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occasion shall require. And as it is very important that all our beloved 

 subjects who inhabit the said province of New Scotland or its borders may 

 live in the fear of Almighty G-od and at the same time in his true worship, 

 and may have an earnest purpose to establish the Christian religion therein, 

 and also to cultivate peace and quiet with the native inhabitants and savage 

 aborigines of these lands, so that they, and any others trading there, may 

 safely, pleasantly and quietly hold what they have got with great labour 

 and peril, we, for ooirselves and successors, do will and decree, and by our 

 present charter give and grant to the said Sir William Alexander and his 

 aforesaids and their deputies, or any other of our government officers and 

 ministers whom they shall appoint, free and absolute po.wer of arranging 

 and securing peace, alliance, friendship, mutual conferences, assistance and 

 intercourse with those savage aborigines and their chiefs, and any others 

 bearing rule and power among them ; and of preserving and fostering 

 such relations and treaties as they or their aforesaids shall form with them ; 

 provided those treaties are, on the other side, kept faithfully by these bar- 

 barians ; and, unless this be done, of taking up arms against them, whereby 

 they may be reduced to order, as shall seem fitting to the said Sir William 

 and his aforesaids and deputies, for the honour, obedience and service of 

 God, and the stability, defence and preservation oî our authority among 

 them ; which pOTver also to the said Sir William Alexander and his afore- 

 saids, by themselves or their deputies, substitutes or assigns, for their 

 defence and protection at all times and on all just occasions hereafter, 

 of attacking suddenly, invading, expelling and by arms driving away, as 

 well by sea as by land, and by all means, all and singly those who, without 

 the special license of the said Sir William and his aforesaids, shall atterhpt 

 to occupy these lands, or trade in the said province of New Scotland, or 

 In any part of the same ; and in like manner all other persons who 

 presume to bring any damage, loss, destruction, injury or invasion against 

 that province, or tihe inhabitants of the same : And that this may be more 

 easily done, it shall be allowed to the said Sir William and his aforesaids, 

 their deputies, factors and assigns to levy contributions on the adventurers 

 and inhalbitants of the same ; to bring them together by proclamations, or 

 by any other order, at such times as shall seem best to the said Sir William 

 and his aforesaids ; to assemhle all our subjects living within the limits 

 of the said New Scotland and trading there, for the better supplying of the 

 army with necessaries, and the enlargement and increase of the people and 

 planting of said lands : With full power, privilege, and liberty to the said 

 Sir William Alexander and his aforesaids, by themselves or their agents of 

 sailing over any seas whatever under our ensigns and banners, with as many 

 ships, of as great burden, and as well furnished with ammunition, men 

 and provisions as they are able to procure at any time, and as often as 

 shall seem expedient : and of carrying all persons of every quality and 

 grade who are our subjects, or who wish to submit themselves to our sway, 

 for entering upon such a voyage with their cattle, horses, oxen, sheep, goods 

 of all kinds, furniture, machines, heavy arms, military instruments, as many 

 as they desire, and other commodities and necessaries for the use of the 

 same colony, for mutual commerce with the natives of these provinces, 

 or others who may trade with these plantations ; and of transporting all 

 commodities and merchandise, which shall seem to them needful, into our 

 Kingdom of Scotland without the payment of any tax, custom and impost, 

 for the same to us, or our custom-house officers, or their deputies ; and 

 of carrying away the same from their offices on this side, during the space 

 of seven years following the day of the date of our present charter; and 

 to have this sole privilege for the space of three years next hereafter we 

 freely have granted, and by the tenor our present charter grant and give to 

 the saJd Sir William and his aforesaids, according to the terms herein- 

 after mentioned. 



Sec. II., 1899. 8 



