The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

804 COMMONS JOURNAL, JANUARY 5, 1761–JANUARY 24, 1761read the Report in his Place, & afterward delivered it in at the Clerk’s Table:Where the same was read, & is as follows; viz.That the Sum of £50 per head be paid for every Person whose libertyshall be obtained; & also a further Sum of £10 to the commanding Officerat Fort Prince-George, or to any other Person who can procure the libertyof the said Captives.The Committee suppose the number of Captives now in the CherokeeCountry to be about 120 Persons, & therefore recommend that the Sum of £7200,current Money, be raised for that Service; & that £6000 of the said Sum be laidout in such trading Goods (Arms & Ammunition excepted) as the Lieutenant-Governor may think proper, and sent as soon as may be to Fort Prince-George.The said Report, being read a second time, was disagreed with by the House.Resolved, That this House will grant His Majesty a Sum of £6000, to belaid out in the purchase of Indian trading Goods in Charles-town, to be sent,with all possible dispatch, to Fort Prince-George, for redeeming such BritishSubjects as are now in Captivity in the Cherokee Country.Resolved, That this House will grant a further Sum of £10 for every suchSubject, so redeemed, to be paid to the Officer commanding at Fort Prince-George or other Person or Persons who shall be instrumental in redeemingthem from Captivity.Ordered, That an Address be prepared in Answer to the said Message.Mr. Graeme reported from the Committee to whom the Lieut.Governor’s Message, concerning the Money in the Treasury for paying theRangers, & other matters, was referred, that they had consider’d the severalmatters contained in the said Message, & had come to several Resolutionsthereupon; which they had directed him to report to the House, & he readthe Report in his Place, & afterward delivered it in at the Clerk’s Table:Where the same was read, & is as follows, viz.That in the Opinion of the Committee, it is necessary that his Honorthe Lieut. Governor be impowered to draw for the Pay of the Rangers uponthe Monies lying in the Treasury appropriated to the use of new Settlers: Andthat the House do resolve to make provision for replacing the same.The Committee approve of his Honor’s having order’d the expence ofCarriages, Tents & Camp-Utensils to be defrayed out of the Fund appropriatedfor raising & paying the South-Carolina Regiment; & recommend thatthe House do resolve to provide for replacing the same to that Fund, in Casethe said Expence shall not be defrayed by The King.The Committee think it reasonable, that the Men inlisted for Fort-Johnsonshou’d be paid monthly, if desired; & recommend that the Lieut. Governor beauthorized to order payment of the same out of any Money lying in the Treasury,except what is appropriated to the use of the Provincial Regiment.