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that the right honourable Mr. Secretary Coventry do, by this conveyance, 

 inform the earl of Carlisle of his majesty's pleasure herein, with direc- 

 tions that all things be disposed to this end ; and that, in the mean timej 

 the present la-.vs enacted by Lord Vaughan be continued by proclamation, 

 or otherwise, until his majesty's pleasure be further known ; as also that 

 his lordship do, by the first conveyance, send over an authentic copy of 

 the act for a public impost, lately enacted there, according to his lord- 

 ships instructions for matters of that nature. 



His majesty, having thought fit to approve thereof, was pleased to order, 

 as it is hereby ordered, that the right honourable Mr. Secretary Co- 

 ventry do signify his majesty's pleasure unto the earl of Carlisle, ac- 

 cording to the said report* 



NUMBER XII. 



At the Court at Whitehall, the zZth of May, 1679. 

 PRESENT, the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. 



Whereas there was this day read at the Board a Report from the right 

 honourable the lords of the committee for Trade and Plantations, 

 in the words following; viz. 



May it please your Majesty, 



We have, in obedience to your majesty's .commands, entered into the 

 present state of your majesty's island of Jajnuica, in order to propose 

 such means as may put an end to the great discouragement your ma- 

 jesty's good subjects there lie under by the unsettled condition thereof, 

 occasioned by the refusal of the laws lately offered by the earl of Carlisle 

 to the assembly for their consent j at which proceedings dissatisfaction 

 appears to have risen in the manner following : 



By the commission granted by your majesty unto the lord Vaughan, 

 and several preceding governors, it was your royal pleasure to intrust the 

 assembly of Jamaica with a power to frame and enact laws, by the advice 

 and consent of the governor and council j which laws were to continue 

 in force for the space of two years, and no longer : but so it hath happened, 

 that your majesty, finding the inconveniencies which did attend that pow- 

 er and manner of making laws, by the irregular, violent, and unwarrant- 

 able proceedings of the assembly, was pleased, with the advice of your 

 jirivy council, to provide, by the earl of Carlisle's eommiasion, that on 



