Journal, November 1775: Volume 82

Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations: Volume 13, January 1768 - December 1775. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1937.

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'Journal, November 1775: Volume 82', in Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations: Volume 13, January 1768 - December 1775, (London, 1937) pp. 443-455. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/jrnl-trade-plantations/vol13/pp443-455 [accessed 25 March 2024]

Journal, November 1775

Thursday, November 2nd. Present:—Mr. Jenyns, Mr. Gascoyne, Mr. Greville.

Trade.

fo. 125.

Read an order of the Lords of the Privy Council, dated October 27th, 1775, referring to this Board, for their consideration and report, the petition of James Montgomery for leave to export to the Mosquito shore, on board the ship Betsy, certain military stores for trade with the natives there.

The draught of a report to the Lords of the Council upon the petition above mentioned, having been prepared, was approved, transcribed and signed.

Tuesday, November 21st. Present:—Mr. Jenyns, Mr. Gascoyne, Mr. Jolliffe.

Miscellanies.

The King having appointed the Right Honble. Lord George Germain, to be one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, and to assign to his lordship the business relative to His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in Africa and America, his lordship attended and took his seat at the Board.

fo. 126.

It was proposed by his lordship, and agreed to by the rest of the Board, that they should meet on Tuesdays and Fridays at 12 o'clock in the forenoon for the dispatch of public business, and it was ordered, that notice should be given to the absent members of this resolution.

Nova Scotia, North Carolina, Georgia, Bahama, Bermuda, Jamaica, Antigua, Grenada, Dominica, Barbados, Montserrat, Nevis.

Their lordships read and considered several laws passed in the colonies of Nova Scotia, North Carolina and Georgia, and in the Islands of Bahama, Bermuda, Jamaica, Antigua, Grenada, Dominica, Barbados, Montserrat, and Nevis, together with Mr. Jackson's reports thereupon; and draughts of representations to his Majesty, recommending the disallowance of several of the said laws, were prepared, approved and signed; the titles of which laws are as follows, viz:—
Dominica.
fo. 127.
An Act for settling and regulating markets in the several towns of this Island, and for appointing clerks of the market and common whippers, and fixing their fees and the price of all butcher's meat and fish, and for appointing standards for all weights and measures.
Grenada.
An Act to establish regular markets, to fix the prices of fresh provisions and other commodities brought to such markets for sale, to appoint clerks of such markets, and to ascertain and regulate their duty and conduct in their office.
Bahama.
An Act for regulating the proceedings on attachments issuing out of the Courts of Judicature within these Islands.
Nova Scotia.
An Act in further addition to and for continuing the several acts for the establishment of fees as regulated by the Governor and Council at the request of the House of Assembly.
fo. 128.
An Act to further explain and amend an Act made in the thirty second year of his late Majesty's reign, intitled, an Act for making lands and tenements liable to the payment of debts.
An Act in amendment of and to explain an Act made in the tenth year of his present Majesty's reign, intitled, an Act for establishing the rate of interest.

Bermuda.

Their lordships also read, and approved and signed a letter to the Governor of Bermuda, upon the subject of an Act passed in the Bahama Islands, "to regulate the salt ponds at Turks' Islands."

Jamaica.

Their lordships then read and considered two Acts of a private nature passed in the Island of Jamaica, together with Mr. Jackson's report thereupon; the titles of which Acts are as follows, viz:—
fo. 129.
An Act to entitle Dugald Clarke, to the same rights and privileges with English subjects, under certain restrictions.
An Act to enable Daniel Moore, Esquire, to take up a sufficient quantity of water for turning mills for grinding sugar canes out of or from Aqua Alta river (commonly called Wagwater river), in the parish of St. Andrew, and to carry the same to the works on his plantation in the said parish called Constant Spring.

Ordered, that the draught of a representation to his Majesty be prepared, recommending the confirmation of the first mentioned Act; and that the other Act be taken into consideration on Friday, the 1st of December, and that notice be given to the agent, and also to the agent of Lord Irnham, who appears to have entered a caveat against confirming the said Act.

