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And that he never opposed the king's ciders, otherwise than by ex- 

 pressing his opinion, that they were not for his majesty's service, nor the 

 good of the country. 



NUMBER XXXI. 



Extract of an order hi Council. 

 JAMAICA. 



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

 Whitehall, Tuesday the izih of October, 1680. 



PRESENT, 



Prince Rupert, Earl of Sundeiland, Mr. Hyde, 



Lord President, Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Godolphin, 



Lord Privy-Seal, Earl of Halifax, Mr. Sec. Jenkins, 



Marquis of Worcester, Viscount Fauconberg-, Mr. Seymour. 



The earl of Carlisle attending, acquaints the committee, that the acl 

 for raising a public revenue will expire in March next, and thst the govern- 

 ment will be left under very great necessities, in case the king do not give 

 Sir Henry Morgan leave to pass a temporary bill, until the full settlement of 

 affairs shall be agreed on, which is like to take up a considerable time ; and 

 therefore proposes, that the order in council, dated the i4th of January 

 last (which is read) forbidding the governor to raise money by any other 

 act or order whatsoever than by the bill transmited by his majesty, which 

 the assembly will not be willing to pass until the government be entirely 

 settled in such manner as may be more agreeable to them than the Irish 

 model, be suspended. His lordship proceeds to give an account cf his 

 transactions with the assembly, to persuade them to pass the revenue bill, 

 and reads the objections of the assembly, and his answer to them} where- ' 

 of, and of the council books, his lordship is desired to give a transcript 

 to the committee. 



There having been two laws read which were entered therein, the one 

 made by colonel D'Oyley and the council, for raising imposts on liquors, 

 the other by sir Charles Lyttleton and his council, being a supplemental 

 act to the former : 



And his lordship acquainting the committee, that, as for licenses of ta- 

 verns, he had set them on foot before he passed any bill of revenue : 



It is thereupon thought fit, by some of their lordships, that the assem- 

 bly of Jamaica be induced to pass a perpetual bill, by hiving leave to 

 appropriate the revenue to the support of the government. 



