characters of six persons, inhabitants of the eastern division, and six other persons inhabitants of the western division of our said province, whom you shall esteem the best qualified for that trust; and so from time to time when any of them shall die, depart out of our said province, or become otherwise unfit, you are to nominate unto us so many other persons in their stead, that the list of twelve persons fit to supply the said vacancies, viz. six out of the east, and six out of the west division, as aforesaid, may be always compleat.

10. You are from time to time to send to us as aforesaid, and to our commissioners for trade and plantations, the names and qualities of any members by you put into our said council, by the first conveniency after you so doing.

11. And in the choice and nomination of the members of our said council, as also of the principal officers, judges, assistants, justices and sheriffs, you are always to take care that they be men of good life, and well affected to our government, of good estates and abilities, and not necessitous people or much in debt.

12. You are neither to augment nor diminish the number of our said council, as it is hereby established nor to suspend any of the present members thereof without good and sufficient cause: And in case of suspensiou of any of them, you are to cause your reasons for so doing, together with the charges and proofs against the said persons, and their answers thereunto (unless you have some extraordinary reason to the contrary) to be duly entered upon the council books; and you are forthwith to transmit the same, together with your reasons for not entering them upon the council books, (in case you do not enter them) unto us and to our commissioners for trade and plantations as aforesaid.

13. You are to signify our pleasure unto the mem

bers of our said council, that if any of them shall at any time hereafter absent themselves, and continue absent above the space of two months together from our said province without leave from you, or from our governor or commander in chief of our said province, for the time being, first obtained; or shall remain absent for the space of two years, or the greater part thereof successively, without our leave given them under our royal sign manual; their place or places in our said council, shall immediately thereupon become void, and that we will forthwith appoint others in their stead.

14. And in order to the better consolidating and incorporating the two divisions of East and West New Jersey, into and under one government, our will and pleasure is, that with all convenient speed, you call together one general assembly for the enacting of laws for the joint and mutual good of the whole; and that the said general assembly do sit in the first place at Perth Amboy, in East New-Jersey, and afterwards the same, or other the next general assembly, at Burlington, in West New-Jersey; and that all future general assemblies do set at one or the other of those places alternately, or (in cases of extraordinary necessity) according as you with the advice of our foresaid council, shall think fit to appoint them.

15. And our further will and pleasure is, that the general assemby so to be called, do consist of four and twenty representatives, who are to be chosen in the manner following, viz. two by the inhabitants householders of the city or town of Perth-Amboy, in East New-Jersey; two by the inhabitants householders of the city and town of Burlington in West New-Jersey; ten by the freeholders of East New-Jersey and ten by the freeholders of West New-Jersey; and that no person shall be capable of being elected a representative by the freeholders of either division, or

afterwards of sitting in general assemblies, who shall not have one thousand acres of land, of an estate of freehold, in his own right; within the division for which he shall be chosen; and that no freeholder shall be capable of voting in the election of such representative, who shall not have one hundred acres of land of an estate of freehold in his own right, within the division for which he shall so vote: And that this number of representatives shall not be enlarged or diminished, or the manner of electing them altered, otherwise than by an act or acts of the general assembly there, and confirmed by the approbation of us, our heirs and successors.

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16. You are with all convenient speed to cause a lection to be made of all the laws, orders, rules, or such as have hitherto served or been reputed as laws amongst the inhabitants of our said province of NovaCæsaria, or New-Jersey, and, together with our aforesaid council and assembly, you are to revise, correct, and amend the same, as may be necessary; and accordingly to enact such and so many of them, as by you with the advice of our said council and assembly, shall be judged proper and conducive to our service, and the welfare of our said province, that they may be transmitted unto us, in authentic form, for our approbation or disallowance.

17. You are to observe in the passing of the said laws, and of all other laws, that the stile enacting the same, be by the governor, council and assembly, and no other.

18. You are also as much as possible to observe, in 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 especially to take care that no clause or clauses be inserted in, or annexed to any act,

which shall be foreign to what the title of such respective act imports.

19. You are to transmit authentic copies of the forementioned laws that shall be enacted, and of all laws, statutes, and ordinances, which shall at any time hereafter be made or enacted within our said province, each of them separately, 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 high displeasure, and of the forfeiture of that year'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 we shall please to inflict. But if it shall happen, that during time of war, no shipping shall come from our said province or other our adjacent or neighbouring plantations, within three months after the making such laws, statutes, and ordinances, whereby the same may be transmitted as aforesaid, then the said laws, statutes and ordinances are to be so transmitted as aforesaid, by the next conveyance after the making thereof whenever it may happen, for our approbation or disallowance of the same.

20. 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 imposing fines and penalties, express mention be made that the same is granted or reserved to us, our heirs or successors, for the publick uses of that our province, and the support of the government thereof, as by the said act or orders shall be directed.

21. And we do particularly require and command, that no money, or value of money whatsoever, be given or granted by an act or order of assembly, to any governor, lieutenant governor, or commander in chief

of our said province, which shall not according to the stile of acts of parliament in England, be mentioned to be given and granted unto us, with the humble desire of such assembly, that the same be applied to the use and behoof of such governor, lieutenant governor or commander in chief, if we shall so think fit; or if we shall not approve of such gift or application, that the said money or value of money, be then disposed of and appropriated to such other uses as in the said act or order shall be mentioned; and that from the time the same shall be raised, it remain in the hands of the receiver of our said province until our royal pleasure shall be known therein.

22. You shall also propose with the said general assembly, and use your utmost endeavours with them, that an act be passed for raising and settling a publick revenue for defraying the necessary charge of the government of our said province, in which provision be particularly made for a competent salary to yourself, as captain general and governor in chief of our said province, and to other our succeeding captain generals, for supporting the dignity of the said office, as likewise due provision for the salaries of the respective members of our council and assembly, and of all other officers necessary for the administration of that government.

23. Whereas it is not reasonable that any of our colonies or plantations should by virtue of any exemptions or other privileges whatsoever, be allowed to seek and pursue their own particular advantages, by .methods tending to undermine and prejudice our other colonies and plantations, which have equal title to our royal care; and whereas the trade and welfare of our province of New-York, would be greatly prejudiced, if not intirely ruined, by allowing unto the inhabitants of Nova-Cæsaria, or New-Jersey, any exemption from those charges, which the inhabitants of