APPENDIX.] OF JAMAICA. 325 



NUMBER XXVI. 



Extract of an order in Council. 

 JAMAICA. 



At the committee of Trade and Plantations, in the council-chamber at 

 Whitehall, the 2yth of April, 1680, 



PRESENT, 



Prince Rupert, Earl of Essex, Mr. Hyde, 



Lord President, Vise. Fauconberg, Mr. Sec. Jenkins. 



Earl of Sunderland, 



Mr. Attorney and Mr. Solicitor General having likewise acquainted the 

 committee, that, upon consideration of the four questions concerning 

 Jamaica, referred unio them the nth of March, they did find them of 

 such difficulty and moment as to deserve the opinion of the judges : it 

 is agreed that tin ' e accordingly referred unto the judges, upon whom 

 Mr. Attorney and Mr. Solicitor General are desired to attend with them j 

 Mr. Attorney having first delivered his opinion, " that the people of Ja- 

 <c maica have no right to be governed by the laws of England, but by 

 " such laws as are made there, and established by his majesty's autho- 

 " rity." But whereas Mr. Solicitor General doth deliver his opinion that 

 the word " dominion," in the act of parliament fur tonnage and pound- 

 age, may seem rather to imply the dominion of Wales and Berwick upon 

 Tweed only, than to extend to the plantations j and more especially, as 

 Mr. Attorney alleges, since the islands of Guernsey and Jersey are not 

 concerned in that act j their lordships order the two first questions only 

 to be sent unto the judges, without any mention to be made of the two 

 last, which particularize the act of tonnage and poundage. 



NUMBER XXVII. 



References to the Judges about Jamaica. 



Council- chamber^ ^']tb April, i6ao. 

 Gentlemen, 



I am commanded by the right honourable the lords of the privy-coun- 

 cil appointed a committee of trade and foreign plantations, to signify their 

 desires that you attend his majesty's judges with the questions following: 

 i st. Whether from the past and present state of Jamaica, his majesty's 

 subjects inhabiting and trading there have a right to the laws of England, 

 as Englishmen, or by virtue of the king's proclamation, or otherwise ? 



