nies, and other our governors of our several provinces on the continent of North America, to grant, without fee or reward, to fuch reduced officers as have ferved in North America during the late war, and are actually refiding there, and fhall perfonally apply for the fame, the following quantities of land, fubject, at the expiration of ten years, to the fame quit-rents as other lands are fubject to in the province within which they are granted, as alfo fubject to the fame

conditions of cultivation and improvement, viz.

To every perfon having the rank of a field officer, 5000 acres.

To every captain, 3000 acres. To every fubaltern or staff of ficer, 2000 acres.

To every non-commiffion officer,

200 acres.

To every private man 50 acres. We do likewise authorife and require the governors and commanders in chief of all our faid colonies upon the continent of North America to grant the like quantities of land, and upon the fame conditions, to fuch reduced officers of our navy of like rank, as ferved 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 fhall perfonally apply to our respective governors for fuch grants.

And whereas it is juft and reasonable, and effential to our intereft, and the fecurity of our colonies, that the feveral nations or tribes of Indians, with whom we are connected, and who live under our protection, fhould not be molefted or disturbed in the poffeffion of fuch parts of our dominions and territories as, not having been ceded to, or purchased by us, are re

ferved 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, Eaft Florida, or Weft Florida, do prefume, upon any pretence whatever, to grant warrants of furvey, or pass any patents for lands beyond the bounds of their respective governments, as defcribed in their commiflions; as alfo that no go

vernor or commander in chief of our other colonies or plantations in America, do prefume for the prefent, and until our further pleafure be known, to grant warrant of furvey, or pafs patents for any lands beyond the heads or fources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or north west; or upon any lands whatever, which not having been ceded to, or purchased by us, as aforefaid, are referved to the faid Indians, or any of them.

And we do further declare it to be our royal will and pleasure, for the prefent, as aforefaid, to reserve under our fovereignty, protection and dominion, for the ufe of the faid Indians, all the land and territories not included within the li mits of our faid three new govern ments, or within the limits of the territory granted to the Hudfon's Bay company; as alfo all the land and territories lying to the weftward of the fources of the rivers which fall into the sea from the weft and north-weft as aforefaid; and we do hereby ftrictly forbid, on pain of our difpleasure, all our loving fubjects from making any purchafes or fettlements whatever, or taking poffeffion of any of the lands above referved.

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without our efpecial leave and licence for that purpose first obtained.

And we do further strictly enjoin and require all perfons whatever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently feated themselves upon any lands within the countries above defcribed, or upon any other lands, which not having been ceded to, or purchased by us, are ftill referved to the faid Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to remove themselves from fuch fettlements.

And whereas great frauds and abuses have been committed in the purchafing lands of the Indians, to the great prejudice of our interefts, and to the great diffatisfaction of the faid Indians; in order therefore to prevent fuch iregularities for the future, and to the end that the Indians may be convinced of our juftice and determined refolution to remove all reafonable caufe of difcontent, we do, with the advice of our privy council, ftriatly enjoin and require, that no private perfon do prefume to make any purchase from the faid Indians of any lands referved to the faid Indians within thofe parts of our colonies where we have thought proper to allow fettlement; but that if at any time any of the faid Indians fhould be in clined to difpofe of the faid lands, the fame fhall be purchafed only for us, in our name, at fome public meeting or affembly of the faid Indians, to be held for that purpose by the governor or commander in chief of our colony refpectively within which they fhall lie: and in cafe they fhall lie within the limits of any proprietaries, conformable to fuch directions and inftructions as we or they fhall think proper to give for that pur

pofe: and we do, by the advice of our privy council, declare and enjoin, that the trade with the faid Indians fhall be free and open to all our fubjects whatever, provided that every perfon who may incline to trade with the faid Indians, do take out a licence for carrying on fuch trade, from the governor or commander in chief of any of our colonies refpectively, where fuch perfon fhall refide, and alfo give fecurity to obferve fuch regulations as we shall at any time think fit, by ourselves or commiffaries, to be appointed for this purpofe, to direct and appoint for the benefit of the faid trade : and we do hereby authorise, enjoin, and require the governors and commanders in chief of all our colonies refpectively, as well those under our immediate government, as thofe under the government and direction of proprietaries, to grant fuch licences without fee or reward, taking efpecial care to infert therein a condition that fuch licence fhall be void, and the fecurity forfeited, in cafe the perfon to whom the fame is granted, fhall refufe or neglect to obferve fuch regulations as we fhall think proper to prefcribe as aforefaid.

And we do further exprefly enjoin and require all officers whatever, as well military as thofe employed in the management and direction of Indian affairs within the territories referved, as aforefaid, for the ufe of the faid Indians, to feize and apprehend all perfons, whatever, who ftanding charged with treafons, mifprifions of treafon, murders, or other felonies or mifdemeanours, fhall fly from juftice and take refuge in the faid territory, and to fend them under a proper guard to the colony

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treaty, and should in like manner be ratified by the high contracting parties, they would not defer carrying this ftipulation into executi ́on and for that purpose, her imperial majefty, apoftolic queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and his majesty the king of Pruffia, declare, that they do by name and exprefly include in the aforefaid treaty of peace of the 15th of February 1763,their allies and friends, viz. On the part of her majefty the emprefs apoftolic queen of Hungary and Bohemia, his majefty the moft chriftian king, his majefty the king of Sweden, his majefty the king of Poland elector of Saxony, and all the princes and ftates of the empire, who are either her allies or her friends;-and on the part of his Pruflian majefty, the king of Great Britain, elector of Brunswick Lunenburg, the moft ferene duke of Brunfwick Lunenburgh, and the most ferene landgrave of Heffe-Caffel.

The high contracting parties do likewife include in the aforefaid treaty of peace of the 15th of February 1763, her majefty the emprefs of all the Ruffias, in confequence of the bonds of friendship which fubfift between her and the

two high contracting parties, and of the intereft which her majefty has declared that he takes in the re-establishment of the tranquility of Germany.

In witness whereof, we the plenipotentiaries of her majefty the emprefs queen, and of his majefty the king of Pruffia, have, by virtue of our full powers and inftructions, figned the prefent act, which fhall have the fame force, as if it was inferted word for word in the treaty of peace of the 15th of February 1763, and fhall be ra

tified in like manner by the two high contracting parties. Done at Drefden the 12th of March, and at Berlin the 20th, in the year 1763. Ewald Frederic de Hertzberg. The exemplar of the court of Vienna is figned,

Henry Gabriell de Collenbach. Although this feparate act be of itself of no great importacce, yet it is remarkable, as it fhews that either the court of Vienna, or that of Berlin, were not, on the 15th of February, in fo good an humour with their allies, as they afterwards came to be on the 12th of March; and if we compare the 13th article of the preliminaries between France and us, with what afterwards happened, we may perhaps guess at the reason of their not naming their friends and allies in the treaty of peace which they concluded on the 15th of February.

Abstract of the convention made between the king of Sardinia, the Moft Chriftian king, and the Catholic king, concerning the pretenfions of his Sardinian majefty to the duchy of Placentia.

ART. 1. THEIR moft chriftian I. and catholic majefties acknowledge again, in favour of the king of Sardinia, the right of reverfion to the fovereignty of the city of Placentia, and to the part of the Placentine as far as the river Nura, as mentioned in the treaty of Aixla-Chapelle, in cafe of failure of the male line of the infant don Philip, as alfo in cafe this prince or his heirs fhould fucceed to one of the crowns of his family.

II. Their most chriftian and catholic majefties guaranty the aforefaid reverfion against all powers that might attempt to oppofe it.

III. Till