& Successors We will and Ordain that You the said John Montgomery shall have and enjoy a Negative Voice in the making and passing of all Laws Statutes & Ordinances as aforesaid.

Power to ad

And you shall and may likewise from time journ &c As to time as you shall Judge it necessary semblies adjourn prorogue and dissolve all General Assemblys as aforesaid

use

Our further Will and Pleasure is that you shall and Το the may use and heed the publick Seal of Our publick Seal. Province of Nova Cæsaria or New-Jersey for Sealing all things whatsoever that, pass the Great Seal of Our said Province under Your Government.

To Administer

all persons he

We do further give and grant unto you the Oaths to the said John Montgomery full Power and shall think fit Authority from time to time and at any time hereafter by your Self or by any other to be Authorized by you in that behalf to Administer and give the aforemention'd Oaths 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

To Establish

dicature.

And we do further by these Presents give Courts of Ju- and grant unto you the said John Montgomery full Power & Authority with the Advice and Consent of Our said Council to erect constitute and establish such and so many Courts of Judicature and Publick Justice within Our said Province under your Government as you and they shall think fit and necessary for the hearing and determining of all Causes as well Criminal as Civil according to Law and Equity and for awarding of Execution thereupon with all reasonable & necessary Powers Authorities, Fees and Privileges belonging thereto As also to appoint and Commissionate fit Persons in the several parts of your Government to Administer the Oaths mentioned in the aforesaid Act Entituled An Act for the further Security of his Majestys Person and Gov

ernment and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the Princess Sophia being Protestants and for Extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and his Open and Secret Abettors As also to tender and Administer the aforesaid Declaration unto such Persons belonging to the said Courts as shall be obliged to take the same.

To appoint

&c

And We do hereby Authorize and ImJudges Jus power You to constitute and appoint Judges tices of Peace (and in Cases requisite) Commisss of Oyer and Terminer Justices of the Peace and other necessary Officers and Ministers in Our said Province for the better Administration of Justice and putting the Laws in Execution and to Administer or cause to be Administred unto them such Oath or Oaths as are usually given for the due Execution and performance of Offices and Places and for the clearing of Truth in Judicial Causes

May pardon

And We do hereby give and grant unto or Reprieve you full Power and Authority where you shall see Cause or shall Judge any Offender or Offenders in Criminal Matters or for any Fines or Forfeitures due unto Us fit Objects of Our Mercy to pardon all such Offenders and to remit all such Offences Fines and Forfeitures, Treason and Willful Murder alone excepted in which Cases you shall likewise have Power upon extraordinary Occasions to grant Reprieves to the Offenders until and to the Intent Our Royal Pleasure may be known therein.

To Collate
Parsons

We do by these Presents Authorize and to Impower you to Collate any Person or PerBenefices sons to any Churches Chappels or other

Ecclesiastical Benefices within Our said Province as any of them shall happen to be void.

To Arm &

And We do hereby give and grant unto Muster the In- you the said John Montgomery by your Self or by your Caps & Commanders by you to be Authorized full Power and Authority to Levy Arm

habitants

Muster Command and Employ all persons whatsoever residing within Our said Province of Nova Cæsaria or New Jersey under your Government and as Occasion shall serve to March from one Place to another or to embark them for the resisting and withstanding of all Enemies Pirates Rebels both at Sea and Land and to Transport such Forces to any of Our Plantations in America (if necessity shall require for the Defence of the same against the Invasion or Attempts of any of Our Enemies and such Enemies Pirates and Rebels, if To pursueEne- there shall be Occasion to pursue & prose

mies cute in or out of the Limits of Our said Province and Plantations or any of them and if it shall so please God them to vanquish apprehend and take and being taken either according to Law to put to Death or keep and preserve alive at your Discretion and to Execute Martial Law in time of Invasion or other times when by Law it may be Executed and to and Execute do and Execute all and every other thing Martial Law and things which to Our Cap! General and Gov in Chief doth or ought of Right to belong.

To Build Cas

And We do hereby give and grant unto tles. Forts, you full power and Authority by and with Cities, &c the Advice and Consent of Our said Council to erect raise and build in Our said Province of Nova Cæsaria or New Jersey such and so many Forts and Plat Forms Castles Cities Boroughs Towns and Fortifications as you by the Advice aforesaid shall Judge necessary, and the same or any of them to Fortyfy and Furnish with Ordnance Ammunition and all Sorts of Armes 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.

Capins and

To appoint And forasmuch as divers Mutinies and Disorders may happen by Persons Shipped for Sea Ser and Employ'd at Sea during the time of War and to the end that such as shall be

other Officers

vice

Shipped or Imploy'd at Sea during the time of War may be better Governed and Order'd We do hereby give and grant unto you the said John Montgomery full Power and Authority to constitute and appoint Caps Lieu Masters of Ships and other Commanders and Officers Commissions to Execute the Law Martial according to the Directions of An Act pass'd in the 13th Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second Entituled An Act for the Establishing Articles and Orders for the Regulating & better Government of his Majesties Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea during the time of War &c. 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 of Our said Province as the Cause shall be found to require according to Martial Law and the said Directions during the time of War as aforesaid.

Not to

anything done

by Persons

Seas.

Provided that nothing herein contained shall be contake strued to the enabling You or any by your cognizance of Authority to hold Plea or have any Jurisdiction of any Offence Cause Matter or Employed in Thing committed or done upon the High Ships of War on the High Sea or without of the Havens Rivers or Creeks of Our said Province under your Government by any Cap Commander Lieu Master Officer Seaman Soldeer 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 Commisss for Executing the Office of Our High Admiral or from Our High Admiral of Great Britain for the time being under the Seal of Our Admiralty But that such Cap 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 Subjects War or other Vessels acting by Immediate Commission or Warrant from Cur Commiss's for Executing the Office of Our High Admiral or from Our High Admiral of Great Britain for the time being under the Seal of Our Admiralty But that such Cap Commander Lieu' Master, Officer, Seaman Soldier or other Person so Offending shall be left to be proceeded against and try'd as their Offences shall require either by Commission under Our Great Seal of Great Britain as the Statute of the 28th of Henry the Eighth Directs or by Commission from Our said Commisss for Executing the Office of Our High Admiral of Great Britain for the time being according to the aforementioned Act for the Establishing Articles and Orders for the regulating and better Government of His Majestys Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea and not otherwise.

But what is

Try

Provided Nevertheless that all disorders done on Shore and Misdeameanours committed on Shore by such Persons he may by any Cap Commander Lieu 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 said Commiss" for Executing the Office of Our High Admiral or from Our High Admiral of Great Britain for the time being under the Seal of Our Admiralty may be tryed 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 Born in Our Pay on Board any such Our Ships of War or other Vessels Acting by Immediate Commission or Warrant from Our said Commiss" for Executing the Office of Our High Admiral or Our High Admiral of Great Britain for the time being as aforesaid so as he shall not receive any Protection for the