fhall make that have not been ceded or by the Indians. having been ceded to us, are referved to them, or any of them, as No governours their hunting grounds; we do therefore, with the advice of our grants of lands privy council, declare it to be our royal will and pleasure, that no governour or commander in chief in any of our colonies of Quebec, fold to the King Eaft Florida, or Weft Florida, do prefume, upon any pretence whatever, to grant warrants of furvey, or pafs any patents, for lands beyond the bounds of their respective governments, as defcribed in their commiffions; as also that no governour or commander in chief of our other colonies or plantations in America do prefume, for the prefent, and until our further pleasure be known, to grant warrants of furvey, or pafs patents, for any lands beyond the heads or fources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the weft or north-weft, or upon any lands whatever, which, not having been ceded to or purchafed by us as aforefaid, are reserved to the said Indians, or any of them. All perfons fettled on the grounds referved for the And we do further declare it to be our royal will and pleasure, for the prefent, as aforefaid, to referve under our fovereignty, protection, and dominion, for the use of the faid Indians, all the land and territories not included within the limits of our faid three new governments, or within the limits of the territory granted to the Hudfon's Bay Company; as alfo all the land and territories lying to the weftward of the fources of the rivers which fall into the sea from the west and north-weft as aforefaid; and we do hereby ftrictly forbid, on pain of our displeasure, all our loving fubjects from making any purchases or fettlements whatsoever, or taking poffeffion of any of the lands above referved, without our especial leave and licence for that purpose first obtained. And we do further strictly enjoin and require all perfons whatfoever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves Indians are re- upon any lands within the countries above defcribed, or upon any quired to retire other lands which, not having been ceded to or purchafed by us, are still reserved to the said Indians as aforefaid, forthwith to remove themselves from fuch fettlements. from fuch fettlements. And whereas great frauds and abuses have been committed in the purchafing lands of the Indians, to the great prejudice of our interests, and to the great diffatisfaction of the faid Indians; in order therefore to prevent fuch irregularities for the future, and to fon fhall pur of the Indians. the Indians thall to the end that the Indians may be convinced of our justice and determined refolution to remove all reasonable cause of discontent, we do, with the advice of our privy council, ftrictly enjoin and require, that no private perfon do prefume to make any purchase No private perfrom the faid Indians of any lands referved to the faid Indians chafe any lands within thofe parts of our colonies where we have thought proper to allow settlement; but if at any time any of the faid Indians fhould be inclined to dispose of the faid lands, the fame fhall be purchased only for us, in our name, in fome public meeting or affembly of the faid Indians, to be held for that purpose by the governour or commander in chief of our colony refpectively within which they shall lie and in cafe they fhall lie within the limits of any proprietaries, conformable to fuch directions and instructions as we or they fhall think proper to give for that purpose. And we do, by the advice of our privy council, declare and The trade with enjoin, that the trade with the faid Indians fhall be free and be free to all the open to all our fubjects whatever; provided that every perfon who King's subjects. may incline to trade with the faid Indians do take out a licencè for carrying on fuch trade from the governour or commander in chief of any of our colonies refpectively where such person shall refide, and also give fecurity to obferve fuch regulations as we shall at any time think fit, by ourselves or commiffaries to be appointed for this purpose, to direct and appoint for the benefit of the faid trade: and we do hereby authorize, enjoin, and require the governours and commanders in chief of all our colonies refpectively, as well thofe under our immediate government, as thofe under the government and direction of proprietaries, to grant fuch licences without fee or reward, taking efpecial care to infert therein a condition that fuch licence fhall be void, and the fecurity forfeited, in cafe the perfon to whom the fame is granted fhall refuse or neglect to obferve fuch regulations as we shall think proper to prescribe as aforefaid tary officers and and fend back And we do further exprefsly enjoin and require all officers Power to miliwhatever, as well military as thofe employed in the management others to feize, and direction of the Indian affairs within the territories referved, under a guard, as aforefaid, for the use of the faid Indians, to feize and