APPENDIX.] OF JAMAICA. 329 



And the committee is appointed to meet again on this business on 

 Thursday at nine o'clock in the morning ; when colonel Long, and the 

 other assemblymen lately come over, are to attend. 



NUMBER XXXII. 

 JAMAICA. 



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

 Whitehall, Thursday the i4th of October, 1680. 



PRESENT, 



Prince Rupert, E. of Clarendon, Vise. Fauconberg, 



Lord President, E. of Essex, Ld. Ch. Just. North, 



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



Marq. of Worcester, 



The earl of Carlisle attends, and produces an entry in the council- 

 book of Jamaica, of a law passed by colonel D'Oyley and the council, 

 for raising a public revenue, and of another passed by Sir Charles Lyttle- 

 ton and the council, being a supplemental act to the former, both which 

 are indefinite, and not determined by the commissions of colonel D'Oyley 

 or my lord Windsor, whose deputy Sir Charles Lyttleton was. 



After which, colonel Long and Mr. Ashurst are called in, (the other 

 gentlemen of Jamaica being in the country), and being asked, Why they 

 were not willing that a perpetual bill of revenue should pass in Jamaica ? 

 they made answer, that they have no other way to make their aggrievances 

 known to the king, to have them redressed, than by the dependance of the 

 governor upon the assembly, which is preserved by passing temporary 

 bills of revenue} and that, a perpetual bill being passed, all the ends of 

 government would be answered, and there would be no further need df 

 calling assemblies. To which my lord of Carlisle replies, that, notwith- 

 standing any act for raising an impost on liquors should be passed in that 

 manner, yet the necessities and contingencies of the government are such 

 as to require the frequent calling of assemblies, for raising money by 

 other means, and doing public works, the present revenue coming f.'.r 

 short of the expense of the government. 



Their lordships tell colonel Long, that in case they be willing and pass 

 the act indefinitely, the king may be induced to settle other perpetual laws, 

 which they shall propose as beneficial to them. 



The gentlemen of Jamaica being withdrawn, their lordships enter upon 

 a debate concerning a continuance of the two laws made by col. D'Oyley 

 and Sir Charles Lyttleton before mentioned, and /C7t- far ike Engll 

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