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Plantations, or any of them or any part or parts thereof, any Law, 

 Act or Acts of Parliament, matter or Thing to the contrary in any 

 wise notwithstanding. 



Xow know ye that We reposing a special Trust in your Loyalty 

 Wisdom, Diligence and Circumspection in the management of the 

 Affairs to be hereby committed to your charge, have nominated and 

 appointed, constituted and assigned, and by these Presents do nomi- 

 nate, and appoint, constitute and assign you the said Richard Oswald 

 to be our Commissioner in that behalf, to use and exercise all and 

 every the Powers and authorities hereby entrusted and committed to 

 you the said Richard Oswald, and to do perform and execute all 

 other matters and Things hereby enjoined and committed to your 

 care during Our Will and Pleasure, and no longer, according to the 

 Tenor of these Our Letters Patent; and it is Our Royal Will and 

 Pleasure, and we do hereby authorise, empower and require you, 

 the said Richard Oswald, to treat consult of and conclude with any 

 Commissioners or Persons vested with equal Powers, by and on the 

 part of the Thirteen United States of America viz: New Hampshire, 

 Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, the three lower counties on Delaware, Mary- 

 land. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in 

 North America, a Peace or a Truce with the said United States, any 

 Law. Act or Acts of Parliament, matter or thing to the contrary in 

 any wise notwithstanding. 



And its Our further Will and Pleasure, that every regulation, 

 Provision, Matter, or Thing, which shall have been agreed upon 

 between you, the said Richard Oswald, and such Commissioners or 

 Persons us afore aid, with whom you shall have judged meet and 

 sufficient to enter into such agreement, shall be fully and distinctly 

 set forth in writing, and authenticated by your Hand and Seal on 

 one aide, and by the Hands and Seals of such Commissioners or Per- 

 sons on the ot her, and such Instrument so authenticated shall be by you 

 trih mitted to Ds, through one of our Principal Secretaries of State. 



And it is Our further Will and Pleasure, that you, the said Richard 

 ( Iswald, shall promise; and engage for Us and in our Royal Name and 

 Word, thai every Regulation, Provision, Matter or Thing, which 

 may be agreed to or concluded by you. our said Commissioner shall 

 be ratified and confirmed by Us, in the fullest manner and Extent, 

 and that We will not suffer them to be violated or counteracted. 

 either in whole or in part by any person whatsoever. 



And we do hereby require and Command all our Officers, Civil and 

 Military and all other our loving subject 5 whatsoever, to be aiding 

 and ,i isting unto you the said Richard Oswald in the Execution of 



this Our Commission, and of the Tower- and Authorities herein 

 I. Provided always, and We do hereby declare and ordain 



thai the several Officers, Powers andAuthorities hereby granted shall 



ise, determine and become utterly Null and Void on the first dav 

 .Inly which -hall be in tin- Y*ear 01 < )\n- Lord L783, although we shall 

 otherwise, in 'he meantime, have revoked and determined the 



d Whereas in and by our ( Jommisf ion and Letters Patent under 

 our Great Seal of i i Britain, bearing date the seventh day of 



I la t We nominated and appointed, constituted and assigned 



him the -aid Richard <) wald to be our Commissioner to treat, con- 



