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Resolution by the North Carolina General Assembly concerning pay for Thomas Sitgreaves as Captain of the prison guards
North Carolina. General Assembly
January 17, 1771
Volume 22, Page 424


In the Assembly the 16th Jany., 1771.

Resolved, That Thomas Sitgreaves be allowed for his Pay as Captain of the Prison Guards, Guard Room, Fire & Candles, Furnished the said Guards, from the 21st December last, to this day; the sum of Thirteen pounds, to be paid him out of the Five Hundred pounds.

Resolved by this House, That it be drawn out of the Treasury by his Excellency the Governor’s Warrant, “to be applied towards the payment of any Necessary Expenses his Excellency has been, or may be at, in Counteracting the Wicked Designs of the Insurgents.”

RD. CASWELL.
By order.
J. Green, Clk.


In the Upper House ye 17th Jany., 1771

Concurred with.

By order.
Jas. Hasell, P.

Concurred with and Paid.

Wm. Tryon.