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And, since attempts "of this kind are not made without great labour and 

 expense, and demand a large outlay of money, so that they exceed the means 

 of any private man, and on this account the said Sir William Alexander and 

 his aforesaids may need supplies of many kinds, with many of our subjects 

 and other men for special enterprises and ventures therein, who may form 

 contracts with him, his heirs, assigns or deputies for lands, fisheries, trade, 

 or the transportation of people and their flocks, goods and effects to the said 

 New Scotland, we will that whoever shall make such contracts with the 

 said Sir William and his aforesaids under their names and seals, by limiting, 

 assigning and fixing the day and place for the delivery of persons, goods and 

 effects on shipboard, under forfeiture of a certain sum of money, and shall 

 not perform the same contracts, but shall thwart and injure him in the 

 proposed voyage, which thing will not only oppose and harm the said Sir 

 William and his aforesaids, but also prejudice and damage our so laudable 

 intention ; then it shall be lawful to the said Sir William and his afore- 

 saids, or their deputies and conservators hereinafter mentioned, in such case 

 to seize for himself, or his deputies whom he may appoint for this purpose, 

 all such sums of money, goods and effects forfeited by the violation of these 

 contracts. And that this may be more easily done, and the delay of the law 

 be avoided, we have given and granted, and by the tenor of these presents 

 do give and grant full power to the Lords of our Council, that they may 

 reduce to order and punish the violators of such contracts and agreements 

 made for the transportation of persons. And althoug'h all such contracts 

 between the said Sir William and his aforesaids and the aforesaid adven- 

 turers shall be carried out in the risk and the conveyance of people with 

 th(&ir goods and effects, at the set time ; and they with all their cattle and 

 goods arrive at the shore of that province with the intention of colonizing 

 and abiding there ; and yet, afterwards, shall leave the province of New 

 Scotland altogether, and the confines of the same, without the consent of 

 the said Sir William and his aforesaids or their deputies, or the society 

 and colony aforesaid, Tvhere first they had been collected and joined together; 

 and shall go away to the uncivilized natives, to live in remote and desert 

 places ; then they shall lose and forfeit all the lands previously granted 

 them ; also all their goods within the aforesaid bounds ; and it shall be 

 lawful for the said Sir William and his aforesaids to confiscate the same, 

 and to reclaim the same lands, and to seize and convert and apply to his 

 own use' and that of his aforesaids all the same belonging to them, or 

 any one of them. 



And that all our beloved subjects, as well of our kingdoms and dominions, 

 so also others of foreign "birth who may sail to the said lands, or any part 

 of the same, for obtaining merchandise, may the better know and obey the 

 power and authority given by us to the aforesaid Sir William Alexander, 

 our faithful counsellor, and his deputies, in all such commissions, warrants 

 and contracts as he shall at any time make, grant and establish for the 

 more fit and safe arrangement of offices, to govern said colony, grant lands 

 and execute justice in resipect to the said inhabitants, adventurers, deputies, 

 factors or assigns, in any part of said lands, or in failing to the same, we, 

 with the advice and consent aforesaid, do order that the said Sir William 

 Alexander and his aforesaids shall have one common seal, pertaining to the 

 office of Lieutenant of Justiciary and Admiralty, which by the said Sir 

 William Alexander and his aforesaids or their deputies, in all time to come, 

 shall be safely kept ; on one side of it our arms shall be engraved, with 

 these words on the circle and margin thereof : — " Sigillum Regis Scotiae 

 Angliae Franciae et Hyberniae," and on the other side our image, or that 

 of our successors, with these words : — " Pro Novae Scotiae Locum Tenente," 

 and a true copy of it shall be kept in the hands and care of the conservator 

 of the privileges of New Scotland, and this he may use in his office as 