The draught of a representation to his Majesty upon Dugald Clarke's Act, having been accordingly prepared, was agreed to and signed.

fo. 130.

Trade.

The Secretary laid before the Board the following accounts or state of the British and French commerce at Hamburgh and Bremen, received from his Majesty's minister at Hamburgh, viz:—
State of the British imports at Hamburgh in 1774, and the valuation of them.
State of the French imports at Hamburgh in 1774, and the valuation of them.
State of the British imports at Bremen in 1774, and the valuation of them.
Ditto: of the French imports.
Navigation of Great Britain to Hamburgh and of all the maritime states, 1774.

The following letters and papers received since the last meeting of the Board, were read, viz:—
fo. 131.
New York.
Letter from Cadwallader Colden, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of New York, to the Board, dated June 7th, 1775, transmitting public papers, and containing a remark on a Militia Act lately passed in that province.
Minutes of Council in the Department of Lands, etc., from April 16th, 1774, to 11th of April, 1775.
Ditto: in the State Department from the 7th of April, 1774, to the 13th April, 1775,
Journal of the proceedings of the Council, from January 10th, 1775, to 3rd of April following.
A printed set of the votes and proceedings of the General Assembly.
Seventy one Acts passed in January and April, 1775.
Printed copy of the said Acts.
Minutes of Council in the Department of Lands, etc., from April 13th, 1775, to 3rd of June following.
A printed state of the right of the colony of New York with respect to its eastern boundary on Connecticut river, etc.
fo. 132.
North Carolina.
Letter from Governor Martin, to the Board, dated March 24th, 1775, containing an account of the state of his Majesty's Council for North Carolina, and recommending persons fit to supply vacancies at that Board.
List of the Council.
Georgia.
Letter from Sir James Wright, Baronet, Governor of Georgia, to the Board, dated 20th June, 1775, transmitting five Acts passed in that colony in March, 1774, and containing observations upon them.
Letter from Governor Wright to the Board, dated April 20th, 1775, containing an account of the state of his Majesty's Council for that colony.
Register of grants from March 25th, 1771, to September 25th, 1774.
Bermuda.
fo. 133.
Letter from George James Bruere, Esquire, Governor of the Bermuda Islands, to the Board, dated March 18th, 1775, containing remarks on an Act passed there in January, 1775, "for the better regulating the Treasury," etc.
Five Acts passed in December, 1774, and January, 1775.
Letter from Governor Bruere, to the Board, dated June 18th, 1775, relative to his power to appoint councillors, and desiring their lordships' explanation of the 7th article of his instructions.
Eight Acts passed in March and May, 1775.
Governor Bruere's remarks on the said Acts.
Dominica.
Letter from Thomas Shirley, Esquire, Governor of Dominica, to the Board, dated July 4th, 1775, informing their lordships of the death of Mr. Lyons, one of the Council, and transmitting,
Names of three persons qualified to supply the vacancy in the Council.
Letter from Governor Shirley, to the Board, dated June 29th, 1775, transmitting public papers.
fo. 134.
Minutes of Council from March 18th to October 13th, 1774.
Journal of Assembly from February 17th to October 13th, 1774.
One Act passed in October, 1774.
Copy of the proceedings of the Court of Sessions, held October 7th, 1773.
Minutes of the Court of Sessions, August 28th, 1774.
Naval office list of ships and vessels which have entered in the port of Roseau, from October 1st, 1773, to October 1st, 1774.
Ditto: in the port of Prince Rupert's Bay, from October 31st, 1773, to October 31st, 1774.
Seven Acts passed in August, September and October, 1774.
Minutes of Council from November 12th, 1774, to June 19th, 1775.
fo. 135.
Journal of Assembly, from November 21st, 1774, to June 15th, 1775.
Barbados.
Letter from the Honble. Edward Hay, Governor of Barbados, to the Board, dated September 16th. 1775, containing remarks on Acts lately passed in that Island, and transmitting public papers.
Report of a Committee appointed for considering his Excellency's message, and the letter from the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, relative to the Molehead Act.
List of Members of Council, August 25th, 1775.
Treasurer's account of new negroes imported from August 11th, 1774, to August 11th, 1775.
Abstract of births, christenings and burials, from January 1st to December 31st, 1774.
Storekeeper's certificate of money collected in lieu of powder duty, from August 23rd, 1774, to August 22nd, 1775.
Minutes of Council, from August 9th, 1774, to June 27th, 1775.
Journal of Assembly, from September 6th, 1774, to May 16th, 1775.
Four Acts passed in September, 1774, and January and May, 1775.
fo. 136.
Newfoundland.
Report of Mr. James Hutton, Secretary to the Unitas Fratrum, dated November 9th, 1775, concerning the brethren's undertakings on the coast of Labrador.
Africa.
Copy of a letter from David Mill, Esquire, to the Committee of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, dated Cape Coast Castle, September, 1774.
Ditto: dated Cape Coast Castle, 5th January, 1775.
Ditto: dated Cape Coast Castle, April 15th, 1775.

