due Entries be made in all Ports of Our said Province of all Goods and Commodities, their Species and Quantities, Imported and Exported from thence, with the Names Burden and Guns of all Ships Importing and Exporting the same, also the Names of their Commanders and likewise Expressing from and to what places the said Ships do come and go, a Copy whereof the Naval Officer is to furnish you with, and You are to Transmit the same unto Us as before directed, to the Commissioners of Our Treasury or Our High Treasurer for the time being, and to Our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, Quarterly, and Duplicates thereof by the next Conveyance.

And Whereas Wee have been pleased to give Orders for the Commissionating of Fit Persons to be Vice Admiralls and Officers of Our Admiralty and Customes in Our Severall Plantations in America, And it is of Great Importance to the Trade of this Kingdom and to the Welfare of Our Plantations that Illegal Trade be every where Discouraged; You are to give all due Countenance and encouragement to the said Officers of Our Admiralty and Customes in the Execution of their Respective Offices

and Trusts.

You are to Encourage the Indians upon all Occasions, so that they may Apply themselves to the English Trade and Nation rather than to any Other.

You are to Suppress the Ingrossing of Commodities, as tending to the Prejudice of that freedom which Commerce and Trade ought to have, and to Settle such Orders and Regulations therein, with the Advice of Our said Council as may be most Acceptable to the Generality of the In

habitants.

You are to give all due Encouragement, and Invitation to Merchants and others, who shall bring Trade unto Our said Province, Or any Way Contribute to the Advantage thereof, and in Particular to the Royall African Company of England.

And you are to take Care that there be no Tradeing from Our said Province to any Place in Africa within the Charter of the Royall African Company otherwise then prescribed by the late Act of Parliament, Entituled, An Act to Settle the Trade to Africa.

You are not to Grant Commissions of Marque or Reprizals against any Prince or State or their Subjects in Amity with Us, to any Person whatsoever without Our Especiall Command.

You are for the better Administration of Justice to endeavour to gett a Law passed in the Assembly (if not already done) wherein shall be set the Value of Mens Estates, either in Goods or Lands, under which they shall not be Capable of Serving as Jurors.

You shall endeavour to get a Law passed (if not already done) for the restraining of any Inhumane Severity, which by ill Masters or Overseers may be used towards their Christian Servants and their Slaves, and that Provision be made therein that the Wilfull Killing of Indians and Negroes may be Punished with Death, and that a fitt Penalty be imposed for the maiming of them.

You are with the Assistance of the Councill and Assembly to find out and Settle the best means to facilitate and Encourage the Conversion of Negroes and Indians to the Christian Religion.

You are to recommend to the Council and Assembly, the raiseing of Stocks and Building Publick Workhouses in Convenient Places for the employing of poor and Indigent People.

You are to propose an Act to be passed in the Assembly whereby the Creditors of Persons becoming Bankrupts in England, and haveing Estates in the Massachusets Bay, may be releived and Satisfied for the Debts owing to them.

You are to take care by and with the Advice and Assistance of Our said Council, That the Prison there if it Want reparation, be forthwith repaired and put into and kept in such a Condition as may Sufficiently Secure the Prisoners, that are or shall be there in Custody of the Provost Martial.

And for as much as great Inconveniencies may arise by the Liberty of Printing within Our said Province, You are to Provide by all necessary Orders that no Person keep any Press for Printing, nor that any Book, Pamphlet or other Matters whatsoever be printed without your Especial leave and License first Obtained.

You are upon all Occasions to send unto Us by One of Our Principal Secretaries of State and to Our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations a particular Account of all your Proceedings and of the Condition of Affairs within your Government.

You are from time to time to give unto Us and to Our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations as aforesaid, an. Account of the Wants and Defects of Our said Province, what Are the chief Products thereof, what New Improvements are made therein by the Industry of the Inhabitants or Planters, and what further Improvements you conceive may be made or Advantages gained by Trade, and which way wee may Contribute thereunto.

