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pose thereof for the support of the government. It is also our opinion, 

 that in all laws for levying of money, and raising a public revenue, the 

 clauses whereby the said levies are appropriated unto the public use of the 

 island, without any mention made of your majesty, or unto your majesty 

 for the said public use, are so far derogatory to your majesty's right of 

 sovereignty, that they ought to be, for the future, altered and made 

 agreeable to the style of England. 



We do likewise offer it unto your majesty as necessary, that no minister 

 be received in Jamaica without license from the right reverend the lord 

 bishop of London ; and that none having his lordship's license be reject- 

 ed j without sufficient cause alleged ; as also, that in the direction of 

 all church affairs, the minister be admitted into the respective vestries. 



And whereas it has upon some occasions proved inconvenient, that the 

 members of the council have been constituted by your majesty's commis* 

 sion 5 we are of opinion, that for the future, they be only named in the 

 instructions of the governor; for the strengthening of whose authority 

 under your majesty we do offer, that he may have power to suspend any 

 of the said members, if he see just cause, without receiving the advice 

 and consent of the council ; and also, that none of the said so suspended, 

 er by your majesty's order displaced, from that trust, may be permitted 

 to be received into the general assembly. 



And whereas nothing can contribute more to the welfare of your ma- 

 jesty's island, than that all means be found out for the increase of trade; 

 we do offer, for the encouragement thereof, that a mint be allowed in 

 Jamaica, in such manner that no prejudice do arise unto your majesty's 

 other dominions, or that what bullion is brought from thence may be 

 coined here in England j provided that all such coins may bear your 

 majesty's royal superscription, and not be imposed in payment else-, 

 where. 



All which, &c. FINCH, 



DANBY, 

 WORCESTER, 

 ESSEX, 



FAUCONBERRY, 

 CRAVEN, 

 H. COVENTRY. 



Tko. Dolmax. 



