[1133]. Andros Tracts, vol. II, pp. 230, 240 ff. A report to the Board of Trade, in regard to these “vagabond” signers, probably exaggerated on the other side, puts down two as worth £12,000 each, two at £10,000, three at £6000, two at £5000, two at £4000, five at £3000, etc. Cal. State Pap., Col., 1689-92, p. 422.
[1134]. Andros Tracts, vol. II, pp. 254 f.; A Century of Population, p. 9, gives 82,000 in New England and 124,000 in the south, in 1690. To the latter figure must be added those for the island colonies; Beer, Old Colonial System, vol. I, pp. 41 ff. The trade figures are for 1697.
[1135]. Beer, Old Colonial System. Of the remainder, 103 went to Virginia and Maryland, 71 to Barbadoes, 23 to the Leeward Islands, 20 to Jamaica, one to Bermuda, and one to Pennsylvania.
[1136]. Andros Tracts, vol. II, pp. 245, 248, 269.
[1137]. Ibid., vols. II, pp. 277 ff., and III, pp. 156 ff.
[1138]. Andros Tracts, vols. II, p. 281, and III, p. 165.
[1139]. The charter is printed in Colonial Society Massachusetts Publications, vol. II, pp. 7 ff.
[1140]. Willoughby, Territories and Dependencies, pp. 54 ff.; Bryce, American Commonwealth, vol. I, pp. 553 ff. The constitutions of the territories may be found in Organic Acts, Senate Document No. 148, 56th Congress, 1st Session. As an example of legislative review, cf. p. 96 (New Mexico): “All the laws passed by the legislative assembly and governor shall be submitted to the Congress of the United States, and, if disapproved, shall be null and of no effect.” Under the act organizing a government in Alaska, in 1884, it was specifically provided that there should be no legislative assembly. Ibid., p. 206.
[1141]. For the form of government established in New Hampshire, which became a royal province, vide Fry, New Hampshire, pp. 71 ff.
[1142]. Cf. Greene, The Provincial Governor, pp. 92, 179. For a discussion of the charter, vide Osgood, American Colonies, vol. III, pp. 439 ff.