544 Appendix to Council Proceedings, 1696/7-98.

         P.   R. o. posed of by virtue of such Laws as are now in force or shall

              be passed by them which you are to signify unto them as

              occasion shall serve.

                Our express Will and Pleasure is that all Laws whatsoever

              for the good Government and support of our said Province

              be made indeffinite and without limitation of time except the

              same be for a Temporary End and which shall expire and have

              its full Effect within a certain time.

                And therefore you shall not enact any Law which shall be

              once enacted by you except upon very urgent occasions but

              in no case more than once without our express consent.

                You shall not remitt any Fines or Forfeitures whatsoever

              above the sum of Ten Pounds before or after sentence given

              nor dispose of any Escheats Fines or Forfeitures untill you

              upon signifying unto our Committee of Trade and Plantations

              and to the Commissioners of our Treasury or our High Treas

              urer for the time being the nature of the offence or occasion

              of such Fines Forfeitures or Escheats with the particular

              sums you shall have received Our Directions therein. But

              you may in the meantime suspend the payment of the said

              Fines and Forfeitures.

                You shall not permitt any act or Order to pass within our

              said Province whereby the Price or Value of current money

              within your Government may be altered without our par

              ticular leave or direction therein.

                And you are particularly not to pass any Law or do any Act

              by Grant Settlement or otherwise whereby our Revenue may

              be lessened or impaired without our especial leave or com

              mands therein.

                You are to require the Secretary of our Province or his

              Deputy for the time being to provide Transcripts of all such

              Acts and Publick Orders as shall be made from time to time

              together with a Copy of the Journall of the Councill to the end

              the same may be transmitted unto u-s as above directed which

              he is duly to perform upon pain of incurring the forfeiture of

              his Place.

                You shall not displace any of the Judges Justices Sheriffs or

              other Officers or Ministers within our said Province without

              good and sufficient cause to be signified to us and the Lords

              of the Committee of Trade and Plantations nor shall you

              execute yourself or by Deputy any of the officers nor suffer

              any person to execute more offices than one by Deputy.

                You shall not erect any Court or Office of Judicature not

              before erected or established without our especiall Order and

              you are to transmitt unto us with all convenient speed a par

              ticular account of all Establishments of Jurisdictions Courts

              Offices and Officers Powers Authorities Fees and Priviledges