or Suspension of any of our said Councillors, or otherwise, there shall be wanting in our said Council, any three whereof we do appoint to be a Quorum, Our Will and Pleasure is, that you signify the same unto us, by the first opportunity, that we may under our Signet and Sign Manual constitute and appoint others in their stead; but that our affairs may not suffer at that instant, for want of a due Number of Councillors, if ever it should happen that there should be less than seven of them residing in our şaid Province, we do hereby give and grant unto you the said Lord Cornbury, full Power and Authority to chuse as many Persons out of the Principal Freeholders, Inhabitants thereof, as will make up the full number of our said Council to be seven, and no more, which persons so chosen and appointed by you, shall be to all Intents and Purposes Councillors in our said Province, until either they shall be confirmed by us, or that by the Nomination of others by us, under our Sign Manual and Signet, our said Council shall have seven or more Persons in it. And we do hereby give and grant unto you, full Power and Authority, with the advice and consent of our said Council from Time to Time, as need shall require, to summon and call General Assemblies of the Freeholders and Planters within your Government, in manner and form as shall be directed in our Instructions which shall be given you, together with this our Commission. Our Will and Pleasure is, that the Persons thereupon duly elected, by the Major part of the Freeholders of the respective Counties and Places so returned, and having before sitting, taken the Oaths appointed by Act of Parliament to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and the Oath mentioned in the aforesaid Act, entitled, An Act to declare the Alteration in the Oath appointed to be taken by the Act, entitled, An

Act for the further Security of his Majesty's Person, and the Succession of the Crown in the Protestant Line, ́and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and all other Pretenders, and their open and secret Abettors, and for declaring the Association to be determined; as also the aforementioned Test: Which Oath you shall commissionate fit Persons under our Seal of NovaCæsarea, or New-Jersey, to administer unto them, and without taking of which Oaths and subscribing the said Test, none shall be capable of sitting though elected, shall be called and held the General Assembly of that our Province, and that you the said Lord Cornbury, by and with the Advice and Consent of our Council and Assembly, or the Major part of them respectively, shall have full Power and Authority to make, constitute, and ordain Laws, Statutes and Ordinances, for the publick Peace, Welfare, and good Government of our said Province, and of the People and Inhabitants thereof, and such others as shall report thereto, and for the Benefit of us, our Heirs, and Successors, which said Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances are not to be repugnant, but as near as may be agreeable unto the Laws and Statutes of this our Kingdom of England. Provided that all such Laws, Statutes and Ordinances of what nature or duration soever, be within three Months or sooner, after the making thereof, transmitted to us, under our Seal of Nova-Caesarea, or New-Jersey, for our Approbation or Disallowance of them, as also Duplicates thereof by the next conveyance, or in case any or all of them being not before confirmed by us, shall at any Time be disallowed and not approved, and so signified by us, our Heirs or Successors, under our or their Sign Manual and Signet, or by Order of our or their privy Council, unto you the said Lord Cornbury, or to the Commander in Chief of our

said Province for the Time being, then such and so many of them as shall be disallowed and not approved shall from thenceforth cease, determine, and become utterly void and of none effect, any Thing to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. And to the end that nothing may be passed or done by our said Council or Assembly, to the prejudice of our Heirs and Successors, we will and ordain, that you the said Lord Cornbury, shall have and enjoy a Negative Power in the making and passing of all Laws, Statutes and Ordinances as aforesaid. And that you shall and may likewise from Time to Time, as you shall judge it necessary, adjourn, prorogue and dissolve all General Assemblies. Our Will and Pleasure is, that you shall and may use and keep the publick Seal of our Province of Nova-Cæsarea, or New-Jersey, for Sealing all Things whatsoever that pass the Great Seal of our said Province under your Government. And we do further give and grant unto you the said Lord Cornbury, full Power and Authority, from Time to Time, and at all Times hereafter, by yourself, or by any other to be authorized by you in that behalf, to administer and give the Oaths appointed by Act of Parliament, instead of the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy, to all and every such Person and 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 do further give and grant unto you, full Power and 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 execution thereupon with all reasonable and necessary

Powers, Authorities, Fees and Privileges belonging unto them; and also to appoint and commissionate fit Persons in the several Parts of your Government to administer the Oaths appointed by Act of Parliament to be taken instead of the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy, and the Oath mentioned in the aforesaid Act, entitled, An Act to declare the Alteration in the Oath to be taken by the Act, entitled, An Act for the further Security of his Majesty's Person, and the Succession of the Crown in the Protestant Line, and for the extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and all other Pretenders, and their open and secret Abettors, and for declaring the Association to be determined; as also the Test, unto such Persons as shall be obliged to take the same. And we do hereby authorize and empower you to constitute and appoint Judges, and in Cases requisite, Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, Justices of the Peace, and other necessary Officers and Magistrates in our said Province, for the better administration of Justice, and putting the Laws in Execution; and to administer, or cause to be administered unto them, such Oath or Oaths as are usually given for the due Execution and Performace of Offices and Places, and for the clearing of Truth in judicial Causes. And we do hereby give and grant unto you, full Power and Authority where you shall see Cause, or Judge any Offender or Offenders in Criminal Matters, or 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, Treasons and wilful Murder only excepted, in which case you shall likewise have Power upon extraordinary Occasions, to grant reprises to the Offenders, until and to the Intent our Royal Pleasure may be known therein. And we do by these presents authorize and impower you to collate any Person

or Persons to any Churches, Chappels or other ecclesiastical Benefices within our said Province, as often as any of them shall happen to be void. And we do hereby give and grant unto you the said Lord Cornbury, by your self, and by your Captains and Commanders, by you to be authorized, full Power and Authority to levy, arm, muster, command and employ all Persons whatsoever residing within our said Province of Nova-Cæsarea, or New-Jersey, and as occasion shall serve them, to Transport from one place to another for the resisting and withstanding of all Enemies, Pirates, and 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 and attempts of any of our Enemies, Pirates and Rebels, if there shall be occasion to pursue and prosecute in or out of the Limits of our said Province and Plantations, or any of them; and if it shall 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, Insurrection or War, and to do and execute all and every other Thing and Things, which to any Captain General and Governor in Chief, doth or ought of right 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 of Nova-Cæsarea, or New-Jersey, such and so many Forts, Platforms, Castles, Cities, Burroughs, Towns, and Fortifications, as you by the Advice aforesaid, shall judge necessary, and the same, or any of them, to fortify and furnish with Ordinance, 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