of each Sloop aforesaid by his Commission and Instructions therewith to be given that they take care from time to time to their utmost Abilities to Guard and Defend the Coasts of this Island by constant Cruising and looking out both Windward and Leward North and South sides of this Island as his Honour in his great Wisdom shall from time to time Direct and Command BE it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Colonel Charles Knights and Josiah Heathcote Esq be and are hereby appointed impowered and warranted to be Treasurers to Receive and Pay all Sum and Sums of Mony as shall from time to time come to their Hands Treasurers for the more easie and ready dispatch of such Persons as they may have occasion to Deal with or pay all such Wages unto the Officers Seamen and Soldiers as the Occasion and Intent of this Act may require And as soon as the Receiver or Receivers before appointed and impowered have Bought or Hired and Equipped the said Sloops and Victualled them with sufficient Victuals for their respective Complements of Men aforesaid for the time they shall find convenient That the said Sloops be forthwith dispatcht out to Sea by Command and Direction of the Lieutenant Governour or Commander in Chief to Cruise about the Coasts of this Island as aforesaid And that the Receiver or Receivers keep a distinct Accompt of the Mony raised by this present Act. And for all Payments made for the Uses and Purposes by this Act required and render a just and true Accompt thereof Accompt to be given when demanded unto Their Majesties Lieutenant Governour or Commander in Chief and Council of all Sum and Sums of Mony by them and every of them received by Vertue of this present Act and how laid out and for what and to whom and for what Uses And shall in like manner give an Accompt to the Assembly of this Island when Sitting and Assembled when thereunto required of so much of the said Mony as shall be by them and every of them respectively received and to whom the same are issued and paid by them respectively and to what Uses and if the said Receiver or Receivers or any of them after the Receipt of any of the said Monies shall divert or misapply the same or any part thereof by any pretence whatsoever otherwise than before intended and directed contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act he or they so Offending shall forfeit to Their Majesties Forfeit for and towards the support of the Government of this Island and contingent Charges thereof double the Sum so diverted or misapplyed AND for the better Order and Government of the said Sloops of War wherein the Honor of Their Majesties and the Interest of this Island are so much concerned Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Articles and Orders That all and every the Articles and Orders mentioned in certain Acts of Parliament made in the Thirteenth year of the Reign of His Majesty Charles the Second of blessed Memory for the Establishing Articles and Orders for the Regulating and better Governing of his Majesty's Navies and Ships of War and Forces by Sea shall be duly and respectively put in Execution Observed and Obeyed on Board the said Sloops of War And are hereby declared to be the Law of this Island against all such Person or Persons aboard the said Sloops as shall Offend therein And for further Encouragement of the Officers Seamen and Soldiers aboard the said Sloops Encouragement of Officers c. All Ships Sloops or Vessels by them taken from the Enemy and not belonging to this Island are hereby likewise given them for their said Encouragement Provided always that all Slaves Vessels or Goods belonging to Their Majesties Subjects of this Island which the said Sloops of War shall happen to retake before they shall have arrived at the Enemies Port during the time that they or either of them are employed in this present Service on the Countries Charge as aforesaid shall be returned to the respective Owners or Proprietors their Agents or Attorneys any Law Custom or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Parties hereby raised or to be raised for the subduing the Rebellious Negroes aforesaid in case of Misdemeanour or Neglect of their Duty in that behalf shall be liable to the Pains and Punishments prescribed in the Articles of War as when Martial Law is in force in this Island and that the Captain of each Party receive for his Service in this Act intended and appointed the Sum of Four Pounds per Month Pay for the Land-Forces and that each Serjeant also receive Fifty Shillings per Month and each Soldier Forty Shillings per Month to be paid by the Receiver or Receivers without any Fee or Charge to either Officer or Soldier AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That for the better Encouraging of the Persons Employed on Board the said Sloops for the Service of Their Majesties and this Island that they shall receive as Salvage for all Vessels Slaves Prizes retaken and other Goods taken of this Island and by-them retaken before they are landed in any of the Enemies Commission-Ports One sixth part of the Vessels Slaves or Goods so retaken or the value thereof the said Vessels Slaves or Goods having been first Appraised by two Persons indifferently Chosen one by the Commander or Commanders of the said Sloop or Sloops and the other by the respective Owner or Owners which shall be divided among the Officers Seamen and Soldiers of the said Vessels proportionably to the Pay each Person receives of the Country for that Service AND that all such Persons as shall go out in the Parties to reduce the Negroes in Rebellion may be induced to proceed with the more Resolution and Vigour it is hereby Enacted that they shall Receive from the Treasurers Negro kill'd or retaken for each Negro Killed that was Actually in Rebellion which shall be Evidenced by bringing in his Head to any Justice the Sum of Forty Shillings And for each Negro in Rebellion taken and brought in alive not Maimed or Mortally Wounded the Sum of Ten Pounds to be paid by the Owner or Proprietor of such Slave or Slaves who is hereby obliged under the Penalty of Fifty Pounds to Transport the Slave or Slaves so Reduced from Actual Rebellion And in case that no Owner can be found That then the Treasurer or Treasurers by this Act appointed or either of them shall be by this Act Obliged and Impowred to pay the said Ten Pounds our of the Treasury and Receive the said Slave or Slaves and him or them Sell and Transport as aforesaid And the Produce retain in his or their Hands to be employed in the said Service and for defraying the Contingent Charges thereof And to the end that it may be the
and Paid unto Their Majesties Deduction to Their Majesties to and for the Use of Their Majesties the Summ of One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Four Pounds Sixteen Shillings as a Summ equivalent to Their Majesties for the Customs of Wines lost in the Earthquake AND be it further Enacted That upon due Proof made in the Supreme Court of Judicature an Action of Debt shall lie for Their Majesties against any Person whatsoever Bond not produced their Executors Administrators or Attorneys that stand Indebted to Their Majesties for Customs whether Bond be given or not without being obliged to produce it the giving of which shall not be pleaded in Bar except by the Persons named and for the Summs in this Act mentioned Provided also that if the Bond for the said Debt supposed to be lost shall afterwards be found and put in Suit that then the said Judgment shall be and be pleaded in Bar to the same and that the said Actions be brought within Two Courts after this Act becomes in Force AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That after the Deduction and Payment of the said Summ of One Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy Four Pounds Sixteen Shillings unto Their Majesties Remainder after Deduction the remainder of the Monies arising by Virtue of this Act and the Act before-mentioned shall be and remain as a Fund to Encourage such of Their Majesties Subjects or others as are willing to Transport themselves hither and be applied to no other Use Intent or Purpose whatsoever AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That whereas Benjamin Way Joseph Seargeant William Hutchinson Case of some Private Persons Francis Hall and Edmond Edlyn stand indebted to Their Majesties in the several Summs following viz. Benjamin Way in the Summ of Nine Hundred Twenty One Pounds Twelve Shillings Joseph Seargeant in the Summ of One Hundred Eighty Seven Pounds Four Shillings William Hutchinson in the Summ of One Hundred and Four Pounds Francis Hall in the Summ of Four Hundred Pounds and Edmond Edlyn in the Summ of One Hundred and Sixty Two Pounds which said Summs were due to Their Majesties for the Customs of Wines which were lost in the Earthquake The said Benjamin Way Joseph Seargeant William Hutchinson Francis Hall and Edmond Edlyn and every of them their Heirs Executors and Administrators shall be and are hereby for ever indemnified and saved Harmless against Their Majesties Their Heirs and Successors from Payment of the said several Summs due from the said several Persons or any Part thereof as also from all manner of Action or Actions Suit or Suits against them or any of them their or any of their Executors Administrators or Assigns for the same already commenced or to be commenced and if all or any of the Persons aforesaid be Sued or Impleaded they may Plead the General Issue and give this Act in Evidence any Law Custom or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding Encouragement for Settlers AND to the end it may be understood what sort of People are by this Act intended to be Encouraged Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Tradesmen and other Persons of what Calling or Condition soever not able to Pay their Passages excepting Jews Cripples and Children under Eleven Years of Age who upon Encouragement of this Act are willing to Transport themselves to this Island shall upon Repairing to any Master or Commander of any Ship or Vessel bound for this Island Passage paid and Person free be received on Board his Ship or Vessel and after his or their Arrival in this Island be Free from all manner of Servitude whatsoever and have Liberty to Hire and Imploy him her or themselves here how they think fit in any Honest Trade Service or Calling and the Captain Master or Commander of such Ship or Vessel shall receive of the Treasurers named and appointed by this Act for the Passage of every Person so Transporting him or themselves from England or Scotland the Summ of Seven Pounds Ten Shillings and for every Person from Ireland the Summ of Six Pounds currant Money of this Island without Fraud or Delay AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for each Person so brought hither from Europe the Captain Captains c. Encourag'd Master or Commander of each Ship or Vessel shall for his Encouragement and to his own Use receive of the said Treasurer or Treasurers the Sum of Twenty Shillings per Head over and above the said Sums AND whereas several of their Majesties Subjects under the qualifications aforesaid Residing at New England New York Carolina or other Parts of America the Windward Islands and Providence may upon the Encouragement of this Act be willing to Transport themselves to this Island BE it therefore Enacted that all Masters or Commanders of any Vessel or Vessels that shall Import any such Persons before mentioned shall for every Person so brought from New England Persons from other Plantations New York Carolina or other parts of America receive the Sum of Three Pounds Ten Shillings and for every Person brought from Providence and the Windward Islands the Sum of Forty Shillings current Mony of this Island without Fraud or Delay and that the Master or Commander of every Vessel who shall Import any Persons by Encouragement of this Act from New England New York Carolina or other parts of America the Windward Islands and Providence shall receive the Sum of Ten Shillings per Head to and for his Own proper Use and Benefit over and above the Sums aforesaid for the Passage of each Person AND be it likewise Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Master or Masters of any Vessel or Vessels who shall Import any Passenger upon the Credit of this Act shall within Forty Eight Hours after his or their Arrival Deliver to the Secretary of this Island or his Lawful Deputy upon Oath which said Oath the Secretary is hereby Impowered to Administer a fair written List of all such Persons as he A List to be given or they shall have brought to this Island in which List shall be contained the Names Surnames Age Trade and Country of all and every the said Person and Persons as also if Single or Married which said List the Secretary or his Lawful Deputy is forthwith to enter in a Book to be kept for that purpose and then to Transmit the same with his Certificate Indorsed to the Treasurer or Treasurers receiving for the same the Sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence from the said Treasurer or Treasurers who are hereby Ordered and Required upon receipt thereof to pay the said Master or Masters the several Sums for the respective Passages as is above Directed AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That for the well and truly Assessing Collecting Levying and paying in all and every the Sum and Sums of Mony arising by virtue of this
