British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations, 1622-1675

by Charles McLean Andrews

To receive Propositions concerning Trade and Navigation.

13. And you are to receive and Consider all Propositions or Overtures concerning new Inventions or Improvements in any Art, Trade or Manufacture, or concerning the regulating or Securing of Trade, and Improoving of Navigation that shall be offered unto you by any person whatsoever.

To enquire into the State of his Ma^ts forreigne Plantacons.

14. You are strictly to enquire, and informe yourselves by the best wayes and Meanes you can of the State and Condition of Our said Forreigne Collonyes and Plantations. By whome they are Governed and what Commissions, Powers and Instruccons have been granted by Us, or by any of Our Royall Predecessors to that End, and how the same have been Executed and observed.

To enquire What Councills Assemblies and Courts of Indicature there are in them.

15. You are likewise to enquire and informe yourselves. What Councills, Assemblyes and Courts of Indicature for Civill and Criminall Causes there are within the said Collonyes and Plantations, and of what Nature and Kind.

What Courts of Admiralty.

16. What Courts of Indicature they have relating to the Admiralty.

What their Legislative and Executive Powers are.