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158 from Our High Admiral of Great Britain for the time being under the Seal of Our Admiralty may be tryed and punished according to the Laws of the Place where any such Disorders Offences and Misdemeanors shall be committed on Shore. .. . Instructions to our Trusty and Wellbeloved Lewis Morris Esqr. Our Captn. General and Governor in chief in and over Our Province of Nova Cæsarea or New Jersey in America Given at

First With these Our In[s]tructions you will receive Our Commissn. under Our Great Seal of Great Britain, constituting you Our Captn. General & Governor in chief in & over Our Province of New Jersey, You are there fore with all convenient speed to repair to Our said Province and being there arrived you are to take upon you the Execution of the Place and Trust We have reposed in you and forthwith to call together the following persons, whom We do by these Presents constitute & appoint members of Our Council in and for that Province. . ..

3 You are forthwith to communicate unto Our said Council, such and so many of these Our Instructions, wherein their Advice & Consent are required, as likewise all such others from time to time as you shall find convenient for Our Service to be imparted to them. 4 You are to permit the Members of Our said Council to have and enjoy Freedom of debate and Vote in all Affairs of publick Concern that may be debated in Council. . . . 8 And in the choice & Nomination of the Members of Our said Council, as also of the Chief Officers, Judges, Assistants, Justices and Sheriffs, you are always to take care that they be men of good Life and well affected to Our Government, of good Estates & Abilities & not necessitious People.

9 You are neither to augment nor diminish the Number of Our said Council, as it is already established, nor to suspend any of the members thereof without Good and sufficient Cause, nor without the Consent of the Majority of the said Council. . . . 12 And Our Will & Pleasure is that with all convenient speed you call together one Genl. Assembly for the enacting of Laws for the joint and mutual Good of the whole Province. ..

14 You are to observe in the passing of Laws that the Stile of Enacting the same be by the Governr. Council & Assembly and no other ; you are also as much as possible to observe in the passing of all Laws that what ever may be requisite upon each different matter be accordingly