Confide in and that each of the said Captains receive for their Pay after the Rate of Six Pounds per Month Payments settled and likewise appoint by his Warrant for each Sloop one Master at Four Pounds per Month one Boatswain one Gunner at Three Pounds per Month each and one Chirurgeon and one Carpenter at Four Pounds per Month each Two Quarter-Masters at Fifty Shillings per Month each on Board each Sloop and command and require them in Their Majesties Name to Raise and Enlist on Board the said Two Sloops by Impressing or otherwise to make and fit up the full Number of Sixty Effective Officers Sea-men and Soldiers in each Sloop who shall also receive after the Rate of Forty Shillings each Man per Month and that their Monthly Pay arising for this present Service shall be paid out of the Money raised by this present Act Commanding and Requiring the respective Captains of each Sloop aforesaid by his Commission and Instructions therewith to be given that they take Care from time to time to their utmost Ability to Guard and Defend the Coasts of this Island by constant Cruising and looking out both Windward and Leeward North and South side of this Island as his Honour shall in his great Wisdom from time to time Direct and Command AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the more speedy Supplying with Necessaries Victualling Fitting out and Dispatching to Sea the Vessels of War aforesaid the Commissioners in this Act nominated and appointed are hereby Impowered to Employ Captain William Dodington Commissary appointed or any other fit Person in case of his Death Removal or Misbehaviour to buy and provide Victuals Arms and Ammunition and all other Necessaries whatsoever convenient for the said Vessels and draw Bills upon the Treasurer or Treasurers for the Value for which Service they shall allow and pay unto the said William Dodington or other Person so Employed after the Rate of Five Pound for every Hundred Pounds worth of Provisions Arms Ammunition or other Things needful by the said Person so bought BE it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Colonel Charles Knights and Josiah Heathcote Esquires be and are hereby appointed impowered and warranted to be Treasurers to Receive and Pay all such Summ and Summs of Money as shall from time to time come to their Hands Treasurers for the more easie and ready Dispatch of such Persons as they may have occasion to Deal with or Pay all such Wages unto the Officers Seamen and Soldiers as the Occasion and Intent of this Act may require and as soon as the Receiver or Receivers before appointed and impowered have Bought Hired and Equipped the said Sloops and Victualled them with sufficient Victuals for their respective Complements of Men aforesaid for the time they shall find convenient that the said Sloops be forthwith dispatch'd out to Sea by the Command and Direction of the Lieutenant-Governour or Commander in Chief to Cruise about the Coasts of this Island as aforesaid and that the Receiver or Receivers keep a distinct Account of the Money raised and appropriated by this present Act and for all Payments made for the Uses and Purposes in this Act required and render a Just and True Account thereof Account to be given when demanded unto Their Majesties Lieutenant Governour or Commander in Chief and Council of all such Summ and Summs of Money by them and every of them received by Virtue of this present Act and how laid out and for what and to whom and for what Uses and shall in like manner give an Account to the Assembly of this Island when sitting and assembled when thereunto required of so much of the said Money as shall be by them and every of them respectively received and to whom the same are issued and paid by them respectively and to what Uses and if the said Receiver or Receivers or any of them after the Receipt of any the said Money shall divert or misapply the same or any Part thereof by any Pretence whatsoever otherwise than before intended and directed contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act he or they so Offending shall Forfeit to Their Majesties for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and contingent Charges thereof double the Summ so diverted or misapplied AND for the better Order and Government of the said Sloops or other Vessel or Vessels of War wherein the Honour of Their Majesties and Interest of this Island are so much concerned Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Articles and Orders mentioned in a certain Act of Parliament made in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King Charles the Second of Blessed Memory Articles and Orders for the Establishing Articles and Orders for the Regulating and better Governing of his Majesty's Navy and Ships of War and Forces by Sea shall be duly and respetively put in Execution observed and obeyed on Board the said Sloops and other Vessels of War and are hereby declared to be the Laws of this Island against all such Person or Persons on Board the said Sloops or Vessels as shall offend therein and for further Encouragement of the Officers Sea-men and Soldiers on Board the said Sloops or Vessels all Ships Sloops or Vessels by them taken from the Enemy and belonging to this Island are likewise hereby given them for the said Encouragement Provided always that all Slaves Vessels or Goods belonging to Their Majesties Subjects of this Island which the said Sloops or Vessels of War shall happen to re-take before they shall have arrived at the Enemies Ports during the time that they or any of them are Employed in this present Service on the Countries Charge as aforesaid shall be returned to the respective Owners or Proprietors their Agents or Attornies any Law Custom or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Parties hereby raised or to be raised for the subduing the Rebellious Negroes aforesaid in case of Misdemeanor or neglect of their Duty in that behalf shall be liable to the Pains and Punishments prescribed in the Articles of War Pay for the Soldiers as when Martial-Law is in Force in this Island and that the Captains of each Party receive for his Service in this Act intended and appointed the Summ of Four Pounds per Month and that each Serjeant receive also Fifty Shillings per Month and each Soldier Forty Shillongs per Month to be paid by the Receiver or Receivers without any Fee or Charge to either Officer or Soldier AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That for the better Encouraging the Persons Employed on Board the said Sloops or other Vessels for the Service of Their Majesties and this Island that they shall receive as Salvage for all Vessels Slaves and other Goods taken of this Island
ACT For Raising Money for and towards the Defence of this Island WHEREAS it has been found by Sad and Lamentable Experience Preamble that Their Majesties Ships of War hitherto ordered to attend this Government have not been so Serviceable to this Their Majesties Island in Cruising about the Coasts thereof as the Exigences of Their Subjects have from time to time required The Enemies small Crafts Barque-Luengoes and nimble Vessels having from time to time Infested the remote Parts thereof and Landed their Men and made great Incursions into the Country and taken off and carried away a very considerable Number of Slaves and other Goods and Chattels of great Value at several times from many of Their Majesties good Subjects Inhabiting thereabout and may if not timely prevented destroy and unsettle all the Plantations settled on or near the Sea-Coasts round this Island to the great Dishonour of Their Majesties and utter Ruin of Their Subjects here WE therefore Their Majesties Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Assembly of this Their Majesties Island of Jamaica having taken into our Serious Considerations how Injurious the Ruin and Destruction of Their Majesties Plantations may in time prove to Their Imperial Crown and being ready and willing to the utmost of our Abilities under the present Calamities of War and the great Destruction and Ruin of Their Majesties Fortifications and of our own Habitations and Works by the late more dreadful Earthquake to provide for Their Majesties Island aforesaid and the Resistance of Their Enemies Have unanimously given and granted and do hereby give and grant unto Their Majesties for and towards the Buying or Hiring The Design Providing Victualling and Manning Two good Sloops of War each with Fifty Effective Officers Seamen and Soldiers inclusively to be Employed for Six Months towards the Guarding of the Sea-Coasts of this Their Majesties Island and in Cruising with Their Majesties Friggats about the same for the necessary Defence of it and Common Safety of Their Subjects And when on Emergent Occasions the Governour or Commander in Chief shall by his Orders and Instructions send over the Friggats to the Coasts of Hispaniola or South of Cuba to commit Acts of Hostility that then the said Sloop or Sloops shall attend the Friggat or Friggats so ordered the Term of Twenty Days and no longer and upon no other Occasion or Pretence whatsoever the full and entire Sum of Three Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy Seven Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Six Pence currant Mony of this Island and also for and towards the Raising of Two Parties each of Ten Soldiers and Two Officers for the Reducing Rebellious Negroes for the like time of Six Months the full and entire Sum of Three Hundred Twenty Five Pounds Six Shillings and Three Pence like currant Mony of this Island in all Four Thousand Three Hundred Three Pounds Three Shillings and Nine Pence The total Sum. which we do most Humbly beseech Their Majesties to Accept And that it may be Enacted AND be it Enacted by Their Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly of this Island and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same that the said Sum of Four Thousand Three Hundred Three Pounds Three Shillings and Nine Pence currant Mony of this Island Who to be Assessors be Assessed Taxed and Laid on by the several and respective Justices and Vestries within their several and respective Parishes and Precincts or within the Commission of the Peace for the same within this Island where there is any lawful Vestries and where they have no lawful Vestries by the Justices of that Parish or Precinct or within the Commission of the Peace for the same or Major part of the Vestry in all and every the Parishes of this Island on all and every Person within their several and Respective Parish or Precinct by an Equal and Just Tax to be paid within Three Months after the Tenth day of June Time of Payment which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three by the respective Parishes of this Their Majesties Island of JAMAICA into the Hands of the Receiver or Receivers hereafter Named according to the several Rates and Proportions hereafter mentioned in such Sort and Manner as by this present Act shall be Limited and Appointed and in no other Way or Manner whatsoever that is to say for every Negro Slaves rated Indian or Muletta Slave within this Island of what Age Condition or Quality soever or to whomsoever belonging shall be Paid for by the Masters Proprietors Owners Possessors Guardians or Persons Intrusted in the several Plantations Pens Crawls or Settlements within this Island the Sum of Eighteen Pence for each Negro Indian or Muletta Slave aforesaid and also for all Horses Mares and Cattel Colts Mules Asses and Neat Cattel the Sum of Seven Pence Halfpeny for each Beast and for all Sheep Lambs Goats and Kids the Sum of Two Shillings and Six Pence per Score AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that it shall and may be Lawful for the Justices and Vestry in the several Parishes or Precincts or within the Commission of the Peace for the same to Assess Tax and Levy on all Overseers and Hired Servants the Sum of Six Pence in the Pound upon the Wages they receive per Annum Hired Servants Taxed And that all Handicrafts and Tradesmen be Rated and Taxed according to the Direction of the Justices and Vestry in the several Parishes where they reside any Law Custom or Usage to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND for the Parish of Port Royal Port-Royal it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that the Justices and Vestry shall Lay Assess Levy and cause to be Levy'd Twelve Pence in the Pound on all Rents to be Paid by all Tenants and Allowed by their Landlords and Proprietors and on all Leases to be Paid by the Lessee and be Allowed by the Lessor And also on the several Inhabitants for their several Trades Occupations and Callings according as they were Rated Assessed and Taxed by the Justices and Vestry in the Parish-Roll on Port Royal aforesaid for this present Year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three And also on all Persons so Residing at the Town of St. Jago de la Vega S. Jago de la Vega. Twelve Pence in the Pound on all Rents to be Paid by all Tenants and allowed by the Landlords and Proprietors And all Leases to be Paid by the Lessee and Allowed by the Lessor and also according to the Rate Tax and Sum Assessed by the Justices and Vestry of St. Katharines for this present Year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three Kingston And for the Persons Residing on Kingston Twelve Pence in the Pound on all Rents to be Paid by all Tenants and Allowed by the Landlords and Proprietors and on all Leases to be paid by the Lessee and allowed
The Continuation of the LAWS OF JAMAICA Passed by the Assembly And Confirmed by His MAIESTY IN COUNCIL December 26th 1695. Being the Second Volume of the said LAWS LONDON Printed for Charles Harper at the Flower-de-Luce over-against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleet-street and Samuel Crouch at the Corner of Pope's-Head-Alley over-against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil MDCXCVIII INDEX AN Act for Establishing a perpetual Anniversary Fast on the Seventh of June Pag. 3 An Act for Raising Money for and towards the Defence of this Island Pag. 5 An Act to Encourage Sea-faring Men and other Their Majesties Subjects Pag. 20 An Act for making Kingston a Parish Pag. 26 An Act for the better Securing of Port-Royal Pag. 29 An Act for Making and Clearing a Publick Road from St. Mary's and St. George's into the Parish of St. Andrew's Pag. 35 An Act appointing the Prices of Meats and Regulating Markets Pag. 36 An Act for Reimbursing Their Majesties Treasury Pag. 40 An Act to Reimburse Their Majesties Treasury and Incourage Their Subjects to come and Settle in this Island Pag. 42 An Act for Raising Money to Solicit in England the Affairs of this Their Majesties Island Pag. 52 An Act for Guarding the Sea Coasts Pag. 59 An Act for Raising Money as a farther Aid to Their Majesties for and towards the Defence of this Their Island of Jamaica Pag. 63 An Act appropriating several Sums of Money heretofore Raised to the immediate Service of this Island Pag. 79 An Act for Appropriating several Sums of Money for the speedy Relief of the Wounded and Distressed Inhabitants of this Island who have suffered by the late Invasion of the French Pag. 84 An Act for the Encouragement and Freedom of Servants and Slaves which have done or shall do any remarkable Service against the French during this present War Pag. 88 An Act for Prevention of Indebted Persons from Departing this Island in the Time of Martial-Law Pag. 93 An Act to Enable George Ivey Esquire to Sell his Estate for the Payment of the Debts of his Father William Ivey Esquire Deceased Pag. 98 ADVERTISEMENT THE Laws of JAMAICA passed by the Assembly and confirmed by His Majesty in Council April 17. 