and of all other Transactions and Occurrences in, or about the Premisses or any of them. 26. AND whereas notwithstanding the many good Laws made from time to time, for preventing of Frauds in the Plantation Trade, it is manifest that very 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 Persons, who are accepted for Security, or from the Remissness or Connivance of such as have been, or are Governors in the several Plantations, who ought to take Care, that those Persons, who give Bond should be duly prosecuted in case of nonperformance, You are to take notice, that we take the good of Our Plantations and the Improvement of the Trade thereof, by a strict and punctual observance of the several Laws in force concerning the same, to be of so great Importance to the benefit of this Kingdom and to the advancing the Duty of Our Customs here, that if we shall hereafter be informed, that at any time there shall be any Failure in the due observance of those Laws and of these present Instructions, by any wilful fault or neglect on your part, We shall esteem such Neglect to be a breach of the aforesaid Laws; And it is Our fixed and determined WILL and PLEASURE, that you or the Commander in Chief respectively, be for such offence, not only immediately removed from Our Employments, and be liable to the Fine of One thousand Pounds, as likewise suffer such other Fines, Forfeitures, Pains and Penalties as are inflicted by the several Laws now in force relating thereunto, but shall also receive the most rigorous Marks of Our Highest Displeasure, and be prosecuted with the utmost Severity of Law for your Offence against Us, in a matter of this Consequence that We now so particularly charge you with. G. R. From whence. Where and when Bond given. VIRGINIA. and the day of following, being the Quarter ended at in the Colony of Virginia, between the with the particular Quantity and A List of Ships and Vessels which have Entered Inwards in the Port of day of Quality of the Loading of each Vessel. in the Colony of Virginia, between the with the particular Quantity and A List of Ships and Vessels, which have cleared Outwards from the Port of following, being the Quarter ended at and the day of VIRGINIA.day of Quality of the Loading of each Vessel. S N.B. The particular Quantity and Quality of the Loading must be mentioned under these Columns. In the Register of Prize Ships the Capture and Condemnation must be also specially mentioned instead of the Time and place of Building. List of all Ships trading to or from the Plantations, or from one Plantation to another, to be prepared Quarterly by the Collector of the Customs and the Naval Officers in the respective Plantations in order to be transmitted by you to the Lord High Treasurer, or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs at London, by the first Opportunity of Shipping every Quarter. ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LORD DUNMORE. GEORGE R. L.S. ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTION to Our Right Trusty and Right Welbeloved Cousin, John Earl of Dunmore, Our Lieutenant and Governor General of Our Colony and Dominion of Virginia in America. GIVEN at Our Court at St James's the Fourth Day of February, 1772. In the Twelfth Year of Our Reign. WHEREAS Laws have been passed in some of Our Colonies and Plantations in America, by which the Lands, Tenements, Goods, Chattels, Rights, and Credits of Persons, who have never resided within the Colonies where such Laws have been passed, have been made liable to be attached for the Recovery of Debts, in a manner different from that allowed by the Laws of England in like cases; and whereas it hath been represented unto Us, that such Laws may have the consequence to prejudice and obstruct the Commerce between this Kingdom and Our said Colonies, and to affect public Credit: It is therefore Our WILL and PLEASURE that you do not on any pretence whatever, give your Assent to, or pass any Bill or Bills in Our Colony under your Government, by which the Lands, Tenements, Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits of Persons, who have never resided within Our said Colony, shall be made liable to be attached for the Recovery of Debts, due from such Persons, otherways than is allowed by Law, in Cases of the like nature within this Our Kingdom of Great Britain, untill you shall have first transmitted unto Us, by 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 of such Bill or Bills, that a Clause or Clauses be inserted therein, suspending and deferring the Execution thereof untill Our Royal WILL and PLEASURE shall be known thereupon. G. R. Indorsed, "Virginia. Additional Instructions. Rec May 2a 1772.” Representation of the Comm" for Trade & Plantations, to His Majesty, dated July 29th 1768, as far as it relates to a Law passed in the Colony of Virginia in 1767, intituled, An Act to compell Ships importing Convicts or indented Servants, infected with the Goal fever or Small Pox, to perform Quarantine. By this Act the Master of every Vessel importing Convicts or indented Servants is prohibited from allowing any such to quit the Vessel before Entry at the Naval Office, and Oath by him made that none of the said persons have been infected with the Goal fever or small pox at any time within fifty days last past, upon refusal of which Oath, or if it shall appear to such Naval Officer that the said vessel ought to make Quarantine, certain rules and directions in that case given are to be carried into execution; upon a due consideration of this Law (in the course of which we have been attended both by the Agent on the part of the Province, and the Contractor for the Transportation of Convicts, and heard what each had respectively had to offer) we are humbly of opinion that this Law, however unexceptionable in point of principle, does nevertheless contain certain regulations and restrictions of an improper |