436 HISTORY 



privileges, until the several judgments of the General Court and its orders 

 should have been so effectively annulled as no longer to have the authority of 

 a legal precedent. 48 The Governor was at last informed that if he did not feel 

 authorized to relieve their embarrassing situation, the House would do nothing 

 further during the session than to formulate an address to the Prince Regent 

 for a redress of their grievances. 47 Nothing further was attempted. A few 

 days later a prorogation was proclaimed. Time would now be given for 

 excited feelings to become quieted. Throughout another session the House of 

 Assembly had adhered to its determination to outwit every other authority in 

 the Colony. 



Before another session of the Assembly occurred Governor Charles Cam- 

 eron had been removed from the government of the Bahamas. He was suc- 

 ceeded in the temporary administration of the Colony by Chief Justice Mun- 

 nings, who was President of the Council. He was the same official against 

 whom the same House had acted so violently during its last session. 48 His 

 position as temporary administrator did not make for peace with the House. 

 The members of that body were sadly disappointed that a favorable response to 

 their claim was not communicated from the home government. On the other 

 hand, they were informed that the Prince Eegent had instructed the Secretary 

 of State to communicate to the Bahama House of Assembly that he fully 

 approved of the conduct of the General Court in issuing the writ of habeas 

 corpus on behalf of the unfortunate Attorney-General, for a recommitment 

 would have meant that the original imprisonment had been according to law. 48 

 The House on its part spent a great part of this session in committee of 

 the whole discussing the matter, in order to ascertain the best means of 

 securing a redress of its grievances. It was unyielding in its attitude towards 

 those who had offended against it, 50 and was still determined to refuse to act 

 on the affairs of the Colony until its assumed privileges were secured to it. 

 Instead of proceeding to business it passed another set of resolutions reviewing 

 the difficulties, and voted to have the Attorney-General brought before it on 

 the 14th of July. 61 When it met on that day it was at once summoned to the 



48 Loc. cit., pp. 34-36. 



47 Loc. cit., p. 116. 



48 It might be questioned whether those meetings were a " session " of the legis- 

 lature. Some authority has said that there must have been some business done in 

 order to entitle the meetings of the Assembly to the name of a " session." 



49 H. V., 1818, p. 5. 



50 Loc. cit., pp. 9-10. 

 61 H. V., 1818, p. 20. 