1684. To which is added the State of JAMAICA as it was under the Government of Sir Thomas Lynch With a Large Map of the Island Printed for Charles Harper at the Flower-de-luce over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street and are to be had of Capt. Thomas Hudson and Mr. Robert Cotes Merchants at Port-Royal AT THE COURT AT KENSINGTON The 26th Day of December 1695. PRESENT The King 's Most Excellent MAJESTY In COUNCIL Lord Keeper Lord Privy-Seal Duke of Norfolk Duke of Schonberge Duke of Shrewsbury Marq. of Winchester Lord Great Chamberlain Earl of Bridgwater Earl of Stamford Earl of Scarborough Earl of Romney Lord Godolphin Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Secret Trumbull Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer L. Chief Justice Holt. Mr. Russell Mr. Boscawen Mr. Smith WHEREAS by Commission under the Great Seal of England to Sir William Beeston Knight His MAJESTY 's Lieutenant Governour and Commander in Chief of the Island of JAMAICA bearing Dated the Twentieth Day of September One Thousand Six Hundrerd Ninety Two in the Fourth Year of His MAJESTY 's Reign His MAJESTY has been Graciously pleased to Authorize and Impower the Governour Council and Assembly of the said Island to Constitute and Ordain Laws Statutes and Ordinances which are to Continue and be in Force till His MAJESTY 's Pleasure he signified to the contrary And forasmuch as certain Laws have in pursuance of the said Commission been transmitted to His MAJESTY with the Humble Desire of the Governour Council and Assembly that His MAJESTY would be Pleased to pass the same in the Words following An ACT For Establishing a perpetual Anniversary Fast on the Seventh of June FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty GOD Preamble the Great Creator and Judge of Heaven and Earth on the Seventh Day of June One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Two justly to punish the Inhabitants of this Island for their manifold Sins and Wickednesses committed against his Divine Majesty by a most terrible and dreadful Earthquake The Occasion of the Act the Earthquake which not only laid waste our Estates and Places of Habitations in general but also destroyed many Hundreds of People which tremendous Judgment was succeeded by a raging Sickness and Mortality that few or no Families Escaped Now that so signal a Visitation may be had in perpetual Remembrance and we and our Posterity may by humbling ourselves endeavour to appease God's imminent Wrath and prevent heavier Judgments We Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects Your Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly of this Your Island of Jamaica do most humbly beseech Your Most Sacred Majesties That it may be Enacted by Their Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same that every Seventh Day of June unless it falls out to be on the Lord's Day and then the Day following shall be for ever hereafter set apart to be kept and observed by all the Inhabitants of this Island as an Anniversary Day of Fasting and Humiliation A Yearly Fast and that all and every the Inhabitants aforesaid shall upon the said Day Annually resort to some usual Place where Prayers and Preaching are used to be Ministred and there orderly and devoutly abide during the Celebration of Divine Service by Prayers Preaching Singing of Psalms c. And to the end that all Persons may be put in Mind of their Duty therein and be the better prepared to discharge the same with that Piety and Devotion as becomes them Be it further Enacted That every Minister shall give Notice to his Parishioners Notice to be given hereof by the Minister in the Church or other Publick Place of Divine Worship at Morning Prayer the Sunday next before every such Seventh Day of June for the Observation of the said Day and that he provide a Sermon suitable to that Occasion and that in such Parishes where there is no Minister this Act shall be published Annually in the Sessions next before the Seventh of June as aforesaid AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That no Person or Persons whatsoever neither by themselves Servants or Slaves shall do or cause to be done any manner of Work in his or their Trade Calling or Plantation And that no Shop Tavern Coffee or Punch-House be kept open on the said Day on Penalty of forfeiting Forty Shillings for every Person Penalty for Offenders by himself Servant or Slave so Offending as aforesaid to be Recovered before any of Their Majesties Justices of the Peace who are hereby Required and Empowered to award the same one Half of which Forfeiture shall be to the Church-Wardens for the use of the Parish and the other Half to the Informer or him that shall Sue for the same W. 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the true Intent and Meaning thereof shall Forfeit Fifty Pound and all and every Vestry-man Church-Warden or Constable the sum of Twenty Pound for every such Offence as aforesaid AND be it Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that all Owners of Slaves Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Goats Lambs Kids Tradesmen and Hired-men whatsoever as aforesaid shall and are hereby by Themselves Guardians Overseers Trustees or Pen-keepers within the several Parishes aforesaid required and obliged to give a just and true Account on Oath to the best of their Knowledge Account on Oath at such Time or Times as the Justices of each Parish or Precinct or within the Commission of the Peace for the same shall Direct of all Slaves Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Lambs Goats Kids Rents Trades and Callings whatsoever as aforesaid belonging to such Owner Guardian Overseer Trustees or Pen-keepers within their respective Parish or Precinct or within the Commission of the Peace for the same the Nation of the Jews only Excepted to the Justices of the Peace or any of them in the said Parishes or Precincts or within the Commission of the Peace for the same who are hereby Required and Impowred to Administer the same and to ask all such further Questions as to them or any of them shall seem Meet and Necessary relating to this present Act. The Tenour of which Oath shall be as followeth Oath I A. B. do Swear that I have within the Parish of C Slaves Young and Old and also Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Lambs Goats Kids and no more So help me God And if it be to an Overseer I D. E. Overseer of the Plantation of F. G. do Swear that the said F. G. hath within the Parish of H Slaves Young and Old and also Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Lambs Goats Kids c. and no more to the best of my knowledg And so to Pen-keepers or any other Person for Cattle Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Lambs Goats Kids Rents Trades Taverns and Callings whatsoever Mutatis Mutandis and if any Person or Persons shall refuse either by Themselves Case of Refusal Overseers or Pen-keepers to give an Account upon Oath as aforesaid of their Slaves Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Lambs Goats Kids Rents Trades and Callings in manner aforesaid That then it shall be Lawful for the Justices and Vestry or the Justices where there is no Vestry to Tax the Person or Persons so refusing according to their Discretion AND forasmuch as the present Necessity will require the Advancing of Mony for and towards the Buying or Hiring and Equipping the said Two Sloops and Men to Sea with all possible Expedition BE it enacted by Authority aforesaid that it shall and may be lawful to and for any Person or Persons to advance and lend to Their Majesties for and towards the furtherance of this present occasion such Sum or Sums of Mony as may be needful and that whosoever shall advance and lend any such Sum or Sums of Mony upon the security of this Act Interect on Mony advanc'd shall receive for the Loan of the Sum they shall so lend after the rate of Twelve Pound Ten Shillings per Cent. per Ann. for the time he or they shall be in disburse of the said Sum on the Credit of this said Act as aforesaid any thing beforementioned to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding AND to the end that all Moneys that shall be lent unto Their Majesties upon the Credit hereof may be well and sufficiently secured BE it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all and every Person and Persons who shall Advance and Lend any Sum or Sums of Mony to Their Majesties on the Credit of this Act and actually Pay the same into the Hands of the Receiver or Receivers hereafter Named and Appointed shall by the Receiver or Receivers on the first Payment of Mony that shall be Paid into the Receivers Hands by virtue of this Act be forthwith Paid into the Person or Persons their Executors or Administrators so lending the said Sum Advanced with the Interest of the same for the discharge of the Mony so Lent and Advanced And that all and every other Sum or Sums of Mony that shall be laid out or be Paid by the Receiver or Receivers for and towards the Buying Equipping Victualling and fitting to Sea as also for Paying the Officers and Seamen on Board the said Sloops and also for Paying the Officers and Soldiers of the Two Parties beforementioned for Reducing the Rebellious Negroes shall as they become due be Paid by the Receiver or Receivers that are hereafter mentioned and Appointed without Fee or Charge Receivers Names AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Honourable Colonel Charles Knights one of Their Majesties Council of this Island and also Colonel Thomas Clarke Captain Lancelot Talbott Captain Robert Wardlow William Hutchinson Esq Captain Josiah Heathcote and Captain Thomas Clarke be and are hereby Required and Impowred and Warranted to be Receiver or Receivers of all and singular the several Sums aforesaid mentioned and intended to be raised on the several Parishes or People aforesaid and shall and may Lawfully by Advice and Consent of the Lieutenant Governour or Commander in Chief forthwith Buy or Hire Two good and substantial Sloops fit for War and Provide Equip Fit ready for the Sea and Victual the same for Fifty Effective Officers Seamen and Soldiers Inclusively for each Sloop for the said Six Months or for such shorter time as to to them shall appear most convenient and that the said Two Sloops being thus Fitted and Victualled it is hereby Required that the Right Honourable Sir William Beeston Knight Captains appointed by whome Their Majesties Lieutenant Governour aforesaid by Commission under his Hand and Seal do Constitute and Appoint on Board each of the said Sloops such Discreet and Able Captains for this present Service as his Honour shall in his Prudence think fit and can Confide in and that each of the said Captains receive for their Pay after the rate of Six Pounds per Month And other Officers And likewise appoint by his Warrant for each Sloop one Master at Four Pounds per Month one Boatswain one Gunner at Three Pounds per Month each one Chirurgeon and one Carpenter at Four Pounds per Month each on Board each Sloop And Command and Require them in Their Majesties name to Raise and Enlist on Board the said Two Sloops by Impressing or otherwise to make and fill up the full number of Fifty Effective Officers Seamen and Soldiers in each Sloop who shall also receive after the rate of Forty Shillings each Man per Month. And that their monthly Pay arising from this present Service shall be paid out of the Mony raised by this present Act Commanding and Requiring the respective Captains
better known who is a Negro in Rebellion It is hereby declared that all Negroes that have been absent from their Owner or Plantation the Term of Six Months be and are accounted as in actual Rebellion any thing to the Contrary notwithstanding AND be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that in Case any of the Officers Seamen or Soldiers on Board the said Sloops or in the said Parties shall in actual Service lose either Leg or Arm or be otherwise Disabled That then and in all such Cases Case of Maim all and every of the said Disabled Men shall receive Ten Pound per Annum without Charge during his or their Natural Lives And also their Cures to be Paid for out of the Publick Revenue of this Island by order of the Lieutenant-Governour and Council or of the Government of this Island out of the first Payment AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all Monies which shall Remain over and above Surplus not expended or be not Expended of the said Sum of Four Thousand Three Hundred Three Pounds Three Shillings and Nine Pence arising by vertue of this Act and not hereby applyed towards the defraying the Charges of the Sloops and Parties aforesaid shall be and remain in the hands of the said Treasurers or either of them by this Act appointed to be applyed and disposed of for and towards such other use or uses as the Assembly of this Island shall appoint by a Law And that the said Receiver or Receivers Treasurer or Treasurers be allowed all his or their or either of their reasonable Charges in and about the discharging the Trust hereby reposed in them Commission or pretences to Commission hereby excepted AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Fines and Forfeitures mentioned in this Act and not declared where they shall be Recovered Fines c. how disposed or how Disposed of be one half to Their Majesties for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the contingent Charges thereof the other half to the Informer who shall Sue for the same in any Court of Record within this Island and where no Essoyne Protection Injunction Wager of Law or nonvult ulterius prosequi shall be allowed An ACT To Encourage Sea-faring Men and other Their MAJESTIES Subjects Preamble WHEREAS great Numbers of Persons as well Sea-faring Men as others by the ill Usage and Discouragement they have formerly met with have been driven from this Island and for Common Subsistence many of them have fallen under the Necessity of taking unlawful Courses and been forced ever since the present War with France to seek for Shelter in the Ports and Settlements belonging to the French King in the West-Indies and elsewhere and afterwards Compelled to enter into his Service AND whereas divers other Persons being Disabled by their Losses in the late Dreadful Earthquake and other Misfortunes to Pay their Debts to avoid the Suits and Prosecutions of their Creditors have been likewise obliged to go off this Island And by reason of the Offences and Debts aforesaid cannot safely return again And forasmuch as nothing can more conduce to the Strength Security and Flourishing Condition of this Country than Multitudes of People and that it is become absolutely necessary in Order thereunto for putting the Island in this time of War into a Posture of Defence against the Enemy to Invite and Encourage as much as possible Their Majesties Subjects to come to this Island by Delivering them from the Penalties and Forfeitures they have already incurr'd and by preventing all Vexation and Trouble they may be put to hereafter by any Prosecution in Their Majesties Name for the said Offences or by means of the Suit or Suits of any other Persons to whom they stand indebted THE Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly most humbly beseech Their Majesties to be Graciously pleased to extend to all Persons so Offending as aforesaid Their Majesties Free and General Pardon Free and General Pardon and for the Ease and Quiet of them and the rest to give convenient Time to Pay their Debts AND that therefore it may be Enacted by the Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and be it Enacted by the Authority of the same in Manner and Form following that is to say That all and every Person and Persons whosoever shall be and are hereby Acquitted Pardoned Released and Discharged against Their Majesties Their Heirs and Successors and all others whomsoever of and from all manner of Penalties incurr'd by Serving under the French King or his Subjects as aforesaid and all Crimes and Offences Acts of Hostility or Violence whatsoever Treason and Murder excepted and of and from all manner of Depredations by Sea or by Land and all other Crimes Offences and Misdemeanors whatsoever already done and committed before the First Day of this Session in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three and not otherwise or afterwards And of and from all manner of Forfeitures Penalties Pains Corporal and Pains Pecuniary and all Suits Judgments and Executions for or by reason of the same or any of them AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person or Persons that have committed Piracy or Robbery by Sea and not Murder or Treason that shall come hither Time of Surrender and Surrender and Submit themselves within Ten Days after their Arrival in this Island unto the Commander in Chief for the time being and give in moderate Security for their future Good Behaviour that then and in such Case the said Commander in Chief shall be by Vertue of this Act obliged to extend to such Person or Persons so Submitting and Surrendring as aforesaid Their Majesties Gracious Pardon under the Great Seal of this Island for the Crime or Crimes afore-mentioned without Let Hindrance or Molestation from Their Majesties Attorney-General or any other Person or Persons whatsoever for which Pardon the Parties to whom Their Majesties Mercy is so extended Fee for Pardon shall pay the Summ of Forty Shillings and no more to be paid as a full Fee unto such Officer or Officers as the Commander in Chief shall Direct and Appoint to receive the same AND be it further Enacted That the Attorney-General or any other Officer or Officers whatsoever that shall presume by any way or means directly or indirectly to Exact any Summ or Summs of Money of any Person or Persons whatsoever to whom such Act of Mercy is extended Case of Exaction or intended to be extended shall forfeit the Summ of One Hundred Pound currant Money one Half to Their Majesties for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the Contingent Charges thereof and the other Half to the Patty injured to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record within this Island where no Essoyne Protection Injunction Wager of Law or Nonvult