Bermuda.

Ordered, that the draught of a letter to the Governor of Bermuda be prepared, on the subject of his doubts respecting the intention and meaning of the 7th article of his instructions.

Dominica.

Ordered, that the draught of a representation to his Majesty be prepared, recommending that William Hutchinson, Esquire, may be appointed of the Council of Dominica, in the room of John Lyons, Esquire, deceased.

fo. 137.

North Carolina.

Ordered, that the draught of a representation to his Majesty be prepared, proposing that William Dry, Esquire, one of the Council of the province of North Carolina, may be removed from his seat at that Board.

Pennsylvania.

Read an order of the King in Council, dated July 21st, 1775, referring to this Board, for their consideration and report to a Committee of the Lords of the Privy Council for Plantation Affairs, twelve Acts passed in the province of Pennsylvania in December, 1774, and March, 1775.

Their lordships read and considered the several laws mentioned in the said order, together with a report of Mr. Jackson thereupon; and it was ordered, that the draught of a report to the Lords of the Committee of Council upon the said laws should be prepared.

Trade.

fo. 138.

Read an Order of the Lordsof the Privy Council, dated October 27th, 1775, referring to this Board, for their consideration and report, the petition of Messrs. French and Martin, for leave to export to Ostend certain military stores for the use of an East India ship building at Nantes.

Their lordships, upon consideration of the said order, and of what had been requested by the petitioner, were of opinion, that it would not be advisable to allow the exportation prayed for.

Read an Order of the Lords of the Privy Council, dated October 27th, 1775, referring to this Board, for their consideration and report, the petition of Miguel Dias de Faria, for leave to export to Oporto certain military stores on board the ship Ann, or ship Haughton, for the use of two ships trading to the Brazils.

Ordered, that the draught of a report on the said petition be prepared; and having been prepared accordingly, was agreed to, transcribed and signed.

fo. 139.

Read an Order of the Lords of the Privy Council, dated November 10th, 1775, referring to this Board, for their consideration and report, the petition of Lancelot Cowper, of Bristol, merchant, for leave to export to the Bay of Honduras certain military stores for the use of the inhabitants living in that Bay.

No objection appearing to allowing the exportation prayed for, upon the petitioner's entering into the usual securities; it was ordered, that the draught of a report upon the said petition should be prepared.

Nova Scotia.

