Had your lordship been pleased to point out in what manner Government ought to have interposed, I should more clearly see, by comparing my conduct with your Lordships sentiments, wherein I failed in point of duty and be prepared to guard against the appearance of remissness upon any future similar occasion.

It is not, at least I think it is not in my power, to do more than lament, that the unhappy differences subsisting between Great Britain and her Colonies are not at an end, which I fear the partial repeal of the Revenue Act has not effected. That they may soon subside is my lord the sincere wish of &c.

Prop. Z. 4.

ROBT EDEN

AN ABSTRACT OF HIS MAJESTY'S INSTRUCTIONS TO LORD

ARTICLES.

DUNMORE.

1. Commission to be issued herewith- Eleven Councillors appointed.

2. Commission to be published and oaths to be taken by members at the first meeting of the Council.

3. Oaths to be taken by members of the Assembly, Judges, civil officers, &c. 4. Instructions to be communicated to council.

5. Council to have freedom of debate.

6. Not less than Five to be a Quorum.

7. Upon vacancies the names of three persons to be transmitted.

8. Vacancies to be filled up by the Governor to the number of nine.

9. Councillors & other officers to be of good life &c.

10. No Councillor to be suspended without good & sufficient cause.

11. Certain absences to be cause of suspension.

12. Councillors to be amenable to justice, except when Assembly is in session. 13. No Act for raising money by publick or private lotteries to be assented to without king's authority & permission.

14. Directions forbidding acts of Assembly altering the number & qualifications of members or duration of the Assembly.

15. Members of Assembly protected from arrest of person during session only. 16. Rules prescribing the form & style of enactments, different matters to be provided for by different acts, without intermixture of matters foreign to the title of the act, and repeal of acts to be by special act & not by general words.

17. No Act once refused to be reenacted without express leave from the King nor any law to be repealed without kings approbation.

18. Acts of an unusual & extraordinary nature not to be in force without kings approval.

19. Prohibition of acts affecting private property, without publick notice in the church of the parish where the premises lie.

20. Directions for money bills, -keeping publick accounts-grants of money alway to the King.

21. Money to be issued only by Governors warrant with advice of the Council. 22. No clause to be inserted in any law for levying money or the value of it,

unless the same be made liable to be duly accounted for to the King or his officers regular books of account for Receipts & payments to be kept and verified on oath and copies sent to the Secretary of State in England. 23. Gifts & presents to Governor &c from the Assembly not to be received. 24. Laws imposing duties upon Wines or strong liquors to continue for not less than one year. All others for supply & support of Government with

out limitation of time.

25. No duty to be laid on provisions or victual for the use of ships of war.

26. Bills of credit not to be issued without Kings approval.

27. Discriminating duties more advantageous to Inhabitants of Virginia than to other British subjects prohibited.

28. Duties on Negroes or Felons imported prohibited.

29. Copies of all Statutes &c within three months after passing.

30. Abstracts of same in the margins with date of passage & assent, & obser

vations.

31. Do of Council Journals,

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to be transmitted to Sec' of State in Eng

32. Transcripts of all Journals of proceedings, with marginal abstracts to be required of the clerk of the Assembly.

33. Acts of the 6th of Anne containing rates of foreign coins, to be observed. 34. No law to be enacted for setting up any Manufactures or carrying on any trades which are hurtful to this Kingdom.

35. Frauds in collecting 2o duty on Tobacco to be prevented or punished. 36. Accounts of said Revenue to be transmitted semi-annually.

37. A Court of Exchequer to be called for Revenue cases, when necessary. 38. No new Court to be established nor any to be dissolved without orders. 39. Justice to be promptly and impartially administered.

40. All orders in Courts & the Council to be read & approved, before recorded.

41. Appeals from Courts to Governor & Council and thence to King & Council. 42. Do also to King & Council in cases of Fines above 100£ sterling.

43. Fines & Forfeitures above 10£ not to be remitted or disposed of but by King's directions.

44. Forfeitures & Escheats - value to be ascertained by a Jury & disposed of by King & in hands of grantee to be subject to quitrents and laws respecting seating & cultivation.

45. Judges & Justices of the Peace to hold office during pleasure. Three members of the Council to concur in their appointment.

46. No officer or minister to be displaced without good cause, signified to the

King.

47. No person to execute more than one office by deputy.

48. All fees & salaries to be moderate - Tables of — to be exhibited in public

places.

49. Directions relative to suspension of Deputies of Patent Officers.

50. Secretary of the Colony & his clerks

to be reported on to Secretary of State and to be under oath for faithful performance of duty.

51. Governor not to appoint to offices held by royal patent.

52. Custom house officers not to serve on juries, nor in the militia.

53. Amount of Courts &c with expences & means of defraying same.

54. Not more than 1000 acres of land to or in trust for any one person.

55. On the return of each survey of land, a patent to be immediately made out & passed and each Surveyor to make return of his surveys.

