learning in the County of Davidson. Endorsed, read the second time and passed.

Ordered that this Bill be read, which being read, was passed the second time and ordered to be Engrossed.

Recd. likewise a Bill for laying out a town on the lands of Jesse Peacock in the County of Sampson. Endorsed, read the first time and passed.

Ordered that this Bill be read, which being read, was amended, passed the second time and sent to the House of Commons.

Recd. also a Bill for the Inspection of Tobacco in the Town of Windsor. Endorsed, read the second time and passed.

Ordered that this Bill be read, which being read, was passed the second time and ordered to be Engrossed.

Recd. from the House of Commons a Bill for establishing a Town in Duplin County on the lands of William Houston, Senior. Endorsed, read the first time and passed.

Ordered that this Bill be read, which being read, was amended, passed the second time and returned.

Recd. likewise the Bill to impower Robertson Mumford and James Porterfield to receive storage for Tobacco inspected and deposited in their Ware House or Houses at Fayetteville. Endorsed, read the first time and passed.

Ordered that this Bill be read, which being read, was passed the second time and returned.

Mr. Gillispie, from the Committee of Propositions and Grievances, to whom was referred the Memorial of Robert Symms, reported as followeth, vizt.:

That after mature delieration on the premises, your Committee are of opinion that the Public Treasurer allow him the sum of one hundred and Eighty pounds two shillings and seven pence currency; and the sum of five hundred and thirty-two pounds fourteen shillings & six pence in Certificates in the settlement of his public accounts, in consequence of his being robbed as appears to this Committee on the fifteenth day of April, 1784.

JAMES GILLISPIE, Ch.

The House taking this report into consideration, Resolved, That they do concur therewith, and ordered that it be sent to the House of Commons.

Mr. Gillispie, from the Committee of Propositions and Grievances, likewise delivered in the following report, vizt.:

That after having maturely considered the Petition of Hezekiah Alexander the Committee are of opinion that it be rejected.

That having also considered of the Petitions of James Maxwell, Major Croom, Abraham Markhoe, Jane Spurgin and James Britain the Committee are of opinion that they respectively be rejected.

JAMES GILLISPIE, Ch.

The House taking this report into consideration, Resolved, That they do concur therewith, and ordered that it be sent to the House of Commons.

General Rutherford, from the Committee to whom was referrea the Petition of George Alston, reported as followeth, vizt.:

It appearing to your Committee that Doubt may in future arise with respect to Mr. Alston's being entitled to the privileges of a free Citizen; they recommend his case as a singular one and that he be restored to the rights of Citizenship.

That it also appears to your Committee the said George Alston did before his departure to Europe give unto a certain Mary Alston Bell a Tract or Parcel of land lying in Granville County, containing about two hundred and seventy Acres, which the said George purchased of Malachi Reeves and Ann Hopkins; also a negro boy named Cæsar; on which your Committee recommend that a Bill be brought in to vest in the said Mary Alston Bell the title of the said Lands and Negro.

GRIFFITH RUTHERFORD, Ch.

The House taking this report into consideration, Resolved, That they do concur therewith and ordered that it be sent to the House of Commons.

Mr. Gillispie, from the Committee of Propositions and Grievances, to whom was referred the Petition of Hannah Davis, reported as followeth, vizt.:

That after mature deliberation on the premises your Committee are of opinion that the County Court make provision for the same agreeable to law.

JAMES GILLISPIE, Ch.

The House taking this report into consideration, Resolved, That they do concur therewith and ordered that it be sent to the House of Commons.

General Harrington, from the Committee to whom was referred the Letter from the Honourable Timothy Bloodworth, Esquire, delivered in the following report, vizt.:

That it is the opinion of your Committee that the Treasurer pay to Mr. Bloodworth immediately one hundred and twenty pounds now in his hands, and that the Collector of Port Brunswick be directed to pay Mr. Bloodworth's draft with the first money that shall come to his hands, in preference to any other.

HENRY W. HARRINGTON, Ch.

The House taking this report into consideration, Resolved, That they do concur therewith, and ordered that it be sent to the House of Commons.

Adjourned till To-morrow Morning 9 o'clock.

The House met.

WEDNESDAY, 14 December, 1785.

