Colonies respectively, where such person shall reside, and also give security to observe such regulations as we shall at any time think fit, by ourselves or by our Commissaries, to be appointed for this purpose, to direct and appoint for the benefit of the said trade: and we do hereby authorize, enjoin, and require the Governors and Commanders-in-chief, of all our Colonies respectively, as well those under our immediate Government, as those under the Government and direction of proprietaries, to grant such licenses without fee or reward, taking especial care to insert therein a condition that such license shall be void, and the security forfeited, in case the person to whom the same is granted, shall refuse or neglect to observe such regulations as we shall think proper to prescribe as aforesaid.

And we do further expressly enjoin and require all officers whatever, as well military as those employed in the management and direction of Indian affairs within the territories reserved, as aforesaid, for the use of the said Indians, to seize and apprehend all persons whatever, who standing charged with treasons, misprisons of treasons, murders, or other felonies or misdemeanours, shall fly from justice and take refuge in the said territory, and to send them under a proper guard to the Colony where the crime was committed of which they stand accused, in order to take their trial for the same.

Given at our Court at St. James's, the seventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, in the third year of our reign.

GOD save the KING.

No. 2. Copy of a Commission for James Murray, Esq,. to be Captain General and Governor-in-chief of the Province of Quebec; viz:

G. R.

George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, to our trusty and well-beloved James Murray, Esprire., greeting:

We, reposing especial trust and confidence in the prudence, courage, and loyalty of you, the said James Murray, of our especial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, have thought fit to constitute and appoint, and by these presents do constitute and appoint you, the said James Murray, to be our Captain General and Governor-in-chief in and over our Province of Quebec, in America; bounded on the Labrador coast by the river St. John; and from thence by a line drawn from the head of that river through the Lake, St. John to the South end of the Lake Nipissim, from whence the said line crossing the river St. Lawrence and the Lake Champlain, in forty-five degrees of northern latitude, passes along the highlands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the sea; and also along the North coast of the Bayc des Chaleurs and the coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Cape Rosicres; and from thence crossing the mouth of the river St. Lawrence by the West end of the Island of Anticosti, terminates at the aforesaid river St. John: together with all the rights, members, and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging.

And we do hereby require and command you to do and execute all things in due manner that shall belong to your said command and the trust we have reposed in you, according to the several powers and directions granted or appointed you by this present commission, and the instructions and authorities herewith given unto you, or by such other powers, instructions, and authorities as shall at any time hereafter be granted or appointed under our signet and sign manual, or by our order in our Privy Council, and according to such reasonable laws and statutes as shall hereafter be made and agreed upon by you with the advice and consent of the Council and Assembly of our said Province under your Government, in such manner and form as is hereinafter expressed.

And our will and pleasure is, that you, the said James Murray, do, after the publication of these our letters "patent and after the appointment of our Council for our said Province, in such manner and form as is prescribed in the instructions which you will herewith receive, in the first place, take the oaths appointed to be taken by an Act; passed in the first year of the reign of King George the First, intituled, "An Act for the further security of his Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being: Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret 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 recusants;" and likewise, that you take the oath of office usually taken by our Governors in the other Colonies for the due execution of the office and trust of our Captain General and Governor-in-chief in and over our said Province, and for the due and impartial administration of justice; and further, that you take the oath required to be taken by the Governors of the Plantations, to do their utmost that the several laws relating to trade and plantations be duly observed: which said oaths and declarations our Council of our said Province, or any three of the members thereof, have hereby full power and authority and are hereby required, to tender and administer to you.

All which being duly performed, you shall yourself administer to each of the members of our said Council, and to the Lieutenant Governors of Montreal and Trois Rivieres, the said oaths mentioned in the said Act, intituled, "An Act for the further security of his Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors;" and also to cause them to make and subscribe the afore-mentioned declaration, and also shall administer unto them the usual oaths for the due execution of their places and trust.

And we do further give and grant unto you, the said James Murray, full power and authority from time to time and at any time hereafter, by yourself, or by any other to be authorized by you in this behalf, to administer and give the oaths mentioned in the said Act, "for the further security of his Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors;" to all and every such person or persons as you shall think fit, who shall at any time or times pass into our said Province, or shall be resident or abiding there.

And we do hereby authorize and empower you to keep and use the public seal which will herewith be delivered to you, or shall be hereafter sent to you, for sealing all things whatsoever that shall pass the great seal of our Province.

And we do hereby give and grant unto you, the said James Murray, full power and authority, with the advice and consent of our said Council to be appointed as afore-said, so soon as the situation and circumstances of our said Province under your Government will admit thereof, and when and as often as need shall require, to summon and call General Assemblies of the freeholders and planters within your Government, in such manner as you in your discretion shall judge most proper; or according to such further powers, instructions, and authorities, as shall be at any time hereafter granted or appointed you under our signet or sign manual, or by our order in our Privy Council.

And our will and pleasure is, that the persons thereupon duly elected by the major part of the freeholders of the respective parishes or precincts, and so returned, shall, before their sitting, take the oaths mentioned in the said Act, intituled, "An Act for the further security of his Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors;" and also make and subscribe the fore-mentioned declaration; which oaths and declaration you shall commissionate fit persons under the public seal of that our Province to tender and administer unto them; and, until the same shall be so taken and subscribed, no person shall he capable of sitting, though elected.

And we do hereby declare, that the persons so elected and qualified shall be called the Assembly of that our Province of Quebec; and that you, the said James Murray,