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commission to lord Carlisle, No. 39, which contains 

 the same power of making laws in assembly as is now 

 given to the governor of Jamaica, and which, from 

 that time, has been minutely the same ; excepting only, 

 that, in 1716, the governor was directed, by instruc- 

 tions, not to pass any laws that should repeal a law 

 confirmed by the crown, without a clause of suspen- 

 sion, or first transmitting the draft of a bill ; and in 

 1734 this limitation was extended to all laws for re- 

 pealing others, though such repealed law should not 

 have been confirmed by the crown. f 



j- Neither of these orders are enforced, except in the case of private 

 bills, the assembly having constantly refused to admit suspending clauses 

 in any public act, and the crown has long since given up the point. E. 



