Dinsmore Documentation  presents  Classics of American Colonial History

Author: Greene, Evarts Boutell
Title: The Provincial Governor in the English Colonies of North America
Citation: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1898
Subdivision:Table of Contents
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Front Matter including Preface
I.The Evolution of the Provincial Government
II.The Evolution of the Provincial Executive
III.The Governor’s Appointment, Tenure of Office, and Emoluments
IV.The Governor as the Agent of the Home Government
V.The Governor’s Council
VI.The Governor’s Executive Powers
VII.The Governor’s Relation to the Judiciary
VIII.The Governor’s Power over the Assembly
IX.The Power of the Assembly over the Governor
X.The Encroachments of the Assembly upon the Executive
XI.The Governor’s Legal and Political Accountability: Conclusion

APPENDICES

A. Representative Commissions and Instructions
  1.Commission to Sir Thomas West, Lord La Warr, as Governor of Virginia, 1610
  2.Commission to Sir William Berkeley as Governor of Virginia, 1641
  3.Instructions to Sir William Berkeley as Governor of Virginia [1641]
  4.Commission to Francis Bernard as Governor of New Jersey, 1758 [Draft]
  5.Commission to Francis Bernard as Governor of New Jersey, 1758 [Draft]
  6.Commission to James Hamilton as Proprietary Governor of Pennsylvania, 1759
  7.Commission to John Wentworth as Lieutenant Governor of New Hampshire, 1717
B. List of Printed Commissions and Instructions to Royal and Proprietary Governors
C. Authorities Cited
Index (to be digitized)

Dinsmore Documentation  presents  Classics of American Colonial History