The Secretary laid before the Board, the following papers received from Nova Scotia, viz:—
Reference of papers relative to the Island of Cape Breton, and the disposal of the King's property in the town of Louisbourg.
Memorial of Colonel McNutt, representing the grievances sustained by settlers in Nova Scotia.
Minutes of Council, from April 30th, to July 31st, 1774.
Do: from August 16th to October 27th, 1774.
fo. 140.
Minutes of Council, from November 2nd to December 20th, 1774.
Ditto: from January 2nd to March 28th, 1775.
Journal of Council in Assembly, from October 6th to November 12th, 1774.
Ditto: from December 5th to 13th, 1774.
Extract of the proceedings of the Governor and Council on the 16th and 19th of September, 1774.
Printed Journal of Assembly, from October 6th to November 12th, 1774.
Printed Journal of the House of Assembly, from December 5th to 13th, 1774.
Ten Acts passed in November, 1774.
List of said Acts with the Governor's observations on them.
Seven Acts passed in December, 1774.
One hundred and twelve lots laid out on the road leading from Fort Cumberland to Fort Belcher, containing in the whole thirty thousand, four hundred and fifty seven acres.
fo. 141.
Ninety three lots laid out on Minas Bason, and the road from Partridge Island to Cumberland, containing in the whole twenty six thousand, five hundred and fifty one acres.
Sixty six lots laid out in the township of Wilmot, containing in the whole twenty six thousand, one hundred and forty five acres.
Copy of a bill, intituled, an Act for the valuation of all real and personal estates within this province.
Copy of a bill, intituled, an Act for granting to his Majesty a tax upon certain lands granted within the province of Nova Scotia, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Copy of an address from the House of Assembly to the Governor, dated October 22nd, 1774.
Copy of an address of the Council to the Governor, in answer to an address from the House of Assembly on the 22nd of October, 1774.
Minutes of Council, from July 3rd to the 25th, 1775.
fo. 142.
Journal of Council in Assembly, from June 12th to July 20th, 1775.
Printed Journal of Assembly, from June 12th to the 20th, 1775.
Nine Acts passed in July, 1775.
List of the said Acts.
Copy of a bill, intituled, an Act to prevent waste and destruction of Pine and other timber trees, on certain reserved and ungranted lands in this province.
Copy of an address of the House of Assembly to the Governor.
Copy of the Governor's speech to the Council.
Copy of the Treasurer's accompts, from October, 1758, to the 14th of February, 1768, and report thereon.
Ditto: between February 18th, 1768, and December 31st, 1774, and report thereon.
Copy of the accompts of the Collectors of Impost and Excise from No. 3 to 16.
Copy of the reports on the said accompts.

fo. 143.

Mr. Burrow, appointed by the Governor of Nova Scotia to solicit the affairs of that province, attending, was called in, and having been questioned respecting his appointment by the Governor to be Inspector of the Public Accompts, he was ordered to withdraw; and their lordships being of opinion, that such appointment was improper, it was ordered, that the Governor should be acquainted therewith in the next letter the Board should have occasion to write to him.

Their lordships then proceeded to consider the bills prepared by the Assembly of Nova Scotia, and to which the Governor had refused his assent; and it was ordered, that they should be referred to Mr. Jackson, for his opinion thereupon in point of law.

St. John's.

fo. 144.

Their lordships read and considered eleven Acts passed in the Island of St. John, in October, 1774, together with Mr. Jackson's report thereupon; and Mr. Paterson, Governor of that Island, lately arrived from thence, attending, their lordships had some conversation with him upon the subject of several of the said Acts.

Ordered, that the draught of a representation to his Majesty be prepared, proposing the disallowance of two of the said Acts, viz:—
An Act for regulating fees.
An Act entitling people called Quakers to certain privileges.