and are hereby required from time to time to pay the Mony arising by virtue of this Act to such Person or Persons and to such Uses as the Justices and Vestry Payment to whom or major part of them shall direct and appoint and that the Church-Wardens of the said Parish for the time being shall keep a distinct Accompt of the Mony by them and each of them received by virtue of this Act and likewise render a true and just Accompt thereof to the Justices and Vestry of the said Parish of Port-Royal when thereunto required and also pay the full Balance of the same unto the succeeding Church-Wardens or to whomsoever the said Justices and Vestry or major part of them shall direct and appoint under the Penalty of Fifty Pounds for every Offence committed contrary to their Duty in this Act enjoyned AND whereas several of the Freeholders of Port-Royal may be or are not Resident or Inhabitants on the said Place for the better Recovery of the said Tax to be Assessed as aforesaid Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that in such Cases from Absent Freeholders and after the Twenty Fifth Day of July One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three an Action of Debt shall Lye in any Court of Record or before any Justice of the Peace as in other Debts for the Church-Wardens of the respective Parish of Port-Royal and their Successors to Recover against any of the said Persons Rated or Assessed by virtue of this Act or any of them or their Heirs Executors Administrators Assigns Agents or Attorneys here all such Sum and Sums of Mony as are or shall be Rated or Assessed upon them as aforesaid And that the same Rate or Assessment produced in such Court of Record or before such Justice of the Peace as aforesaid shall be sufficient Evidence and Proof for the Recovery of all such Sum or Sums Mony so Rated or Assessed as aforesaid AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person or Persons being Seized Possessed or Interested of or in any Ground which was formerly builded upon and the Houses thereupon being now Destroyed Neglect of Rebuilding or pulled Down at the times or by the means of the late Dreadful Earthquake shall not within Three Years next Ensuing Build on the same that then the Judges of the Court of Common-Pleas of the said Parish for the time being or any one of them shall forthwith cause publick Proclamation to be made as well at or upon the said Ground as also in the Court-House of the said Parish thereby to give notice to all Persons that shall or may be therein Concerned to cause the same to be rebuilded within the space of Nine Months then next following and in Case the Owners thereof or other Person or Persons having Interest therein shall refuse or neglect to Rebuild the same within such time as aforesaid that then and in such Case the said Judges of the said Court or any one of them are hereby Authorized to Issue out their Warrants to the Provost Marshal for the time being requiring him to Impannel and return before them or any one of them a Jury of good and lawful Men of the said Parish which the said Provost Marshal is hereby Authorized and Required to do accordingly which Jury so Returned shall upon their Oaths to be Administred to them by the said Judges or one of them who are likewise hereby Authorized to Administer the same Enquire Estimate and Assess the true and just Value of such void Ground according to their Judgments and that from and after such Enquiry and Valuation thereof made as aforesaid by Inquest of the said Jury it shall and may be Lawful to and for the said Judge or Judges to make Sale of the Fee and Inheritance thereof by Conveyance under his or their Hands and Seals to any Person or Persons that will Purchase the same at such Price at which the same shall have been so as aforesaid Estimated and Valued by the said Jury and the Monies thereupon to be received of the Purchasers thereof shall forthwith be paid into the Hands of the Church-wardens of the said Parish for the time being and from thence to be issued out and Paid by the said Church-wardens for the time being unto such Person or Persons who shall have any Estate or Interest in to or out of the same according to his or their respective Estate or Estates Title or Interest which Sale so made and Enrolled in the Office of Enrolments of this Island Sale to be Enrolled shall be Final and Conclusive to all other Persons whatsoever and shall Bar them their Heirs and Assigns to Claim any Estate Right Title or Interest of in or out of the Grounds so Sold Precedent to the said Sale and the Purchaser or Purchasers thereof his and their Heirs and Assigns shall and may by virtue of this Act have hold and enjoy the same against all Persons Claiming any Estate Right Title or Interest in to or out of the same his her and their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns freed and discharged of and from Incumbrances in Estate Title Charge or otherwise Precedent to the said Sale Their Majesties Quit-Rents only excepted AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same That the Receiver General and Naval Officer of this Island shall by themselves or lawful Deputy Offices to be kept on Port-Royal keep their Offices on Port-Royal as at any time heretofore they have or ought to have done and that the Secretary of this Island shall from time to time by his lawful Deputy keep his Office at Port-Royal as at any time heretofore has now doth or ought to have done under the Penalty of Fifty Pounds for every Month the Receiver General Naval Officer or Secretary of this Island or any of them shall neglect or refuse to do the same AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Fines and Forfeitures in this Act mentioned and contained Fines c. how disposed shall be one half to Their Majesties Their Heirs and Successors for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the contingent Charges thereof and the other half to the Parish of Port-Royal for and towards the Wharfing Repairing and Maintaining the Wharfs so to be Made Repaired and Maintained as in this Act mentioned and to and for no other Use Intent or Purpose whatsoever to be recovered in any Court of Record within this Island by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoin Injunction Protection Wager of Law or Nonvult ulterius prosequi shall be allowed any Law Custom or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding An ACT For Making and Clearing a Publick Road from St. Mary's and St. George's into the Parish of St. Andrew's
the Market shall be adjudged Open and Publick within this Act as aforesaid BE it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the Tenth Day of August of this present Year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three that this Act and every Clause thereof is and shall be of Force to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person whatsoever Seller Buyer or Officer that shall Offend against any Particular in this Act mentioned or contained Forfeiture on Offending or any Branch thereof he she or they so Offending shall Forfeit Forty Shillings for every such Offence one half to the Church-wardens of the Parish where such Offence shall be Committed for the Use of the said Parish the other half to the Clerk of the Market Informer or who shall Sue for the same to be Recovered before any Justice of the Peace any Law Custom or Usage to the Contrary notwithstanding An ACT For Reimbursing Their Majesties Treasury Preamble WHEREAS Their Majesties Revenue is considerably Anticipated the Principal Branch of which is the Customs of Wines and that great Quantities were lost at Port-Royal in the late dreadful Earthquake WE therefore your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Assembly of this your Island do most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by your Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same that from and after the Seventeenth Day of this Instant August One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three there shall be Raised Levyed and Paid unto your Majesties for the Term and time of Three Months from and after the said Seventeenth Day of August Impost on Wines and no longer as an Additional Duty and Impost upon Madera Wines Imported over and above what is already payable for the same viz. the Sum of Forty Shillings for every Tun. AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for every Slave Exported by way of Merchandize from and after the said Seventeenth Day of August for the Term aforesaid and no longer the Exporter or Owner shall pay the Sum of Twenty Shillings per Head Negroes as an Impost to Their Majesties all which Negroes so Exported shall be Entred in the Receiver-Generals Office and immediately Bond given by the Owner or Exporter to Their Majesties for the Payment of the Money into the Hand of the Receiver-General or his Lawful Deputy within One Month after the Entry so made as aforesaid AND whosoever shall persume after the said Seventeenth Day of August to Export any Slave or Slaves and not make such Entry and give Bond and Pay as before in this Act is Directed Forfeiture upon Non-Entry of Slaves shall Forfeit for every such Slave so Exported the Summ of Fifty Pounds to be Recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record within this Island One Half to Their Majesties for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the Contingent Charges thereof and the other Half to the Informer or he or they that shall Sue for the same wherein no Essoyn Injunction Protection Wager of Law or Nonvult ulterius prosequi shall be allowed AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Merchant or other Person Importing any Madera Wines into this Island Of Wines from and after the said Seventeenth Day of August for and during the said Term of Three Months and no longer do and shall make Entry make up Accounts and give Bonds to Pay the said Summs arising by Vertue of this Act according to the Way and Method and under the same Penalty for not doing the same and to be Recovered in the same Manner as is Directed by an Act of this Island Entitled An Act for Raising a Publick Revenue for the Support of the Government of this His MAJESTY's Island AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Money arising by Vertue of this Act shall be to the Use of Their Majesties for the Support of the Government of this Island and the Contingent Charges thereof and towards the Repairing the Losses the Revenue has sustained by the Wines and other Merchandises lost in the Earthquake An ACT To Reimburse Their MAJESTIES Treasury and Incourage Their Subjects to come and Settle in this Island Preamble WHEREAS Their Majesties Revenue is considerably Anticipated the Principal Branch of which is the Customs of Wines great Quantities whereof were lost at Port-Royal in the late Dreadful Earthquake WE therefore Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Assembly of this Your Island of Jamaica do most humbly beseech Your Majesties That it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by Your Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same that from and after the Seventeenth Day of November in this present Year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three shall be Raised Levied and Paid unto Your Majesties Your Heirs and Successors for the Term and Time of Five Years from the said Seventeenth Day of November and no longer as an Additional Duty and Impost on the several Liquors hereafter mentioned over and above what is already payable for the same Additional Duty on Wines viz. for every Tun of Spanish and Madera Wine imported into this Island the Summ of Forty Shillings all Wines of the Growth of the Western Islands or Mixture of Madera Wines with those of the Western Islands the Summ of Five Pound per Tun for every Tun of French or Rhenish Wines Thirty Shillings for every Tun of Beer or Syder Four Shillings for every Tun of Mumm or Metheglin Twenty Shillings for every Gallon of Brandy Six Pence for every Gallon of English Spirits Three Pence and so proportionably for a Greater or Lesser Quantity All which said Liquors shall be duly Entred and under the same Penalties and Regulations as in a former Act of this Country Entitled An Act for Raising a Publick Revenue for the Support of the Government of this His Majesty's Island AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That for every Slave exported from this Island by way of Merchandize the Exporter or Owner shall Pay the Summ of Twenty Shillings On Slaves as an Impost to Their Majesties for and during the Term and Time of Five Years aforesaid excepting only such Slaves who by Misdemeanor shall by the Judgment of Two Justices of the Peace and Three Freeholders be ordered to be Transported off this Island by the Master or Owner of such Slave or Slaves AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That out of the several Summ or Summs of Money arising by Virtue of this Act and one other Act Entitled An Act to Reimburse Their Majesties Treasury made this present Session there shall be first Deducted
