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appear: and whereas it is necessary that ood and wholesome laws and 

 ordinances be settled and established for the government and support of 

 our island of Jamaica : we do hereby give and giant unto you full power 

 and authority, with the advice and consent ;>f the said council, from time 

 to time, as need shall require, to summon or call general assemblies of 

 the freeholders and planters within the said island, in manner and form 

 as is now practised in Jamaica. And our will and plea ure is, that th? 

 persons thereupon duly elected by the major part i/f the freeholders of the 

 respective parishes and places, and so returned, (having, before their sit- 

 ting, taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, which you shall 

 commissionate fit persons, under the public seal of that island, to admi- 

 nister, and without taking which none shall be capable of sitting, though 

 elected), shall be called and held the General Assembly of our island of 

 Jamaica; and that they, or the major part of them, shall have fill pow- 

 er and authority, with the advice and consent of" yourself and of the coun- 

 cil, to make, constitute, and ordain law?, statutes, and ordinances, for 

 the public peace, welfare, and good government of the said island, and 

 of the people and inhabitant.-- thereof, and such other as shall resort 

 thereto, and for the benefit of our heirs and successors ; which said laws, 

 statutes, and ordinances, are to be (as near as convcn'ently msy be) 

 agreeable to the laws and statutes of our kingdom of England : provided, 

 that all such laws, statutes, and ordinances, of what nature or duration 

 whatsoever, be, within three month:-, or by the first conveyance after ths 

 making the same, transmitted unto us under the public seal, for our al- 

 lowance and approbation of them, as aho duplicates thereof by the next 

 conveyance: and in case all or ar.y of them (being not before cortimied 

 by us) shall at any time be disallowed and not approved, and so signified 

 by us, our heirs or successors, under our or their sign manual or signet, 

 or by order of our or their privy-council, unto you, the said earl of Car- 

 lisle, or to the commander in chief uf our said island for the time being, 

 then such or so many of them as shall be so disallowed and not approved 

 shall from thenceforth cease, determine, and be utterly void nd of none 

 effect, any thing to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. And to the 

 end nothing may be passed or done in our said island by the paid council 

 or assembly to the prejudice of, ous ur heirs or successors, we wih an d or- 

 dain that you the sn:d Ch.irle.^ earl of Carlisle, shall have and enjoy a ne- 

 gative voice in the making or passing ot all laws, statutes, and ordinances, 

 as aforesaid} ami that you shall and may likewise, from time to time, a-, 

 ou^ shall judge it necessary, {iu oli . . terablies, as aforesaid; 