The Secretary laid before the Board the following letters and papers received since the last meeting, viz:—
Trade.
Order of the Committee of Council, dated December 2nd, 1774, referring to this Board, for their consideration and report, an account of the East India Company's exports from September 29th, 1773, to September 29th, 1774.
fo. 145.
Order of the Committee of Council, dated November 4th, 1775, referring to this Board, for their examination and report, an account of the East India Company's exports from September 29th, 1774, to September 29th, 1775.
An account of all goods imported into, and exported from Scotland, year ended 5th January, 1774.
Imports and exports to and from Scotland, year ended 5th January, 1775.
Africa.
Account of the African Committee for the year 1773.
New Hampshire.
Extracts from the Minutes of Council in New Hampshire on the 9th, 10th and 12th of September, 1774, containing their proceedings on the petition of Edward Parry, Esquire, respecting some Tea consigned to him in the ship Fox, from London.
Massachusetts.
Journal of the proceedings of the General Court in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, from January 26th to March 9th, 1774.
fo. 146.
Journal of the proceedings of the General Court, from May 25th to June 17th, 1774.
Minutes of Council, from May 27th, 1774, to May 27th, 1775.
Journal of the House of Representatives, from May 26th, 1773, to March 9th, 1774.
Ditto: from May 25th to June 17th, 1774.
New Jersey.
Minutes of Council, from January 12th to May 20th, 1775.
Journal of Council in Assembly, from May 15th to the 20th, 1775.
Printed votes of the General Assembly, from January 11th to February 13th, 1775.
Ditto: from May 15th to the 20th, 1775.
Printed copy of Acts passed in February, 1775.
Printed copy of the Governor's speech to the General Assembly on the 16th of May, 1775.
fo. 147.
Printed address of the House of Representatives to the Governor, dated March 19th, 1775; and of his Excellency's answer.
Caveat of the overseers of the school in the town of Burlington, against any grant being made of the Island of Burlington, until they are first heard.
Virginia.
Journal of Council, from October 10th, 1772, to February 28th, 1774.
Naval office lists in the several ports of Virginia, from the 25th of March to the 10th of October, 1774.
North Carolina.
Duplicate letters from Josiah Martin, Esquire, Governor of North Carolina, to the Earl of Dartmouth.
Minutes of Council, from March 8th to the 26th, 1774.
Ditto: from April 20th to August 25th, 1774.
Ditto: from October 8th, 1774, to April 24th, 1775.
Journals of Assembly, from April 4th to the 8th, 1775.
fo. 148.
List of patents granted at July Court of Claims, 1774.
Ditto: in February and March Court of Claims, 1775.
Copy of a bill, entituled, an Act for the more regular and effectual payment of Quitrents due and owing in the province of North Carolina, etc.
South Carolina.
Two Acts passed in the province of South Carolina in March, 1775.
East Florida.
Naval office lists of vessels entered and cleared in the port of St. Augustine, from June 24th, 1773, to June 24th, 1774.
Minutes of Council, from August 2nd, 1773, to July 19th, 1774.
West Florida.
Minutes of Council, from February 11th to March 28th, 1774.
Ditto: from April 20th to June 13th, 1774.
Bermuda.
fo. 149.
Duplicate letters from Governor Bruere to the Earl of Dartmouth, Nos. 7, 10, 11.
Governor Bruere's answers to general heads of enquiry.
Copy of the 88th instruction to him.
Copy of the report of the Board of Trade, December 5th, 1770.
Estimate of the charges of Government.
Bahama.
Minutes of Council in the Bahama Islands, from September 23rd, 1774, to February 22nd, 1775.
Ditto: in Assembly, from the 12th to the 24th of December, 1774.
Journal of Assembly for the same time.
Nine Acts passed in December, 1774.
Bermuda.
Minutes of Council for the Bermuda Islands, from December 16th, 1772, to March 30th, 1775.
