Fourthly-The Government of Grenada comprehending the Island of that Name, together with the Grenadines, and the Islands of Dominica, St. Vincent, and Tobago.

And, to the End that the open and free Fishery of Our Subjects may be extended to and carried on upon the Coast of Labrador, and the adjacent Islands, We have thought fit, with the advice of Our said Privy Council, to put all that Coast, from the River St. John's to Hudson's Streights, together with the Islands of Anticosti and Madelaine, and all other smaller Islands, lying upon the said Coast, under the Care and Inspection of Our Governor of Newfoundland.

We have also, with the advice of Our Privy Council, thought fit to annex the Islands of St. John's and Cape Breton, or Isle Royale, with the lesser Islands adjacent thereto, to Our Government of Nova Scotia.

We have also, with the advice of Our Privy Council aforesaid, annexed to Our Province of Georgia, all the Lands lying between the Rivers Alatamaha and St. Mary's.

And whereas it will greatly contribute to the speedy settling Our said new Governments, that Our loving Subjects should be informed of Our paternal Care for the Security of the Liberties and Properties of those, who are and shall become Inhabitants thereof; We have thought fit to publish and declare, by this Our Proclamation, that We have in the Letters Patent, under our Great Seal of Great Britain, by which the said Governments are constituted, given express Power and Direction to Our Governors of Our said Colonies respectively, that so soon as the State and Circumstances of the said Colonies will admit thereof, they shall, with the Advice and Consent of the Members of Our Council, summon and call General Assemblies, within the said Governments respectively, in such Manner and Form as is used and directed in those Colonies and Provinces in America, which are under Our immediate Government; and We have also given Power to the said Governors, with the Consent of Our said Councils, and the Representatives of the People so to be summoned as aforesaid, to make, constitute, and ordain, Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances for the public Peace, Welfare, and good Government of Our said Colonies, and of the People and Inhabitants thereof, as near as may be agreeable to the Laws of England, and under such Regulations and Restrictions as are used in other Colonies; and, in the mean Time, and until such Assemblies can be called as aforesaid, all Persons inhabiting in or resorting to Our said Colonies, may confide in Our Royal Protection, for the Enjoyment of the Benefit of the Laws of Our Realm of England; for which Purpose, We have given Power under Our Great Seal, to the Governors of Our said Colonies respectively, to erect and constitute, with the Advice of Our said Councils respectively, Courts of Judicature and public Justice, within Our said Colonies, for the hearing and determining all Causes, as well Criminal as Civil, according to Law and Equity, and as near as may be agreeable to the Laws of England, with Liberty to all Persons who may think themselves aggrieved by the Sentences of such Courts, in all Civil Cases, to appeal, under the usual Limitations and Restrictions, to Us, in Our Privy Council.

We have also thought fit, with the Advice of Our Privy Council as aforesaid, to give unto the Governors and Councils of Our said Three new Colonies upon the Continent, full Power and Authority to settle and agree with the Inhabitants of Our said new Colonies, or with any other Persons who shall resort thereto, for such Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, as are now, or hereafter shall be in Our Power to dispose of, and them to grant to any such Person or Persons, upon such Terms, and under such moderate Quit Rents, Services, and Acknowledgments, as have been appointed and settled in Our other Colonies,

and under such other Conditions as shall appear to Us to be necessary and expedient for the Advantage of the Grantees, and the Improvement and Settlement of Our said Colonies.

And whereas We are desirous, upon all Occasions, to testify Our Royal Sense and Approbation of the Conduct and Bravery of the Officers and Soldiers of Our Armies, and to reward the Same, We do hereby command and impower Our Governors of Our said Three new Colonies, and all other Our Governors of Our several Provinces on the Continent of North America, to grant, without Fee or Reward, to such reduced Officers as have served in North America, during the late War, and to such Private Soldiers as have been or shall be disbanded in America, and are actually residing there, and shall personally apply for the Same, the following Quantities of Lands, subject, at the Expiration of Ten Years, to the same Quit Rents as other Lands are subject to, in the Province within which they are granted, as also subject to the same Conditions of Cultivation and Improvement, viz.

To every Person, having the Rank of a Field Officer, 5,000 Acres.

To every Captain, 3,000 Acres.

To every Subaltern or Staff Officer, 2,000 Acres.

To every Non-Commissioned Officer, 200 Acres.

To every Private Man, 50 Acres.

