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	Constitutional
		Governor McKean appointed him clerk of Northampton’s Orphans Court and he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1814.
		Wolf was the first Pennsylvania governor to establish the Governor’s Office in the State Capitol building, with staff, instead of the customary use of the front room of the Governor’s house as the Governor’s office.
		Bigler was elected Governor of Pennsylvania because his party, the Democrats, remained united on support of the Compromise of 1850 whereas the Pennsylvania Whig party was divided over its support.
	www.greencastlemuseum.org /Governors/constitutional.htm (4245 words)

	North Carolina Record Retention Schedules - Governor, Office of the
		Other powers enjoyed by colonial governors fell with the ending of royal government: the authority to issue writs of election for a new assembly and elections to fill vacancies; to prorogue the assembly; and to reject legislation passed by the assembly.
		The governor could (with the advice of the Council of State) fill vacancies in offices when the assembly was in recess, such appointments being valid until the end of the next session of assembly.
		The Constitution of 1868 required the governor to receive periodic reports from the Council of State and "the Public Institutions of the State" on the work of their departments, and he was to transmit the reports to the General Assembly.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /Records/schedules/governor.htm (1413 words)

	The Guyana-Suriname boundary during the colonial era
		As it was, however, the colonies got caught up in the whirlwind of the Napoleonic wars, and in the course of their changing hands, the agreement acquired legitimacy.
		The Governor of Suriname declined this invitation because, he said, he had not been furnished with instructions from the Netherlands, he was not aware of any dispute over this border, and he doubted that the exercise would have any impact on difficulties that might arise in the future.
		This position was reiterated by the Minister for the Colonies in 1924, 1925 and 1927 in the Dutch Parliament.
	www.guyanaca.com /suriname/guyana_suriname_colonial.html (3572 words)

	fredson.com - tickets to Brazil, tours to Rio, Amazon and Pantanal ecotourism, hotels, carnival in Rio, new years in Rio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The role of Portugal during the period it ruled Brazil was essentially that of intermediary between the colony as producer and the European economic centers as consumers.
		The elevation of Brazil, in 1815, from the status of a colony to that of a United Kingdom with Portugal may be seen as an example.
		In 1831, he abdicated the throne of Brazil in favor of his son, Dom Pedro II, who was still a minor.
	www.fredsontravel.com /brazil_brief_history.asp (3964 words)

	A Short History of Australia - The Squatters - Part 4
		Governor Bourke therefore devised the mode of dividing he area whither the squatters had wonder4ed into 'pastoral districts,' and of granting licences to the occupants of 'runs,' for which they were charged a small fee based upon a computation as to the number of sheep which a particular run would feed.
		Governor Gipps, who thoroughly understood the land question, and was a singularly able officer, protested that the rule was unwise, and he look upon himself to disobey it.
		If the Government of a colony were to be controlled by a popular assembly, he said in 1839, 'he could not conceive what was to become of the orders of the Imperial Government and the Colonial Governor.' Lord North might have said the same sort of thing in the reign of George III.
	www.janesoceania.com /australia_history/index3.htm (12299 words)

	State Capitol
		Governors lived in their own homes and the Assembly moved from place to place, meeting in private homes, and in courthouses when available.
		Construction of Governor Tryon's Palace began in 1767 and was completed in 1771.
		Today the governor and lieutenant governor, and their immediate staff, occupy offices on the first floor of the Capitol.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hs/capitol/stat_cap/default.htm (930 words)

	California During the Revolution
		For their part, California governors and presidial commanders found the mission priests to be a haughty lot who sometimes considered themselves superior to the military.
		Governors and commanders assumed that the soldiers would remain in California following their tours of duty and local marriages and land grants were strong inducements to this end.
		The fathers of the Mexican governors Alvarado and Pico and of the Generals Vallejo and Castro had all begun as presidials, as were the founders of the important California houses of De la Guerra, Ortega, Peralta, Valencia, Sanchez, Bernal, Alviso, Galindo, Carrillo, Moraga, and others.
	www.americanrevolution.org /cal.html (7396 words)

