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and the Gold mine, have discovered and acquired other islands, under similar 

 grant and concession made to them by the Apostolic See; we, desiring to 

 bestow, as is worthy and becoming, also upon you and yt)ur heirs and suc- 

 cessors aforesaid gifts, prerogatives and favours to a not less extent, of our 

 like motion, not at your instance or that of any other person on your behalf 

 by petition made to us- about this matter, but of our own simple liberality 

 and with the same knowledge and fulness of apostolic power grant, by apos- 

 tolic authority according to the tenor of these presents, by a gift 'of especial 

 grace, to you and your heirs and successors aforesaid, that, in the islands 

 and lands up to the present time discovered by you or in your name and in 

 future to be discovered, you may use, hold and freely enjoy all and singular 

 the gifts, privileges, exemptions, liberties, faculties, immunities, letters and 

 induits as granted to the Kings of Portugal, the purport of all which grants 

 we ordain shall be held expressed and inserted herein, as sufficiently as if 

 they were recited word by word in these presents, and that you may and 

 should lawfully, in all things and in all respects, so hold them as if they 

 had all been specially conceded to you and your heirs and successors afore- 

 said; and we extend and enlarge them, in all things and all respects, equally 

 to you and your heirs and successors aforesaid, and we grant them, in the 

 same manner and form, in perpetuity; notwithstanding apostolic constitu- 

 tions and ordinances and all those things which, in the letters granted to 

 the Kings of Portugal, have been so conceded; and notwithstanding all other 

 things to the contrary. 



But, since it would be difficult for these letters to be carried to all places 

 which may be expedient, we will and, with like motion and knowledge, decree 

 that to copies of them, signed by the hand of a public notary employed for 

 that purpose and authenticated by the seal of some official person of ec- 

 clesiastical dignity or of an ecclesiastical court, the sagae entire faith shall 

 be given, in courts of justice and outside them and in all other places, which 

 would be given to these presents if they were exhibited or shown. 



Therefore, let no man whomsoever infringe this charter of our exhorta- 

 tion, requisition, donation, assignment, investiture, deed, constitution, allot- 

 ment, concession, will and decree, or, with rash audacity, contravene it. But 

 if anyone should presume to make the attempt, be it known to him that he 

 will incur the indignation of Almighty God and of the blessed apostles Peter 

 and Paul. 



Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, in the year of the incarnation of Our 

 Lord. 1493, on the third day of May, in the first year of our pontificate. 



