Report of Committee

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Colonel Laurens, from the Committee to confer with the Committee from North-Carolina, and to concert a plan of measures for mutual defence and assistance, delivered in a Report.

And the said Report being read, and agreed to,

Resolved, That three hundred Men from Colonel Powell' s Regiment, and two hundred from Colonel Horry' s, (exclusive of the Militia on Waccamaw Neck,) nearest to the North-Carolina boundary line, be drafted, and held in readiness to march, on the shortest notice, when required, to the assistance of that Colony.

That one thousand Men from the District of Salisbury

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And that all expenses attending Troops sent from one to the relief of the other Colony, should be paid by the Colony from which they are sent; and that, on stating a proper account between the two Colonies, the balance, in which one shall be indebted to the other, shall be forthwith paid.

Ordered, That the Committee appointed on the 18th of last month, to consider, among other things, of a proper division of the Militia, and how the same may be rendered most serviceable to the publick, do forthwith sit, and give in a Report to-morrow.

Ordered, That Major Williamson, Colonel Gervais, Captain Williams, and Captain Winn, be added to the said Committee.