Writs to be issued for electing Members of the present General Assembly for certain Parishes and Districts

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Upon motion, Resolved, That Mr˙ Speaker do forthwith Issue Writs for electing members of the present General Assembly for the following Parishes and Districts, where vacancies have happened, viz: One member for the Parishes of St˙ Philip and St˙ Michael, Charles-Town, in the room of Cato Ash, Esquire, deceased; one member for the Parish of St˙ Andrew, in the room of the Honourable Thomas Fuller, elected into the Legislative Council; one member for the Parish of St˙ James, Goose-Creek, in the room of the Honourable John Parker, elected into the Legislative Council; two members for the Parish of St˙ James, Santee, in the room of the Honourable Daniel Horry, elected into the Legislative Council, and of Levi Durand, Esquire, who having been returned for Christ Church, and also for St˙ James, Santee, had made his election for the former; one member for the Parish of St˙ Helena, in the room of the Honourable William Moultrie, elected into the Legislative Council; and one member for the District of Saxe-Gotha, in the room of the Honourable William Henry Drayton, elected Chief Justice of this State.

Ordered, That the election days for filling up the said vacancies be Monday and Tuesday, the seventh and eighth days of October next, and that the Writs be made returnable the ninth day of the same month.

It being suggested to the House that the Writ which had been issued in August last for the election of a member for the Parish of St˙ Bartholomew had been founded on a mistake,

Ordered, That the said Writ, and all the proceedings had thereon, be quashed.

The order of the day being read, for reading a second lime an Ordinance for disarming persons notoriously disaffected to the cause of America, or who shall not associate, and shall refuse to associate, to defend by arms the United Stales of America, and the State of South-Carolina in particular, against the hostile attempts of the British Fleets and Armies,

Ordered, That the said order be discharged, and that the second reading of the Ordinance be postponed.

The Honourable Mr˙ Edwards reported, that Captain Joiner and himself had delivered the Message they had in charge to the President, and that his Excellency was pleased to say the request of the House should be complied with.

And then the House adjourned till to-morrow morning, ten of the clock.