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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… may be given to the contrary, read. Report upon Mr. Taylor's proceedings towards finding the line betwixt this Province … to H.M., sent up, was read and passed, and received H.E.'s consent. Bills, that the duty of tunnage be paid in powder, … Militia, sent up, were read and passed, and received H.E.'s consent. Address to H.M. signed by the Council and Mr. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… consideration. A clause, referring to the Treasurer's accounts and discharge, to be inserted in the Tax Bill, was … March 5. Order for the clause relating to the Treasurer's discharge to be inserted in the Tax Bill and sent down to … to sundry persons of small accounts amounting to 9 3 s. 0 d. The Lieutenant-Governor dissolved the Assembly. [ …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Islands, and to my knowledge he sent them all home by H.M.S. Hastings. He is preparing them since that time for … and the other returns every six months. But the Treasurer's accounts, never have been asked for before, cause some … all the Councils, the one presides at Nevis, and the other's quarters are there, so that they are not esteemed …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Robert Levingston, a Scotchman, the contriver of Kidd's piratical voyage; James Graham, a Scotchman, Attorney … from Customs. (11) This Assembly, upon his Lordship's recommendation, vacated several particular grants of land … upon even by some of the Council and of his Lordship's party so very hard that the Council were equally divided …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and sent up, were passed and received His Excellency's consent. Bills directing the proceedings in the removal of … Joseph Benjamin and Peter Legrove wounded in His Majesty's service. [ Board of Trade. New England, 49. pp. 323326.] … Plantations, there are 20 several Colonies (besides Hudson's Bay and Newfoundland, in which last place there is no …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… last, relating to the state of defence of your Majesty's Plantations in America, we have received letters from Coll. Nicholson, your Majesty's Governor of Virginia, wherein he gives us an account, that … of the great importance of that Colony to your Majesty's Revenue and to the Trade of this Kingdom, and in …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… I hope your unanimous and cheerful obedience in the Queen's service will disappoint the ill-designs of such men, who, … of 5. Governor to take ths of the moiety of impost of 2 s. per hhd. of tobacco, the remaining th to be applied to … if the Assembly continue that duty. Lord Baltimore's Agents to be allowed to collect the other moiety of the 2 …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to gaole, as both principall and accessary in Clarke's treasons and felony, to witt, coining of money current here … file, gott of his irons, and one Dennis Macartee a burglar's, and above all the irons of one Nicholas a French Indian … the frontiers of Potomeck, and had actually the poor man's knife and pounch found upon him, the said Benjamin Celie …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… May 1. Message from the Burgesses, approving the Council's proposals as to the State-house in the abstract, but … Harry Beverley for the expenses of a sloop for the King's service. The Governor nominated the sheriffs for the … Agreed. (2) That a law be made for billeting the King's forces. Agreed. (3) That when runaway slaves are taken, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to appeal to the King in Council, and the Council's address thereon, were read and ordered to be laid before … and fixing fees for entry and clearing. On Mr. Bridger's application for a guard to protect him while inspecting the … I have always found him entirely devoted to the King's service, in attending of which, both at home and at other …