p. 1843 C
No. 760.
ORDER OF HIS MAJESTY IN COUNCIL,
APPROVING OF
REVISED
DRAFTS OF A
COMMISSION AND
INSTRUCTIONS FOR
FRANCIS
WM.
DRAKE, AS
GOVERNOR AND
COMMANDER-IN- CHIEF IN AND OVER THE
ISLAND OF
NEWFOUNDLAND.
C.O. 5. VOL. 21
At the Court at St. James's
the 11th day of April 1750.
Present
The Kings most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Upon reading at the Board a Representation from the Lords Commissioners for
Trade and Plantation dated the 6th of this Instant, Setting forth
that they have prepared a Draught of a New Commission for Francis William
Drake Esqr Commander in Chief in and over His Majestys Island of Newfoundland,
revoking and determining His Majestys former Commission to the
said Francis William Drake, and impowering him, together with other Powers
usually given to His Majestys Governors of the said Island, to constitute and
appoint Judges and in Cases requisite, Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer
for the Hearing and Determining of all Criminal Causes, Treason excepted, in
the said Island— And further setting forth, that they have also prepared a
New Draught of Instructions for the said Francis William Drake, wherein
they have made no alterations from the former Instructions to him, excepting,
that they have, in Obedience to His Majesty's Commands, added an Article
agreable to that prepared for Philip Vanbrugh Esqr His Majesty's Governor
of the said Island in the Year 1738 relative to the Clause inserted in his
Commission, whereby he is impowered to appoint Judges, and in Cases
requisite, Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of Criminal
Causes — His Majesty this day took the said Representation, together with
the said Draughts of a Commission and Instructions into His Royal Consideration,
and was pleased, with the Advice of His Privy Council, to approve the
said Draughts, And to Order as it is hereby Ordered, that His Grace the Duke
of Bedford One of His Majestys Principal Secretarys of State, Do Cause a
Warrant to be prepared for His Majesty's Royal Signature in Order to pass
the said Draught of a Commission under the Great Seal. And that His Grace
do likewise cause the said Draught of Instructions to be prepared for His
Majesty's Royal Signature.
W. SHARPE
O. signed.
Endorsed : Order of Council, 11th April 1750,
Govr of Newfoundland.
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