[boueinot] builders OF NOVA SCOTIA 12S 



upon with, all reasonable and necessary powers, Authorities, fees and Privi- 

 leges belong-ing thereunto as also to appoint and commissionate fit persons 

 In the several parts of your Government to administer the Oaths mentioned 

 in the aforesaid Act entitled an Act for the further 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 tender and Administer the aforesaid Declaration vmto saich persons belong- 

 ing to the said Courts as shall be obliged to take the same. 



And We do hereby authorize and empower you to constitute and appoint 

 Judges and in cases requisite Commissioners of Oyeir and Terminer, Justices 

 ot the peace and other necessary officers and ministers in our said province 

 for the better adminLstratiom of Justioe and putting the Laws in exeioution and 

 to administer or cause to he administered unto them such, oath or oaths as are 

 usually given for the due execution and performance of officies anid places and 

 for the clearing of truth in Judicial Causes. 



And We do here/by give amd grant unto you full power and Authority 

 wlhere you shall see cause or shall judge any offender or offenders in Crim- 

 nal matters or for any fines or forfeitures due unto us, fit objects of our mercy 

 to pardon all such offenders and to remit all such offences, fines and for- 

 feitures. Treason and wilful murder only excepted ; in which cases you shall 

 likewise have power upon extraordinary occasions to Grant Reprieves to the 

 offenders untill and to the intent our Royal Pleasure may be known therein. 



We do by these presents Authorize and empower you to collate any 

 person or Persions to any Churches, Chapels or other Ecclesiastical Benefices 

 within our said Province as often as any of them shall happen to be void. 



And We do hereby give and grant unto you the said Edward Cornwallis 

 by yourself or by your captains and Commanders by you to be authorized 

 full power and authority to levy, arm, muster, command and employ all 

 persons whatsoever residing within our said provinoe and as occasion shall 

 serve to march from one place to another or to embark them for the resisting 

 and withstanding of all enemies, Pirates and Rebels, both at Land and Sea, 

 and to transport such forces to any of our plantations in America if neces- 

 sity shall require for the defence of the same against the invasion or attempts 

 of any of our enemies, and such enemies, Pirates and Rebeils if there ahail 

 be occasion to pursue and prosecute in or out of the limits of our said 

 Province and Plantations or any of them and (if it shall so please God) to 

 vanquish, apprehend and take tbem and being taken, according to Law to 

 put to death or keep and preserve them alive at your discretion and to 

 execute Martial Law in time of invasion or other Times when by Law it 

 may be executed and to do and execute all and every other thing or things 

 which to our Captain General and Governor in Chief Doeth or ought of right 

 to belong. 



And we do hereby give and grant unto you full power and authority by 

 and with the advice and consent of our said Council of Nova Scotia to erect, 

 raise and build in our said province such and so many forts and platforms, 

 oastles, cities, boroughs, towns and fortifications as you by the advice afore- 

 said shall Judge Necessary, and the same or any of them to fortify and 

 furnish with ordnance, ammunition and all sorts of arms fit and necessary 

 for the security and defence of our said Provinoe and by tihe advice afore- 

 said the same again, or any of them to demolish or dismantle as may be 

 most convenient. 



And for as much as divers mutinies and disorders may ha.ppen by per- 

 sons shipped and employed at sea duri/ng the time of wiar and to the end 

 that such as shall be shipped and employed at sea during the time of War 

 may be better governed and ordered. We hereby give and grant unto you the 



