to levy, arm, muster, command, and employ all persons whatsoever residing within our said Province; and, as occasion shall serve, them to march, embark, or transport from one place to another, for the resisting and withstanding of all enemies, pirates, and rebels, both at land and sea; and to transport such Forces to any of our Plantations in America, if necessity shall require, for defence of the same against the invasion or attempts of any of our enemies; and such enemies, pirates and rebels, if there shall be occasion, to pursue and prosecute in, or out of, the limits of our said Province; and, if it shall so please God, them to vanquish, apprehend, and take, and, being taken, according to law to put to death, or keep or preserve alive at your discretion, and to execute martial law in time of invasion, war, or other times, when by law it may be executed; and to do and execute all and every other thing and things, which to our Captain-General and Governour-in-Chief doth or of right ought to belong.

And we do hereby give and grant unto you full power and authority, by and with the advice and consent of our said Council, to erect, raise, and build in our said Province such and so many Forts, Platforms, Castles, Cities, Boroughs, Towns, and Fortifications, as you by the advice aforesaid shall judge necessary; and the same or any of them to fortify and furnish with Ordnance, Ammunition, and all sorts of Arms fit and necessary for the security and defence of our said Province; and, by the advice aforesaid, the same again, or any of them to demolish or dismantle, as may be most convenient.

And forasmuch as divers Mutinies and Disorders may happen by persons shipped and employed at Sea, during the time of War; and to the end, that such, as shall be shipped and employed at Sea during the time of War, may be better governed and ordered, we do hereby give and grant unto you, the said Guy Carleton, full power and authority to constitute and appoint Captains, Lieutenants, Masters of Ships, and other Commanders and Officers; and to grant to such Captains, Lieutenants, Masters of Ships, and other Commanders and Officers, Commissions to execute the Law Martial during the time of War, according to the directions of an Act, passed in the twenty-second year of the reign of our late Royal Grandfather, intituled, “An Act for amending, explaining, and reducing into one Act of Parliament, the Laws relating to the Government of His Majesty’s Ships, Vessels, and Forces by Sea;” and to use such proceedings, authorities, punishments, corrections, and executions upon any offender or offenders, who shall be mutinous, seditious, disorderly, or any way unruly either at Sea, or during the time of their abode or residence in any of the Ports, Harbours, or Bays in our said Province, as the case shall be found to require, according to Martial Law; and the said directions, during the time of War, as aforesaid.

Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to the enabling you, or any by your authority to hold plea, or have any jurisdiction of any offence, cause, matter, or thing committed or done upon the High Sea, or within any of the Havens, Rivers, or Creeks of our said Province under your Government, by any Captain, Commander, Lieutenant, Master, Officer. Seaman, Soldier, or other Person whatsoever, who shall be in actual service and pay, in or on board any of our Ships-of-War, or other Vessels acting by immediate Commission or Warrant from our Commissioners for executing the office of our High-Admiral of Great Britain, or from our High-Admiral of Great Britain for the time being, under the Seal of our Admiralty; but that such Captain, Commander, Lieutenant, Master, Officer, Seaman, Soldier, or other Person so offending, shall be left to be proceeded against, and tried, as their offences shall require, either by Commission under our Great Seal of this Kingdom, as the Statute of the twenty-eighth of Henry VIII. directs; or by Commission from our said Commissioners for executing the office of High-Admiral of Great Britain, or from our High-Admiral of Great Britain for the time being, according to the aforementioned Act, intituled, “An Act for amending, explaining, and reducing into one Act of Parliament, the Laws relating to the Government of His Majesty’s Ships, Vessels, and Forces by Sea;” and not otherwise.

Provided, nevertheless, that all disorders and misdemeanors committed on shore by any Captain, Commander, Lieutenant, Master, Officer, Seaman, Soldier, or other Person whatsoever belonging to any of our Ships-of-War, or other Vessels acting by immediate Commission or Warrant from our Commissioners for executing the office of High-Admiral of Great Britain, or from our High-Admiral of Great Britain for the time being, under the seal of our Admiralty, may be tried and punished according to the Laws of the place, where any such disorders, offences, and misdemeanors shall be committed on shore; notwithstanding such offender be in our actual service, and borne in our pay on board any such our Ships-of-War, or other Vessels acting by immediate Commission, or Warrant from our Commissioners for executing the office of High-Admiral of Great Britain, or from our High-Admiral of Great Britain for the time being, as aforesaid, so as he shall not receive any protection for the avoiding of justice for such offences committed on shore from any pretence of his being employed in our service at Sea.

And our further will and pleasure is, that all Publick Moneys granted and raised for the publick uses of our said Province, be issued out by Warrant from you, by and with the advice and consent of our Council, as aforesaid, for the support of the Government, and not otherwise.

And we likewise give and grant unto you full power and authority, by and with the advice and consent of our said Council, to settle and agree with the inhabitants of our said Province for such Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, as now are, or hereafter shall be in our power to dispose of, and them to grant to any person or persons upon such terms and under such moderate quit-rents, services, and acknowledgments to be thereupon reserved unto us, as you, with the advice aforesaid, shall think fit; which said Grants are to pass, and be sealed by our publick seal of our said Province, and being entered upon record by such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed thereunto, shall be good and effectual in Law against us, our heirs and successors.

And we do hereby give you, the said Guy Carleton, full power and authority to order and appoint Fairs, Marts, and Markets; as also such and so many Ports, Harbours, Bays, Havens, and other places for the conveniency and security of shipping, and for the better loading and unloading of Goods and Merchandises, in such and so many places, as by you, with the advice and consent of our said Council, shall be thought fit and necessary.

And we do hereby require and command all Officers and Ministers, Civil and Military, and all other inhabitants of our said Province to be obedient, aiding, and assisting unto you, the said Guy Carleton, in the execution of this our Commission, and of the powers and authorities therein contained; and in case of your death or absence from our said Province and Government, to be obedient, aiding, and assisting as aforesaid, to the Lieutenant Governour or Commander-in-Chief for the time being, to whom we do therefore by these presents give and grant all and singular the powers and authorities herein granted to be by him executed and enjoyed, during our pleasure, or until your arrival within our said Province.

And if upon your death or absence out of our said Province, there be no person upon the place commissionated or appoionted by us to be Lieutenant Governour or Commander-in-Chief of our said Province; our will and pleasure is, that the eldest Councillor, being a natural born subject of Great Britain, Ireland, or the Plantations, and professing the Protestant Religion, who shall be at the time of your death or absence residing within our said Province, shall take upon him the administration of the Government, and execute our said Commission and Instructions, and the several powers and authorities therein contained, in the same manner and to all intents and purposes, as other our Governour or Commander-in-Chief should or ought to do, in case of your absence, until your return, and in all cases until our further pleasure be known therein.

And we do hereby declare, ordain, and appoint, that you, the said Guy Carletan, shall and may hold, execute, and enjoy the Office and place of our Captain-General and Governour-in-Chief, in and over our said Province of Quebeck, and all the Territories dependant thereon; with all and singular the powers and authorities hereby granted unto you, for and during our will and pleasure.

In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patent. Witness ourself at Westminster, the . . . day of . . . . . in the . . . . . year of our reign.