APPENDIX.] OF JAMAICA. 289 



and planters within the said island, and other the territories under your 

 government, in such manner and form as hath been formerly practised * 

 and used in the said island of Jamaica. 



And our will and pleasure is, that the persons thereupon duly elected, 

 and having before their sitting taken the oaths of allegiance and suprema- 

 cy, (which you shall commissionate fit persons, under the seal of our 

 island, to administer, and without taking which none shall be capable of 

 sitting, though elected), shall be called and held the General Assembly of 

 the said island of Jamaica, and other the territories thereon depending 5 

 and shall have full power and authority to agree and consent unto all such 

 statutes and ordinances for the public peace, welfare, and good government 

 of the said island, and other the territories thereon depending, and the 

 people and inhabitants thereof, and such others as shall resort thereunto, 

 and for the benefit of our heirs and successors, as having been by you, 

 with advice and consent of the said council, framed and transmitted unto 

 us, in order to be here enacted, by our giving our consent thereunto, shall 

 be by us approved and remitted unto you under our great seal of England j 

 which said statutes, laws, and ordinances, are to be by you framed as 

 near as conveniently may be to the laws and statutes of our kingdom of 

 England. 



And we do hereby, nevertheless, authorise and empower you, in case 

 of invasion, rebellion, or some very great necessity, to 'pass an act or 

 acts, by and with the consent of the general assembly, without trans- 

 mitting the same first to us, to raise money within the said isJand, and 

 the territories within your government, to answer the occasions arising by 

 such urgent necessities. 



And we give you likewise full power, from time to time, as you shall 

 judge it necessary, to dissolve all general assemblies, as aforesaid. 



NUMBER IV. 



Extract of King Charles the Second"** instructions to the Earl of Carlisle. 



And whereas by our commission we have directed that, for the future, 

 no general assembly be called without our special directions j but that, 

 upon occasion, you do acquaint us by letter with the necessity of calling 

 such an assembly, and pray our consent and directions for their meeting j 

 you shall, at the same time, transmit unto us, with the advice and con- 

 sent of the council, a draft of such acts as YOU shall think fit and neces- 



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