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he was not obliged to c;hcw liis accounts to the assembly j but that he 

 had given them unto my lord, :'nd his excellency Irad told him, that, if 

 r.ny of the assembly had a mind to see them, they might bee them theie. 

 The house, considering the return of the committee ordered to inspect 

 Mr. M-artyn's accounts, reassumed that debate, and thereupon did vote, 

 that, notwithstanding my loid's answer by Mr. Mai tyn to that committee, 

 it was and is their undoubted and inherent nght, that as all bills for mo- 

 ney ought and do aiise in their house, so they ought to appoint the dispo- 

 sal of it ; and to receive and examine all the accounts conceining the same. 



Per a Copia. ROWLAND POWELL. 



NUMBER XVI. 



Extract of a letter from the Earl of Carlisle to the Committee. 



St. Jago de la Pega, i $lh Sept. 1679. 

 My LORDS, 



Your lordship's letters of the 2fth of March, 4th of April, and 315! 

 of May last, I received on the a6th of August, as also your lordship's 

 orders and reports to his majesty, touching the laws and government of 

 Jamaica j which I communicated to the council (the assembly then sitting, 

 to continue the revenue bill, expiring the ad of September) on the ayth 

 of August ; and afterwards, the same day, I communicated, the council 

 being present, his majesty's letter of the 3ist of May last, and your lord- 

 ship's order and report of the same date, to the assembly, which came to 

 me as seasonably as they received them surprised!}', making me the next 

 morning the enclosed address} upon which, having passed a bill of im- 

 post for six months, I prorogued them, by advice of the council, till the 

 r.Sth of October next, hoping in that time they would fail of their heat, 

 and upon recollection, better bethinjc themselves of their duties and alle- 

 giance, and upon my offering them again the laws, which I propose to do 

 upon their first meeting, better demonstrate their obedience by readily 

 giving their consent that they might be enacted. 



But, from what I can learn from the chief leaders among them, I find 

 the same averseness ?.s formerly, averring that they will submit to wear, 

 but never consent to make, chains, as they term this frame of government, 

 for their posterities ; so that \ scarce expect better success j of which I 

 have writ at large to Mr, Secretary Coventry. 