Act all Merchants and others Importing any of the Wines and Liquors aforesaid do Entry to be made and Bond given and shall make Entry in the Office of the Receiver-General for the time being after the same manner and methods as is prescribed in an Act of this Country Entitled An Act for Raising a Publick Revenue for the Support of the Government of this His Majesty's Island all which said Entries of this Additional Duty and Impost on Negroes by virtue of this Act laid on shall be kept in a Book apart and distinct from the other Branches of Their Majesties Revenue and all Bonds for their Additional Impost shall be taken in Their Majesties Names and the Mony arising thereon as it shall become Due shall be paid into the Hands of the Receiver-General and be by him Paid over to the Treasurer or Treasurers by virtue of this Act appointed within Twenty Days after the Receipt thereof For the taking the said Bonds and making the said Entries Receiving and Paying the said Monies the Receiver-General or his Lawful Deputy shall retain to himself Two and a Half per Cent. and no more any Law Custom or Usage to the Contrary notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That for all such quantities of any of the Liquors beforementioned as the Customs Due for the same Custom under 5 l. shall amount to but Five Pounds or under no Bonds shall be taken or Credit given after the Entry thereof but the Customs for the same shall be immediately Paid to the Receiver-General or his lawful Deputy and by him Paid over into the Hands of the Treasurer or Treasurers as is before Directed AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Negroes to be Exported shall be Entred in the Receiver-Generals Office Negro's Exported and immediately Bond given by the Owner or Exporter to Their Majesties for the payment of the Mony into the Hands of the Receiver-General or his lawful Deputy within one Month after the Entry so made as aforesaid and whosoever shall presume after the said Seventeenth Day of November in this present Year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three to Export any Slave or Slaves and not make such Entry and give Bond and Pay as before in this Act is Directed shall Forfeit for every such Slave so Exported the Sum of Fifty Pounds AND forasmuch as the present Necessity many require the Advancement of Mony upon the Credit of this Act Money advanced Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that it shall and may be lawful for any Person or Persons whatsoever to Advance and Lend unto Their Majesties upon the Credit of this Act any Sum or Sums of Mony not exceeding One Thousand Pounds in the whole and to have and receive for the Loan of the said Mony so Lent and Advanced after the rate of Twelve Pounds Ten Shillings per Cent. per Annum AND to the End that the said Mony that shall be Lent unto Their Majesties upon the Credit hereof may be well and sufficiently secured Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all and every Person and Persons who shall Advance and Lend unto Their Majesties any Sum or Sums of Mony not exceeding One Thousand Pounds in the whole as aforesaid upon the Credit of this Act and actually Pay the same into the Hands of the Treasurer or Treasurers for the time being shall be by the Treasurer or Treasurers How to be repaid upon the first Payment of Monies that shall be Paid into his or their Hands by virtue of this Act after Deduction and Payment of the said Sum of One Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy Four Pounds Sixteen Shillings to Their Majesties as aforesaid be forthwith Paid unto the Person or Persons so lending the said Sums their Executors Administrators or Assigns successively as they shall become Due with the Interest aforesaid for discharge of the Mony so Lent and Advanced without Fee or Change AND be it further Enacted That the Honourable Samuel Bernard and Nicholas Law Esquires and James Bradshaw William Hutchinson Thomas Clarke Modyford Freeman and James Banister Esquires be and are hereby Required and Impowered to nominate and appoint from time to time Managers appointed such fit Person or Persons in England Scotland Ireland New England New York or any other Parts of America or elsewhere as they or the Major part of them shall think fit to make known the purport of this Act as aforesaid for the giving Notice to such Persons as are willing to Transport themselves hither upon the Encouragement thereof AND in Case of the Death Absence or Refusal of any of the Persons aforementioned That then it shall and may be lawful for the Persons Remaining or Surviving or the Major part of them to choose to themselves such other Person or Persons as they shall think fit to act in the room or stead of him or them that shall Remove In case of Death how to be supplied Decease or Refuse and that the Person or Persons so Chosen shall be and are Impowered to act as fully and freely to all Intents and Purposes as if he or they had been mentioned and appointed by Name in this Act and the Persons therein nominated and appointed as aforesaid shall from time to time continue to act and do all and every such thing and things as by this Act they are Impowered and Required to perform AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners appointed by virtue of this Act or the Major part of them from time to time are hereby Required and Impowered as often as they shall think convenient to choose one or more of themselves to Receive Receivers how chosen and Pay the Mony arising by virtue of this Act for the Uses and Purposes herein mentioned of the Receipt of all which the Treasurer or Treasurers for the time being shall keep an exact and distinct Accompt as also of all Payments made for the Uses and Purposes by this Act required and render a Just and True Accompt thereof when thereunto demanded unto the rest of the Persons in this Act nominated and appointed or the Major part of them or unto the Assembly of this Island when Sitting and Assembled and if the said Treasurer or Treasurers for the Time being after the Receipt of any of the said Monies shall divert or misapply the same or any part thereof by any pretence whatsoever otherwise than before intended and directed contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act the Person or Persons so Offending shall Forfeit to Their Majesties Forfeiture for Misapplication for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the contingent Charges thereof double the Sum so diverted and misapplied and the said Treasurer or Treasurers for the time being shall be allowed Two and a Half per Cent. for defraying his
or their Charges in or about the discharge of the Trust hereby in him or them reposed AND whereas after the Expiration of this Act some of the Monies arising by virtue hereof may remain in the Hands of the Treasurer or Treasurers for the time being Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that such Sum or Sums of Mony if any be Surplus of Money in the Hands of the said Treasurer or Treasurers shall notwithstanding the Expiration of this Act be there and still in his or their Hands remain and be Employed to the Uses and Intents in this Act appointed BE it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Secretary of this Island shall from time to time upon demand Copies of this Act to be deliver'd give Copy or Copies of this Act to any Person without delay or excuse for every of which he shall receive the Fee or Sum of Ten Shillings and in Case he shall delay or refuse to give such Copy or Copies as aforesaid to any Person or Persons demanding the same he shall for every Copy so demanded and not given Forfeit the Sum of Forty Shillings to be recovered before any Justice of the Peace BE it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if the Receiver-General or his lawful Deputy shall refuse to make Entry and do and perform all and every such thing or things as by this Act or any Branch thereof is enjoyned him Forfeiture of the Receiver-General on Refusal of Entry he shall Forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds Currant Mony of this Island and all other Person or Persons Offending contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act shall Forfeit for every such Offence wherein Penalties are not already laid the Sum of One Hundred Pounds the Moiety of all the Forfeitures within this Act mentioned shall be to Their Majesties their 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 Informer or he that shall Sue for the same to be Recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record within this Island where no Essoin Protection Wager of Law or Nonvult ulterius prosequi shall be allowed any Law Custom or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding An ACT For Raising Money to Solicit in England the Affairs of this Their Majesties Island Preamble WHEREAS Their Majesties Island of Jamaica hath divers times lain under great Disadvantages through the Misrepresentation of the Proceedings and Interests thereof which hath chiefly happened for want of some fit Persons fully Instructed to appear in England and there truly Represent and Solicit the same And inasmuch as Their Majesties have been Graciously pleased to permit the raising Three Hundred Pounds Sterling per Annum to be Employed to the Use and to prevent the Disadvantage above expressed and that by a modest Calculation of the said Summ it appears that Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds currant Money of this Island of Jamaica the Charges of Collecting and Receivers Charges for the Receipt and the Exchange in remitting the same being included will not amount or produce more than the said Summ of Three Hundred Pounds Sterling Money of England THE Assembly do therefore most humbly beseech Your most Excellent Majesties That it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds to be raised That the said Summ of Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds currant Money of this Island for the making Good the said Summ of Three Hundred Pounds Sterling Money of England and defraying the Charges of collecting receiving and remitting the same be raised levied and paid within Three Months after the Tenth Day of August One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three and so the said Summ to be raised levied and paid yearly and every Year for and during the full Time and Term of Eleven Years Time limited to and for the Uses above-mentioned to be paid by the Inhabitants of the several Parishes within this Island into the Hands of such Person or Persons who shall from time to time be appointed by the Commissioners hereafter named or the major Part of them to be Receiver or Receivers of the same according to the several Rates and Proportions hereafter following That is to say Rates of the several Parishes for the Parish and Town of Port-Royal Forty Nine Pounds Ten Shillings and Ten Pence for the Parish of St. Andrews Fifty Two Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Five Pence for the Parish of St. Katherines Fifty Six Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Three Pence for the Parish of Sr. Dorothy Twenty Five Pounds Three Shillings and One Peny for the Parish of Vere Forty Seven Pounds One Shilling and Eight Pence for the Parish of Clarendon Forty Two Pounds One Shilling and Eight Pence for the Parish of Sr. Elizabeth Fifty One Pound Six Shillings and Eight Pence for the Parish of St. Thomas to Windward Twenty Seven Pounds Ten Shillings for the Parish of Sr. Davids Sixteen Pounds and Eleven Pence for the Parish of Sr. Thomas in the Vale Twenty One Pound Nine Shillings for the Parish of Sr. Johns Fifteen Pounds Eight Shillings and Three Pence for the Parish of St. George's Three Pounds Thirteen Shillings and-Six Pence for the Parish of St. Mary's Eleven Pounds Five Shillings and Seven Pence for the Parish of St. Ann's Seven Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Six Pence for the Parish of St. James Two Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Eight Pence for the Town and Parish of Kingston Nineteen Pounds and Five Shillings AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the Justices and Vestry-men for the time being in their respective Parishes aforesaid and where no Vestry is the Justices by themselves within the Limits of their several Commissions are hereby Impowered and Required at the usual times of Assessing their Parish-Tax Assessors to Assess Tax and Levy for the said Term of Eleven Years the several Summs over and above the usual Taxes assessed and raised on the several Parishes by Virtue of an Act of this Island Entitled An Act for the Maintenance of Ministers and the Poor and Erecting and Repairing of Churches AND whereas in some Parishes there may not be Money in the Church-Wardens Hands for the paying of the Tax above assessed for this present Year it is therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That then the Church-Wardens of such Parish or Parishes Money to be advanc'd and where no Church-Wardens are the Justices themselves within the Limits of their Commissions do Pay the said Summ or Summs as is above Assessed for this present Year in such manner as is hereafter Directed under the Penalty of Ten Pounds each for refusing to Pay the same AND for the Reimbursing the said
