The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

778 COMMONS JOURNAL, OCTOBER 6, 1760–OCTOBER 18, 1760And then the Messenger withdrew.And Mr. Speaker read the Messages, severally, to the House.And the first of the said Messages being read at the Table;Ordered, That the same be referred to the Consideration of the Committeewho were appointed to make inquiry of what farther provision maybe necessary to be made for the South-Carolina Regiment, other than whatis appointed by the Law for raising the said Regiment; & that they do reporttheir Opinion thereupon to the House.Ordered, That the said Committee do make their Report to this Houseon Friday Morning.Ordered, That Colonel Middleton be added to the said Committee.And the other Message being also read at the Table;A Resolution of the House, of the 1st Day of December, 1757, with respectto providing for Barrack Necessaries, was read.Resolved, That this House will [make] a provision for defraying theExpence of repairing the Barracks; & will also provide for furnishing suchof the usual Barrack Necessaries as may be wanting.And the following Address (in Answer to the said Message) was drawn; viz.May it please your Honour,In answer to your Message deliver’d to us this Morning, in relation to providingfor sufficient repairs to the Barracks, & the usual Barrack Necessaries forthe reception & accommodation of such part of the army under the commandof Major Frederic Hamilton as are sick; we beg leave to acquaint your Honourthat we have resolv’d to make provision for the Barracks being put in repair, &also for the usual Barrack Necessaries that may be wanting.Two Messages from The Lieutenant Governor, by Mr. Bassnett.Mr. Speaker & Gentlemen,The hon. Edmond Atkin, Esq., His Majesty’s Agent to & Superintendantfor Indian Affairs in the Southern District of North-America, has inform’dme, that, according to the desire of Governor Lyttelton & Governor Dobbs,on the behalf of their respective Provinces, he had held a Conference withthe Catawbas, on his return from Kewohee last July, at Pine-Tree Hill, concerningthe Lands which they claim’d; & that they had agreed to surrendertheir Claims to a large Tract of sixty Miles diameter, in consideration of beingquietly settled in a Tract of only fifteen Miles square, part of the abovemention’d Land, to be ascertain’d, by survey, to prevent Intruders, & thehaving a Fort built there at the Public Expence.I am now to acquaint you that there are a considerable number of theCatawbas come to town to receive the reward for eight Cherokee scalps whichthey brought down, & one Prisoner they took & deliver’d to Col. Montgomery;