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Letters Patent, under our Great Seal of Great Britain, to erect within tlio Countries and Islands ceded and con- 

 firmed to us by the said Treaty, four distinct and separale Governnieiits, styled and called by the names of (.Québec, 

 East Florida, West Murida and Grenada, and liuiitcil and boinuled as follows, viz. : 



" First, the Government of Quebec, bounded," etc. 



"Secondly, the Governnjent of East Florida, bounded," etc. 



" Thirdly, tbo Government of West Florida, bounded," etc. 



'■ Fourthly, the Government of Grenada, comprebenJing the Island of that name, toi;ether witli tlio Grenadines 

 and the Islands of Doininica, St- Vincent and Tobajio. 



" And to the end tliat the oiteu an.l free Fishery of our subjects may bo extended to and carried on upon tlie 

 Coast of Labrador and tlie adjacent Islands, we have tliout;ht tit, witli tlie advice of our said Privy Council, to put 

 all that Coast, from the Kiver St. .lobn's to Hudson's Streifrhts, together witli tbo Islands of A nticosta and Made- 

 lane, and all other smaller Islands lying upun the said Coast, under the care and inspection of our Governor of 

 Newfoundland. 



" We have also, with the advice of o'jr Privy Council, thought fit to annex the Islands of St. John and Cape 

 Breton, or Isle Itoyale, w itli the lesser Islands adjacent thereto, to our Government of Nova Scotia. 



"We have also, with the advice of our Privy Council aforesaid, annexed to our Province of Georgia all the 

 lands lying between the Rivers Attamaba and St. Mary's." ....... 



In 178-1 (iGtb August), the province of Nova Scotia was divided by the king's letters-patent, constituting all the 

 parts north of the Bay of Fundy a separate province, named New Brunswick, and apjiointing Thomas Carleton 

 ciptaiii-general and governor-in-chief in and over the same. 



In the same year (3rd September, 1781), letters-patent were also issued appointing Joseph Frederick Wallet 

 DesBarres, Esquire, lieutonant-govenior of Cape Breton and its dependencies, and directing him to " exercise and 

 enjoy the said office of Lieutenant-Governor of our said Island and its dependencies, with such powers and author- 

 ities, and according to such directions as are or shall be expressed in our Commissions and Instructions to our 

 Captain-General and Governor-in-Cbief of our Province of Nova Scotia and our Islands of St. .lobu and Cape 

 Breton, now and for ibe time being." 



Afterwards and about the same time also (11th September, 17S4), the commission of the Governor of Nova 

 Scotia was revoked and a new one issued to the same person, John Parr, Esquire, which, after reciting a former 

 commission to him as governor-in-cliief of Nova Scotia, including the island of Cape Breton, and excepting the 

 island of St. John (Prince Edward), " which we had thought lit to erect into a separate Government;" and after 

 further reciting that '' liis Majesty, in the ninth year of his reign, had been ple;ised to appoint Walter Patterson, 

 Esquire, to be Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over our Island of St. John and territories adjacent 

 thereto in America," and had also " thought tit to erect that jjart of our Province of Nova Scotia lying to the north- 

 ward of the Bay of Fundy into a separate Province by the name of New Brunswick," proceeds as follows : " We 

 have thought lit to re-annex the Island of St. John and its dependencies to our Government of Nova Scotia;" and 

 then goes on to revoke a former commission to the said governor-general of Nova Scotia, and also a former com- 

 mission to Walter Patterson as governor-in-chief of St. John's Island; and, in the new commission to the governor- 

 general of Nova Scotia, the description of its boundaries includes the Island of St. John as well as Cape Breton 

 and all other islands within six leagues of the coast. And this new commission further thus pledges tho faith of 

 the Crown, and confers as well on the island of Cape Breton as on Nova Scotia and on tbo island of Prince Edward, 

 separately, distinctly and respectively, full legislative power in these words: " And we do hereby require and 

 command you to do and execute all things in due manner that shall belong to your said command and the trust 

 we have reiMsed in you, according to the several jiowers and authorities granted or appointed you by tbo present 

 Commission and Instructions herewith given you, or by such further powers, instructions and authorities as shall 

 at any time hereafter be granted or appointed you under our Signet and Sign Manual, or by our Order in our 

 Privy Council, and according to such reasonable laws and statutes as are now in force, or shall hereafter be made 

 or agreed upon by you, with the advice and consent of our respective Councils and Assemblies of our Province of 

 Nova Scotia and our Islands of St. John and Cape Breton, under your Government. And we do hereby give and 

 grant unto }'ou full power and authority, with the advice and consent of our said respective Councils, from time to 

 time, as need shall require, to summon and call General Assemblies of the Freeholders and Planters within your 

 Government, in such manner and form as has been already apiwinted and used, or according to such further powers, 

 instructions and authorities as shall at any time hereafter bo granted or appointed you under our Signet and Sign 

 Manual, or by our Order in our Privy Council;" and further the commission proceeds : "And our will and plea- 

 sure is, that tho persons thereupon duly elected by the major part of the freeholders of the resjiective Counties 

 and Places, and so returned, shall before their sitting take the oaths mentioned in the first recited Act of Parlia- 

 ment altered as above, as also make and subscribe the aforementioned declaration, which oaths and declaration 

 you shall commissionate fit persons, under our seals of Nova Scotia, St. John and Cape Breton, respectively, to 

 tender and administer unto them ; and until the same shall be taken and subscribed, no person shall be capable of 

 sitting, though elected. And we do hereby declare that the persons so elected and qualifieil should be called and 

 deemed the General Assembly of our Province of Nova Scotia, of our Island of St. John, and of our Island of Cape 



