dertakers of any discoveries, plantations or traffic of, in or into any foreign parts whatfoever, and in as large and ample manner as if the fame were herein particularly mentioned and expreffed. To have, hold, poffefs and enjoy the faid feven Habendum. undivided parts (the whole into eight equal parts to be divi ded as aforefaid) of all and fingular the faid lands, countries and territories, with all and fingular other the premises herein before by these prefents granted or mentioned, or intended to be granted, to them the faid corporation, and their fucceffors for ever, for the better fupport of the faid colony. To be holden of us, our heirs and fucceffors, as of our ma- Tenendum. nor of Hampton Court, in our county of Middlefex, in fee and common foccage, and not in capite; yielding and pay- Quit-rent. ing therefore to us, our heirs and fucceffors, yearly for ever, the fum of four fhillings for every hundred acres of the faid lands which the faid corporation fhall grant, demife, plant or fettle, the faid payment not to commence, or be made, until ten years after fuch grant, demife, planting or fettling,. and to be answered and paid to us, our heirs and fucceffors, in fuch manner,, and in fuch fpecies of money or notes as shall be current in payment by proclamation, from time to time, in our faid province of South Carolina; all which Erection of lands, countries, territories and premises hereby granted or the faid mentioned, or intended to be granted, we do by thefe pre-lands herefents make, erect and create one independent and feparate by granted, province, by the name of Georgia; by which name we will vince by the the fame henceforth to be called, and that all and every per- name of fon and perfons who fhall at any time hereafter inhabit or Georgia. refide within our faid province, fhall be and are hereby declared to be free, and fhall not be fubject to, or be bound to obey, any laws, orders, ftatutes or conftitutions which have been heretofore made, ordered, or enacted, or which hereaf ter fhall be made, ordered, or enacted, by, for, or as the laws, orders, ftatutes or conftitutions by our faid province of South Carolina (fave and except only the command in chief of the militia of our faid province of Georgia to our governor for the time being of South Carolina, in manner herein after declared); but shall be fubject to and bound to obey fuch laws, orders, ftatutes and conftitutions, as shall from time to time be made, ordered and enacted for the better government of the faid province of Georgia, in the manner herein after directed. And we do hereby for us, our heirs and fucceffors, ordain, will, and establish, that for and during the term of one-and-twenty years, to commence from the date of these our letters patent, the faid corporation affembled for that pur

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pofe, fhall and may form and prepare laws, ftatutes and ordinances, fit and neceffary for and concerning the government of the faid colony, and not repugnant to the laws and ftatutes of England; and the fame fhall and may prefent under their common feel to us, our heirs and fucceffors, in our or their privy-council, for our or their approbation or difallowance; and the faid laws, ftatutes and ordinances, being approved by us, our heirs and fucceffors, in our or their privy-council, fhall from thenceforth be in full force and virtue, within our faid province of Georgia. And forafmuch as the good and profperous fuccefs of the faid colony cannot, but chiefly depend, next under the bleffing of God, and the fupport of our royal authority, upon the provident and good direction of the whole enterprize, and that it will be too great a burthen upon all the members of the faid corporation to be convened fo often as may be requifite to hold meetings for the fettling, fupporting, ordering, and maintaining fuch colony; therefore we do will, ordain, and establish, that the faid common council, for the time being, of the faid corporation, being affembled for that purpose, or the major part of them, fhall, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, have full power and authority to difpofe of, expend, and apply all the monies and effects belonging to the faid corporation, in fuch manner and ways, and in fuch expences as they fhall think beft to conduce to the carrying on and effecting the good purposes herein mentioned and intended; and alfo fhall have full power, in the name and on the account of the said corporation, and with and under their common feal, to enter into any covenants and contracts for carrying on and effecting the purposes aforefaid. our further will and pleasure is, that the faid common council for the time being, or the major part of fuch of the faid common council, which fhall be prefent and affembled for that purpose, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, fhall and may nominate, conftitute, and appoint, a treasurer or treasurers, fecretary or fecretaries, and fuch other officers, minifters, and fervants of the faid corporation, as to them, or the major part of fuch of them as fhall be prefent, fhall feem proper or requifite for the good management of their affairs, and at their will and pleasure to difplace, remove, and put qut fuch treasurer or treasurers, fecretary or secretaries, and all fuch other officers, minifters, or fervants, as often as they fhall think fit fo to do, and others in the room, office, place, or ftead of him or them fo difplaced, removed, or put out, to nominate, conftitute, and appoint; and fhall and may determine

