11 And whereas we are sensible that effectual Care ought to be taken to oblige the Members of Our Council to a due Attendance therein, in order to prevent the many inconveniences that may happen for want of a Quorum of the Council to transact Business as Occasion may require.

Councillors attendance

It is Our Will & Pleasure, that if any of the Members of Our said Council residing in the Province, shall hereafter willfully absent themselves from the Council Board, when duly summon'd, without a just & lawfull Cause, and shall persist therein after admonition, you suspend the said Councillors so absenting themselves, till Our further Pleasure be known, giving us timely notice thereof, And we hereby will & require you, that this Our Pleasure be signified to the sev! Members of Our Council aforesaid, and that it be entred in the Council Books of Our said Province as a standing Rule.

Meeting of the

12. And Our Will & Pleasure is that with all convenient speed you call together one Gen! Assembly for the enacting of Laws for the joint and mutual Good of the whole Province, That the first meetAssembly ing of the said gen! Assembly be at Perth Amboy in East New Jersey, in case the last was at Burlington, and that all future Gen! Assemblies do meet and sitt at one or the other of those Places allternately or otherwise, as you, with the advice of Our foresaid, Council, shall think fitt in case of extraordinary necessity, to appoint them.

Method

of

13. Our Will & Pleasure is and you are accordingly to make the same known in the most publick manner, That the Method of choosing RepresentaElection tives for the future shall be as follows viz Two by the Inhabitants Householders of the City or Town of Perth Amboy in East New Jersey and two by the Freeholders of each of the five Counties in the said Division of East new Jersey. Two by the Inhabi

tants Householders of the City or Town of Burlington in West New Jersey, and two by the Freeholders of each of the five Counties in the said Division of West New Jersey. Which persons so to be chosen make up together the number of twenty four representatives. And it is Our further Will and Pleasure that no Person, shall be capable of being elected a Representative by the Freeholders of either Division as aforesaid or · afterwards of sitting in gen! Assemblies who shall not have One thousand Acres of Land of an Estate of Freehold in his own Right within the Division for which he shall be chosen, or have a personal Estate in Money, Goods or Chattles to the Value of five hundred pounds Sterling, and all Inhabitants of Our said Province being so qualified as aforesaid are hereby declared capable of being elected accordingly.

Passing of

14. You are to observe in the passing of Laws that the Stile of Enacting the same be by the Govern! Council & Assembly and no other; you are Laws. also as much as possible to observe in the passing of all Laws that what ever may be requisite upon each different matter be accordingly provided for, by a different Law, without intermixing in one & the same Act such things, as have no proper Relation to each other and you are more especially to take Care that no Clause or Clauses be inserted in or annexed to any Act, which shall be foreign to what the Title of such respective Act imports, and that no perpetual Clause be made part of any temporary Law, and that no Act whatsoever be suspended, alter'd, continued, revived or repealed by Gen' Words, but that the Title and Date of such Act so suspended alter'd, continued, revived or repeal'd be particularly mention'd and expressed in the enacting part.

15. You are to take care that in all Acts or Orders to be passed within that Our Province in any Case for levying money or imposing fines & Penalties, express

mention be made that the same is granted or reserved to Us Our Heirs or Successors for the publick Uses of that Our Province and the Support of the Governm thereof, as by the said Act or Order shall be directed, And you are particularly not to pass any Law, or do any Act by Grant or Settlement or otherwise whereby Our Revenue may be lessened or impair'd, without Our especial Leave or Commands therein.

