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The House proceeded on the Order of the Day.
And the Report of the Committee on the state of the Militia in the interior parts of the Colony being debated on, the said Report was disagreed to.
Thomas Bee, Esq., elected a Member of the honourable the Legislative Council, attended, to take the oath of fidelity in this House.
And being introduced, the said oath was administered to him accordingly.
Ordered, That Major Cattell and Mr. Cannon do attend Mr. Bee to the Legislative Council, and acquaint their Honours that the oath of fidelity has been administered to him.
Major Cattell reported, that he, with Mr. Cannon, had delivered the Message they had in charge to the Legislative Council.
Message from the Legislative Council, by their Clerk.
“In the Legislative Council, March 30, 1776.
“Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen:
“This House hath taken into consideration the Address which was prepared jointly by a Committee of both Houses, to be presented to his Excellency the President, and have agreed to the same without any amendment.
“By order of the House:
“GEORGE GAB. POWELL, Speaker.”
The Committee appointed to prepare proper Rules to be observed by the Members of this House, delivered in a Report.
And the said Report, being taken into immediate consideration, was agreed to.
Ordered, That the said Rules be engrossed, and signed by Mr. Speaker.
Ordered, That Gideon Dupont, Esq., be Cashier to this House.
Ordered, That Major Andrew Williamson have leave of absence.
Colonel Charles C. Pinckney, from the Committee to inquire and report the names of proper persons to be appointed Magistrates in the different Districts of this Colony, reported a list of the names.
And the said List being immediately taken into consideration,
Resolved, That the following persons are proper to be put into the Commission of the Peace in the different Districts of the Colony, viz:
JUSTICES QUORUM UNUS.—The Members of the Legislative Council, the Members of the Privy Council, the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, the Judge of the Admiralty, and the Speaker of the General Assembly, all for the time being, respectively: John Drayton, Christopher Gadsden, Paul Trapier, Claudius Pegues, John Chesnut, John James Haig, Richard Rapley, and Benjamin Garden, Esquires.
Justices for CHARLESTOWN District.
James Akin,
Nathaniel Broughton,
Edmund Bellinger,
Richard Bohun Baker,
Joseph Bee,
Elias Ball, Jun.,
John Boone,
John Brailsford,
William Boone,
Capers Boone,
Peter Bonnetheau,
Andrew unningham,
William Cattell,
Lionel Chalmers,
James Carsan,
Isham Clayton,
James Clark,
John Coram,
Charles Cantey,
Gabriel Capers,
James Donnom,
Paul Douxsaint,
Levi Durand,
John Sandford Dart,
William Dewit,
John Drake,
John Deas,
Samuel Elliott,
Thomas Evance,
Thomas Fuller,
Alexander Fruser,
John Frierson,
Isaac Rivera,
David Reynolds,
George Sheed,
Thomas Smith,
James Stobo,
James Skirving,
Jonathan Scott,
William Scott,
Henry Smith,
Philip Smith,
Jeremiah Savage,
Joseph Seabrook,
Benjamin Simons,
Benjamin Smith,
John Syme, |
Benjamin Fuller,
John Fullerton,
Frederick Grimake,
Culcheth Gibbes,
Joseph Glover,
William Gibbea,
Robert Gibbes,
Gabriel Gignilliat,
Melchior Garner,
John Gaillard,
Thomas Heyward,
Thomas Hutchinson,
Daniel Horry,
John Huger,
William Hopton,
George Haig,
Richard Hutson,
James Hamilton,
William Hort,
Edward Jerman,
Ralph Izard,
John Izard,
Benjamin Jenkins,
Joseph Jenkins, Jun.,
William Jenkins,
Thomas Lynch,
Thomas Lynch, Jun.,
Andrew Leitch,
William Logan,
James Lynah,
John Livingston,
James Laroach,
Peter Sinckler,
James Skirving, Jun.,
William Swinton,
Maurice Simons,
James Smith,
John Scott,
son of Jonathan.
Richard Park Stobo,
Joseph Slann,
Charles Shepheard,
William Stanyarne,
James Sinckler,
Thomas Turner,
John Troup,
Joshua Toomer, |
Isaac Legate,
Thomas Latdson, John’s Island.
Gabriel Manigault,
Arthur Middleton,
Gabriel Marion,
Jacob Molle,
John Moore,
Isaac Mazyck,
Hezekiah Maham,
Job Marion,
Joseph Maybank,
Peter Mouzon,
William Mason,
William Massey,
Benjamin Marion, Jun.,
Ephraim Mitchell,
William Morgan,
Robert Murrill,
James Murray,
Sampson Neyle,
Hopkin Price,
John Pamor,
John Parker,
Philip Porcher,
Isaac Porcher,
William Parker,
John Poaug,
Hopson Pinckney,
James Reid,
James Lytton Richards,
James Ravenell,
Edward Thomas, Jun.,
Arnoldus Vandevhorst,
Robert Williams,
Robert Williams, Jun.,
Sims White,
John Wright,
Richard Withers,
Abraham Waight,
Benjamin Waring,
John Wigfall,
Joseph Wigfall,
Peter Witten,
Richard Walter,
Jno. Wilson Wadmelah,
Francis Young. |
Justices for BEAUFORT District.
