To His Excellency Charls Earle of Carlyle, Capt Gene:rll, Gouernour and Com̃andr in Chief of this his Maj:ts Island of Jamaico &c. : the humble adres of ye Asembly of his Maj:ts Island in answore to ye report of ... the Comity of Trade and Plantacons ... : 1679?.

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To His Excellency Charls Earle of Carlyle, Capt Gene:rll, Gouernour and Com̃andr in Chief of this his Maj:ts Island of Jamaico &c. : the humble adres of ye Asembly of his Maj:ts Island in answore to ye report of ... the Comity of Trade and Plantacons ... : 1679?.

Written in October or November, 1679, in response to the report dated May 28, 1679, and states that the Jamaican government should not be patterned after the Irish colonial model, which would strip the Assembly of its legislative powers. Cf. Ingram, Kenneth E. Sources of Jamaican history, 1976, vol. 1, p. 265; The laws of Jamaica, vol. 1, 1792, p. liv.

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