We do likewise authorize and require the Governors and Commanders in Chief of all Our said Colonies upon the Continent of North America, to grant the like Quantities of Land, and upon the same Conditions, to such reduced Officers of Our Navy, of like Rank, as served on Board Our Ships of War in North America, at the Times of the Reduction of Louisbourg and Quebec, in the late War, and who shall personally apply to Our respective Governors for such Grants.

And whereas it is just and reasonable, and essential to Our Interest, and the Security of Our Colonies, that the several Nations or Tribes of Indians, with whom We are connected, and who live under Our Protection, should not be molested or disturbed in the Possession of such Parts of Our Dominions and Territories as, not having been ceded to or purchased by Us, are reserved to them or any of them, as their Hunting Grounds, We do therefore, with the Advice of Our Privy Council, declare it to be Our Royal Will and Pleasure, that no Governor or Commander in Chief in any of Our Colonies of Quebec, East Florida, or West Florida, do presume, upon any Pretence whatever to grant Warrants of Survey, or pass any Patents for Lands beyond the Bounds of their respective Governments, as described in their Commissions; as also, that no Governor or Commander in Chief, in any of Our other Colonies or Plantations in America, do presume, for the present, and until our further Pleasure be known, to grant Warrants of Survey, or pass Patents for any Lands beyond the Heads or Sources of any of the Rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from the West and Northwest; or upon any Lands whatever, which not having been ceded to or purchased by Us as aforesaid, are reserved to the said Indians, or any of them.

And we do further declare it to be Our Royal Will and Pleasure, for the present as aforesaid, to reserve under Our Sovereignty, Protection and Dominion, for the Use of the said Indians, all the Lands and Territories, not included within the Limits of Our said Three new Governments, or within the Limits of the Territory granted to the Hudson's Bay Company; as also all the Lands and Territories lying to the Westward of the Sources of the Rivers which fall into the Sea, from the West and Northwest as aforesaid; and We do hereby strictly forbid, on pain of Our Displeasure, all Our loving Subjects from making any Purchases or Settlements whatever, or taking Possession of any of the

Lands above reserved, without Our especial Leave and Licence, for that Purpose first obtained.

And, We do further strictly enjoin and require all Persons whatever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any Lands, within the Countries above described, or upon any other Lands, which, not having been ceded to or purchased by Us, are still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to remove themselves from such Settlements.

And whereas great Frauds and Abuses have been committed in the purchasing Lands of the Indians, to the great Prejudice of Our Interests, and to the great Dissatisfaction of the said Indians: In order, therefore, to prevent such Irregularities for the future, and to the End that the Indians may be convinced of Our Justice and determined Resolution to remove all reasonable Cause of Discontent, We do, with the Advice of Our Privy Council, strictly enjoin and require that no private Person do presume to make any Purchase from the said Indians of any Lands, reserved to the said Indians, within those Parts of Our Colonies, where we have thought proper to allow Settlement; but that if, at any Time, any of the said Indians should be inclined to dispose of the said Lands, the Same shall be purchased only for Us in Our Name, at some public Meeting or Assembly of the said Indians, to be held for that Purpose, by the Governor or Commander in Chief of our Colonies respectively, within which they shall lie: And in case they shall lie within the Limits of any Proprietary Government, they shall be purchased only for the Use, and in the Name of such Proprietaries, conformable to such Directions and Instructions as We or they shall think proper to give for that Purpose. And, We do, by the Advice of Our Privy Council, declare and enjoin that the Trade with the said Indians shall be free and open to all Our Subjects whatever; Provided, that every Person, who may incline to Trade with the said Indians, do take out a License for carrying on such Trade, from the Governor or Commander in Chief of any of Our 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 Licence 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, Misprisions of Treason, Murders, or other Felonies or Misdemeanors, 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 7th day of October, 1763, in the
Third Year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

A PROCLAMATION.

GEORGE THE THIRD, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. &c. &c.

To all Our loving Subjects, whom these Presents shall or may concern.

