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ANNUAL REGISTER,, 1S04. 



je6l, which, in compliance with the 

 dire6tions contained in the said or- 

 der, I am to desire you will take 

 an early opportunity of proposing 

 to the assembly to be passed into 

 a law. 



Resoliiiiotis approving of the mc ri 

 torioua Conduct of Admiral Sir 

 John Thomas DuckiCorth, Dated 

 17th December, 1 80 1 . 



Mexsage relative to Intercourse xsiih 

 America, dated I3th Dec. 1804. 



House resolve, that it jippcaring, 

 by an order of his majesty's coun- 

 cil, dated the 21st of November last, 

 and published in the royal gazette, 

 that his honour be advised to signify 

 to the officers of his majesty's cus- 

 toms in the respe6tive ports of entry 

 and clearance of this island, that 

 from and after the expiration of six 

 months, to be computed from the 

 present date, the resolution of coun- 

 cil of the 17th July, 1800, is to be 

 no longer considered in force, and 

 it being evident that the interrup- 

 tion of the intercourse between this 

 island and the united states of Ame- 

 rica cannot fail to be highly detri^ 

 mental, the following message be 

 sent to his honour the lieutenant- 

 governor, — 



Rcsolntion agreed to nem. con. 

 that the thanks of this house be pre- 

 sented to vice-admiral sir John 

 Thomas Duckworth, K. B. for the 

 effectual protection afforded to the 

 commerce and coasts of this island, 

 by his able and disinterested distri- 

 bution of his- majesty's naval forces 

 under his comm.and ; and that he 

 be requested to accept a sword as a 

 testimony of the high sense enter- 

 tained by this house of the eminent 

 services he has thereby rendered to 

 the country. — Mr. speaker order- 

 ed to transmit to vice-admiral sir 

 Jolin Thomas Duckworth, K. B. 

 a copy of the above resolution. — 

 To direft the receiver-general to 

 remit to Edmund Pnsey Lyon, esq. 

 the agent of this island, the sum of 

 1000 guineas, for the purpose of 

 purchasing a sword, to be present- 

 ed to vice-admiral sir John Thomas 

 Duckworth, K. B. 



May it please your honour, 



We are ordered by the house to 

 wait on your honour, and to re- 

 quest that you will be pleased to 

 lay before the house such papers 

 and documents as may have induced 

 the council to advise your honour 

 to signify to the principal officers of 

 his majesty's customs at the several 

 ports of this island, that from and 

 after the expiration of six months, 

 to be computed from the 2 1st of 

 November last, the resolution of 

 the board of the 17th July, 1800, 

 is to be no longer considered in 

 force. 



Resolution relative to the Interfer- 

 ence of the Board of Trade, in the 

 internal Concerns of the Colony. 

 Dated \7th December, 1804. 



To send a message to his honour 

 the lieutenant-governor, to acquaint 

 him, that in coHsequence of his 

 honour's message of the 12th' inst. 

 accompanied with a report from the 

 lords of trade and plantations to his 

 majesty, and an order of his ma- 

 jesty ill council thereupon, the house 

 have maturely weighed the purport 

 of the proposition recommended to 

 them, to enact into a law the bill 

 framed by that board for the pre- 



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