Andrew Aggnew,
John Lewis Bourquin,
John Bull,
William Brisbane,
Pierce Butler,
Jpseph Brailsford,
John Barnwell, Jun.,
Nathaniel Barnwell,
John Chisholme,
Belamy Crawford,
Cornelius Dupont,
Edward Davies, |
William Elliott,
John Fripp, Sen.,
David Girond,
Benjamin Guerard,
Richard Guerard,
Godin Guerard,
James Gignilliat,
William Harden,
William Hazard,
Thomas Hughes,
John Joiner,
Adrian Mayer, |
John Mitchell,
Samuel Porcher,
Richard Proctor,
Hugh Rose,
Thomas Rivers,
William Ross,
William Reynolds,
Thomas Rutledge,
Daniel De Saussure,
William Stoutenburg,
James Thomson,
William Waight. |
Justices for GEORGETOWN District.
Joseph Allston,
Josias Allston,
William Allston, Jun.,
Anthony Bonneau,
Abr. Buckholts,
John Brockington,
Capers Boone,
Francis Britton,
John Baxter, Jun., Kingston.
James Carey,
Alexander Chovin,
Samuel Dwight,
Thomas Emes,
Charles Fyffe,
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Thomas Greigher,
Benjamin Gause,
Hugh Giles,
Daniel Horry,
Robert Herriot,
Elias Horry, Jun.,
Daniel Huger,
Benjamin Huger,
Thomas Henning,
John James,
Thomas Lynch,
Isaac Marion,
William Mason,
Archibald McDonald,
Adam McDonald, |
James McDonald,
William Michau,
Samuel Nesmith,
John Plowden,
Thomas Port,
Job Rothmahler,
William Snow,
Benjamin Screven,
Peter Simons,
Paul Trapier, Jun.,
Samuel Wragg,
Anthony White,
John Witherspoon,
William Wilson,
Gavin Witherspoon. |
Justices for ORANGEBURGH District.
George Ancrum,
William Arthur,
Jonas Beard,
Samuel Boykin,
Richard Brown,
Donald Bruce,
Peter Corbin,
James Cornelley,
Malcolm Clark,
Isham Clayton,
John Chesnut,
Michael Dickert, |
Benjamin Farrar,
John Fairchild,
Lewis Golsan,
Tacitus Gaillard,
Ralph Humphries,—Househill,
David Holmes,
William Housell,
John Kensalow,
Michael Leitner,
Ephraim Mikell,
David Pow, |
Henry Patrick,
James Pritchard,
Samuel Rowe,
Michael Christ. Rowe,
Jacob Richman,
George Robinson,
John Savage,
Arthur Simkins,
George Strawther,
William Thompson,
William Tucker,
Thomas Young. |
Justices for NINETY-SIX District.
William Anderson,
David Anderson,
Robert Anderson,
John Bowie,
Patrick Calhoun,
William Calhoun,
John Caldwell,
John Caldwell, of Enoree.
Jonathan Downs,
John Delattow,
John Fairchild,
John Ford,
John Lewis Gervais,
James Griffin, Sen.,
Thomas Gordon,
William Henderson,
Elias Hollingsworth,
David Holmes, |
James Hamilton,
John Johnston Jun.,
Adam Crain Jones,
William Jones,
William Kennedy,
Charles King,
James Linley,
James Mayson,
Robert McCreary,
John Lewis Mesnil, De St. Pierre.
John Purves,
James Price,
Thomas Polk,
James Pollard,
Andrew Pickens,
James Pritchard,
John Rogers,
Andrew Rogers, |
George Ross,
John Savage,
Arthur Simkins,
Ralph Smith,
John Sutterwaite,
John Thomas,
John Thomas, Jun.,
Benjamin Tutt,
John Tyger,
Edward Wilkinson,
Thomas Waddleton,
William Wofford,
George Whitefield,
James Williams,
John Williams,
James Wood,
William Wood,
David Zubly. |
Justices for CAMDEN District.
Andrew Allison,
Robert Allison,
Francis Adams,
Richard Brown,
William Bratton,
William Byers,
Joseph Brown,
Samuel Baykin,
William Brown,
John Canty,
James Carey,
Thomas Charlton,
Henry Cassels,
Michael Dickson,
Wood Furman,
Lewis Golson,
David Gordon,
William Gaston,
John Gaston, |
Robert Hancock,
William Howell,
George Hancock,
Henry Hunter,
David Hopkins,
Andrew Hemphill,
James Mortimer Harris,
Simon Irons,
John Palmer,
James Pattern,
Philip Pearson,
Thomas Polk,
Ezekiel Polk,
Robert Patton,
John Robinson, Crowder’s Creek.
Richard Jenkins,
William Lang,
William Myers, |
Nathaniel Moore,
John Nixon,
Thomas Neel,
John Newman, Oglethorpe.
John Robinson, MillCreek.
Richard Richardson,
William Richardson,
James Simpson,
Rich’d Richardson, Jr.,
Matthew Singleton,
William Strother,
John Smith,
Alexander Turner,
Thomas Taylor,
John Winn,
Richard Winn,
Thomas Woodward. |
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