apprehend om juftice all perfons whatever, who ftanding charged with treafon, mif- into the Indian prifion of treafon, murder, or other felonies or misdemeanors, M 2 fhall criminals who country. fhall fly from justice and take refuge in the said territory, and to fend them under a proper guard to the colony where the crime was committed of which they shall stand accused, in order to take their trial for the fame. Given at our court at St. James's, the 7th day of October 1763, in the third year of our reign. GOD Save the K IN G. NUMBER NUMBER IX. COMMISSION of CAPTAIN GENERAL and GOVERNOUR in G. R. GEORGE the THIRD, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Commiffion to ral and gover be captain gene nour in chief of the province. the province. WE, repofing efpecial truft and confidence in the prudence, courage, and loyalty of you, the faid James Murray, of our efpecial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have thought fit to constitute and appoint, and by these presents do constitute and appoint, you, the faid James Murray, to be our Captain General and Governour in Chief in and over our province of Quebec in America; Bounded on the Labrador Coast by the river St. John; and from Boundaries of thence by a line drawn from the head of that river through the lake St. John to the fouth end of the lake Nipiffim, from whence the faid line croffing the river St. Lawrence and the lake Champlain, in forty-five degrees of northern latitude, paffes along the high lands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the faid river St. Lawrence from thofe which fall into the fea; and alfo along the north coast of the Baye des Chaleurs and the coast of the gulf of St. Lawrence to Cape Rofieres; and from thence croffing the mouth of the river St. Lawrence by the weft end of the island of Anticofti, terminates at the aforefaid river St. John: Together with all the rights, members, and appurtenances whatfoever thereunto belonging. The governour directions And we do hereby require and command you to do and execute is to act accordall things in due manner that shall belong to your faid commanding tothepowers and the truft we have repofed in you, according to the feveral of this compowers and directions granted or appointed you by this prefent cording to tirecommiffiontions. miffion, and acKing's inftruc Oaths to be taken by the governour. Declaration a gainst tranfubftantiation, commiffion and the inftructions and authorities herewith given unto you, or by fuch other powers, inftructions, and authorities as shall at any time hereafter be granted or appointed under our fignet and fign manual, or by our order in our privy council, and according to fuch reasonable laws and ftatutes as fhall hereafter be made and agreed upon by you with the advice and confent of the council and affembly of our faid province under your government, in such manner and form as is herein after expreffed. And our will and pleasure is, that you, the faid James Murray, do, after the publication of thefe our letters patent, and after the appointment of our council for our faid province in fuch manner and form as is prescribed in the inftructions which you will herewith receive, in the first place, take the oaths appointed to be taken by Thofe appoint- an act paffed in the first year of the reign of King George the first, ed by 1 Geo. I intituled, "An Act for the further fecurity of his Majefty's perfon "and government, and the fucceffion of the crown in the heirs "of the late Princefs Sophia, being Proteftants, and for ex"tinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and fecret abettors;" as also that you make and subscribe the declaration mentioned in an act of parliament made in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Charles the second, intituled, An Act for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish Recufants;" and likewife that you take the oath of office ufually taken by our governours in the other colonies for the due execution of the office and truft of our Captain General and Governour in Chief in and over our faid province, and for the due and impartial Oath to obferve adminiftration of juftice; and further, that you take the oath required to be taken by the governours of the plantations to do their utmost that the feveral laws relating to trade and plantations be duely obferved: which faid oaths and declarations our council of our faid province, or any three of the members thereof, have hereby full power and authority, and are hereby required to tender and adminifter to you. Stat. 25 Car. II. the laws relating to trade and plantations. Oaths to be taken by the counfellors and lieutenant governours of All which being duly performed, you fhall yourself adminifter to each of the members of our faid council, and to the lieutenantgovernours of Montreal and Trois Rivieres, the said oaths mentioned Montreal and in the faid act, intituled, "An Act for the further fecurity of his Majefty's perfon and government, and the fucceffion of the Trois Rivieres. 66 "crown |