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Colonial South Carolina legislative controversy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wilkes fund controversy was a political controversy in South Carolina concerning the colonial legislature's appropriation of funds to a group supporting John Wilkes, a British Radical who was expelled from the British parliament in 1769.
The South Carolina Commons House of Assembly voted to provide a £1,500 grant to the Society of Gentlemen Supporters of the Bill of Rights, a group formed to financially support Wilkes soon after his expulsion from Parliament.
Garth persuaded Lord William Campbell, the incoming governor, that the revocation of offending instructions was essential to the restoration of royal government in South Carolina.
The dispute between the Commons House and the Crown was never settled, effectively resulting in a legal stalemate.[1]
Category:Pre-statehood history of South Carolina Category:1769 in South Carolina
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