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apprehended attending authority aforesaid benefit of clergy bill charges churchwardens clause colonies committed Committee complaint confinement to hard conviction thereof courts of assize crimes custody declared disallowed act exceeding fifty pounds five pounds free condition free person further enacted gaol hands and seals hard labour hereby House of Assembly hundred pounds Huskisson HUSKISSON'S LETTER imprisonment inflicted instruction island Jamaica jury justices and vestry lawful deputy legislature Lord magistrates Majesty Majesty's Government manumission manumized master meeting ment moiety months mulatto negro oath obeah offence overseer owner or owners paid parish or precinct passed peace person or persons persons of free plantation or settlement possessor preaching proprietor provost-marshal receive rity aforesaid runaway slave sentenced shillings slave code slave or slaves suffer death suffer such punishment summary manner supreme court tenced think proper tion transportation trial twenty pounds warrant whereas wherein white person workhouse workhouse-keeper
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Page 228 - At the Court at the Queen's Palace, the 26th of April, 1809, present, the King's most excellent Majesty in Council. " Whereas there was this day read at the board a report from the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council, appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations, dated the
Page 238 - power, with the advice and consent of the Governor and Council, to make, constitute, and ordain laws, statutes, and ordinances, for the public peace, welfare, and good government of the island, and of the people and inhabitants thereof, which were to be (as
Page 228 - Whereas there was this day read at the board a report from the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council, appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations, dated the
Page 230 - His Majesty, having taken the said report into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to approve of what is therein proposed, and accordingly to disallow the said
Page 234 - one of our principal secretaries of state, the draught of such bill or bills, and shall have received our royal pleasure thereupon, unless you take care, in the passing such bill or bills, that a clause or clauses be inserted therein, suspending and deferring the execution thereof, until our will and pleasure shall be
Page 234 - natural-born subjects of England, to be born in Jamaica, shall, from their respective births, be reputed to be, and shall be, free denizens of England, and shall have the same privileges, to all intents and purposes, as our free-born subjects of England; and that all free persons shall have liberty without interruption, to transport themselves and their families, and any
Page 128 - whereof shall be to our sovereign lord the King, his heirs and successors, for and towards the support of the government of this island, and the contingent charges thereof, and the other moiety to the party or parties at whose suit or complaint such person was convicted, and shall also suffer imprisonment, at the discretion of the
Page 231 - It is our will and pleasure, and we do hereby require and command that you do not, on any pretence whatever, give your assent to any law or laws to be passed concerning religion, until you shall have first transmitted unto us, through one of our principal Secretaries of State, the draught of such bill or bills, and shall
Page 137 - action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, wherein no essoin, protection, or wager of law, or non vult ulterius prosequi, shall be entered; one moiety of which penalties shall be
Page 58 - action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, wherein no essoin, protection, or wager of law, or non vult ulterius prosequi, shall be entered ; one moiety of which penalties shall be