Church-Wardens or Justices who do by Virtue of this Act Advance and Pay the said Parish-Tax for this present Year it shall and may be Lawful for the said Justices and Vestry and where no Vestry is the Justices themselves within the Limits of their respective Commissions are hereby Required and Impowered That at the next usual time of Assessing their Parish-Tax that they Assess such Summ or Summs of Money as shall have been Lent and Advanced by the Church-Wardens or Justices as is above Required which Money so Assessed and Levied shall be by the Church-Wardens and where no Church-Wardens are How to be reimbursed by the Justices within the Limits of their respective Commissions paid unto the Hands of the Persons so Lending the Money for this present Year with Lawful Interest for the same which said Summ with the said Interest shall be Paid by the Church-Wardens or Justices or where no Church-Wardens are by the Justices within the Limits of their respective Commissions on Demand under Penalty of double the Summ so Lent and Demanded as aforesaid AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the several Summs yearly to be Collected as aforesaid shall for this present Year and the Years ensuing during the time mentioned in this Act be Paid by the Church-Wardens or Justices of each respective Parish within Twenty One Days after their Receipt thereof Time of Payment into the Hands of the Receiver or Receivers Impowered to Receive the same and if any of the Justices Church-Wardens Vestry-men or Constables shall neglect his or their Duty in Assessing Levying or Paying the said Summs which are above required to be Assessed Levied and Paid he or they so neglecting or failing of his or their Duty therein shall respectively Forfeit for every such Offence the Summ of Fifty Pounds AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Money so Raised and Paid as aforesaid into the Hands of the said Receiver or Receivers for the time being shall by them be yearly remitted on the Countries Risque in such manner as they shall think fit into the Hands of Gilbert Heathcote To whom remitted Bartholomew Gracedieu and John Tutt of London Merchants or any One of them or such other Person or Persons as shall from time to time be appointed to Solicit in England the Publick Affairs of this Island as Occasion shall require and as to them shall seem most to the Interest and Advantage thereof AND in Case of the Death Absence or Refusal of any of the Solicitors before-mentioned or the Commissioners hereafter mentioned in this Act that then the Persons remaining or surviving or the major Part of them do chuse to themselves such other Person or Persons as they shall think fit in the room or stead of him or them that shall Remove Decease or Refuse and that the Person or Persons so chosen shall here and in England each for themselves be Impowered to Act as fully to all Intents and Purposes in each Place as if he or they had been mentioned and appointed by Name in this Act. AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Honourable Samuel Bernard and Nicholas Law Esquires and James Bradshaw William Hutchinson Thomas Clarke James Banister and Modyford Freeman Esquires Commissioners and Receivers shall be and are hereby Impowered and Appointed to be Commissioners and they or the major Part of them from time to time to appoint one or more of themselves to be Receiver or Receivers of the Money by this Act to be raised AND whereas at this present Sessions there are General Instructions drawn up by the Council and Assembly for Direction to the Solicitors in England the Commissioners named in this Act Instructions to be observed are at no time to Order any thing contrary to any Particulars contained therein but fully to observe and be directed thereby any thing in this Act seeming to the contrary notwithstanding which said Instructions are to be Signed by the Clerk of the Council and the Speaker of the Assembly and be Entred in the Minutes of both Houses PROVIDED nevertheless That the Commissioners before-mentioned Farther Instructions may from time to time upon any sudden or emergent Occasions give to the Solicitors in England such further Instructions as they shall think fit for the Publick Service of this Island AND in case it shall be thought fit at any time hereafter to turn out or alter any of the Solicitors in England that then the said Commissioners or major Part of them are hereby impowered from time to time to turn out Solicitors chang'd or alter as aforesaid all or any of the Solicitors in this Act mentioned AND be it further Enacted That the Person or Persons so named to be Receiver or Receivers shall receive and pay all such Summ or Summs of Money as shall come to his or their Hands arising by Virtue of this Act Of all which the Receiver or Receivers for the time being shall keep an Exact and Distinct Account of all Payments and Remittances made for the Uses and Purposes by this Act required Account to be given and render a Just and True Account thereof when demanded unto the rest of the Commissioners in this Act nominated or the major Part of them when thereunto required or to the Assembly of this Island when sitting and assembled of all the Summ and Summs of Money by him or them received by Virtue of this Act and how laid out or remitted and if the said Receiver or Receivers for the time being after the Receipt of any of the said Money shall divert or misapply the same or any Part thereof by any Pretence whatsoever otherwise than before intended and directed contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act the Person or Persons so Offending shall Forfeit to Their Majesties for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the contingent Charges thereof double the Summ so diverted or misapplied and the said Receiver or Receivers for the time being shall be allowed all his or their reasonable Expences in or about the Discharge of the Trust hereby reposed in him or them Expences allowed Commission or pretence of Commission hereby excepted and in case the Receiver or Receivers for the time being shall Neglect or Refuse to remit the aforesaid Summ or Summs of Money when received yearly and every Year during the continuance of the Act to the Solicitors in England shall Forfeit for every such Offence the Summ of Five Hundred Pounds AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That one Half of the Forfeiture contained in this Act Forfeitures applied and not herein applied shall be to our Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen Their Heirs and Successors for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the contingent Charges thereof the other Half to him or them that shall Sue for the same
Neglect or Default Forfeiture upon Default and for every Vestry-man or Constable the Summ of Forty Shillings to be recovered by Action of Debt if not above Forty Shillings before any Justice of the Peace and if above-Forty Shillings in any Court of Record within this Island wherein no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed the one Half of which Forfeiture as aforesaid shall be for and towards the maintaining Guards and Look-outs within the Parish where the Fault was committed and the other Half to the Informer or him that shall Sue for the same any Law Custom or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always that this Act and all and every thing and things therein contained shall be and continue in Force during the War with France and no longer An ACT For Raising Money as a farther Aid to Their MAJESTIES for and towards the Defence of this Their Island of Jamaica VVHEREAS the Provision heretofore made for the Security and Defence of this Their Majesties Island Preamble hath been found Insufficient and the French continue still to make daily Depredations and Descents upon the Parts adjacent to the Sea and take off and carry away great Numbers of Slaves and other Goods of considerable Value to the Ruin of several of Their Majesties good Subjects and Impoverishing the whole Island for prevention of which and disabling the Enemy a greater Force is absolutely necessary WE therefore Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Assembly of this Their Island of Jamaica having taken into our serious Consideration how injurious the Ruin and Destruction of this their Plantation may in time prove to Their Imperial Crown and being ready and willing to provide further Aid for Their Majesties Island aforesaid and Resistance of Their Enemy have unanimously given and granted and do hereby give and grant unto Their Majesties for and towards the continuance of the Two Sloops of War already in Their Majesties Service with an Addition of Twenty Men more to each Sloop and also towards the Buying or Hiring Providing Victualling or Manning of Two more Sloops of War each consisting of Sixty effective Officers Seamen and Soldiers inclusively all which said Four Sloops of War to be employed for Six Months towards the Defence of this Island Force to be augmented and guarding the Sea-Coasts thereof and in Cruising with Their Majesties Frigats or such other Vessel or Vessels as shall be Impressed into their Service about the same and Attacking and Destroying the Enemy and also for continuing of Two Parties for the like time of Six Months consisting each of Two Officers and Ten Soldiers for Reducing of Rebellious Negroes the full entire Sum of Seven Thousand Five Hundred Pound currant Mony of this Island and also the Sum of One Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy Three Pound Fourteen Shillings and Four Pence formerly Raised and not yet applyed by an Act made this last Session of this present Assembly Entitled An Act for Raising Money for and towards the Defence of this Island The whole amounting to Nine Thousand Four Hundred Seventy Three Pound Fourteen Shillings and Four Pence and do most humbly beseech Their Majesties to accept the same and that it may be Enacted AND be it therefore Enacted by Their Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly of this Island and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same Sum to be raised that the said Sum of Seven Thousand Five Hundred Pound currant Money of this Island be Assessed Taxed and laid on by the several and respective Parishes or Precincts or within the Commission of the Peace for the same within this Island where they have any lawful Vestries and where they have no lawful Vestries by the Justices of that Parish or Precinct or within the Commission of the Peace for the same or major part of the Vestry in all and every the said Parish or Parishes in this Island on all and every Person within their several and respective Parish or Precinct by an equal and just Tax to be paid within Three Months after the Tenth Day of November which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three by the respective Parishes of this Their Majesties Island of Jamaica into the Hands of the Receiver or Receivers hereafter named according to the several Rates and Proportions hereafter mentioned in such sort and manner as by this present Act shall be limited and appointed and in no other way or manner whatsoever that is to say for every Negroe Mulatto or Indian Slave within this Island of what Age Condition or Quality soever or to whom soever belonging shall be paid for by their Masters Proprietors Owners Possessors Guardians or Persons Intrusted in the several Plantations Pens Crawles or Settlements within this Island the Sum of Two Shillings for each Negro Indian Slaves and Cattel tax'd or Mulatto Slave as aforesaid and also for all Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses and Neat Cattle the Sum of Nine Pence for each Beast and for all Sheep Lambs Goats and Kids the Sum of Two Shillings Six Pence per Score and so in proportion for a greater or lesser Quantity AND for the Parish of Port-Royal it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the Justices and Vestry shall Lay Assess Levy and cause to be Levyed Sixteen Pence in the Pound on all Rents Rents and Trades to be paid by all Tenants and allowed by their Landlords and Proprietors and on all Leases to be paid by the Lessee and allowed by the Lessor out of their Rents and also on the several Inhabitants for their several Trades Occupations and Callings as much and one third more in proportion than they were Rated Assessed and Taxed by the Justices and Vestry in the Parish-Roll on Port-Royal aforesaid for this present Year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three and also on all Persons Residing at the Towns of St. Jago de la Vega Sixteen Pence in the Pound on all Rents to be Paid by all Tenants and allowed by their Landlords and Proprietors and on all Leases to be Paid by the Lessee and allowed by the Lessor out of all their Rents and also according to the Rate Tax and Sum Assessed by the Justices and Vestry of St. Katharines for this present Year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three and for the Persons Residing in the Town and Parish of Kingston Sixteen Pence in the Pound on all Rents to be Paid by all Tenants and allowed by their Landlords and Proprietors and on all Leases to be paid by the Lessee and allowed by the Lessor out of their Rents and for their several Trades Occupations and Callings to be Rated Assessed and Taxed by the Justices of the said Town and Parish any thing in this Act to the Contrary notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the Nation and People of the Jews The Jews rated
the Overplus if any be to the Owner retaining to himself Twelve Pence in the Pound for every such Distress all which said Forfeitures of the Persons so Offending shall be Paid as the other Monies by this Act arising into the Hands of the Receivers in this Act nominated and appointed and Employed to the same Uses Intents and Purposes as the Monies already by this Act Raised and Appropriated and to no other Use Intent and Purpose whatsoever any Law Custom or Usage or any Thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if the Justices Vestry-men Constables or Church-Wardens or any of them shall neglect or wilfully fail in his or their Duty in Assessing Collecting or Paying the same as aforesaid that then and in such case Neglect of Assessors every Justice so neglecting or wilfully failing in his or their Duty in this Act prescribed contrary to the true intent and meaning thereof shall Forfeit Fifty Pounds for every such Offence and all and every Vestry-man Church-Warden or Constable the Summ of Twenty Pounds for every such Offence as aforesaid AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Owners of Slaves Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattel Sheep Goats Lambs and Kids whatsoever as aforesaid shall and are hereby by themselves Guardians Overseers Trustees or Pen-keepers within the several Parishes aforesaid required and obliged to give a True and Just Account Account on Oath on Oath to the best of their Knowledge at such time or times as the Justices in each Parish or Precinct shall Direct of all Slaves Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattel Sheep Lambs Goats Kids and Rents whatsoever as aforesaid belonging to such Owner Guardian Overseer Trustees or Pen-keepers within their respective Parish or Precinct aforesaid to the Justices of the Peace or any of them in the said Parishes or Precincts who are hereby required and impowered to Administer the same and to ask all further Questions as to them or any of them shall seem meet and necessary relating to this present Act the Tenour of which Oaths shall be as followeth I A. B. do Swear that I have within the Parish of C Slaves Young and Old also Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattel Sheep Goats Lambs Kids and no more So help me God And if it be to an Overseer I D. E. Overseer of the Plantation of G. H. do Swear that the said G. H. hath within the Parish of I Slaves Young and Old and also Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattel Sheep Lambs Goats Kids c. and no more to the best of my Knowledge And so to Pen-keepers or any other Persons for Cattel Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattel Sheep Lambs Goats Kids and Rents whatsoever mutatis mutandis And if any Person or Persons whatsoever shall refuse either by themselves Overseers Case of Refusal or Pen-keepers to give an Account upon Oath as aforesaid of their Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattel Sheep Lambs Goats Kids or Rents in manner aforesaid that then it shall be lawful for the Justices and Vestry or the Justices where there is no Vestry to Tax the Person or Persons so refusing according to their Discretion AND forasmuch as the present Necessity will require the Advancement of Money for and towards the Buying or Hiring and Equipping the said Two Sloops and Men and Victualling those Two already in and such other Vessel or Vessels as shall be Impressed into the Service BE it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for any Person or Persons to Advance and Lend to