Publick

16. You are not to permit any Clause whatsoever to be inserted in any Law for the levying of Money to be Money or the Value of Money whereby the accounted for. the same shall not be made lyable to be accounted for unto Us & to Our Commiss! of Our Treasury or Our high Treasurer for the time being, and audited by Our Auditor Gen! of Our Plantations or his Deputy for the time being. And We do particularly require and enjoyn you under the Pain of Our highest Displeasure to take care that fair Books of Accounts of all Receipts & Payments of all publick money be duely kept, and the Truth thereof attested upon Oath, and that all such Accounts be audited & attested by the Auditor Gen! of Our Plantations or his Deputy, who is to transmit Copies thereof to Our Commiss' of Our Treasury, or to Our high Treasurer for the time being, and that you do every half Year or oftner send another Copy thereof attested by your self to Our Commiss" for Trade & Plantations & Duplicates thereof by the next Conveyance in which Books shall be specified every particular Sum raised and disposed of together with the names of the Persons to whom any payment shall be made: to the End We may be satisfied of the right and due application of the Revenue of Our said Province with the probability of the Increase or Diminution of it, under every, Head or article thereof.

Impost on

17. It is Our express Will & Pleasure that Liquors no Law for rais any Imposition on Wines

Royal assent

all Laws

or other strong Licquors, be made to continue for less than one whole Year, and that all other Laws made for the Supply & Support of the Governm shall be indefinite and without Limitation, except the same be for a Temporary Service, and wheh shall expire and have their full effect within the time therein prefixt. 18. And whereas several Laws have forto be had on merly been enacted for so short a time that the Assent or Refusal of Our Royal Predecessors could not be had thereupon before the time for which such Laws were enacted did expire, you shall not for the future give your Assent to any Law that shall be enacted for a less time than two Years (except in the Cases mention'd in the foregoing Article). And you shall not re-enact any Law to which the Assent of Us or Our Royal Predecessors has once been refused without Express Leave for that Purpose first obtained from Us, upon a full Representation by you to be made to Us, and to Our Commiss's for Trade & Plantations, of the Reason and necessity for passing such Law, nor give your assent to any Law for repealing any other Act pass'd in your Government, whether the same has or has not received Our Royal Approba tion, unless you take care that there be a Clause inserted herein, suspending and deferring the Execution thereof until Our Pleasure be known concern the

same.

Bills of Credit

19 Whereas Acts have been pass'd in some of Our Plantations in America for striking Bills of Credit and issuing out the same in lieu of Money in order to discharge their publick Debts and for other purposes, from whence sev! Inconveniencies have arisen It is therefore Our Will & Pleasure that you do not give your Assent to, or pass any Act in Our said Province of New Jersey under your Government whereby Bills of Credit may be struck or issued in lieu of Money without a Clause be inserted in such Act

Bills of extra

ture.

declaring that the same shall not take Effect, until the said Act shall have been approved & confirm'd by Us Our Heirs & Successors. And it is Our further Will & Pleasure that you do not give your Assent to or pass any Act in Our said Province of New Jersey under your Government, for payment of Money either to you the Governor or to any Lieu! Governor or Commander in chief or to any of the Members of Our Council or to any other Person whatsoever except to Us Our Heirs and Successors without a Clause be likewise inserted in such Act declaring that the same shall not take effect until the said Act shall have been approv'd and confirm'd by Us Our Heirs or Successors. 20. And whereas great Mischiefs may arise by passing Bills of an unusual & extraordinary ordinary na Nature & Importance in the Plantations, wch Bills remain in force there from the time of enacting until Our Pleasure be signified to the contrary, We do hereby will and require you not to pass or give your Consent hereafter to any Bill or Bills in the Assembly of Our said Province of unusual and extraordinary Nature and importance, wherein Our Prerogative, or the Property of Our Subjects may be prejudiced, or the Trade or Shipping of this Kingdom any ways affected, until you shall have first transmitted to Us the Draught of such a Bill or Bills and shall have receiv'd Our Royal Pleasure thereupon unless you take care in the passing of any Bill of such Nature as before mention'd that there be a Clause inserted therein, suspending & deferring the Execution thereof until Our Pleasure shall be known concerning the same: And it is Our express Will & Pleasure that no Duty shall be laid in the Province under Your Government upon British Shipping or upon the Product or Manufacture of Great Britain, And that you do not upon Pain of Our highest Displeasure give your Assent to any Law whatsoever, wherein the Natives or Inhab