our Admiralty may be tried and Punished a'cording To the Laws of the Place where any such Disorders Offences & Misdemeanours shall be so committed on shoar notwithstanding such offender be in our Actual Service and born in our Pay on Board such our ships of war or other Vessels Acting by immediate Commission or Warrant from our said Commissioners for Executing the Office of our high Admiral or from our High Admiral as aforesaid so as he shall not receive any Protection for the avoiding of Justice for such offences Committed on shoar from any Pretence of his Being imployed in our Service at sea And our Further will and Pleasure is That all Public Monies raised or to be raised within our said Province be issued out by warrt From you by and with the Advice and Consent of our Council and disposed of by you for the support of The Government and not otherwise And we do Hereby Likewise give and Grant unto you full Power and Authority by and with the Advice of our Said Council To agree with the inhabitants of our Said Province for such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as now are or hereafter shall be in our Power to Dispose of And them to Grant to any Person or Persons for such Terms and under such Moderate Quit Rents services and Acknowledgments to be thereupon reserved unto us as you by and with the advice aforesaid shall think fit which said Grants are to pass and be Sealed by our Seal of New Hampsh' and being Entred upon record by Such Officer or Officers as you shall appoint thereunto shall be Good and Effectual in Law against Us our heirs and Successors And Wee do hereby give you Full power to order & appoint Fairs Marts and Markets within our said Province as you with the Advice of our said Council shall think fitt and to order and Appoint such and so many Ports Harbours Bays Havens and other Places for The Convenience & Security of shipping and for the Better Loading and Unloading of Goods and Merchandizes in such and so many Places as by you with the advice and consent of our said Council shall be Thought Fit and Convenient and in them or any of them To Erect nominate and appoint Custom Houses Warehouses and offices relating thereunto and them to alter change Place or Displace from time To time as with the advice aforesaid shall be thought fit And farther our Will and Pleasure is that you shall not at any Time hereafter by Colour of any Power or Authority granted or mentioned to be Granted take upon you to give grant or Dispose of any office or Place within our said province which now is or hereafter shall be granted under the Great Seal of Great Brittain any Further than that you may upon the vacancy of any such office or Suspension of any officer by you put in any Person to officiate in the interval until the said place be Disposed of by us or our heirs or Successors under the Great seal of Great Brittain or That

our Directions be otherwise Given Therein. And we Do hereby require and Command all officers and Ministers Civil and Military and all other Inhabitants of our said Province To be obedient Aiding and Assisting unto you the said Jonathan Belcher in the Execution of this our Commission and of the Powers and Authorities Herein contained and in Case of your Death or absence out of our said Province unto Such Person as shall be appointed by us to be our Lieutenant Governor or Commander in chief of our said Province To Whom Wee Do therefore by These Presents Give and Grant all and Singu lar the Powers and Authorities aforesaid to be Executed and Enjoyed by him During our Pleasure or until your return to our said Province And if upon your death or absence out of our said Province of New Hampshire there be no Person upon the place Commissionated or appointed by us to be our Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief of our said Province Our Will and Pleasure is that The Eldest Councellor whose name is first Placed in our said Instructions to you and who shall be at the time of your Death or Absence residing within our said Province shall take upon him the Administration of the Government and Execute our said Commission and Instructions and the Several Powers and Authorities therein Contained in the same manner and to all intents & Purposes as other our Governor and Commander in Chief should or ought to Do in Case of your absence until your return or in all Cases until our Farther Pleasure be known therein. In Witness whereof wee have Caused these our Letters To be Made Patents Witness our Self at Westminster the Eight and twentieth Day of January in the third Year of our Reign. By writ of Privy Seal

Bisse and Bray.

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[Tenth Instruction to Governor Belcher.]

10-You are to Signify Our pleasure unto the Members of Our Said Council that if any of them Shall hereafter absent themselves from our Said Province and Continue absent above the Space of twelve months together without leave from you or from the Commander in Chief of the Said Province for the Time being, first obtained under your or his hand and seal; or Shall remain absent for the space of two years successively without our leave given them under our royal Signature their place or places in Our Said Council Shall immediately

thereupon become void, and that We will forthwith appoint others in their Stead·

Copy of the 10th Instruction from His Majesty to His Excellency Gov Belcher Taken from the original body of Instructions

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[Nineteenth Instruction.]

