Resolutions respecting troops, 1776.
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Resolutions respecting troops, 1776.
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1776-10-22
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Resolutions of the Legislature issued in the General Orders on October 22, 1776.
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Ms. 162, Resolutions respecting troops, 1776.
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22d Oct. 1776
Parole
The General thinks proper to insert the following resolves of the General Assembly of this State respecting the troops in order that every officer may be acquainted with them.
20th Sept. 1776
Resolved
That this House do acquiesce in the resolves of the Continental Congress of the 18th [illegible] of July 1776 relating to the putting the two regmts. of infantry, the Regiment of Rangers, the Regt. of Artillery and the two Regents of Riflemen in the Service of this State upon the Continental establishment
Resolved
That this House will defray the expence of the difference between the Continental bounty, Cloathing & pay, & the bounty, Cloathing & pay allowed to those Regimts. respectively by the act of this State
15th October 1776
Resolved
That in order to Comply with the Recommendation of the Continental Congress to take the most speedy & effectual measures for inlisting our quota of troops, they are of opinion that a bounty of ten dollars over & above the Continental bounty be given to each non Commissd. officer & private Soldier who shall inlist to Serve during the present war in any of the So. Carolina Regimts. or the Continental establishment and
That in lieu of the bounty formerly given to officers for recruiting, that each recruiting officer be allowed beside their pay two dollars pr. day for each day he shall be actually in that Service.
Your Committee likewise recommends that the fifth Regiment of this State shall immediately or as soon as may be, be put upon the
same establishment, with regard to arms, pay bounty and Cloathing as the two Regimts. of infantry are, and that the Sixth Regimt. shall likewise be put upon the same establishment in the like respect as soon as the field officers of the last mention'd Regmt. shall agree thereto.
18th October 1776
Resolved
That the third & fourth Regimts. be augmented to Six hundred men each & that a Colonel be appointed to each of the said Regimts.
Resolved
That it is the oppinion of this Committee that Capt. Richburg's independent Company be added to the 6th Regimt. and that the artillery Company at Georgetown be augmented to 100 men and added together with the Artillery Company at Beaufort to the 20th Regimt.
Commanding officers of Regimts. & Corps will attend to the above Resolutions, and immediately order [illegible] a sufficient number of officers for the Recruiting Service, in doing which it is recommended to them not to Consider whose tour of duty it may be but appoint such officers whose former merit in recruiting on whose qualifications promises the greatest Success.
The necessity of Service frequently Supersedes Common [illegible] and as Success in this undertaking in a great measure depends upon popular Circumstances, no officer 'tho it may be his tour of duty ought to think himself injured by not being order'd upon this occasion, and 'tis hoped no others will Conceive themselves oppress'd 'tho sent out Contrary to detail when they Consider that they cannot at this time render their Country & the Common Cause any Service more essential, than in Contributing to Complete those Battalions so absolutely necessary for the defence & Support of them. The Board of War & Ordinance having order'd that monthly Return should be made of every Regimt. in the Continental
Service in which shall be specified the State in which they were raised the times when & the [illegible] for which they were inlisted. Commanding officers are therefore required to make immediate & exact returns agreeable to the directions above mention'd, that the General may be able to Comply with the Requisition of the Honble. the Board of War & Ordinance.
Resolution of the Legislature [illegible] in General Orders
1776
Parole
The General thinks proper to insert the following resolves of the General Assembly of this State respecting the troops in order that every officer may be acquainted with them.
20th Sept. 1776
Resolved
That this House do acquiesce in the resolves of the Continental Congress of the 18th [illegible] of July 1776 relating to the putting the two regmts. of infantry, the Regiment of Rangers, the Regt. of Artillery and the two Regents of Riflemen in the Service of this State upon the Continental establishment
Resolved
That this House will defray the expence of the difference between the Continental bounty, Cloathing & pay, & the bounty, Cloathing & pay allowed to those Regimts. respectively by the act of this State
15th October 1776
Resolved
That in order to Comply with the Recommendation of the Continental Congress to take the most speedy & effectual measures for inlisting our quota of troops, they are of opinion that a bounty of ten dollars over & above the Continental bounty be given to each non Commissd. officer & private Soldier who shall inlist to Serve during the present war in any of the So. Carolina Regimts. or the Continental establishment and
That in lieu of the bounty formerly given to officers for recruiting, that each recruiting officer be allowed beside their pay two dollars pr. day for each day he shall be actually in that Service.
Your Committee likewise recommends that the fifth Regiment of this State shall immediately or as soon as may be, be put upon the
same establishment, with regard to arms, pay bounty and Cloathing as the two Regimts. of infantry are, and that the Sixth Regimt. shall likewise be put upon the same establishment in the like respect as soon as the field officers of the last mention'd Regmt. shall agree thereto.
18th October 1776
Resolved
That the third & fourth Regimts. be augmented to Six hundred men each & that a Colonel be appointed to each of the said Regimts.
Resolved
That it is the oppinion of this Committee that Capt. Richburg's independent Company be added to the 6th Regimt. and that the artillery Company at Georgetown be augmented to 100 men and added together with the Artillery Company at Beaufort to the 20th Regimt.
Commanding officers of Regimts. & Corps will attend to the above Resolutions, and immediately order [illegible] a sufficient number of officers for the Recruiting Service, in doing which it is recommended to them not to Consider whose tour of duty it may be but appoint such officers whose former merit in recruiting on whose qualifications promises the greatest Success.
The necessity of Service frequently Supersedes Common [illegible] and as Success in this undertaking in a great measure depends upon popular Circumstances, no officer 'tho it may be his tour of duty ought to think himself injured by not being order'd upon this occasion, and 'tis hoped no others will Conceive themselves oppress'd 'tho sent out Contrary to detail when they Consider that they cannot at this time render their Country & the Common Cause any Service more essential, than in Contributing to Complete those Battalions so absolutely necessary for the defence & Support of them. The Board of War & Ordinance having order'd that monthly Return should be made of every Regimt. in the Continental
Service in which shall be specified the State in which they were raised the times when & the [illegible] for which they were inlisted. Commanding officers are therefore required to make immediate & exact returns agreeable to the directions above mention'd, that the General may be able to Comply with the Requisition of the Honble. the Board of War & Ordinance.
Resolution of the Legislature [illegible] in General Orders
1776
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South Carolina General Assembly, “Resolutions respecting troops, 1776.,” Charleston Library Society Digital Collections, accessed May 17, 2024, https://charlestonlibrarysociety.omeka.net/items/show/1469.