Council. 243 The same provisions were adopted in Montserrat in 1729 244 and in Nevis in 1732. 245 It is scarcely necessary to point out the violations of the royal instructions by abolition of the sterling minimum of the Governor and Council and by adoption of English statutory exceptions to the general instructional provisions as to security. We have already seen that before 1696 the appellate system of Bermuda was regulated by local enactment. 248 A supplementary act of 1704 provided that no appeals to the Governor and Council should be entertained until costs of court and "all other incidental charges" were paid as taxed. Appeals from the Court of Chancery to the King in Council were to be regulated by the same conditions. 247 Local appellate regulation received instructional sanction in 1721, when Lieutenant-Governor Hope was directed to see to the due execution of the provisions as to appeals in civil cases contained in the 1691 act. 248 In 1728 a further instruction was issued that in case of appeals to the crown pursuant to this 1691 act, execution was to be suspended unless security was given to make restitution in case of reversal. 249 This instruction supplemented the 1726/7 circular instruction as to suspension of execution on appeal. 250 In 1744 an act was passed in Bermuda which established the governor and five councilors as a Court of Errors with appellate jurisdiction over judgments given in the Court of General Assize "for any sum, matter, cause, or thing." This act was necessitated by the fact that many actions in the Court of General Assize were at common law and were not cognizable by the former appellate body, the Court of Chancery. The preamble related that the act was designed to prevent future disputes, to obviate all objections to the former act, and to prevent the great prejudice to any inhabitants that might happen on any appeal to the King in Council in pursuance of the former act. 251 The act provided that execution should not be stayed in any personal action by writ of error or supersedeas thereon, unless appellant by two sufficient securities approved by 243 Acts Assembly St. Christopher, ijn-35 ,(i739), 84, 93-94. 244 Acts Assembly Montserrat, 1668-1740 (1740), 84, 90-92. 245 Acts Assembly Nevis, 1664-1739 (1740), 92, 103-4. 246 See supra, p. 86. 247 Acts Assembly Bermuda, 1690—1713/4 (1719), 69. 248 1 Labaree, Royal Instructions, #451. 249 7&W., #452. 250 Ibid., #450. In 1737 Governor Popple, commenting upon his instructions, remarked that other acts had since been passed upon the same subject and seemed in part to be contradicted by the 1728 instruction. Therefore, it was questioned whether the two instructional articles were of any further service (CO 37/13/ M 5). But no change in the instructions resulted. 251 An Act for constituting and establishing a Court of Errors in these Islands; copy in Bermudiana (Collection of Winslow Manly Bell) Box #8 (L.C.). But the records of the Court of General Assize show little reticence in the matter of appeals to the Chancery Court in common law matters. See MS Ct. Assize Rec, 1726-35, 34, 79, 91, 137, 174, 192, 217, 241, 329, 342, 369, 376, 403, 430 (transcripts in Bermudiana, Box #5); ibid., 1 735-4 1 < 9, Us II0 > T-64' J 79> 2 37, 2 7*5, 2 9 2 > 347) 356, 379, 398 (transcripts in Bermudiana. Box #6).