892 APPENDIX TO BBITISH CASE. 



for each and every such offence (whether the same offer proposal, 

 or promise, be accepted or performed, or not) forfeit the sum of 

 fifty pounds. 



No. 13. 1763, October 7: Extract from Royal Proclamation. 



BT THE KING. 



A PROCLAMATION. 

 GEORGE R. 



Whereas we have taken into our royal consideration the extensive 

 and valuable acquisitions in America, secured to our Crown by the 

 late definitive treaty of peace concluded at Paris, the 10th day of 

 February last ; and being desirous that all our loving subjects, as well 

 of our kingdom as of our colonies in America, may avail themselves 

 with all convenient speed, of the great benefits and advantages which 

 must accrue therefrom to their commerce, manufactures, and naviga- 

 tion, we have thought fit, with the advice of our Privy Council, to 

 issue this our royal proclamation, hereby to publish and declare to 

 all our loving subjects, that we have, with the advice of our said Privy 

 Council, granted our leters patent, under our Great Seal of Great 

 Britain, to erect, within the countries and islands ceded and confirmed 

 to us by the said treaty, four distinct and separate Governments, 

 styled and called by the names of Quebec, East Florida, West Florida 

 and Grenada, and limited and bounded as follows, viz. 



First The Government of Quebec bounded on the Labrador coast 

 by the River St John, and from thence by a line drawn from the 

 head of that river through the Lake St. John, to the south end of 

 the Lake Nipissim; from whence the said line, crossing the River 

 St Lawrence, and the Lake Champlain, in 45. degrees of north lati- 

 tude, passes along the high lands which divide the rivers that empty 

 themselves into the said River St Lawrence from those which rail 

 into the sea ; and also along the north coast of the Baye des Chaleurs, 

 and the coast of the Gulf of St Lawrence to Cape Rosieres, and from 

 thence crossing the mouth of the River St Lawrence by the west end 

 of the Island of Anticosti, terminates at the aforesaid River of St 

 John. 



Secondly The Government of East Florida, bounded to the west- 

 ward by the Gulf of Mexico and the Apalachicola River; to the 

 northward by a line drawn from that part of the said river where 

 the Chatahouchee and Flint Rivers meet, to the source of St Mary's 

 River, and by the course of the said river to the Atlantic Ocean ; and 

 to the eastward and southward by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf 

 of Florida, including all islands within six leagues of the sea coast. 



Thirdly The Government of West Florida, bounded to the south- 

 ward by the Gulf of Mexico, including all islands within six leagues 

 of the coast, from the River Apalachicola to Lake Pontchartrain ; 

 to the westward by the said lake, the Lake Maurepas, and the River 

 Mississippi; to the northward by a line drawn due east from that 

 part of the River Mississippi which lies in 31 degrees north latitude, 