Their Majesties Money advanc'd for and towards the furtherance of this present Occasion such Summ or Summs of Money as may be needful and that whosoever shall Advance and Lend any such Summ or Summs of Money upon the Security of this Act shall receive for the Loan of the Summ they shall so Lend after the Rate of Twelve Pound and a Half per Cent. per Annum for the time he or they shall be indisburst of the said Money on the Credit of this Act as aforesaid any thing before-mentioned to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding AND to the End that all Monies that shall be Lent unto Their Majesties upon the Credit hereof may be well and sufficiently secured Security for the same Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons who shall Advance and Lend any Summ or Summs of Money to Their Majesties on the Credit of this Act and actually Pay the same into the Hands of the Receiver or Receivers herein after named and appointed shall by the Receiver or Receivers on the first Payment of Money that shall be paid into the Receivers Hands by Virtue of this Act be forthwith paid unto the Person or Persons their Executors or Administrators so Lending the said Summ advanced with the Interest of the same for the Discharge of the Money so lent and advanced and that all and every other Summ and Summs of Money that shall be laid out or paid by the Receiver or Receivers for and towards the Buying Equipping Victualling and Fitting to Sea as also for Paying the Officers and Sea-men on Board the said Four Sloops and Victualling such other Vessel or Vessels as shall be Impressed as also for Paying the Officers and Soldiers of the Two Parties before-mentioned for reducing the Rebellious Negroes shall as they become Due be paid by the Receiver or Receivers that are hereafter mentioned and appointed without Fee or Charge AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Honourable Colonel Charles Knights Names of the Receivers one of Their Majesties Council of this Island and also Colonel Thomas Clarke Captain Lancelot Talbot Captain Robert Wardlow William Hutchinson Esq Captain Josiah Heathcote and Captain Thomas Clarke be and are hereby Required Impowered and Warranted to be Receiver or Receivers of all and singular the several Summs aforesaid mentioned and intended to be raised on the several Parishes or People aforesaid and shall and may lawfully by Advice and Consent of the Lieutenant-Governour or Commander in Chief forthwith Buy or Hire Two more Good and Substantial Sloops fit for War and Provide Equip Fit ready for the Sea and Victual the same for Sixty effective Officers Sea-men and Soldiers inclusively for each Sloop for the said Six Months or for such shorter time as to them shall appear most Convenient and that the said Two Sloops being thus Fitted and Victualled it is hereby Requested That the Right Honourable Sir William Beeston Knight Captain to be Commission'd Their Majesties Lieutenant-Governour aforesaid by Commission under his Hand and Seal do Constitute and Appoint on Board of each of the said Sloops such Discreet and Able Captains for this present Service as his Honour shall in his Prudence think Fit and can
and by them retaken before they are Landed in any of the Enemies Commission-Ports one sixth Part of the Vessels Slaves Salvage allowed or Goods so re-taken or the Value thereof the said Vessel Slave or Goods having been first appraised by Two Persons indifferently Chosen one by the Commander or Commanders of the said Sloops or Vessels and the other by the respective Owner or Owners which shall be divided among the Officers Sea-men and Soldiers of the said Vessels proportionably to the Pay each Person receives of his Country for that Service AND that all such Persons as shall go out in the Parties to reduce the Negroes in Rebellion may be induced to proceed with the more Resolution and Vigor It is hereby Enacted that they shall receive from the Treasurers for each Negro kill'd that was actually in Rebellion which shall be evidenced by bringing in his Head to any Justice the Summ of Forty Shillings Rewards for Negroes slain or taken and for each Negroe in Rebellion taken and brought in alive not maimed or mortally wounded the Summ of Ten Pounds to be paid by the Owner or Proprietor of such Slave or Slaves who is hereby obliged under the Penalty of Fifty Pounds to Transport the Slave or Slaves so reduced from actual Rebellion and in case that no Owner can be found that then the Treasurer or Treasurers by this Act appointed or either of them shall be by Virtue of this Act obliged and impowered to Pay the said Ten Pound out of the Treasury and receive the said Slave or Slaves and him and them Sell and Transport as aforesaid and the Produce retain in his Hands to be Employed in the said Service and for defraying the contingent Charges thereof and to the end it may be better known what Negro shall be accounted Rebellious it is hereby declared That all Negroes absenting themselves from their Owners Plantation the Term of Six Months be and are accounted as in actual Rebellion any thing to the contrary notwithstanding AND be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case any of the Officers or Sea-men on Board the said Sloops or Vessels or in the said Parties shall in actual Service Sea-man or Soldier disabled lose either Leg or Arm or be otherwise Disabled that then and in all such Cases all and every of the disabled Men shall receive Ten Pounds per Annum without Charge during his or their natural Life and also their Cures to be paid for out of the Publick Revenue of this Island by Order of the Lieutenant-Governour and Council or of the Government of this Island out of the first Payment AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That when there shall be no necessity for the said Sloops or Vessels of War that it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners or the major Part of them to Sell the same with all the Apparel and Furniture and of the Money arising therefrom with all other Summs of Money which shall remain over and above Remainder how applied or be not expended of the Money arising and appropriated by Virtue of this Act and not hereby applied shall be and remain in the Hands of the said Treasurers or either of them by this Act appointed to be applied and disposed of for and towards such other Use or Uses as the Assembly of this Island shall appoint by a Law and that the said Receiver or Receivers Treasurer or Treasurers shall be allowed all his or their or either of their reasonable Charges in and about the Discharging the Trust hereby reposed in them Commission or Pretences to Commission hereby excepted AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Fines and Forfeitures mentioned in this Act and not declared where they shall be Recovered Forfeitures c. disposed of or how Disposed of be One Half to Their Majesties for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the contingent Charges thereof the other Half to the Informer who shall Sue for the same in any Court of Record within this Island wherein no Essoin Protection Injunction Wager of Law or Nonvult ulterius prosequi shall be allowed An ACT Appropriating several Summs of Money heretofore Raised to the immediate Service of this Island WHEREAS there have been several Sums of Money raised by Virtue of one Act Preamble Entitled An Act for Raising Money for and towards the Defence of this Island and also by one other Act Entitled An Act for Raising Monies as a further Aid to Their Majesties for and towards the Defence of this Island And whereas it is provided in the said Acts That such Part of the Monies so raised and not laid out to the Uses therein directed should be appropriated to such Use or Service as the Governour Council and Assembly shall seem meet We do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesties that it may be Enacted AND be it Enacted by your Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same That of the Monies arising by virtue of the Acts above-mentioned and not hitherto applied or made use of One Thousand and Three Hundred Pound currant Money of this Island Money appropriated be applied for the Payment of One Thousand Pound Sterling in England to Colonel Peter Beckford to be by him made use of for the Service of this Island in such manner as he shall think fit towards the effecting such things as he shall be directed by the Governour there to Solicite AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That of the Monies arising by virtue of the Acts above-mentioned and not hitherto applied or made use of so much thereof as shall be necessary for the Victualling and Manning of a Sloop to Transport Colonel Peter Beckford who is now going for England for the Service of this Island shall be Paid as the Governour shall Direct AND be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such Money as shall arise from the Freight of Goods Shipped on Board the said Sloop either to or from England be by Colonel Peter Beckford applyed to the Defraying the Charges of the said Vessel and that the Commander of the said Sloop do from time to time observe all such Orders and Instructions as he shall receive from the said Colonel Beckford AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That of the Monies arising by virtue of the Acts aforesaid the Sum of One Thousand Pound shall be Paid into the Hands of the Treasurer or Treasurers Appointed by an Act Entitled An Act to Reimburse Their Majesties Treasury and Encourage Their Subjects to come and Settle in this Island to be by them Employed and used for the paying the Passages of such Persons as shall Transport themselves hither upon the Encouragement of the said Act and to no other Uses Intents or Purposes whatsoever upon the Penalties in the said Act mentioned
AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That of the Money arising by virtue of the Acts aforesaid and not hitherto applyed or made use of that Seventy Pounds or such part thereof as shall be Expended be applyed and made use of for the defraying the Charge of a Sloop already sent to Windward to Cruise there to give notice to the English Fleet daily expected here of the Additional Force the French have or may suddenly receive AND be it further Enacted that of the Money arising by virtue of the Acts aforesaid and not hitherto applyed or made use of the Sum of One Hundred Sixty Two Pounds be Paid into the Hands of Colonel Edward Stanton for defraying the Charge of Twelve Men for Six Months to be constantly kept at Fort-William at Port-Morant for their Defence thereof and the Security of the Adjacent Parts AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Remainder of the said Monies arising by virtue of the beforementioned Acts and not by this present Act applyed shall be by the Governour by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council applyed and made use of for the immediate Defence of this Island and to no other Uses Intents or Purposes whatsoever and the Receiver or Receivers Treasurer or Treasurers in the said Act appointed are hereby Required and Impowered to Pay the same accordingly under the Penalties in this Act hereaftermentioned any thing in this or any other Act seeming to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted that the Receivers and Treasurers in the said Acts appointed are hereby Required and Impowred to Pay the several Sums by this Act appropriated into the Hands of such Person or Persons as shall be Impowred to receive the same by virtue of a Warrant to them or any of them under the Hand of the Governour by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council of this Island and if the said Receiver Forfeit of the Receiver or Treasurer refusing to pay or Receivers Treasurer or Treasurers or any of them shall refuse to Pay the aforesaid Sums or any part thereof having the same in their or any of their Hands the Receiver or Treasurer so refusing shall respectively Forfeit to Their Majesties for and towards the Support of this Government and the Charges thereof double the Sum he shall so refuse to Pay to be Recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record where no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed AND whereas with part of the Monies by the said Acts arising there were purchased for the Service of the Country Two Sloops Two Sloops to be disposed of be it Enacted that the Governour sell or make use of the said Sloops for the Countries Service at his Discretion and if sold the Governour apply the Monies by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council as before directed AND whereas several Sums of Money ordered to be Assessed and Levyed by the abovementioned Acts either not having been Assessed nor Levyed within the time in the said Acts limited and appointed in some of the Parishes within this Island BE it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any Tax mentioned to be Raised by either of the above-recited Acts Re-Assessment to be made and omitted to be either Assessed or Levyed by the Justices and Vestry or the Justices where the Vestries neglect their Duty or where no Vestry is are Impowered at any other Day or Place within Three Months after the Passing this Act as to the said Justices shall seem meet to Appoint to Assess and Levy as well during Martial Law as while the Common-Law is in force upon the several Inhabitants of the said Parishes the said Taxes and issue out their Warrants accordingly to the respective Constables for the Collecting Levying and Distraining for the same and Payment thereof as is directed in the said Acts which said Constables are hereby Impowered to Collect and in Case of refusal to Levy and Distrain for the same accordingly notwithstanding the time then limited in the said Acts be Elapsed by reason of Martial-Law or any other Cause Protection or Priviledge whatsoever and whatsoever Justices or Vestry or Constables shall omit to do their Duty therein shall Forfeit as is directed by the said Acts and to be Recovered and applied accordingly AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Pains and Penalties Penalties remitted by the abovementioned Acts by any the Justices or Vestry of the respespective Parishes incurred are hereby absolutely remitted and discharged and the Parties Offending fully indemnified for the same any Law or Statute to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding An ACT For Appropriating several Sums of Money for the speedy Relief of the Wounded and Distressed Inhabitants of this Island who have suffered by the late Invasion of the French WHEREAS there have been several Sums of Money Raised by virtue of one Act Preamble Entitled An Act for Raising Money for and towardâ— the Defence of this Island And also by One other Act Entitled An Act for Raising Money as a further Aid to their Majesties for and towards the Defence of this Island and whereas it 's Provided in the said Acts that such part of the Money so Raised and not laid out to the Uses therein Directed should be appropriated to such other Use and Service as to the Governour Council and Assembly shall seem meet AND whereas by a Subsequent Act of Their Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly of this Their Majesties Island of Jamaica made this present Sessions of this Assembly 't was Enacted among other things that of the Money arising by virtue of the Acts abovementioned and not therein applied or made use of the Sum of One Thousand and Three Hundred Pound currant Money of this Island Recourse to former Acts. should be applied for the Payment of One Thousand Pound Sterling in England to Colonel Peter Beckford to be by him made use of for the Service of this Island in such manner as he should think fit towards the Effecting such things as he should be directed there to Solicite by the Governour AND whereas by the said Act it was further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that out of the Monies arising by virtue of the said Acts abovementioned and not applied or made use of as much thereof as should be necessary for the Victualling and Manning a Sloop to Transport Colonel Peter Beckford who was then going for England for the Service of this Island should be Paid as the Governour should Direct AND whereas it was further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That of the Monies arising by virtue of the Acts abovementioned and not hitherto applied or made use of the Sum of One Hundred Sixty and Two Pounds should be Paid into the Hands of Colonel Edward Stanton for defraying the Charge of Twelve Men for Six Months to
