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beneficial to the king, by appointing taxes and subsidies for the support 

 of the government, as by other laws, which tend only to the benefit and 

 ease of the subject ? 



3d. Whether the subsidies of tonnage and poundage upon goods that 

 may by law, or shall be directly carried to Jamaica, be not payable, ac- 

 cording to law, by his majesty's subjects inhabiting that island, or tra- 

 ding there, by virtue of the acts of tonnage, and poundage, or other acts 

 made in England ? 



4th. Whether wine or other goods, once brought into England and 

 transported from thence, upon which the respective abatements are al- 

 lowed upon exportation, according to law, the same being afterwards 

 carried to Jamaica and landed there, shall not be liable to the payment of 

 the full duty of tonnage and poundage which it should have paid if con- 

 sumed in England, deducting only such part of the said duty as shall 

 not be repaid in England upon exportation of the said goods from 

 thence ? 



Which queries were accordingly transmitted to Mr. Attorney and Mr. 

 Solicitor General, with a paper containing the past and present state of 

 Jamaica, in relation to the government. 



NUMBER XXV. 



Letter to Mr. Attorney and Mr. Solicitor General. 



Council-chamber, nth March) 1679-80. 

 Gentlemen, 



THE right honourable the lords of the committee for trade and planta- 

 tions, upon consideration of the affairs of Jamaica, have stated the ques- 

 tions following : viz. 



[Here ivere recited the queries stated in the preceding number.] 

 To which questions their lordships desire your answer in writing, 

 with all convenient speed : and, for your information, I have inclosed a 

 paper, containing a short account of the past and present state of the go- 

 vernment in Jamaica j and in case you should require any further satis- 

 faction therein, or touching the queries referred unto you, I am ordered 

 by the lords of the committee to attend you at any time or place you 

 chall think fit to appoint. I am, with all respect, gentlemen, &c. 