	Ward Governors and Lieutenant Governors
		He was a Deputy and Clark of the Rhode Island Colonial Assembly in 1714 and recorder from 1714-1730.
		He was elected Governor of the Colony in May 1762.
		He was the only one of the 13 Colonial Governors who refused to take an oath to sustain and enforce the law.
	www.geocities.com /~rewoodham/wardgovr.html (1354 words)

	GOVERNORS OF CONNECTICUT - Online Information article about GOVERNORS OF CONNECTICUT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Atwater's History of the Colony of New Haven (New Haven, 1881) is also valuable, and the monograph of C.
		Governor Joseph Talcott.; and the Papers (New Haven, 1865 et seq.) of the New Haven Colony Historical Society are extremely valuable for See also:
		relating to the colonial and state periods, now in the state library at Hartford, have never been published.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GOA_GRA/GOVERNORS_OF_CONNECTICUT.html (565 words)

	Du Ponceau: Brief View of the Constitution (1831)
		In most of the colonies, the executive branch was dependent upon it; the governors being appointed by the king; and the judges as well as many other officers, held their offices mediately or immediately under him.
		The people of the colonies were not represented in the British parliament; therefore, it was evident that that body had no right to impose upon them taxes of any kind, unless they were absolutely necessary for the regulation of their commerce.
		But scarcely had Great Britain, with the assistance of those colonies, made the conquest of Canada, and compelled France and Spain to submit to humiliating treaties, that there were no bounds to her ambition; and she began to look on her colonies as sources from whence she might draw money at her pleasure.
	www.constitution.org /cmt/psdp/consti.htm (9760 words)

	Introduction: Government House
		The course of the governors' administrations was in large measure determined by personal agendas and temperaments.
		Beginning in 1610 with John Guy's settlement at Cupids, the office of governor was the central instrument of law and government in Newfoundland.
		Governor Cochrane was himself a captain in the Royal Navy, and his term in office reflected both his own experiences as a naval officer and the traditions of naval government which he inherited.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /govhouse/introduction.html (976 words)

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		Colonial history, thanks to colonial freedom, is almost wholly free from the distorting influence of political passion.
		Ireland was the oldest and the nearest of the Colonies.
		Egerton, in his "Origin and Growth of the English Colonies," reckons that in 1775 a sixth part of the thirteen insurrectionary Colonies was composed of Scots-Irish exiles from Ulster, and that half the Protestant population of that Province emigrated to those Colonies between 1730 and 1770.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/5/0/8/15086/15086-8.txt (16142 words)

	Rhode Island Office of the Secretary of State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From 1647 to 1663, the colony was governed by a President, with four Assistants.
		On June 3, 1686, King James II appointed Sir Edmund Andros to be Governor of New England, and on September 13, 1686, instructed him to demand the surrender of Rhode Island’s Royal Charter.
		John Coggeshall resumed the office of Deputy Governor, but Walter Clarke did not resume the office of Governor that he had been elected to in 1686.
	www.sec.state.ri.us /library/riinfo/governors (705 words)

	John Montagu, 1797-1853
		Returned to Australia in 1831, resumed office, became a justice of the peace, continued to benefit from Arthur's patronage, and increased effectiveness of the administration.
		Although the public was hostile to the `Arthurite Clique', the colonial office ran `with the celerity of clockwork and courtesy was everywhere'.
		Montagu became embroiled in a scandal upon being discovered to have a household cook that was serving a sentence for fraud (after he had opposed the use of convict gangs for public works).
	www.montaguemillennium.com /familyresearch/h_1853_john.htm (621 words)

