198 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 6, 1725.

U. H. J.

Case of Jamaica where An Act was lately made Entituled An
Act for making his Maj^ties Revenue perpetual & Augmenting
the same, and Continuing and Declaring what Laws are in
force in this Island.
This Act his Maj^tie with the Advice of his Councill has been
pleased to Disallow after due Deliberation and References
had and Reports made thereon, By the Lords Comissioners
of his Maj^ties Treasury by the Lords Commissioners of Trade
and Plantations and by his Maj^ties Attorney and Sollicitor
Generall recommending the said Act, tho' in many parts of it
highly necessary, as not proper to be allowed of, For that
amongst many other Reasons set forth in the said Reports
the said Act might possibly Introduce the whole Body of the
English Laws to become Laws of Jamaica in Cases not par-
ticularly provided for by Laws of their own which in many
Cases were by no means Competent but might do great Mis-
chief and be attended with many Inconveniences both to his
Maj^ties Government in that Island and to the Estates and
Comerce of his Maj^ties Subjects there.
Here Gentlemen you may perceive a Law after mature
Consideration (many parts of it Agreed to be highly neces-
sary and Convenient) Disallow'd of Because in one part of it
the English Statutes are made to Operate in that part of his
Maj^ties Plantations called Jamaica: which Proceeding does not
at all seem to Support some late Resolutions Address'd to me,
setting forth among other things that such General Statutes
of England, as are not restrained by Words of local Limita-
tion, are in force in Maryland another part of his Plantations

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Were they in force what need to make Laws to Establish them,
as in the Case before you of Jamaica, The Disallowance of
which Act, with the Reasons given for it, shews plainly that
it is not thought proper to suffer them to be Introduced as not
Competent but Mischievious in many Cases and the Attempt-
ing to make the Act shews as plainly that they are not look'd
on as Laws of that Country without a Law of their own to
Enforce them.
I must take notice indeed at the same time that this Act
was represented to his Majesty as not proper for his Allow-
ance, it was Recommended to him, that if any of the particular
Statutes of England Should they be look'd on as necessary, and
Convenient for them, and His Majesty should think them
reasonable, that he would be pleased to Allow them to be
Introduced by a Law of their own making: and in this particu-
lar I Esteem my self very fortunate it being so Agreeable to
that part of my Instruction set forth in your Address,
Gentlemen of the Lower House where I recomend, that