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

L. H. J.

of the province or the private Utility of particular persons,
so they be Agreeable to Reason, and not Repugnant or Con-
trary, but as near as Conveniently may be agreeable to the
Laws Statutes Customs and rights of England, as is most
fully set forth in my Charter, has put in our hands such ample
power of making Laws proper for our Infant Condition, and
different Termes of Maryland, that you will find it I believe
your happiness, If the Statutes of England not Expressly
Located thither are not in the Gross in force among you,
And that your Resolutions have not force till Enacted into
Laws of your own making with My Assent. However precar-
ious you Gentlemen who are fond of the Expression, may
esteem your Condition; Tis the Condition, I think I may use
the Expression, 'tis the Happy Condition the Crown by my
Charter hath thought fitt to place you under, And you by your
Residence in Maryland ought quietly to Submit to; your pre-
decessors have been thus fortunately Govern'd and flourish'd ;
And I trust yo^r Successors will have no Cause to Complain

Gentlemen of the Upper and Lower Houses.
I cannot but observe to you at this time what his most
Gracious Majesty has been pleased to do in Relation to the
English Statutes taking place in the plantations in a particular
Case of Jamaica, Where An Act was lately made Intituled
an Act for making his Majesty's Revenue perpetuall and
Augmenting the same and Continuing and declaring what
Laws are in force in this Island.
This Act his Majesty with the advice of his Council has
been pleased to disallow after due deliberation and References
had and Reports made thereon by the Lords Comissioners of
his Ma^tys Tresury by the Lords Comissioners of Trade and
plantations and by his Majestys Attorney and Sollicitor
Gen^rll Recomending the said Act, Tho' in many parts of it
highly necessary, as not proper to be allowed of For that
(among 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 meanes Competent but might do Great mis-
cheif, and be attended with great Inconveniences both to his
Majesty's Governm^t in that Island and to the Estates and
Commerce of his Ma^tys Subjects there
Here Gentlemen you may perceive a Law after Mature
Consideration (many parts of it agreed to be highly neces-
sary & Convenient) disallowed of because in one part of it,