Saving the right of the high court

of admiralty,

and of the judge and registrar thereof; and

vince of Quebec, and territories thereunto belonging, and maritime parts of the fame and thereto adjacent whatfoever.

Saving always the right of our high court of admiralty of England, and alfo of the judge and registrar of the faid court, from whom, or either of them, it is not our intention in any faving the right thing to derogate by thefe prefents; and faving to every one of appealing who fhall be wronged or grieved by any definitive fentence or fentence of the interlocutory decree which fhall be given in the vice-admiralty court of our province of Quebec aforefaid, and territories thereunto belonging, the right of appealing to our aforefaid high court of admiralty of England.

thereto from any

court of vice

admiralty at Quebec.

vice-admiral

feal of his office

Provifo that the Provided nevertheless, and under this exprefs condition, that if thall yearly cer- you, the aforefaid James Murray, Efquire, our Captain General and tify under the Governour in Chief, fhall not yearly (to wit) at the end of every the proceedings year, between the feasts of St. Michael the archangel and All Saints, to the judge of duly certify, and caufe to be effectually certified (if you shall be the high court thereunto required) to us, and cur lieutenant official, principal,

had in his court

of admiralty:

and commiffary general and fpecial, and judge and prefident of the high court of our admiralty of England aforefaid, all that which from time to time by virtue of these prefents you fhall do and execute, collect, or receive in the premises, or any of them, together with your full and faithful account thereupon, to be made in an authentic form, and fealed with the feal of our office and upon default remaining in your cuftody, that from thence and after default thefe letters pa- therein thefe our letters patent of the office of vice-admiralty tent shall be aforefaid, as above granted, fhall be null and void, and of no force or effect.

made herein

void.

All officers, civil and military,

fubjects whatfo

ever, are en

joined to be

Further we do, in our name, command all and fingular our and all other governours, juftices, mayors, fheriffs, captains, marshals, bailiffs, keepers of all our gaols and prisons, conftables, and all other our affifting to the officers and faithful liege fubjects whatsoever, and every of them, vice-admiral and as well within liberties and franchifes as without, that in and about the execution of the execution of the premises, and every of them, they be aiding, favouring, affifting, fubmiffive, and yield obedience in all things as is fitting to you, the aforefaid James Murray, Efquire, our Captain General and Governour in Chief of our province of Quebec afore

his deputies in

this office.

faid, and to your deputy whomsoever, and to all other officers by you appointed, and to be appointed, of our faid vice-admiralty in our province of Quebec aforefaid, and territories thereunto belonging, and maritime parts of the fame and thereto adjoining, under pain, of the law, and the peril which will fall thereon.

Given at London in the high court of our admiralty of England
aforefaid, under the great feal thereof, the nineteenth day
of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and fixty-four, and of our reign the fourth.

(Signed).

GODF. LEE TARRANT,,
Registrar.

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nour of

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LIEUTENANT GOVERNOUR.

GEORGE R.

GEORGE the THIRD, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain,
France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and so forth;
To our trusty and well-beloved Guy CARLETON, Efquire,
Greeting:

Appointment of WE, repofing efpecial truft and confidence in your loyalty, inEfq; to be Lieu- tegrity, and ability, do, by these presents, conftitute and tenant Gover-appoint you to be our Lieutenant Governour of our province of vince of Quebec Quebec, in America; to have, hold, exercife, and enjoy the faid King's pleasure, place and office during our pleasure, with all rights, privileges, profits, perquifites, and advantages to the fame belonging or appertaining.

during the

Authority to

exercise the

ed in the com

And further, in cafe of the death, or during the abfence, of our powers contain- captain general and governour in chief of our faid province of miflion of Go- Quebec, now, and for the time being, we do hereby authorize and vernonr in Chief require you to exercise and perform all and fingular the powers and death, or during directions contained in our commiffion to our captain general and the governour. governour in chief, according to fuch inftructions as he has already received from us, and fuch further orders and instructions as he, or you, fhall hereafter receive from us.

in cafe of the

the abfence of,

Command to all officers, mini

And we do hereby command all and fingular our officers, fters, and other minifters, and loving fubjects in our faid province, and all others

fubjects to yield

due obedience to

whom

him.

whom it may concern, to take due notice hereof, and to give their ready obedience accordingly.

Given at our court at St. James's, the seventh of April 1766, in the fixth year of our reign.

Guy Carleton, Efquire, Lieutenant Governour of Quebec..

The KING'S MANDATE to the Governour, or Commander in Chief, of the Province of QUEBEC, requiring him to appoint WILLIAM HEY, Efquire, Chief Justice of the faid Province.

TRUSTY and well-beloved, we greet you well. Whereas we have taken into our royal confideration the loyalty, integrity, and ability of our trufty and well-beloved William Hey, Efquire, we have thought fit, hereby, to authorize and require you forthwith to cause letters patent to be paffed under the feal of our province of Quebec, in America, conftituting and appointing him, the faid William Hey, our chief justice of, and in our faid province, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the faid office unto him the faid William Hey, for and during our pleasure and his refidence within our faid province, together with all and fingular the rights, profits, privileges, and emoluments unto the faid place belonging, in the most full and ample manner, with full power and authority to hold the fupreme courts of judicature at fuch places and at fuch times as the fame may and ought to be held within our said province. And for fo doing this fhall be your warrant. And fo we bid you

farewel.

Given at our court at St. James's the third day of February 1766, in the fixth year of our reign.

To our trusty and well-beloved James Murray, Efquire, our Captain General and Governour in Chief in and over our province of Quebec, in America; and, in his abfence, to the Commander in Chief of our faid province for the time being.

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