His Majtys 19th Instruction in respect to Paper money

It is therefore his Majtys Will & Pleasure That you do not give your assent to, or Pass any Act in the Province of New Hampshire under your Government whereby bills of Credt may be Struck, or Issued in Lieu of money, without a Clause be Inserted in Such Act declaring that the Same Shall not take Effect until the sd Act Shall be approved & Confirmed by his Majty his heirs or Successors Except only for the Annual Support & Service of the Goverment Exceeding Six Thousand pounds in Such Paper bills & you are to take Especial Care that no more than Six thousand pounds of Such Bills be ever Current at one & the Same Time

Whereas Acts have been pass'd in some of Our Plantations in America for Striking bills of Credit and Issuing out the Same in Lieu of money in order to discharge their Publick Debts, and for other Purposes, from whence Several inconveniencys have arisen It is therefore Our Will and pleasure, that you do not give your Assent to or Pass any Act in our Province of New-Hampshire under your Government whereby Bills of Credit may be Struck or Issued in lieu of mony, without a Clause be inserted in Such Act declaring that the Same Shall not take Effect, until the Said Act shall be approved and Confirmed by us Our heirs or Successors, Except only for the annual Support and Service of Our Goverm1 not Exceeding Six thousand pounds, In Such paper bills, and this Permission to continue onely until our further Pleasure Shall be known thereupon. And you are to take especial care that no more than Six thousand pounds of Such bills be ever Current at one and the Same time

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And whereas we are Informed that Several Bills of Credit, are already Issued and Standing out upon the foot of certain Acts heretofore pass'd for that purpose, whereby particular funds are provided, for the calling in and Sinking them. You are hereby especially directed to take care, that the Said Bills be called in and Sunk according to the Periods and provisions of the respective Acts by which they were Issued

True Copy of His Majestys twenty third Instruction to His Excellency Gov Belcher Compared with the original

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His Majesties 24th Instruction

"You are also to take care, that no private Act, whereby the property of private persons may be affected, be passed, in which there is not a Saveing, of the Right of His Majesty, his heirs & Successors, all bodies Pollitic & Corporate, and of all other persons Except Such as are mentioned in the Said Act, and those claiming by from & under them, And further you shall take care that no Such private Act be passed without a Clause, Suspending the Execution thereof, until the Same shall have received His Majestys Royall approbation, it is likewise His Majestys Will and Pleasure, that you do not give your assent to any private Act, until prooff be made before you in Council (& entered in the Council books) that public Notification was made of the partys intention to apply for Such Act, in the Several parish Churches where the premises in question lie: for three Sundays at least Successively, before any Such Act shall be brought into the assembly, and that a Certificate under your hand be transmitted with, & annexed to every Such private Act, Signifying that the Same has passed through all the forms abovementioned'

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Theodore Atkinson Secy

The first Clause in His Majestys 14th Instructions

"You are to observe in the passing of all laws, that the Style of enacting the Same be by the Governor, Council, & assembly"

Theodore Atkinson Secy

And we do hereby particularly require and Enjoyn you upon pain of our highest displeasure to take care that fair books of accounts of all receipts and payments of all publick moneys be duely kept and the truth thereof attested upon oath; and that the said books be transmitted every half year or oftener to our Commissioners of our Treasury or to Our high Treasurer for the time being, and to Our Commission's for Trade and plantations, and Duplicates thereof by the next Conveyance in which books Shall be Specified every particular Sum rais'd or disposed of together with the names of the Persons to whom any payments Shall be made, to the end we may be satisfyed of the right & due application of the revenue of Our Said Province wth the Probability of the Increase or diminution of it under Every head or article thereof

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29 Instruction

And our further Will and Pleasure is, That in Every Act which Shall be transmitted, the Several dates or respective times when the Same pass'd the Assembly The Council and received your Assent, be particularly Express'd and you are to be as Explicit as may be in your observations (To be sent to Our Commissioners for trade and plantations) upon every Act that is to Say, whether the Same is Introductive of a new law, declaratory of a former law, or does repeal a law then before in being - and you are likewise to Send to Our Said Commission's the reasons for the Passing of Such laws unless the same do fully appear in the Preamble of the Said Act

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30th Instruction

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You are to require the Secretary of Our Said Province or his Deputy for the time being to furnish you wth Transcripts of all Such Acts and Publick orders as Shall be made from time to time together with a Copy of ye Journal of the Council, and that all such transcripts and Copys be fairly abstracted in the Margins to the end the same may be transmitted to us and to Our Commissioners for trade and