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determine and appoint fuch reasonable falaries, perquifites, or other rewards, for the labour or fervices of fuch officers, fervants and perfons, as to the faid common council shall leem meet; and all fuch officers fhall, before they act in their respective offices, take an oath, to be to them adminiftered by the chairman for the time being of the faid common council of the faid corporation, who is hereby authorized to adminifter the fame, for the faithful and due execution of their respective offices and places. And our will and pleasure is, that all and every perfon and perfons, who shall from time to time be chofen or appointed treasurer or treafurers, fecretary or fecretaries of the faid corporation, in manner herein before directed, fhall, during fuch time as they fhall ferve in the faid offices refpectively, be incapable of being a member of the faid corporation. And we do further, of our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, for us, our heirs and fucceffors, grant by these prefents to the said corporation, and their fucceffors, that it fhall be lawful for them, and their officers or agents, at all times hereafter, to tranfport and convey out of our realm of Great Britain, or any other our dominions, into the faid province of Georgia, to be there fettled, all fuch and fo many of our loving fubjects, or any foreigners that are willing to become our fubjects, and live under our allegiance in the faid colony, as fhall willingly go to inhabit and refide there, with fufficient fhipping, armour, weapons, ordnance, munition, powder, fhot, victuals, and fuch merchandize or wares as are efteemed by the wild people in thofe parts, cloathing, implements, furniture, cattle, horfes, mares, and all other things neceffary for the faid colony, and for their use and defence, and trade with the people there, and in paffing and returning to and from the fame. Also we do, for us, General deour heirs and fucceffors, declare by these prefents, that all mization of and every the perfons, which fhall happen to be born within all perfons that shall the faid province, and every of their children and pofterity, be born in fhall have and enjoy all liberties, franchifes, and immunities that proof free denizens, and natural-born fubjects, within any of vince. our dominions, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been abiding and born within this our kingdom of Great Britain, or any other of our dominions. And for the greater Liberty of eafe and encouragement of our loving fubjects, and fuch confcience others as fhall come to inhabit in our faid colony, we do, by exercife of thefe prefents, for us, our heirs and fucceffors, grant, efta- their religi blish and ordain, that for ever hereafter there fhall be a li- on to all berty of conscience allowed in the worship of God, to all per- perfons, exfons inhabiting, or which shall inhabit, or be refident within pists.

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affign and fet over fuch particular portions of the lands, tenements, and hereditaments, by these presents granted to the faid corporation, unto fuch of our loving fubjects, natural-born, or denizens, or others that shall be willing to become our subjects, and live under our allegiance in the faid colony, upon fuch terms, and for fuch eftates, and upon fuch rents, refervations, and conditions, as the fame may lawfully be granted, and as to the faid common council, or the major part of them so present, fhall feem fit and proper. Provided always, that no grant fhall be made of any part of the faid lands unto any perfon, being a member of the faid corporation, or to any other perfon in truft for, or for the benefit of any member of the said corporation; and that no perfon having any estate or intereft in law or equity in any part of the faid lands, fhall be capable of being a member of the faid corporation, during the continuance of fuch eftate or intereft. Provided alfo, that no greater quantity of the faid perfon may land be granted either entirely, or in parcels, to, or to the than 500 ufe of, or in truft for, any one perfon, thanfive hundred acres; and that all grants made contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof fhall be abfolutely null and void. And or folem af we do hereby grant and ordain, that fuch person and perfons firmations for the time being, as fhall be thereunto appointed by the faid to be admi- corporation, fhall and may, at all times, and from time to all perfons time hereafter, have full power and authority to admifhall inha- nifter and give the oaths appointed by an act of parliament bit the faid made in the first year of the reign our late royal father, to be province.

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taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and fupremacy, and alfo the oath of abjuration, to all and every perfon and perfons which fhall at any time be inhabiting or refiding within our faid colony, and in like cafes to adminifter the folemn affirmation to any of the perfons commonly called Quakers, in fuch manner as by the laws of our realm of Great Britain the fame be administered. And we do of our further may erect courts grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, grant, eftablish of judica and ordain, for us, our heirs and fucceffors, that the faid corporation, and their fucceffors, fhall have full power and

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authority, for and during the term of one-and-twenty years, to commence from the date of these our letters patent, tó erect and conftitute judicatures and courts of record, or other courts, to be held in the name of us, our heirs and fucceffors, for the hearing and determining of all manner of crimes, offences, pleas, proceffes, plaints, actions, matters, causes, and things whatsoever, arifing or happening within the faid province of Georgia, or between perfons inhabiting or refiding there, whether the fame be criminal or civil, and whether the faid crimes be capital or not capital, and whether the faid pleas be real, perfonal or mixed, and for awarding and making out executions thereupon; to which courts and judicatures we do hereby for us, our heirs and fucceffors, give and grant full power and authority from time to time to adminifter oaths for the discovery of truth in any matters in controversy, or depending before them, or the folemn affirmation to any of the perfons commonly called Quakers, in fuch manner as by the laws of our realm of Great Britain the fame may be administered. And our further will and pleasure is, that Conveyanthe faid corporation, and their fucceffors, do from time to ces of lands time, and at all times hereafter, regifter, or caufe to be re- in the agistered, all fuch leafes, grants, plantings, conveyances, fet- prov tlements, and improvements whatfoever, as fhall at any time made by hereafter be made by or in the name of the faid corporation, the aforeof any lands, tenements, or hereditaments within the faid ration, fhail province, and fhall yearly fend or tranfmit, or caufe to be be regifterfent or tranfmitted, authentic account of fuch leafes, grants, ed by them. conveyances, fettlements, and improvements refpectively, unto the auditor of the plantations for the time being, or his deputy, and alfo to our furveyor, for the time being, of our faid province of South Carolina; to whom we do hereby grant full power and authority, from time to time, as often as need fhall require, to infpect and furvey fuch of the faid lands and premifes, as fhall be demifed, granted, and fettled as aforefaid; which faid furvey and infpection we do hereby declare to be intended to ascertain the quit rents which fhall from time to time become due to us, our heirs and fucceffors, according to the refervation herein before mentioned, and for no other purpose whatsoever; hereby for us, our heirs and fucceffors, ftrictly injoining and commanding that neither our or their furveyor, or any perfon whatsoever, under the pretext and colour of making the faid furvey or infpecting, Thall take, demand, or receive any gratuity, fee or reward, "of or from any perfon or perfons inhabiting in the faid colony, or from the faid corporation or common council thereof, on the pain of forfeiture of their office, or offices, and incur

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