	Governors of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period
		PEDRO DE SARRIO—Appointed governor (ad interim) for the second time, November 22, 1787, on departure of Basco; insurrection in Ilocos because of tobacco monopoly, 1787; death of archbishop Santa Justa y Rufina, December 15, 1787; term as governor, November 22, 1787-July 1, 1788.
		JOSÉ MALCAMPO Y MONJE—Marques de San Rafael and rear-admiral; becomes governor, June 18, 1874; conquest of Joló, 1876; given title of count of Mindanao, December 19, 1876; mutiny of artillerymen; term as governor, June 18, 1874-February 28, 1877; given titles of count of Joló and viscount of Mindanao, July 20, 1877.
		RAMON BLANCO—Becomes governor, 1893; electric light established in Manila, 1895; formation of Katipunan society; outbreak of insurrection, August 30, 1896; Blanco opposed by ecclesiastics; term as governor, 1893-December 9 (date of royal decree removing him), 1896.
	www.zamboanga.com /html/Spanish_governors_of_the_philippines.htm (3240 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America
		The surrender at the forks of the Ohio was soon known to the governors of Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
		In the colonies this aroused a bitter spirit; the stamp distributors were induced to abandon their offices by persuasion or intimidation, and delegates from nine colonies met in New York to express disapproval.
		This was acquired from France after she had lost the important colonial possession of Hayti, and when Napoleon had decided to renew the war with England.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15156a.htm (21519 words)

	Various Cape of Good Hope Land Grants and related histories.
		They never changed their policy but Governor Simon van der Stel (1691 to 1699) was able to significantly increase the food output by introducing cattle, sheep and fowls (chickens) and show that Individuals farming for themselves were more productive than communal farming..
		All the Governors before van der Stel, including Crudorp, were dismissed for violating their policy and issuing land grants to individuals.
		There is a colourless embossed seal of the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope at the bottom of the document and the watermark of the Cape of Good Hope.
	tokencoins.com /capeland.htm (3891 words)

	Pre-Republic Governors of Texas - Texas State Library
		According to MARTINEZ PACHECO, RAFAEL, The Handbook of Texas Online, Pacheco was appointed ad interim governor of Texas December 5, 1786 and his removal was approved by the viceroy on October 18, 1790.
		The list of governors in the 1998-1999 Texas Almanac gives his term of office at 1787-1788, and notes that from 1788 to 1789, the office of governor was suppressed, and the area was ruled by a presidial captain.
		According to ROBINSON, JAMES W.." The Handbook of Texas Online, "The executive council of the provisional government deposed Governor Henry Smith on January 11, 1836, and named Robinson as his successor.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /ref/abouttx/prerepub.html (246 words)

	Hogan v. Hely [1831] NSWSupC 13 (31 March 1831)
		The Colonial Act refered to in the course of the argument to-day, I apprehend, had other objects in view, and was not intended to make an alteration in the English law, which requires certain things to be done, as tantamount to the production of a Record.
		When the Supreme Court was first opened, it found the Indent already recognised as the criminal register of the colony for transported offenders; as the only warrant upon which the Government held the prisoner in subjection; as the only proof upon which the prisoner could claim his freedom at the expiration of his sentence.
		The Jury, by their verdict, have concluded these facts of the case, and I am of opinion, upon the several grounds of law, which have been urged in support of the motion for a new trial, that a new trial ought not to be granted.
	www.austlii.edu.au /au/other/NSWSupC/1831/13.html (9527 words)

	Complete List of NYS Attorneys General
		Between 1684 and 1777, the Colonial Attorneys General were appointed by the King of England, or the Colonial Governors on the Crown's behalf.
		Until 1702 he was appointed by the governor, after which he was commissioned by the Crown.
		By the Constitution the governor was required to do the appointing with the "advice and consent of the council." But in practice it subordinated the governor to the council whenever a majority of the assembly was politically opposed to him, and the annual election of the council greatly increased chances of such opposition.
	www.oag.state.ny.us /previous_aglist.html (922 words)

	North Carolina History
		After years of having governors elected by the state senate, Edward B. Dudley becomes the first popularly elected governor of North Carolina.
		The North Carolina Fund, established by Governor Sanford, works to end poverty in North Carolina and becomes a model for programs across the nation.
		Governor Jim Hunt is re-elected to a record 4th term.
	www.secretary.state.nc.us /kidspg/history.htm (1334 words)

