Jamaica: Its History, Constitution, and Topographical Description : with Geological and Meteorological NotesMcCartney & Wood, 1884 - 163 páginas |
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Accompong Andrew Ann's Bay Annotto Bay annual appointed August Baptist chapel bill Blue Mountain British called cave chief cinchona Clarendon coast coffee Colonel colony Columbus Court court-house cultivation declared despatched destroyed Diego Columbus district elevation England erected established export extending feet fleet Governor of Jamaica grazing pens harbour Hill Hispaniola House of Assembly Imperial Government Imperial Parliament important inhabitants island Jago Kingston land laws Legislative Council legislature Lieutenant-Governor Liguanea limestone Lord Majesty Majesty's Majesty's Government Manchester Maroons ment miles militia Montego Bay Morant negroes parish parish of St passed peasantry pimento plantations population Port Antonio Port Royal Portland Privy Council Regiment revenue ridges River road Savanna-la-Mar schools Secretary shipping port sink Sir Henry Barkly slaves soil Spaniards Spanish Town spring Street sugar estates supplied Thomas Thomas Modyford trade Trelawny unofficial members vessels vote Wesleyan chapel Westmoreland wharves
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Página 80 - Our pleasure thereupon, or unless the Governor shall have satisfied himself that an urgent necessity exists requiring that such Bill be brought into immediate operation, in which case he is...
Página 80 - Any Bill whereby persons not of European birth or descent may be subjected or made liable to any disabilities or restrictions to which persons of European birth or descent are not also subjected or made liable : 10.
Página 139 - History", thus writes of the parish, "Earth has nothing more lovely than the pastures and pimento groves of St. Ann — nothing more enchanting than its hills and vales delicious in verdure and redolent with fragrance of spices.
Página 116 - Exchange: and for nearly half a century the town continued to grow in size and opulence and so important had it become in 1755 that the attempt was then made to constitute it the seat of Government. The Governor (Admiral Knowles) twice proposed and the Assembly twice rejected a bill for that purpose, but at length the Assembly gave way and a law was passed giving effect to the arrangement.
Página 79 - Act was also passed in the same session declaring "that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen to create and constitute a government for this island in such form and with such powers as to Her Majesty might best seem fitting and from time to time to alter or amend such government".
Página 27 - King confirmed all the laws which up to that time remained unassented to, and decreed that " all such laws and statutes of England as have been at any time esteemed, introduced, used, accepted or received as laws in this island, shall and are hereby declared to be and continue laws of this His Majesty's Island of Jamaica for ever.
Página 161 - Islands, lie between 21° and 22° N. lat. and 71° and 72° 37
Página 119 - who through a long series of years and in times of danger fearlessly stood forward as the champion of emancipation and for the removal of civil disabilities", (erected by public subscription). The statue of another distinguished Jamaican, Doctor Lewis Q. Bowerbank, was erected in the year 1881, on the northern side of the garden, by his numerous friends and admirers. A statue of Father Dupont...
Página 118 - ... of the Governor's permanent residence and of the Colonial Secretariat alone remained to be effected. Room for this department was provided in the spacious premises known as Head...
Página 78 - After the suppression of the rebellion in 1865, Governor Eyre, at the meeting of the Legislature, urged the unsuitability of the then existing form of Government to meet the circumstances of the community, and the necessity of making some sweeping change, by which a strong Government might be created. The Legislature...