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His majesty, taking the same in consideration, was pleased to ap- 

 prove thereof } and did order, that the right honourable Mr. Secretary 

 Coventry do prepare a commission and instructions for his majesty's royal 

 signature, for the earl of Carlisle, according to the tenor of the said 

 report, 



No. II. 



At the Court at Whitehall, the i $th of February, 1677-8. 



PRESENT, the Kings Most Excellent Majesty in Council. 



Upon reading this at the board, a report from the right honourable 

 the lords of the committee for Trade and Plantations, in the words 

 following : 



May it please your Majesty, 



Having received, on the uth of January last past, from the right 

 honourable Mr. Secretary Coventry, a draft of a commission and in- 

 structions for the earl of Carlisle, whom your majesty has appointed to 

 be your governor of Jamaica j and having, after several additions and 

 alterations, remitted the same unto Mr. Secretary Coventry, on the zd 

 instant, we crave leave to offer to your majesty the most material points 

 which did occur unto us upon perusal of the said draft ; which are as 

 followeth : 



ist. As we are of opinion that all members of council in Jamaica may, 

 for the more easy passing of laws, be admitted into the assembly, if duly 

 elected by the freeholders j so we cannot but advise your majesty, that 

 as well the members of the said council suspended by your majesty's go- 

 vernor, as the members displaced by your majesty, may be rendered in- 

 capable during which suspension of being admitted into the assembly. 



2,d. That although your majesty has, by an order of the i6th of No- 

 vember last past, thought fit that no assembly bs called without your ma- 

 jesty's especial leave and directions j we think it very important, for your 

 majesty's service and safety of the island, that in case of invasion, re- 

 bellion, or some other very urgent necessity, your majesty's governor 

 may have power, with the consent of the assembly, to pass acts for 

 raising of money, to answer the occasions arising by such urgent neces- 

 sities. 



