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from any publick offices or trusts in those Islands untill our farther pleasure be known

You shall take care in the fframing and passing of laws that noe escheats, fines or forfeitures be mentioned therein to be applyed or become payable otherwise then to us our heirs and successors for the support of the Goverment except what may belong to the

informer

It is our express will and pleasure that all laws whatsoever for the good goverment and support of our said Islands be made indefinite and without limitation of time except the same be for a temporary end and shall expire and have its full effect within a certain terme and therefore you shall not reenact any law wch shall be once enacted by you except upon very urgent occasions, but in noe wise more than once without our express consent

You are to require the Secretary of our said Islands or his deputy for the time being to furnish you with all such acts and publick orders as shall be made from time to time, to the end the same may be transmitted unto us as above directed wch hee is duly to perform upon paine of incurring the forfeiture of his office

Whereas wee conceive it necessary for our service that there be an Attorney-Generall appointed who may at all times take care of our rights and interest within our said Islands, you are with all convenient speed to nominate and appoint a fitt person for that

trust

You are to take especiall care for the defence and

preservation of our said Islands that the Forts be in good repair and the gunns well mounted and secured, that there be a sufficient store of armes and amunition and that they be diligently attended with a competent number of the publick tenants soe trained that they may be serviceable, and that both day and night they watch and attend there and if you find any old and unfit for that service consideration is to be had of their age and former service and an allowance made them out of the generall levy and you are to putt able and skilfull men in their stead and if the militia be not soe well settled as it ought to be, you are to dispose and discipline them that they may be serviceable and at all times be in a readiness upon a sudden alarme

You are to take into your custody or under your care all such armes amunition great gunns or other stores in being within the said Islands wch have att any time been bought with the publick mony and perticularly such amunition and provisions of war as are now sent to the said Islands by the officers of our ordnance and to dispose thereof as the service of our said Islands shall require

You are to demand an accot from the sherriffe or other officer how all such armes amunition great gunns or other stores wch have att any time been bought wth the publick mony, have been employed for the service of the said Islands, and how many have been sold spent lost decayed or disposed of and to whom or to what uses

You shall take an inventory of all armes amunition and stores remaining within our Islands under your

goverment and send an accompt of them forthwith and thenceforward yearly unto us and the lords of the committee for trade and fforraigne plantacons

You are from time to time to give us our committee for trade and plantacons an accompt of the wants and defects of our said Islands, what the chiefe products of them are and what new improvements the industry or invention of the planters hath afforded, what profitable advantage may be gained by trade and wch way you conceive wee may best contribute towards them

You shall endeavour to gett a law passed for the restraining of any inhumane severity wch by ill mastrs or overseers may be used towards their Christian servants, and you are alsoe wth the assistance of the councill and assembly to find out the best meanes to facilitate and encourage the conversion of negroes and other slaves to the Christian religion

Our will and pleasure is that appeales be permitted to be made from the courts in the said Islands unto our Lieut. Governor and councill in civill cases, provided the summe or value appealed for doe exceed fifty pounds ster. and that security be first given to the appellant to answer such charges as shall be awarded in case that the first sentence be affirmed and if either party shall not rest satisfied wth the judgment of our said Lieut. Governor and councill, that then they may appeal unto us in councill provided the summe value appealed for exceed one hundred pounds ster. and that the said appeal be made within one fortnight after sentence and security given by the appellant that

hee will effectually prosecute the same and answer the condemnation as alsoe to pay such costs and damages as shall be awarded in case the sentence of our Lieut. Governor and councill be affirmed so as execution be not suspended by reason of any appeal unto us

APPENDIX I.

MR. FIFIELD

As soon as you arrive att Barbadoes apply yourselfe to the Governor and pray a particular order for the apprehending of Nicholas Trott, sen. if you shall have any reason to believe hee is in the Island, but let that order be executed wth diligence and secrecy at the first whch if it does not availe, then let such order as you shall receive from the Governor be published and if you should get him and not have an opportunity to send him immediately to Bermudas before your departure putt him on board your own sloop and all the time you lye in that or any other Harbour lay him in irons else hee will certainly make an escape and wherever your affairs call you carry him along wth you till you arrive at Bermuda and if you should meet with him upon the seas I doe strictly require you to seize him and if any opposition be made by him or any of his Company then to use force and armes to that end, lett all your fire armes be ready loaded especially your Daterorex and the spare chamber, and likewise if you can find the mastr of the vessel that

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