GEORGE R

«Instructions to Our trusty and well beloved JaAMEs Murray, Esq., Our Captain General and Governor in Chief, in and over Our Province of Quebec in America, and of all Our Territories dependent thereupon, Given at Our Court at St. James, the seventh day of December, one thou-

(1) Premier Plumitif du Greffe de Montréal sous le règne militaire.

sand seven hundred and sixty-three, in the fourth year of Our Reign.

«!. With these Our Instructions you will receive Our Commission under Our Great Seal of Great Britain constituting you Our Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over Our Province of Quebec in America, bounded on the Labrador Coast by the River Saint 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 Nipissin ; from whence the said line crossing the River St. Lawrence and the Lake Champlain in forty-five degrees of North Latitude passes along the high lands, 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 Bay des Chaleur and the Coast of the Gulph of Saint Lawrence to Cape Rosiers, and from thence crossing the mouth of the River Saint Lavrrence by the west end of the Islands of Anticosti, terminates at the aforesaid River of Saint John, You are therefore to take upon you the execution of the office and trust We have reposed in you, and the Administration of Government and to do and execute all things in due manner that shall belong to your command, according to the several powers and authorities of Our said Commission under Our Great Seal of Great Britain, and these Our Instructions to you, or according to such further powers and Instructions as shall at any time hereafter be granted or appoiuted you under Our signet and sign manual or by Our order in Our Privy Council.