Presumptive reasons why the governments of the provinces of South and North Carolina,   and the Bahama and Lucaios Islands being proprietary governments in America, should (more Especially) be reassumed into the hands of the Crown of Great Britain: humbly offer'd to the consideration of the committee of the Honourable House of Commons; to whom a bill, for the better regulating of the charter and proprietary governments in America, and of His Majesties plantations, is committed.
[London?,
1715]
A committee appointed on 10 August 1715 to draft a bill aiding the defense of the American colonies did not report such a bill out of committee.
Docket title: 'Reasons for regulating charter and proprietary governments in America. More especially Carolina, and the Bahama Islands'.
Reproduction of original from the Harvard University Houghton Library.
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