	"The Colonial Virginian"
		Governor Spotswood, in 1711, desiring to increase the facilities for the education of the Indians, recommended to the Assembly an annual appropriation for the purpose.
		The list of families in the colony who, invested right, used coat-armor, as attested in examples of such use on tombstones, preserved book-plates and impressions of seals is more than one hundred and fifty.
		Governor Spotswood notes as early as 1718 an amateur dramatic performance on the occasion of the celebration of the anniversary of the birthday of George I on May 1st, and there were frequent representations, and more than one "play-house," in Williamsburg before the Revolution.
	www.newrivernotes.com /va/brock.htm (6472 words)

	Streams IV-BrzHis&Cul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Colonial Governors-General and Viceroys of Brazil, 1549-1808, the Princes of Brazil, 1645-1808, and the
		The accelerated pace of commerce in the colony resulted in a transportation (and communication) system of mule teams and muleteer traders, known as tropeiros.
		The Portuguese empire became "Brazilianised." The South American colony was the main focus of wealth and trade.
	library.osu.edu /sites/latinamerica/indxclas_IV_cultrlstrms.htm (4762 words)

	List of colonial governors in 1831 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1830 colonial governors - Events of 1831 - 1832 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year
		Angola - José Maria de Sousa Macedo Almeida e Vasconcelos, Governor of Angola (1829–1834)
		This page was last modified 19:46, 28 August 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_in_1831 (73 words)

	American Governors of Louisiana
		general and Chancellor of Virginia and another, Wyndham, is governor of Virginia in 1836.
		The old Charity Hospital building on Canal Street is used as the State House, while 611 Royal is used as the official residence of the governor after the state government returns from Donaldsonville.
		W.C.C. Claiborne is elected the state's first governor as Creole forces are divided between Villere and Jean d’Estrehan.
	www.enlou.com /people/bios-state_governors_m-z.htm (2159 words)

	Shipyards and European Shipbuilders in South Carolina
		As the colony grew and began to thrive so did the boat and ship building industries.
		Elsewhere in the American colonies, the one-masted sloop rig, such as the Malcolm Boat appears to be, was the most popular rig, accounting for roughly one-third of all vessels registered in the colonies.
		In 1751, Governor James Glen noted that "Cooper River appears sometimes a kind of floating market, and we have numbers of canoes, boats and pettiaguas that ply incessantly, bringing down the country produce to town, and returning with such necessary as are wanted by the planters".
	www.cas.sc.edu /sciaa/staff/amerc/shipbuilding.htm (3287 words)

	Slave Trade (95 Volumes)
		The main report which is that of 1830 examines the relations between white settlers the liberated Africans and the slaves in Sierra Leone and Fernando Po, principally with a view to bettering the condition and prospects of the liberated Africans.
		The enforcement of the anti-slave trade regulations in the Spanish colonies was the subject of a lively series of correspondence between Spanish and British authorities during 1844-45.
		The position of the slaves is delineated and the attitudes of the governments of the colonies reveal the reasons for the slave risings in Jamaica and the difficulties facing the abolitionists in persuading the settlers to adopt the system of apprenticeship and the eventual abolition of slavery.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/su/hist/brdoc1.html (10410 words)

	Lauber, Indian Slavery in Colonial Times. Bibliography
		Baylies, Francis, An Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth from.
		Hoadly, Charles Jeremiah, Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, from 1638 to 1649.
		Messages from the Governors [of the State of New York] comprising executive communications to the Legislature and other Papers relating to Legislation, etc. Edited by Charles Z. Lincoln.
	www.dinsdoc.com /lauber-1-0c.htm (4282 words)

	PACSOA - Allan Cunningham 1791-1839
		After returning to England in 1831 to work again at Kew, he was offered the post of Colonial Botanist in NSW, but declined it in favour of his young brother Richard.
		Richard however became lost while on an expedition, and while delerious from thirst was killed by Aborigines who had at first taken him in, but later became frightened by his bizarre and violent behaviour.
		He soon resigned, having found that he was expected to grow vegetables for the governors table, to resume the more legitimate occupation of collecting.
	www.pacsoa.org.au /places/People/cunningham.html (803 words)

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