56. Proper Surveyors to be appointed & sworn- General Survey and an exact map to be transmitted.

57. Quitrents to be carefully collected and an account transmitted of all holding above 20,000 acres.

58. No part of the Quitrents to be issued out but by King's order.

59. Indians to be kindly treated traders prevented.

60. Lands, not exceeding 1000 acres, by licence may be purchased by any person, of the Indians.

61. Directions carefully to exercise the powers of Vice Admiral.

62. Fees in the Virginia Admiralty Court not to exceed those in England. 63. No letters of Marque or Reprisal to be granted against States in Amity. 64. Governor & others empowered to try Pirates.

65. Do to aid in his office the Receiver General of the royal perquisites in Admiralty, and account for & pay over to him the same including effects of pirates.

66. Liberty of conscience to all peaceable & inoffensive persons except

Papists.

67. God Almighty to be duly served according to the rites of the Church of

England.

68. Churches already built to be well kept, new ones built as the colony improves Ministers to have a house & land granted.

69. No minister to be preferred without a certificate from the Bishop of London. 70. Every orthodox minister to be one of the vestry, no vestry to be held without him, unless voluntarily absent or in case of sickness.

71. All ministers who officiate to be in orders, or reported to Bishop of London. 72. Bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction to be encouraged, but collating to benefices, granting marriage lisences & probate of wills reserved to the Gov

ernor.

73. No schoolmaster coming from England to keep school without the Bishop's licence, or now there or coming from other parts to be allowed to keep school without the Governor's licence.

74. Table of marriages to be hung up in every Orthodox church and to be strictly observed as required by the Canons of the Church.

75. Vice and immorality as proscribed by late Bishop of London to be punished. 76. Actual number of Inhabitants including Slaves to be transmitted and a yearly account of their increase or decrease and the number fit to bear

arms.

77. Number of negroes and rates at which sold to be transmitted.

78. No Articles of War or law Martial to be established or put in execution without the consent of the Council.

79. State of defence and military supplies of arms ammunition &c and what deficiencies in works or stores should be made good to be transmitted. 80. Fit Storehouses for keeping arms ammunition & other public stores to be provided throughout the Colony.

81. Recommended that Assembly pass a new Law imposing a duty of powder on all vessels coming into the Colony.

82. Surveys ordered of all considerable Harbors & Landing places, and Fortifications to be erected therein with advice of the Council.

83. To assist other Colonies in distress with what you can spare, upon their

application.

84. Cautions about letters sent by ships in time of war - to be put in a bag with a weight sufficient to sink them, and to be sunk, if necessary, to prevent their falling into the enemies' hands.

85. Trade & correspondence of Merchants & Planters, in time of war, with enemies to be hindered.

86. Account to be sent from time to time of the wants & Defects of the Colony, what its chief products, new improvments, made, or desirable, and what advantages by trade may be gained.

87. Governor, with advice of council, to act at discretion in emergencies, giving speedy notice thereof to the Government at home - but not to commence or declare war.

88. Salary of Governor £2000 per annum out of 2a duty on Tobacco and other officers &c to be paid from same fund.

89. Governor not to come to Europe without leave but may go to New York or other plantations in case of sickness.

90. On the death or absence of the Governor, if no Lieutenant governor, eldest Councillor to act in his stead.

91. Half Governor's salary & perquisites to go to such vicegerent. 92. Accounts of all proceedings on all occasions to be transmitted.

GEORGE R.

INSTRUCTIONS TO LORD DUNMORE.

L.S.

INSTRUCTIONS for Our Right Trusty and Right Welbeloved Cousin, John, Earl of Dunmore, Our Lieutenant and Governor General of Our Colony and Dominion of Virginia in America; and in his Absence, to Our Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief of Our said Colony for the time being. Given at Our Court at St. James's the seventh day of February, 1771, in the Eleventh year of Our Reign.

FIRST, WITH these Our Instructions you will receive Our Commission under Our Great Seal of Great Britain, constituting you Our Lieutenant and Governor General of Our Colony and Dominion of Virginia in America: You are therefore to fit yourself with all convenient Speed, and to repair to Our said Colony of Virginia; and being there arrived, you are to take upon you the execution of the Place and Trust WE have reposed in you, and forthwith to call together the following Persons by Name, whom We do hereby appoint to be the Members of Our said Council in Our said Colony, Viz William Nelson, Thomas Nelson, Richard Corbin, William Byrd, Philip Ludwell Lee, Robert Carter, Robert Burwell, George William Fairfax, and John Page, Esquires, the Reverend James Horrocks, Clerk, and Ralph Wormley, Esquire.

2. You are with all due and usual Solemnity to cause Our said Commission constituting you Our Lieutenant and Governor General, as aforesaid, to be read and published at the said Meeting of Our Council, which being done, you shall then take, and also administer unto each of the Members of Our said Council, the Oaths mentioned in an