Deputy Admr.
Under him shall be appointed by the same house and at the same
time, a Deputy-Administrator to assist his principal in the discharge
of his office, and to succeed, in case of his death before the year
shall have expired, to the whole powers thereof during the residue of
the year.
The administrator shall possess the power formerly held by the
king: save only that, he shall be bound by acts of legislature tho'
not expressly named;
he shall have no negative on the bills of the Legislature;
he shall be liable to action, tho' not to personal restraint
for private duties or wrongs;
he shall not possess the prerogatives;
of dissolving, proroguing or adjourning either house of
Assembly;
of declaring war or concluding peace;
of issuing letters of marque or reprisal;
of raising or introducing armed forces, building armed vessels,
forts or strongholds;
of coining monies or regulating their values;
of regulating weights and measures;
of erecting courts, offices, boroughs, corporations, fairs,
markets, ports, beacons, lighthouses, seamarks.
of laying embargoes, or prohibiting the exportation of any
commodity for a longer space than [40] days.
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