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we shaU settle in the said Province until our furtlier will and pleasure shall 

 be known. 



And our will and pl'eias'ure is that you said Ed'Ward Cornwallis (After the 

 publication of these our Lretters Patent) do take the Oath appointed to be 

 taken by an Act passed in the first year of His Late Majesty's our RoyaJ 

 Feather's Reign, Entitled an Act for the further security of His Majesty's 

 Person and G-overnment and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the 

 late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of 

 the pretended Prince of Wales and his open and secret abettors. As also 

 that you make and subscribe the Déclaration mentioned in an Act of Parlia- 

 ment made in the Twenty-fifth year of the Tleign of King Charles the Second, 

 entitled an Act for pireventing danglers which may happen from Popish 

 Recusants. And likewise that you take the usual oath for the due execution 

 of the office and trust of Our Captain Generial an'd Governor in Chief of our 

 said province for the due and impartial administration of Justice ; and 

 further that you take the oath required to be taken by Governors of Planta- 

 tions to do their utmost, that the several laws relating to trade and the plan- 

 tations be oibserved. All which said oaths. Declarations Our Council in our 

 said Province or any five members thereof have herefby full power and 

 authority and are required to tender and administer unto you and in your 

 absence to our liieutenant Governor, if there he any upon the place, all which 

 being duly performed you sihall administer unto each of the memhers of our 

 said Council as also to Our Lieutenant Governor, if there be any upon the 

 place, the said Oaths mentioned in the said Act entitled an Act for the fur- 

 ther security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession 

 of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and 

 for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and his open 

 and secret abettors ; as also to cause them to make and subscribe the afore- 

 mentioned declaration and to administer to them the Oath for the due execu- 

 tion of their places and trusts. 



And We do hereby give and grant unto you full power and authority to 

 suspend any of the members of our said Council to be appointed by you as 

 aforesaid from sitting, voting and assisting therein if you shall find just 

 cause for so doing. 



And if it shall at any time happen that by the Death, departure out of 

 our said Province, suspension of any of our said Councillors or otherwjse 

 there shall be a vacancy in our said Council (any five whereof we do hereby 

 appoint to be a Quorum) our will and pleasure is that you signify the same 

 unto us by the first opportunity that we may under our signet and sign 

 manual constitute and appoint others in their stead. 



But that our affairs at that distance may not suffer for want of a due 

 numher of Councillors if ever it shall happen that there shall be less than 

 nine of them residing in our said Province we here'by give and grant unto 

 you the said Edward Cornwallis full power and authority to Chuse as many 

 persons out of the principal freeholders inhahitants thereof as will make up 

 the full number of our said Council to be nine and no more ; which person 

 so chosen and appointed by you shall be to all intents and purposes Coun- 

 cillors in our said Province until either, they shall be confirmed by us or 

 that by the nomination of others by us under our sign manual or signet our 

 said Council shall have nine or more persons in it. 



And We do hereby give and grant unto you full power and authority with 

 the advice and consent of our said Council from time to time as need shall 

 require to summon and call General Assemblies of the Freeholders and 

 Planters within your Government according to the usage of the rest of our 

 Colonies and plantations in America. 



And our will and pleasure is that the persons thereupon duly elected by 