Ditto: of Council in Assembly, from February 15th, 1773, to July 23rd following.
Ditto: from August 16th, 1773, to 1st of April, 1775.
fo. 150.
Votes and proceedings of the General Assembly, from February 15th, 1773, to July 23rd following.
Ditto: from August 16th, 1773, to April 1st, 1775.
Bermuda.
Certificate concerning the lands of Margaret and Ann Burgess.
Jamaica.
Letter from Sir Basil Keith on the Acts imposing additional duties on negroes imported.
Sir Basil Keith's answer to heads of enquiry, 1774.
Naval officer lists, from June 29th, 1772, to Christmas, 1773.
Minutes of Council, from February 11th, 1774, to December following.
Journal of Council in Assembly, from October 25th to December 24th, 1774.
Journal of Assembly, from October 25th to December 24th, 1774.
Thirty three Acts passed in November and December, 1774.
fo. 151.
Printed votes of Assembly, from October 25th to December 24th, 1774.
Leeward Islands, Antigua.
Minutes of Council, from April 7th to September 8th, 1774.
Ditto: from October 1st, 1774, to April 1st, 1775.
Journal of Assembly, from April 7th to September 8th, 1774.
Ditto: from October 6th, 1774, to April 6th, 1775.
Five Acts passed in July, August and September, 1774, and January, 1775.
Four Acts passed in February, March and May, 1775.
List of baptisms and funerals, from April 1st, 1774, to October 1st following.
Ditto: from October 1st, 1774, to April 1st, 1775.
List of negroes imported, from April 1st to October 1st, 1774.
Ditto: from October 1st, 1774, to 1st of April, 1775.
Powder officer's account, from April 1st to October 1st, 1774.
fo. 152.
Ditto: from October 1st, 1774, to April 1st, 1775.
St. Christopher's.
Minutes of Council, from April 1st to September 29th, 1774.
Ditto: from October 14th, 1774, to February 9th, 1775.
Journal of Assembly, from October 25th, 1774, to March 22nd, 1775.
List of baptisms and funerals, from April 1st, 1774, to October 1st following.
Ditto: from October 1st, 1774, to April 1st, 1775.
List of negroes imported, from April 1st to October 1st, 1774.
Powder officer's accounts, from April 1st to September 23rd, 1774.
Nevis.
Minutes of Council, from June 23rd to September 21st, 1774.
Ditto: from October 1st, 1774, to March 30th, 1775.
Journal of Assembly, from June 23rd to September 21st, 1774.
Ditto: from October 1st, 1774, to March 30th, 1775.
List of baptisms and funerals, from April 1st, to October 1st, 1774.
fo. 153.
Ditto: from October 1st, 1774, to April 1st, 1775.
List of negroes imported, from April 1st to October 1st, 1774.
Ditto: from October 1st, 1774 to April 1st, 1775.
Powder officer's account, from April 1st to October 1st, 1774.
Ditto: from October 1st, 1774, to April 1st, 1775.
Five Acts passed in September, November and December, 1774, and April, 1775.
Montserrat.
Minutes of Council from April 26th to September 28th, 1774.
Ditto: from October 1st, 1774, to April 1st, 1775.
Journal of Assembly, from April 1st to October 1st, 1774.
Ditto: from October 1st, 1774, to April 1st, 1775.
Four Acts passed in April and December, 1774, and April, 1775.
List of baptisms and funerals, from April 1st to October 1st, 1774.
Ditto: from October 1st, 1774, to April 1st, 1775.
fo. 154.
List of negroes imported, from October 1st, 1774, to April 1st, 1775.
Powder officer's account, from April 1st to October 1st, 1774.
Ditto: from October 1st, 1774, to April 1st, 1775.
Grenada.
List of the Council of Grenada, May 24th, 1775.
Minutes of Council, from November 26th, 1773, to June 13th, 1775.
Votes of Assembly, from May 29th to June 26th, 1775.
St. Vincent's.
Minutes of Council, from July 10th, 1772, to December 22nd, 1774.
Ditto: from February 6th to April 17th, 1775.
Four Acts passed in March and May, 1774, and February, 1775.
Tobago.
Minutes of Council, from November 11th, 1773, to March 6th, 1775.
Ditto: in Assembly for the same time.
fo. 155.
Journal of Assembly, from November 2nd, 1773, to April 9th, 1774.
Ditto: from April 11th, 1774, to March 7th, 1775.
List of the Council, April 4th, 1775.

