n; his commission is under
seal, and runs during pleasure.

He represents the king's person there in all things, and is subject to
his instructions.

His assent is necessary to the laws, agreed upon by the council and
assembly; without it no law can be made.

His test to all laws so assented to is also requisite.

He calls assemblies by advice of council, but prorogues or dissolves
them without.

He calls and presides in all councils of State, and hath his negative
there also.

He appoints commissioners of county courts for the administration of
justice, by consent of council.

He grants commissions to all officers of the militia, under the degree
of a lieutenant general, (which title he bears himself,) as he thinks
fit.

He orders and disposes the militia for the defence of the country.

He tests proclamations.

He disposes of the unpatented land according to the charter, the laws of
that country, and his instructions; for which end, and for other public
occasions, the seal of the colony is committed to his keeping.

All issues of the public revenue must bear his test.

And by virtue of a commission from the admiralty he is made
vice-admiral.

The governor's salary, till within these forty-five years last past, was
no more than a thousand pounds a year; besides which, he had about five
hundred more in perquisites. Indeed, the general assembly, by a public
act, made an addition of two hundred pounds a year to Sir William
Berkeley in particular, out of the great respect and esteem they bore to
that gentleman, who had been a long time a good and just governor; and
who had laid out the greatest part of his revenue in experiments, for
the advantage and improvement of the country; and who had, besides,
suffered extremely in the time of the usurpation. But this addition was
to determine with his government.

Sir William Berkeley, after the short interval of Jeffery's and
Chicheley's being deputy-governors, was succeeded by the Lord
Colepepper, who, under pretence of his being a peer of England, obtained
of King Charles II. a salary of two thousand pounds, besides one hundred
and sixty pounds a year for house rent, because there was no house
appointed by the country for the governor's reception. This salary has
continued ever since, to the succeeding governors.

If the administration of the government happen to fall into the hands of
the president and council, there is then usually allowed to the
president