[Sidenote: Governors and counsellors.]
2. That the directors of the African Company shall appoint, where not
already appointed, a governor, with three counsellors, at each of the
said marts, with a salary of ---- to the governor, and of ---- to each
of the said counsellors. The said governor, or, in his absence or
illness, the senior counsellor, shall and is hereby empowered to act as
a justice of the peace, and they, or either of them, are authorized,
ordered, and directed to provide for the peace of the settlement, and
the good regulation of their station and stations severally, according
to the rules of justice, to the directions of this act, and the
instructions they shall receive from time to time from the said African
Company. And the said African Company is hereby authorized to prepare
instructions, with the assent of the Lords of his Majesty's Privy
Council, which shall be binding in all things not contrary to this act,
or to the laws of England, on the said governors and counsellors, and
every of them, and on all persons acting in commission with them under
this act, and on all persons residing within the jurisdiction of the
magistrates of the said mart.
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