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treason, and in those cases to reprieve for twelve 

 months. 



He was also empowered, with the advice of the 

 majority of council, to frame a method for establish- 

 ing general assemblies, and from time to time to call 

 such assemblies together, and with their consent to 

 pass all manner of laws, reserving to him a negative 

 voice ; as also, upon imminent occasions, to levy mo- 

 ney. These laws not to extend to taking away any 

 one's freehold, or to the loss of a member, and to be 

 in force only two years, unless approved and confirm- 

 ed by the crown. 



This commission appoints a salary to the governor 

 of one thousand pounds per annum, payable out of 

 the exchequer. 



The instructions, which consist of twenty articles, 

 relate to the encouragement to be given to planters to 

 come from the other colonies; to the allowance set- 

 tled upon himself and the other officers; and extend 

 to most of the points contained in Lord Windsor's in- 

 structions; but direct, that the measure of setting 

 out the 400,000 acres, as a royal demesne, shall be 

 suspended; that no duties shall be laid in the island 

 upon the import or export of any goods for twenty- 

 one years, nor shall any duty be laid here upon the 

 produce of Jamaica for five years. 



By these instructions it appears, that the crown al- 

 lowed two thousand five hundred pounds per annum 



