A. D. 1760.

To Lambert Lance, for rent of tenements, in 1757 and 1758,
To Laurens, Motte & Company, articles in their account for

this use,

To Robert Fairweather, for lodgings for officers of the Royal
American and Highland battalions, in 1757,

To Thomas Lining, for the like service, in 1757 and 1758,
To Thomas Wright, Esq., articles in his accounts, for this use,
To Joseph Moody, for candles,

To Benjamin Haskins, for ferriage and hire of horses for
the buffs,

To John Gordon, three accounts for house rent and lodgings for
officers of the Highland battalion, in 1757 and 1758, and
vinegar for the buffs,

To Harvey & Philp, for picking axes for the buffs,

To James Rowlain, for firewood,

To Nathaniel Broughton, for firewood,

To John Howell, for candles,

To Captain John Fairchild and the company of rangers who
were under his command, to be paid as the muster roll of
the said company was settled by a committee of the
Assembly,

To Captain John Grinnan and the rangers who were under his
command, (to be paid in like manner with Captain Fair-
child's company,)

To William Harvey, of Beaufort, for firewood for the buffs,
To the church-wardens of St. Philip's, (two accounts,) for sup-
plies to soldiers' wives and children,

£83 06 08

59 08 07

97 15 00 125 00 00

184 15 01

16 10 00

9.09 04

346 06 06

9 00 00

5 00 00

1 07 06

30 15 00

1119 11 CO

885 15 04
60 00 00

1406 19 03

To the Public Treasurer, which he paid for the passages of two prisoners to England,

To Messieurs. Gabriel Manigault, Samuel Brailsford, James Laurens, John Savage, Edward Neufville and Hopkin Price, advanced by them for subsisting a number of Acadians,

To Judith Postell, for French prisoners,

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGES.

To Smith & Brewton, for taffety for the use of the Council
Chamber,

To William Hall, for repairs to the Guard House,
To John Lingard, for iron ware for the Guard House,
To Carne & Wilson, for paint for the Guard House,

To Frederick Strubell, for bricklayers work and slating the
Guard House,

£ 100 00 00

2613 17 04

32 12 06

30 18 09

248 15 00

44 14 06

25 04 00

510 00 00

A. D. 1760.

To the estate of Michael Jeane, deceased, for glazing the Guard
House,

14 09 044

30 10 00

To Thomas Plunket, for candles for the militia when upon guard in Charlestown,

To Jonathan Scott, for fire-wood for the same use,

To Benjamin Harvey, for the use of the Council Chamber,

To Mary Harvey, house-keeper of the State House,

To Elias Legardere, for wharfage of gun powder,

To Jonathan Badger, for the use of the Assembly Room,

The following sums (amounting to £389 98.) to be paid by the inhabitants of the parishes of St. Philip and St. Michael.

To fire-masters in Charlestown for the use of the en

gines, and for pumps and buckets, viz :

3 00 00

17 00 07

100 00 00

3 12 06

51 00 00

To the Public Treasurer, advanced for contingent services,
To supply last year's deficiency of the general duty fund,
To the Public Treasurer, which he paid more than was provided
for finishing Fort Loudoun and paying the provincials gar-
risoned at the said Fort, and for six months provisions for
the said provincials,

To the negro Sampson, annuity for discovering a cure for the
bites of Rattle Snakes,

To the Treasurer, for an appropriation order cancelled,
To Thomas Mellichamp, a reward for discovering a method of
making and refining Indigo, (to be paid upon his publishing
the whole process, upon oath, in the Gazette,)
Toward defraying the contingent charges of the current year,
For sinking part of the orders to be issued for paying the charges
of the late expedition against the Cherokee Indians, and
other expences since incurred by prosecuting the war
with the said Indians,

250 05 00

3886 14 10

1210 00 00
1683 04 03

865 12 08

50 00 00

5 00 00

1000 00 00-£10,419 10 06

2500 00 00

70,000 00 00 £181,190 17 061

B. SMITH, Speaker.

In the Council Chamber, the 31st day of July, 1760.

Assented to:

WILLIAM BULL.

A.'D. 1760.

No. 899.

Preamble.

The sum of
£125,000
currency
granted in aid.

AN ACT GRANTING ΤΟ HIS MAJESTY AN AID OF ONE HUNDRED AND

TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS, CURRENT MONEY, AND APPLYING OTHER
MONEY THEREIN MENTIONED TO REPAY THE EXPENCE OF RAISING, PAY-
ING AND CLOTHING, FOR SIX MONTHS, A REGIMENT, TO CONSIST OF TEN
COMPANIES OF SOLDIERS, EACH TO BE COMPOSEd of one hundred Men,
BESIDES OFFICERS, TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE SERVICE OF THIS Govern-
MENT IN PROSECUTING THE WAR AGAINST THE CHEROKEE INDIANS AND
THEIR ABETttors, and FOR STAMPING ORDERS FOR THE MORE EXPEDITIOUS
ISSUING OF THE SAID SUM, AND FOR PROVIDING A FUND TO CALL IN AND
SINK THE SAID ORDERS WITHIN THE TIME THEREIN LIMITED.

WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons House of Assembly of this Province, considering the present unhappy state of the Province, and the imminent danger to which the same is daily exposed, from the frequent incursions, attacks and murders made upon your Majesty's subjects within the same by the Cherokee Indians and their abettors, and considering the many large sums of money lately granted by this Province for preventing such injuries and cruelties, which have hitherto proved ineffectual; and being desirous to grant your Majesty as large an aid as the present circumstances of our constituents will afford, in order to raise men to act in the service of your Majesty's Province for prosecuting the war against the said Cherokees and their abettors, in such manner as your Majesty's service may require, have cheerfully given and granted unto your most sacred Majesty an aid or sum of one hundred and twentyfive thousand pounds current money of South Carolina, to be raised, levied, issued and applied in the manner and to the uses hereinafter mentioned, limited and appointed; and we therefore humbly pray your most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted,

I. And be it enacted, by the Honorable William Bull, Esq., Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over the Province of South Carolina, by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council and the Commons House of Assembly of the said Province, and by the authority of the same, That a tax or sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds current money, shall be, and is hereby imposed and laid upon the inhabitants of and others interested in this Province, which sum shall be raised, levied and collected in such manner and proportions and at such times as hereinafter is directed and provided, and shall be, and is hereby granted as an aid to his Majesty, for the uses and purposes hereinafter mentioned and appointed.

II. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the regiment A regiment of intended to be raised and levied by this Act, and to be in the pay and 1000 men, with establishment of this Government, for the term of six months, shall consist officers, to be raised and emof ten companies of one hundred men each, besides officers, and shall be ployed against employed wholly in the service of this Government in prosecuting the war against the said Cherokee Indians and their abettors, and in doing such other duty and service as his honor the Lieutenant Governour or the Commander-in-chief for the time being shall think requisite for the defence of this Province.

the Indians.

Assignment of pay.

III. And be it enacted, That out of the sum granted to his Majesty by this Act, there shall be satisfied and paid to the officers and soldiers of the said regiment six months pay, at the rates following, that is to say; to the