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zd. Whether his majesty's subjects of Jamaica, claiming to be go- 

 verned by the laws of England, are not bound as well by such laws as 

 are beneficial to the king, by appointing taxes and subsidies for the sup- 

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

 and ease of the subject ? 



Which questions their lordships desire his majesty's judges to consider 

 and answer in writing, and to return the opinions to the committee with 

 convenient peed. lam, with respect, &c. 



NUMBER XXVIII. 



Order to the Judges about the question of Jamaica, 

 At the court at Whitehall, the a 3d of June, 1680, 



PRESENT, 

 His Majesty, 



Prince Rupert, Earl of Ossory, Mr. Finch, 



Abp. of Canterbury, Lord Chamberlain, Lord Chief Justice North, 

 Lord Chancellor, Earl of Sunderland, Mr. Coventry, 



Lord President, Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Sec. Jenkins, 



Lord Privy -Seal, Earl of Bath, Mr. Chancellor of the 



D. of Albemarle, Ld. Bp. of London, Exchequer, 



Marq. of Worcester, Mr. Hyde, Mr. Godolphin. 



It is this day ordered in council, that Mr. Attorney and Mr. Solicitor 

 General do attend his majesty's judges, and desire them to assemble with 

 all convenient speed, and, being assembled, to confer with them concern- 

 ing this question ; viz. 



Whether, by his majesty's letter, proclamation, or commissions, an- 

 nexed, his majesty hath excluded himself from the power of establishing 

 laws in Jamaica, it being a conquered country, and all laws settled by au- 

 thority there being now expired ? 



And that, upon receiving the opinions of his majesty's judges, under 

 their hands in writing) they do report the same to the lords of the privy- 

 council appointed a committee for trade and foreign plantations. 



NUMBER XXIX. 



Extract of an order in Council. 

 JAMAICA. 



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

 Whitehall, the 7th of September, 1680, 