WHEREAS We have, by Our Royal Proclamation, given at Our Court at St. James's, the Seventh Day of October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixtythree, and in the Third Year of Our Reign, divided our extensive and valuable Acquisitions in America, secured to Our Crown by the late Definitive Treaty of Peace, concluded at Paris the Tenth Day of February then last past, into Four Distinct Governments, styled and called by the names of Quebec, East Florida, West Florida, and Grenada; and having taken into our Royal Consideration, how greatly it would contribute to the speedy Settling our said new Governments, that Our loving Subjects should be informed of Our paternal Care for the Security of the Liberties and Properties of those who then were and should become Inhabitants thereof, We did think fit to publish and declare by that Our Proclamation, that We had in the Letters Patent, under Our Great Seal of Great Britain, by which the said Governments were constituted, given express Power and Direction to Our Governors of our said Colonies respectively, that so soon as the State and Circumstances of the said Colonies would admit thereof, they should, by and with the Advice of the Members of our Council, summon and call General Assemblies within the said Governments respectively, in such Manner and Form as is directed in those Colonies and Provinces in America, which were under Our immediate Government; and We had also given Power to the said Governors, with the Consent of Our said Councils and the Representatives of the People, so to be summoned as aforesaid, to make, constitute, and ordain, Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances, for the public Peace, Welfare, and good Government of Our said Colonies, and of the People and Inhabitants thereof, as were or might be agreeable to the Laws of England, under such Regulations and Restrictions as are used in other Our Colonies; and in the mean time, and until such Assemblies could be called as aforesaid, all Persons inhabiting in, or resorting to, Our said Colonies, might confide in Our Royal Protection, for the Enjoyment of the Benefit of the Laws of the Realm of England, for which purpose We had given Power under Our Great Seal, to the Governors of Our said Colonies respectively, to erect and constitute, with the Advice of our said Councils respectively, Courts of Judicature and Public Justice within Our said Colonies, for the Hearing and Determining all Causes, as well Criminal as Civil, according to Law and Equity, and as near as might be agreeable to the Laws of England, with Liberty to all Persons who might think themselves aggrieved by the Sentences of such Courts, in all Civil Cases, to appeal, under the usual Limitations and Restrictions, to Us in Our Privy Council.

And whereas We have been given to understand, that through some doubt of the Intention of Our said Proclamation, Courts do still subsist in this Island of Grenada, wherein Methods of Determining Property and Administering Justice, not founded or regulated by the Happy Constitution of Our Kingdom, do still prevail, and being graciously pleased to extend the Benefit of the Laws of England to Our new adopted Subjects, as well as to those born under Our Allegiance, and to make both the equal Objects of Our paternal Care, We have therefore thought fit, with the Advice of Our Captain General ROBERT MELVILL, Esquire, Governor in Chief in and over the Southern Charibbee Islands of Grenada, the Grenadines, Dominico, St. Vincent, and Tobago, in America; and of all other Our Islands and Territories adjacent thereto, and which now are, or heretofore have been, dependent thereupon, &c. &c. &c. and Our said Council, to issue this Our Royal Proclamation, hereby to publish and declare to all Our loving Subjects, that the Laws of Great Britain are in force in this Island, as far as the Nature and Circumstances of the Colony will permit; and that all other Jurisdictions, Offices, Commissions and Proceedings for the future, not founded on those Our Laws of England, are hereby declared to be absolutely determined, utterly void, and totally abolished.

And We do further declare it, to be Our Will and Pleasure, and do hereby strictly enjoin and require it, that all who have been, and now are, Notaries in this Island, forthwith upon the Publication of this Proclamation, shall collect all Patents, Grants, Plans, Surveys, and Conveyances of all kinds, Mortgages, Marriage Contracts, Last Wills, and all Deeds, Papers, and Instruments of Writing whatsoever, that have been considered as Records in their several Offices, and arrange them according to their Nature, in separate Bundles, inclosed in Inventories mentioning each Paper contained in each respective Bundle, and deliver them into the Register's Office of this Our Island of Grenada, within two Calendar Months from the Date hereof.

And We do hereby forbid all Persons whatsoever, to presume to act in Opposition to Our Declaration hereby published, under Pain of Our highest Displeasure.

Witness: ROBERT MELVILL, Esquire, Our Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Southern Charibbee Islands of Grenada, the Grenadines, Dominico, St. Vincent's, and Tobago, in America, and all other Our Islands and Territories adjacent thereto, and which now are, or heretofore have been dependent thereupon, &c. &c. &c.

Given at Our Town of Fort Royal, the Nineteenth Day of December, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixtyfour, and in the Fifth Year of Our Reign.

By His Excellency's Command,

ALEXANDER SYMPSON.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

ROBERT MELVILL.