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You are hereby Authorized to use the Publick Seal appointed or to be appointed by Us for the Sealing of all things whatsoever that shall pass the Seal of Our said Province under your Government.

You are to take Care that all Writs be Issued in Our Royal Name throughout Our said Province.

You are to observe in the passing of Laws that the Stile of Enacting the same be by the Governor, Council, and Assembly & no other.

You are also as much as Possible to Observe the passing of all Laws, that whatever may be requisite upon each different matter be accordingly provided for by a different Law, without intermixing in one and 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 Forreign to what the Title of such respective Act Imports.

You are to transmitt Authentick Copies under the Publick Seal, of all Lawes, Statutes, and Ordinances that are now made and in force, which have not yet been sent, or which at any time hereafter shall be made and Enacted within Our said Province under your Government and Command, each of them seperately under the Publick Seal, unto Us, and to Our said Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, within three Months, or by the first Opportunity after their being Enacted, together with Duplicates thereof by the next Conveyance upon Pain of Our highest displeasure, and of the Forfeiture of that Yeare's Salary, wherein you shall at any time or upon any pretence whatsoever omit to send over the said Laws, Statutes and Ordinances as aforesaid, within the time above limited, as also of such other Penalty as Wee shall please to inflict: But if it shall happen that during time of Warr, no Shipping shall come from Our said Province within three Months after the makeing such Laws, Statutes and Ordinances, whereby the same may be transmitted as aforesaid, then the said Laws, Statutes and Ordinances are to be transmitted as aforesaid by the next Conveyance after the makeing thereof, whenever it may happen for Our Approbation or Dissallowance of the same.

And forasmuch as great prejudice may happen to Our

Service and the Security of Our said Province by your absence from those parts, without a Sufficient Cause and especiall Leave from Us, For the Prevention thereof, you are not upon any pretence whatsoever to come to Europe from your Government without haveing first obtained Leave for so doing from Us under Our Sign Manuall and Signet, or by Order in Our Privy-Councill.

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 imposeing Fines and Penalties Express mention be made, that the same is granted or Reserved to Us, Our Heirs and Successors for the Publick use of that Our Province, and the Support of the Government thereof, as by the said Act or Order shall be Directed.

Whereas it is Necessary that due Provision be made for the Support of the Government of Our said Province, by setting apart Sufficient allowances to you Our Captain General and Governour in Chief and to Our Lieutenant Governour or Commander in Chief for the time being resideing within the same, And Whereas Our said Province of the Massachusets Bay has not hitherto taken any manner of Care in that matter, though the like Provision be generally made in Our other Plantations in America which are under Our Immediate Government, notwithstanding that divers of them are much less able to do it; You are therefore to propose to the Generall Assembly of Our said Province, and accordingly to use your utmost endeavours with them, that an Act be passed for Settling and Establishing fixed Salaries upon your self and others Our Captains Gen" that may Succeed you in that Government, as likewise upon Our Lieutenant Govs or Commanders in Chief for the time being, Suitable to the Dignity of those respective Offices.

And you are also earnestly to recommend unto the Assembly in Our Name, that care be taken by them for the building of a fit and Convenient House to receive you, and the Governor for the time being, which may be Appropriated to that Use.

You are not to permit any clause whatsoever to be Inserted in any Law for Levying money or the Value of money, whereby the same shall not be made lyable to be

Accounted for Unto Us here in England, and to Our Com of Our Treasury or Our high Treasurer for the time being.

You are to take care that fair Books of Accounts of all Receipts and Payments of all such money be duly kept, and the truth thereof attested upon Oath, and that the said Bookes be transmitted every half yeare or oftener to Our Commissioners of Our Treasury, or High Treasurer for the time being, and to Our Comissioners for Trade and Plantations, and Duplicates thereof by the next Conveyance; In which Bookes shall be Specified every particular Sum raised or Disposed off together with the Names of the Persons to whom any Payment shall be made; to the end Wee may be Satisfied of the Right and due Application of the Revenue of Our said Province.

You are not to Suffer any Publick money whatsoever, to be Issued or Disposed of otherwise than by Warrant under your hand, by and with the Advice and Consent of Our said Council, But the Assembly may be Nevertheless permitted, from time to time to view and examine the Accounts of money or Value of money disposed of by Virtue of Laws made by them, which You are to Signify unto them, as there shall be Occasion.

