J2O4 November 1748. 



ments, have loft their whole falary, his Majefty 

 having no power to make them pay it. If a 

 governor had no other refource in thefe circum- 

 ftances, he would be obliged either to refign his 

 office, or be content with an income too fmall for 

 his dignity 5 or elfe to conform himfelf in every 

 thing to the inclinations of the inhabitants : but 

 there are feveral ftated profits, which in fome 

 meafure make up for this. i. No one is allowed 

 to keep a public houfe without the governor's 

 leave ; which is only to be obtained by the pay- 

 ment of a certain fee, according to the circum- 

 ftances of the perfon. Some governors therefore, 

 when the inhabitants refufed to pay them a fa- 

 lary, have hit upon the expedient of doubling 

 the number of inns in their province. 2, Few 

 people who intend to be married* unlefs they be 

 very poor, will have their banns published from 

 the pulpit; but inflead of this they get licences 

 from the governor, which impower any miniiter 

 to marry them. Now for fuch a licence the go* 

 vernor receives about half a guinea, and this col- 

 Icfted throughout the whole province, amounts 

 to a confiderable fum, 3. The governor figns all 

 paiTports, and efpecially of fuch as go to fea ; and 

 this gives him another means of fupplying his 

 cxpences. There are feveral other advantages 

 allowed to him, but as they are very trifling, I 

 fliall omit them. 



AT the above aflembly the old laws are re- 

 viewed and amended, and new ones are made: 

 and the regulation and circulation of coin, toge- 

 ther with all other affairs of that kind, are there 

 * deter- 



