public Accounts.A Motion was made & the Question being put that the Report be recommitted.It passed in the Negative.Then the first Paragraph of the Report being read a Second time, was,upon the Question being put thereupon, agreed to by the House.Ordered, That the further Consideration of the Report be adjourned.And then the House adjourned till Five of the Clock.P.M.The House resumed the adjourned Consideration of the Residue of theReport.And the second Paragraph of the Report, being read a second time, wasagreed to by the House.