bodies or body you are ordered, with all convenient expedition to the service, to cause to be under a strong guard conveyed to Charlestown; at all times using your best endeavour to recover the ammunition feloniously and contemptuously taken, as I have already mentioned. And in general, you are to do all such things as in your opinion shall be necessary effectually to suppress the present insurrection, and to intimidate all persons from attempting any insurrection in future.

You are not to allow any of the Militia companies or Militia volunteers, to take the field on horseback; Militia horses, being, by experience, found to be an encumbrance to the men on a military expedition.

The Militia engaged in this service will be entitled to receive, the privates a daily pay of ten shillings currency, and the rations equal to what is received by the regiments of regular Infantry in the publick service; and while the Rangers are encamped with the Militia, the Rangers are entitled to receive daily rations; of all which you are ordered to cause exact accounts to be kept, and also regular muster lists of the Militia.

In case of any disobedience in the Militia, you are to cause every such disobedience to be punished agreeable to the Militia law in time of alarm. You will from time to time send information to the President, of your motions and proceedings. These instructions and orders are to be publickly read to the troops, and you are to obey all such further instructions and orders as shall, under the authority of Congress, or Council of Safety for the time being, be signified to you by the President.

I have the honour to be, Sir, your most humble servant.

Ordered, That the above Letter of Instructions and Orders be engrossed, signed by the President, and by him delivered to Colonel Richardson.

Ordered, That Mr. President be desired forthwith to write to Colonel Thomas Fletchall, John Ford, Thomas Green, Evan McLaurin, and Benjamin Wofford, or either of them, in pursuance of the treaty signed at Ninety-Six, on the 16th of September last, making requisition for the surrender and delivery of the bodies of Patrick Cunningham, his associates, aiders, and abetters.

Ordered, That Mr. President do transmit to Major Andrew Williamson the thanks of this Congress for his conduct in causing the body of Robert Cunningham to be apprehended and sent to Charlestown; and also for his conduct in embodying the Militia for opposing the Insurrection caused by Patrick Cunningham and his accomplices.

Upon information, that a brother to O'Neal and a brother to Bochman, who were concerned in the late seizure of Powder by Patrick Cunningham, were in town:

Ordered, That Captain Sumpter, Captain Flood, and Mr. Beard, do make immediate inquiry after the said O'Neal and Bochman, and also Thomas Yates, and cause them to appear before this Congress.

Captain Sumpter being returned, reported, That he with Captain Flood and Mr. Beard, had made diligent inquiry after O'Neal, Bochman, and Yates, from place to place, but could not meet either of them. However, they had been well informed that such persons had actually been in town; that they had purchased some goods, and that although they were said to be gone, there was reason to believe they were still in town. And that it was their opinion Mr. Rugeley might give some further information.

Ordered, That Colonel Laurens and Captain Cattell do forthwith proceed to Mr. Rugeley's, and desire he will permit them to see the entries on his books of yesterday and this day.

Colonel Laurens being returned, reported, that Mr. Rugeley had permitted them to examine his books; that there was a parcel of goods which appeared to belong to one of the persons sought after, but that he declared he knew neither of them, or whether they were still in town.

Ordered, That Colonel Parsons and Mr. Bee be a Committee to prepare the daught of a Letter to the Council of Safety in Georgia, respecting their late distribution of Gunpowder among the Indian Traders, wherein Messrs. Campbell & Son were overlooked.

Adjourned to nine o'clock, to-morrow morning.

In Congress, Thursday, November 9, 1775.

The Congress met according to adjournment.

And yesterday's Journal was read.

Information being laid before the Congress that Thomas Brown passed yesterday through Dorchester, probably to increase the commotion raised in the back country by Patrick Cunningham,

Ordered, That Mr. President do immediately issue his Warrant for apprehending the said Patrick Brown.

And the following Warrant was accordingly issued:

In Provincial Congress, November 9, 1775.

SIR: You are ordered, without delay, to use the most effectual means for apprehending and bringing to Charlestown the body of Thomas Brown, charged before this Congress with having violated the treaty of Ninety-Six. And in the performance of this service you are authorized to impress horses from any person or persons, to whom reasonable allowances will be made for all horses so impressed: And for which this shall be your warrant.

By order of Congress:

WILLIAM HENRY DRAYTON, President.

To Lieutenant-Colonel William Thomson.

A Return was made, declaring John Harleston, Esq., to have been, on the 8th instant, duly elected a Representative of the Parish of St. John, Berkely County, in the room of the late Edward Harleston, Esq.

Read a Letter from the abovenamed John Harleston, Esq., declining to serve.

Resolved, That the Church-wardens of the Parish of St. John, Berkely County, be desired forthwith to summon the inhabitants of the said Parish, to meet at the usual place of election, on Thursday, the 16th inst., there and then by ballot to choose another Representative of the said Parish, to serve in the present Congress in the room of John Harleston, Esq., who has refused to serve.

Ordered, That a copy of the foregoing Resolve be forthwith sent to the Church-wardens of the said Parish.

Mr. President laid before the Congress draughts of several Letters, which he had prepared by their order; which being read, were amended, and approved, in the following words:

In Congress, Charlestown, November 9, 1775.

Whereas information, on oath, hath been made and laid before the Congress, that on the 3d day of this inst., November, Patrick Cunningham, Henry O'Neal, Hugh Brown, David Reese, Nathaniel Howard, and Henry Green, with sundry armed persons, did, from a detachment of Rangers, take a quantity of Gunpowder and Lead, the property of the publick, and which were then on the road proceeding under the orders of the late Council of Safety; wherefore, in pursuance of the treaty made at the camp, near Ninety-Six, on the 16th day of September last, by order of Congress, I now do hereby make requisition, that the said Patrick Cunningham, Henry O'Neal, Hugh Brown, David Reese, Nathaniel Howard, and Henry Green, together with their aiders and abetters, be, by you or one of you, surrendered and delivered up to the authority of Congress, in order that they may be tried for their offence against their authority.

Robert Cunningham having, ever since the late Congress, constantly declared that he was not included in it; and having under his hand, in a publick letter to me, declared the same, he has been, for his bad practices in endeavouring to raise commotions against the authority of Congress, apprehended, and he is now confined in jail, where he enjoys every convenience and accommodation his situation can admit. This tender treatment he receives from our humanity, and not from his merits.

By order of Congress:

WILLIAM HENRY DRAYTON, President.

To Col. Thomas Fletchall, and Messrs. John Ford, Thomas Greer, Euan McLaurin, and Benjamin Wofford.

Charlestown, November 8, 1775.

SIR: In consequence of my engagement with the Good Warrior and the Cherokee Indians, that a quantity of gunpowder and lead should be sent to them from Charlestown, the Council of Safety sent a considerable quantity of ammunition, which, when it had been carried on the road to