The minutes of the Governor's Council depict the functions of the Governor's advisory board, which met with the colonial governor. The minutes are a record of where the Council's meetings were held (usually in the court house in Pensacola), the type of letters and declarations that the Governor ordered to be read, appointments to offices, the reading of petitions and complaints, the opinions of the Council to certain matters that were presented before it by the Governor, the names of the Council members, bills and messages from the Commons House, also referred to as the Committee of the Whole House, and other information which demonstrates the functions of the Governor and his council in the government of British West Fla. The only significant differences between the minutes of the governor's Council and the minutes of the Council in Assembly are that the Governor did not participate in the latter, and the Council in Assembly consisted of five members or less.
