A COMMISSION under the Public Seal of the: Province of QUEBEC to Captain SCHLOSSER to be a JUSTICE of the PEACE for the District of MONTREAL, in the faid Province..

GEORGE the THIRD, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, and the Territories thereunto belonging, Defender of the Faith, and fo forth; To JOHN SCHLOSSER, Efquire, Captain of a Company in the First Battalion of the Royal American Regiment. of Foot, fendeth Greeting:.

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peace, and I cause the ftatutes

to be kept;

NOW all men by these our prefent letters, that we have affigned you, John Schloffer, Efquire, captain of a company in the first battalion of our royal American regiment of foot, to be one of our Juftices to keep our peace in our district of Montreal in our province of Quebec, and to keep and cause to be kept all ordinances Power to keep and statutes for the good of the peace and for prefervation of the the Pit tute fame, and for the quiet rule and government of our people made, in and ordinances all and fingular their articles according to the force, form, and effect of the fame; and to chastise and punish all perfons that offend against the form of thofe ordinances or ftatutes, or any one of them,. in the aforesaid diftrict, as it ought to be done according to the form of those ordinances and ftatutes; and to caufe to come before and to take fu you all those who to any one or more of our people concerning peace or good their bodies or the firing of their houfes have ufed threats, to find behaviour. fufficient fecurity for the peace, or their good behaviour, towards us and our people; and, if they fhall refufe to find fuch fecurity, then them in our prifons, until they fhall find fuch fecurity, to caufe to be fafely kept.

And i

Power, in con-1 junction with

one or more

quire of felonies

fences by the

jury;

And we have likewife affigned you, in conjunction with one or more of the juftices affigned to keep our peace in the district of juftices, to in- Montreal aforefaid in our province of Quebec, properly by us and other of authorized thereunto, to inquire the truth more fully by the oath oath of a grand of good and lawful men of the aforefaid diftrict, by whom the truth of the matter fhall be the better known, of all and all manner of felonies, poisonings, trefpaffes, foreftallings, regratings, and extortions whatsoever; and of all and fingular other crimes and offences, of which the juftices of our peace may and ought lawfully to inquire, by whomfoever, and after what manner foever in the faid diftrict done or perpetrated, or which fhall happen to be there done or attempted; and alfo of all thofe who in the district aforefaid in companies against our peace, in disturbance of our people, with armed force have gone or rode, or hereafter fhall prefume to go or ride; and alfo of all thofe who have there lain in wait, or hereafter fhall prefume to lie in wait, to maim, or cut, or kill our people; and alfo of all victuallers, and all and fingular other perfons who in the abufe of weights and measures, or in felling victuals against the form of the ordinances and ftatutes of of England or our faid province of Quebec, or any one of them, therefore made or introduced into our faid province for the common benefit of our faid province of Quebec and our people thereof, have offended or attempted, or hereafter shall prefume in the said district to offend or attempt; and of all and fingular articles and circumstances, and all other things whatfoever that concern the premises, or any of them, by whomfoever and after what manner foever in our aforefaid diftrict done or perpetrated, or which hereafter shall there happen to be done or attempted in what manner foever; and to infpect all indictments fo before you and one or more of our faid juftices for our faid district of Montreal, properly by us authorized thereunto, taken or to be taken, or before others late our juftices of the peace in the aforefaid district made or taken, and not yet determined; and to make and continue proceffes therethe perfons fo upon against all and fingular the perfons fo indicted, or who before you and our other juftices of our district aforefaid hereafter shall happen to be indicted, until they can be taken, furrender themand to hear and felves, or be outlawed; and to hear and determine all and fingular faid felonies and the felonies, poisonings, trefpaffes, foreftallings, regratings, inother offences. groflings, extortions, unlawful affemblies, indictments aforefaid,

and to infpect

all indictments

fo taken either

before them or any former juftices;

and to make

proceffes against indicted;

.determine all the

and

and all and fingular other the premises, according to the laws and ftatutes of that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, and the ordinances of our faid province of Quebec, as in the like cafe it has been accustomed or ought to be done; and the fame offenders, and every of them, for their offences, by fines, ransoms, amerciaments, forfeitures, and other means, as according to the laws and customs of England, or form of the ordinances and statutes of England and of our province of Quebec aforefaid, it has been accustomed or ought to be done, to chastise and punish.

of

cafes of difficulty

afk the advice of

Provided always, that if a case of difficulty upon the determination Provifoe that in any of the premises before you conjointly with any one or more the juftices (hall of our juftices of the peace of our diftrict of Montreal aforefaid, the chief juftice properly by us authorized thereunto, fhall happen to arife, that then of the province. you let judgement in no wife be given thereon before you in conjunction with one or more of our juftices of our faid diftrict, unless in the presence of our chief justice of our faid province of Quebec.

himself to the

commiffion.

And therefore we command you, that to the keeping the peace, Command to the ordinances, and ftatutes aforefaid, and all and fingular other the juftice to apply premises, you diligently apply yourself; and that at certain days execution of his and places as you and any one or more, or any other two, of our juftices affigned to keep the peace in and for our diftrict of Montreal aforefaid in our province aforefaid, fhall appoint for these purposes, into the premises ye make inquiries, and all and fingular the premises hear and determine, and perform and fulfill them in the aforefaid form, doing therein what to juftice appertains, according to the laws and cuftoms of England and the ordinances of our province of Quebec aforefaid; faving to us the amerciaments and other things to us therefrom belonging.

In witness whereof we have caufed thefe our letters to be made patent, and our public feal of our province of Quebec to be affixed thereunto, this fixth day of Auguft in the feventh year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand feven hundred and fixty-feven.

Given at our Castle of Saint Lewis at Quebec, in the district of Quebec, in the province of Quebec, this fixth day of August in the feventh year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fixty-seven.

NUMBER XVIII.

A DRAUGHT of a Form of a WRIT of

DEDIMUS POTESTATEM to adminifter the

Oaths to a Juftice of the Peace in the Province of
QUEBE

UEBEC.

GEORGE the THIRD, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, and of all the Territories thereunto belonging, Defender of the Faith, and fo forth; To our trusty and well-beloved

and

of the District of Quebec, in the Province of

Quebec, Efquires, Greeting:

minifter the

and ftat. 6 Geo.

I.;

KNOW ye, that we have thought fit to impower you, and we de Power to adhereby give and grant unto you full power and authority to tender oaths appointed and administer unto A. B. Efquire, whom we have conftituted and by ftat. Geo. I. appointed a justice of the peace for the district of Quebec in our faid province, the oaths appointed to be taken by an act paffed in the first year of the reign of King George the First, intituled, " An Act for "the further fecurity of his Majesty's perfon and government, and the fucceffion of the Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Proteftants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended "Prince of Wales, and his open and fecret abettors;" and by an act paffed in the fixth year of our reign, intituled, "An Act for "altering the oath of abjuration and the affurance, and for amending

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So much of an act of the Seventh year of her late Majesty Queen "Anne, intituled, AN ACT FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE "UNION OF THE TWO KINGDOMS,' as, after the time therein "limited, requires the delivery of certain lifts and copies therein " mentioned;" and to tender and adminifter unto him, and receive and the declarafrom him, the declaration appointed to be made in an act of parlia- tion against ment passed in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Charles tion appointed the Second, intituled, "An Act for preventing dangers which may .;

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