Note 763 — Chapter V · (continued 2)

In S. C. Hist. Soc. Coll., ii. p. 119, is an abstract (from state papers, London) of a “draft” for new instructions, that the governor should approve or disapprove of the speaker and clerk, and refuse assent to any law appointing civil officers; and that money bills should be framed by a committee of the council joined with a committee of the “Lower House of Assembly,” as they should in future be called. We are not aware that such instructions were ever sent. Johnson allowed them to appoint their clerk (1731), they pleading custom, and giving instances of the same in other colonies.