Friday, November 24th. Present:—Mr. Jenyns, Mr. Keene, Mr. Gascoyne, Mr. Greville.

Lord George Germain, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, attends.

Bermuda.

The draught of a letter to the Governor of Bermuda respecting the intention and meaning of the seventh article of his instructions, having been prepared pursuant to order, was agreed to, transcribed and signed.

fo. 156.

The following representations and reports, the draughts of which were ordered to be prepared by the minutes of the 21st instant, were approved and signed, viz:—
St. John's.
Representation to his Majesty, proposing the disallowance of an Act, passed in the Island of St. John in October, 1774, for regulating fees.
Dominica.
Representation to his Majesty, recommending William Hutchinson, Esquire, to be appointed of the Council of Dominica.
Trade.
Two reports to the Lords of the Council upon the petitions of Lancelot Cowper and Robert Kaye, praying for licence to export gunpowder and other military stores to the Mosquito shore and the Bay of Honduras.
Pennsylvania.
fo. 157.
Report to the Lords of the Committee of Council upon twelve Acts passed in the province of Pennsylvania in December, 1774, and March, 1775.

Jamaica.

Read a letter from Sir Basil Keith, knight, Governor of Jamaica, to the Board, dated June 26th, 1775, in answer to one from their lordships of the 16th of March last, respecting the Acts imposing additional duties on negroes imported into Jamaica.

Trade.

South Carolina.

Georgia.

Mr. Nutt and Mr. Greenwood, deputed by the merchants of London trading to South Carolina and Georgia, attended the Board, and stated the prejudice which that branch of commerce would sustain, if a proposition made in the House of Commons, for prohibiting all trade and commerce with certain colonies in North America should take effect; and therefore suggesting the expediency of allowing rice to be exported from Carolina and Georgia, under certain restrictions.

fo. 158.

Nova Scotia.

Their lordships read and considered nine Acts passed in the province of Nova Scotia in July, 1775, together with Mr. Jackson's report thereupon.

Ordered, that the draught of a representation to his Majesty be prepared, proposing that the two following Acts, having clauses suspending their execution until his Majesty's pleasure be known, may be confirmed, viz:—
An Act for the relief of Joseph Binney, Esquire, Collector of Imposts and Excise duties at the district of Canso.
An Act for the better securing the payment of certain debts due to the government of this province.

Trade.

fo. 159.

Read an order of the Lords of the Council, referring to this Board, for their consideration, a petition of James Hambrough, merchant, praying for a licence to export gunpowder and other military stores; and a report to their lordships thereupon, was signed.

Tuesday, November 28th. Present:— Mr. Jenyns, Mr. Jolliffe, Mr. Gascoyne, Mr. Keene.

Plantations General.

Lord George Germain, one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, attends, and signifies to their lordships his Majesty's commands, that they do prepare and lay before the House of Commons, copies of such Acts as have been passed in the Islands in the West Indies for granting his Majesty a duty of four and a half per cent upon produce exported, pursuant to an address of that House to his Majesty.

fo. 160.

It was accordingly ordered, that copies of the said Acts should be made, and Mr. Gascoyne was desired to present the same to the House, pursuant to his Majesty's commands.

Jamaica, Nevis, Bahamas, New York, South Carolina.

Their lordships read and considered several laws passed in the Islands of Jamaica, Nevis and the Bahama Islands, and in the province of New York and South Carolina, together with Mr. Jackson's reports thereupon.

Jamaica.

Ordered, that the Jamaica laws be taken into further consideration on Tuesday next, and that the agent be desired to attend.

Montserrat.

Ordered, that the draught of a representation to his Majesty be prepared, proposing that an Act passed in the Island of Montserrat, for regulating the price of provisions, may be disallowed.

Georgia.

fo. 161.

The draught of a representation to his Majesty, recommending that Josiah Tattnall, Esquire, may be appointed of the Council in the province of Georgia, in the room of James Habersham, Esquire, deceased, was approved, transcribed and signed.