Mr. Payne presented a letter from General Skinner informing the House of his having received and acepted a Commission from Congress appointing him Treasurer of the Continental Loan Office for this State, and observing that in consequence thereof, his seat became vacant; which being read,

Resolved, That a Writ of Election issue to the County of Pasquotank for the election of a member to represent the said County in the Senate in the stead of General William Skinner, whose seat hath become vacant in consequence of his having accepted the appointment above mentioned.

Read the Affidavit of Andrew Kennedy setting forth that he had lost a certificate of allowance made him by the Board of Auditors for Salisbury District; whereupon,

Resolved, That on application of Andrew Kennedy the Comptroller be directed to re-issue him a Certificate for one hundred and sixtyfour pounds four shillings, in lieu of one heretofore issued for the same sum and lost.

General Rutherford presented the Claim of Captain William Wilson, wounded in the service of the public, from which it appears he had paid of his private fortune considerable sums of money to Doctors and others for the cure of his wounds received when in the public service as aforesaid, whereupon,

Resolved, that the said Captain William Wilson be allowed the sum of six pounds fourteen shillings as a reimbursement for the expenditures aforesaid, that the Treasurer pay him the same and be allowed in the settlement of his public accounts.

Ordered that this Resolve be sent to the House of Commons for Concurrence.

Mr. Brown moved for leave and presented a Bill to impower Commissioners to liquidate the accounts of the Officers and Soldiers of the Continental line of this State; which was read the first time, passed and sent to the House of Commons.

General Rutherford presented the resignation of John Johnston as Major of the Rowan Regiment of Militia; which was read, accepted and sent to the House of Commons.

Resolved, That on account of the indigence of the late Andrew Bostian set forth by Petition that the administrators of the Estate be released from the payment of the Bonds given for four tracts of land by him purchased under the Confiscation Laws and that the said lands revert to the State and remain as if it had never been sold.

Ordered that this Resolve be sent to the House of Commons for

concurrence.

General Harrington moved for leave and presented a Bill to amend an act passed at New Bern in 1784, entitled "an Act to describe and ascertain such persons who owed allegiance to this State"; which was read the first time, passed and sent to the House of Commons.

Recd. from the House of Commons the Resolution of this House in favour of Captain William Wilson. Endorsed, read and concurred with.

Recd. likewise the following Bills, vizt.:

The Bill for the Inspection of Tobacco in the Town of Nashville. The Bill for the Inspection of Tobacco in certain Western CounThe Bill for establishing a Town on the Lands of Luke Mizzle and William Mackay in Martin County; and

The Bill for the better regulation of the Town of Tarborough. Respectively endorsed, read the second time, amended and pass

Ordered that these Bills be read, which being read, were passed the second time and ordered to be Engrossed.

Recd. also the Bill to vest the Estate of Richard Caswell, Jun., in Trustees for the benefit of his Creditors. Endorsed, read the first time and passed.

Ordered that this Bill be read, which being read, was amended, passed the second time and sent to the House of Commons.

Recd. from the House of Commons the Bill to secure and quiet in their possessions, all such persons, their Heirs and Assigns, who have purchased or may hereafter purchase Lands, Tenements, Goods and Chattels which have been sold or may hereafter be sold by Commissioners of forfeited Estates legally appointed for that purpose. Endorsed, read the first time and passed.

Ordered that this Bill be read, which being read, was passed the second time and returned.

Recd. by way of the House of Commons a Message from His Excellency the Governor, addressed to the General Assembly, accompanied by a list of Warrants issued on the Treasury since the Commencement of his administration; and likewise by sundry books relative to his proceedings during the time of his acting as Comptroller of the public accounts of this State. Endorsed in the House of Commons, read and referred to the Committee appointed to report on the Treasurer's accounts; which being read, were referred in like manner and returned.

Recd. from the House of Commons a Bill to amend an act passed at Hillsborough for regulating the Town of Halifax. Endorsed, read the second time and passed.

Ordered that this Bill be read, which being read, was laid over till next Assembly.

Adjourned till 4 o'clock P. М.

Met according to adjournment.

Received from the House of Commons the Report of the joint Committee on that letter of the Honourable Timothy Bloodworth, Es