be constantly kept at Fort-William at Port-Morant for the Defence thereof and Security of the adjacent Parts AND whereas the Receivers and Treasurers in the said Act first abovementioned and appointed are Required and Impowered by the said appropriating Act to Pay the several Sums by the said Acts appropriated under certain Penalties therein contained into the Hands of such Person or Persons as shall be impowered to receive the same by virtue of a Warrant to them or any of them under the Hand of the Governour by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council since the Passing of which Act Intitled An Act for Appropriating several Sums of Money heretofore Raised to the immediate Service of this Island this Your Majesties Island has been most miserably harrassed by Your Majesties Enemies Subjects to the Crown of France who with inhuman barbarity with Fire and Sword have laid Wast Four Parishes of this Island and infested and destroyed several Plantations in the other Parishes to the utter ruin and destruction of most of the Inhabitants thereof whereby without some speedy Relief several Hundreds of this Your Majesties Island must perish through Extreme Want General Calamity and the said Parishes and most part of the Sea-Coasts be wholly Deserted being destitute of Habitations and having no Means to Rebuild them except some speedy Succour from the Publick WE therefore Your Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly do humbly pray Your Majesty that for the immediate Relief and Support of the said poor distressed Inhabitants of this Island who have suffered in the late Invasion it may be Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same that the aforesaid Sum of One Thousand and Three Hundred Pounds above recited by the Appropriating Act ordered to be applied for the Payment of One Thousand Pound Sterling in England to Colonel Peter Beckford to be by him made use of as by the said Act is directed as also the said Sum of One Hundred Sixty and Two Pound by the said Act appointed to be Paid into the Hands of Colonel Edward Stanton for the defraying the Charge of Twelve Men for Six Months to be constantly kept at Fort-William at Port-Morant for the Defence thereof and the Security of the Parts adjacent which said Sums are not yet made use of be forth with applied for Appropriations taken off and towards the Relief of the said distressed Inhabitants of this Your Majesties Island of Jamaica who have suffered by the barbarous Cruelties of Your Majesties Enemies in the late Invasion of this Island by the French as also for the Relief of the Sick and Wounded Persons in the late Expedition to Whily-Wood against the Enemy and to no other use whatsoever to be distributed in such manner and to such Persons as shall seem meet to the Commissioners to be appointed by Your Majesties Lieutenant-Governor and Council of this Your Island for that purpose AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the abovementioned Act Past this present Sessions Entitled An Act appropriating several Sums of Money heretofore Raised to the immediate Service of this Island as to so much of the said Act only as concerns the applying the One Thousand and Three Hundred Pound for the Payment of One Thousand Pound Sterling in England to Colonel Peter Beckford to be by him made use of for the Service of this Island as also for the applying any Sums of Monies other than what are already Expended for the Victualling and Manning a Sloop to Transport the said Colonel Peter Beckford for England or whereby the Receivers or Treasurers who by the Two Acts first abovementioned are Appointed Required and Impowered to Pay the several Sums by the said Appropriating Act applied into the Hands of such Person or Persons as shall be Impowered to receive the same by virtue of a Warrant to them or any of them under the Hand of the Governour by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council as also for the applying One Hundred Sixty and Two Pounds to be Paid into the Hands of Colonel Edward Stanton for the defraying the Charge of Twelve Men for Six Months to be constantly kept at Fort-William at Port-Morant shall be Repeal of Clauses and are hereby Repealed to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever any thing in the said recited Act to the Contrary notwithstanding AN ACT For the Encouragement and Freedom of Servants and Slaves which have done or shall do any remarkable Service against the French during this present War WHEREAS upon Advice of the late Invasion made by the French upon this Island Preamble there was set forth an Order of Council of War for the Encouragement of Negroes that All Negroes or Slaves that should do any Eminent Service against the Enemy should be forthwith set Free and that it is also thought reasonable for the Reward of Servants that have behaved themselves well in the late Service that they be freed of the time they have yet to Serve BE it therefore Enacted and Ordained by Their Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same that all Servants who receive no Salary which have or shall do any good Service against the Enemy the French Servants signalizing themselves against the Enemy and can prove the same before the Commissioners hereafter named shall forthwith be freed and that the said Commissioners upon Enquiry made of what time any such Servant or Servants had to Serve and his and their Occupation shall Value and Appraise the said time he or they had to Serve and give him or them a Certificate mentioning his or their Name or Names and the Party or Parties to whom he or they belonged and the Sum or Sums the Owner or Owners ought to receive for him or them which being Entred into the Secretary's Office shall be a sufficient Testimony of his or their Freedom as also a good Proof for the Owner or Owners to Recover the Summ or Summs he or they were appraised at AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Slaves that have or shall during this War with France do any Remarkable good Service against the Enemy Slaves freed and make Proofs thereof before the said Commissioners hereafter named shall be Freed and the said Commissioners shall give the said Slave a Certificate mentioning his Name the Person to whom he belonged and the Price he was appraised and valued at which is not to exceed the Summ of Fifty Pounds which said Certificate being entred into the Secretary's Office shall be sufficient to Discharge him of his Slavery and a Proof for the Owner to Recover what he was appraised at which Summ for either Servant or Slave so set Free and appraised is to be paid out of Money to be raised for that purpose AND whereas divers Persons have for the Defence of this Island Armed and sent out several of their Negroes
Evil disposed Persons to the Prejudice of Their Majesties Service and Injury to the Publick BE it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Church-Wardens and Surveyors of the High-ways shall proceed to the Discharge of their several Duties and the Justices and the Vestries in the several and respective Parishes and Precincts within this Island as well when Martial-Law is in Force as at any other time are hereby Required and Impowered to Meet and Raise such Parochial Tax or Taxes as by the several Acts is Directed and Appointed and the several Constables Collect Levy and Distrain for the same accordingly and any Justice Church-Warden Vestry-man Surveyor or Constable neglecting his or their Duty he or they so Offending shall incur the Penalty in the Acts mentioned any Act Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted That this Act shall continue in Force during this present War with France and no longer WHICH Laws having upon the Perusal of the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Trade and Foreign Plantations been Presented to His Majesty at this Board His Majesty was Graciously Pleased with the Advice of His Privy-Council to Approve and Confirm the same and pursuant to His Royal Pleasure thereupon Signified and Expressed all the said Laws as afore-mentioned are hereby Approved and Confirmed accordingly Will. Bridgeman AT THE COURT AT KENSINGTON The 26th Day of December 1695. PRESENT The King 's Most Excellent MAJESTY In COUNCIL Lord Keeper Lord Privy-Seal Duke of Norfolk Duke of Schonberge Duke of Shrewsbury Marq. of Winchester Lord Great Chamberlain Earl of Bridgwater Earl of Stamford Earl of Scarborough Earl of Romney Lord Godolphin Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Secret Trumbull Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer L. Chief Justice Holt. Mr. Russell Mr. Boscawen Mr. Smith WHEREAS by Commission under the Great Seal of England to Sir William Beeston Knight His MAJESTY 's Lieutenant-Governour and Commander in Chief of the Island of JAMAICA bearing Date the Twentieth Day of September One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Two in the Fourth Year of His MAJESTY 's Reign His MAJESTY has been Graciously pleased to Authorize and Impower the Governour Council and Assembly of the said Island to Constitute and Ordain Laws Statutes and Ordinances which are to Continue and be in Force till His MAJESTY 's Pleasure be signified to the contrary And forasmuch as a certain Law has in pursuance of the said Commission been transmitted to His MAJESTY with the Humble Desire of the Governour Council and Assembly That His MAJESTY would be Pleased to Pass the same in the Words following viz. An ACT To Enable George Ivey Esquire to Sell his Estate for the Payment of the Debts of his Father William Ivey Esquire Deceased WHEREAS William Ivey Esquire Preamble lately Deceased was Seized in his Demesnes as of Fee of and in several Plantations Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in the Parishes of Clarendon Vere and S. Katherines and elsewhere within this Island and of several Negroes and Stock thereunto belonging and appertaining All which said Plantations Lands Tenements and Hereditaments together with all and every the Negroes thereon being or thereunto belonging by his Last Will and Testament bearing Date the One and Twentieth Day of September One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty Nine he devised to George Ivey Esquire his Eldest Son and his Heirs and for want of Issue of him the said George to William Ivey Second Son of the said William the Testator and the Heirs of his Body with divers Remainders over and of his said Will made the said George his Eldest Son sole Executor who since has duly proved his said Father 's said Will. AND whereas the said William the Testator was at the time of his Decease indebted to the Royal African Company of England and to divers other Persons by Judgment Bonds and otherwise in the Summ of Two Thousand Pounds and upwards and forasmuch as the Personal Estate of the said William the Testator not including the said Negroes and Stock was so very inconsiderable that the said George Ivey by Reason of the Intail aforesaid without the Assistance of an Act of the Assembly has no way left of Paying his Fathers said Debts unless by the Sale of all the said Negroes and Stock left upon and belonging to the Lands and Plantations so Intailed which must inevitably Ruin and Destroy the said Plantations c. AND forasmuch as it is highly just and reasonable that no Act of the said William Ivey the Testator should prevent or hinder all or any part of his said Estate from being lyable and subject to the payment of his just Debts or debar the said George his eldest Son from disposing of and applying the same for the payment and discharge of the same and forasmuch as William Ivey Consent of the Second Son the second Son of William the Testator to whom the next remainder in Tail after the Death of George the Tenant now in Possession without Issue of his Body is limited has upon Consideration of the Sum of Four Hundred Pounds testified and declared his Consent to the Passing of this present Act BE it therefore Enacted by Their Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same that for the Payment of the Debts aforesaid it shall and may be lawful to and for the said George Ivey and he is hereby fully Authorized Impowered and Enabled to Sell Dispose of or Convey or by his last Will and Testament to Devise all or any part or parcel of the said Plantations Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments above-mentioned together with all and every the Negroes thereunto belonging or appertaining to any Person or Persons whatsoever in such manner and form and as amply and effectually to all Intents Constructions and Purposes as if the same had Descended to him the said George Ivey and he were thereof Seized and Possessed in Fee-Simple and no such Intail and Remainder or Remainders as aforesaid had ever been made limited or created and the Purchaser or Purchasers Devisee or Devisees of the same or any part or parcel thereof shall be deemed adjudged and taken to be Seized thereof and of every part and parcel thereof to them and their Heirs for ever as if the said George had suffered a Common Recovery in Their Majesties Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster of all or any part or parcel of the said Premises Purchaser c. secured to the Use or Uses of the Purchaser or Purchasers Devisee or Devisees and of their Heirs for ever and the said Purchaser or Purchasers Devisee or Devisees their Heirs or Assigns shall and may hold occupy and enjoy the same free from any Estates Uses Limitations Remainders Charges and Provisoes had made or created in and by the said last Will and Testament of the abovementioned William Ivey the Testator any Law Custom or Usage to the Contrary notwithstanding WHICH Law having upon the