And it is Our Express will and Pleasure that no Law for raiseing any Imposition on Wines and other Strong Liquors, be made to Continue for Less than one whole Year, as also that all other Laws whatsoever, for the good Government and Support of Our said Province be made Indifinite, 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 re-enact any Law which hath or shall have been once Enacted there, except upon very urgent Occasions; But in no Case more then once without our Express consent.

You shall not permit any Act or Order to pass in Our said Province, whereby the Price or Value of the Currant Money within your Government (whether it be Forreign or belonging to Our Dominions) may be Altered without Our Particular Leave or Direction for the same.

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 Especiall Commands therein.

You are to take all Possible Care in the granting of any Lands within Our Province under your Government, not already disposed of, that such Limitations and Methods be Observed as may best tend to the Safety and due Improvement of Our said Province.

And Whereas Wee have been informed that Great Spoiles are daily Comitted in Our Woods in the Province of Main and other parts within your Government of the Massachusets Bay, by Cutting down and Converting to private Uses such Trees, as are or may be proper for the Service of Our Royal Navy; And it being Necessary that all practices which tend so Evidently to deprive Us of those Supplies be effectually restrained; Our Will and Pleasure is, That upon Consideration of the Occasions of such Abuses, the Methods by which they are Carried on, and the Inconveniencies that attend them, You use your Indeavours with Our Councill and the Assembly of the Massachusetts Bay, to dispose them to pass Acts, for the better preventing the further Spoil of those Woods, and for preserving a Nursery of such Trees as may be usefull for Our Service; And in case you cannot prevail with them to pass Acts proper and Sufficient for those Purposes, that you send Over hither the Heads of such a Bill, as may be Effectuall for those Ends, and fitt to be Enacted here.

You shall not remitt any Fines or Forfeitures whatsoever above the Sum of Ten pounds nor dispose of any Escheats Fines or Forfeitures whatsoever untill upon Signifying to Our Commissioners of Our Treasury, Or Our High Treasurer for the time being, and to Our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations the Nature of the Offence, and the Occasion of such Fines Forfeitures or Escheats, with the particular Sums or value thereof (which you are to do with all Speed) You shall have Received Our directions therein; But you may in the mean time suspend the payment of the said Fines and Forfeitures.

In case any Goods money or other Estate of Pirates. or Piratically taken, shall be brought in or found within

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Our said Province of the Massachusetts Bay, or taken on
board any Ships or Vessells, You are to Cause the same
to be seized and Secured untill you shall have given Us
an Account thereof, and Received Our Pleasure Concern-
ing the Disposall thereof, But in Case such Goods or any
part of them are perishable, the same shall be Publickly
Sold and Disposed of, and the Produce thereof in like
manner Secured 'till Our further Order.

And Whereas Wee have been pleased to Grant Com-
missions unto Severall Persons in Our Respective Planta-
tions in America, for the Trying of Pirates in those parts
pursuant to the Act for the more Effectuall Surpression
of Piracy; And by a Commission already sent to Our
Province of the Massachusets Bay, You (as Captain Gen-
eral and Governour in Chief of Our said Province) are
Impowered, together with others therein mentioned, to
proceed accordingly, in reference to Our said Province;
Our Will and Pleasure is that in all matters relateing to
Pirates, You Govern your self according to the intent of
the Act and Commission aforementioned; But Whereas
Acessories in Cases of Piracy beyond the Seas, are by the
said Act left to be Tryed in England, according to the
Statute of the 28th of King Henry the VIIIth, We do
hereby further Direct and Require You to send all such
Accessories in Cases of Piracy in Our foresaid Province,
with the Proper Evidences that you may have against
them, into England, in Order to their being Tryed here.

You are to require the Secretary of Our said Province for the time being to furnish you with Transcripts of all such Acts and Publick Orders as shall be made from time to time, together with Copies of the Journalls of the Councill and Assembly to the end the same may be transmitted unto Us and to Our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, as above Directed, which he is duly to perform upon pain of Incurring the Forfeiture of his Place.

You shall Transmitt unto Us and to Our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations by the First opportunity a Map with the Exact discription of the whole Territory under your Government, with the Severall Plantations upon it, and of the Fortifications, And you are likewise to use your best Endeavours to procure a good Map to be Drawn of