If any thing shall happen which may be of Advantage or Security of Our said Province under your Government, which is not herein or by your Commission Provided for, Wee do hereby allow unto You with the Advice and Consent of Our said Council to take Order for the present therein, giveing to Us by One of Our Principal Secretarys of State and to Our foresaid Commissioners for Trade and Plantations speedy Notice thereof, that so you may Receive Our Confirmation, if Wee shall Approve the same. Provided always and Our Will and Pleasure is That do not by Colour of any Power or Authority hereby given you, Commence or Declare War, without Our knowledge and particular Commands therein, Except it be against Indians upon Emergencies, wherein the Gonsent of Our Council shall be had, and Speedy Notice thereof given unto Us.

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Whereas Wee have been pleased by Our Commission to Direct that in Case of Your Death or Absence from Our said Province, and in Case there be at that time no Person upon the Place Commissionated or Appointed by Us to be Our Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief, the then present Council of Our foresaid Province of the Massachusets Bay shall take upon them the Administration of the Government, & Execute Our said Commission, and the Severall Powers and Authorities therein Contained, in the Manner therein Directed It is Nevertheless, Our Express Will and Pleasure That in such Case the said Council shall forbear to pass any Acts but what are Immediately necessary for the Peace and Wel

fare of Our said Province, without Our particular Order for that Purpose.

And Whereas the Lords Spirituall and Temporall in Parliament upon Consideration of the Great Abuses practised in the Plantation Trade, have by an humble Address Represented to the Late King of Glorious Memory the great Importance it is of, both to this Our Kingdom and to Our Plantations in America, that the many good Laws which have been made for the Government of the said Plantations and Particularly the Act passed in the Seaventh and Eighth Yeares of the late Kings Reign Entituled An Act for preventing Frauds and Regulateing Abuses in the Plantation Trade, be Strictly Observed You are therefore to take Notice, That notwithstanding the many Good Laws made from time to time for preventing of Frauds in the Plantation Trade, it nevertheless manifest that great Abuses have been and Continue still to be practised to the Prejudice of the same, which abuses must needs arise either from the Insolvency of the Persons, who are accepted for Security, or from the remissness or Connivance of such as have been or are Governours in the Several Plantations, who ought to take care that those persons who give Bond should be duely prosecuted, in Case of Non performance, Wee take the good of Our Plantations, and the Improvement of the Trade thereof by a Strict and Punctual observance of the Severall Laws in force concerning the same, to be of so great Importance to the Benefitt of this Our Kingdom and to the Advanceing of the Duties of Our Customes here, that if Wee shall be hereafter informed that at any time there shall be any failure in the due Observance of those Laws within Our foresaid Province of the Massachusets Bay, by any Wilfull fault or Neglect on your Part, Wee shall look upon it as a breach of the Trust reposed in you by Us, which Wee shall Punish with the Loss of Your Place in that Government, and such further Marks of Our Displeasure, as Wee shall Judge reasonable to be inflicted upon you for Your Offence against Us, in a matter of this Consequence that Wee now so particularly charge you with.

By her Majties Command
MANCHESTER.

THE late Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, an active member of the Historical Society, was born at Haverhill, in Massachusetts, on the 13th of June, 1783. He descended from ancestors who, through every period of the history of this State, from its earliest settlement, have been among its most eminent citizens and distinguished benefactors. His father was Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall, a highly respectable physician.

He was placed, in 1796, as a pupil in Phillips Exeter Academy, under the tuition of the learned Dr. Benjamin Abbot; among his contemporaries and associates were Daniel Webster, Joseph S. Buckminster, and Lewis Cass. He entered Harvard College in 1798, in a class unusually large, and distinguished for genius and ability; his intellectual faculties, his love of learning, and his diligence in his studies gave him a high literary rank as a scholar. In his early years, and through his whole life, he was admired and beloved as a companion and friend. The purity of his life and the firmness of his moral principles secured entire confidence; the warmth of his affections, the generosity of his temper, the disinterestedness and frankness of his deportment, and the gayety of his heart, approaching to hilarity, rendered him a favorite companion in social intercourse.

He was admitted to the bar, in Essex County, in 1805, and commenced the practice of law at Haverhill; he removed to Salem in 1806, and in a short time acquired extensive practice and high reputation by his ability, integrity, and learning. As an advocate, his eloquence was powerful, persuasive, and brilliant; it was the eloquence of the heart, -the sincere and cordial expression of the ardent feelings and deep emotions of a generous and noble na

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