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still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to remove 

 themselves from such settlements. 



And whereas great frauds and abuses have been committed in 

 purchasing lands of the Indians, to the great prejudice of our inter- 

 ests, and to the great dissatisfaction of the said Indians; in order, 

 therefore, to prevent such irregularities for the future, and to the 

 end that the Indians may be convinced of our justice and determined 

 resolution to remove all reasonable cause of discontent, we do, with 

 the advice of our Privy Council strictly enjoin and require, that no 

 private person do presume to make any purchase from the said In- 

 dians 01 any lands reserved to the said Indians, within those parts 

 of our colonies where, we have thought proper to allow settlement; 

 but that, if at any time any of the said Indians should be inclined 

 to dispose of the said lands, the same shall be purchased only for us, 

 in our name, at some public meeting or assembly of the said Indians, 

 to be held for that purpose by the governor or commander in chief 

 of our colony respectively within which they shall lie; and in case 

 they shall lie within the limits of any proprietary government, they 

 shall be purchased only for the use and in the name of such pro- 

 prietaries, conformable to such directions and instructions as we or 

 they shall think proper to |jive for that purpose; And we do, by the 

 advice of our Privy Council, declare and enjoin, that the trade with 

 the said Indians shall be free and open to all our subjects whatever, 

 provided that every person who may incline to trade with the said 

 Indians do take out a licence for carrying on such trade from the 

 governor or commander in chief of any of our colonies respectively 

 where such person shall reside, and also give security to observe such 

 regulations as we shall at any time think fit, by ourselves or by our 

 commissaries to be appointed for this purpose, to direct and appoint 

 for the benefit of the said trade : 



And we do hereby authorise, enjoin, and require the governors and 

 commanders in chief of all our colonies respectively, as well those 

 under our immediate Government as those under the Government 

 and direction of proprietaries, to grant such licences without fee or 

 reward, taking especial care to insert therein a condition, that such 

 licence shall be void, and the security forfeited in case the person 

 to whom the same is granted shall refuse or neglect to observe such 

 regulations as we shall think proper to prescribe as aforesaid. 



And we do further expressly enjoin and require all officers what- 

 ever, as well military as those employed in the management and 

 direction of Indian affairs, within the territories reserved as afore- 

 said for the use of the said Indians, to seize and apprehend all per- 

 sons whatever, who standing charged with treason, misprisons of 

 treason, murders, or other felonies or misdemeanours, shall fly from 

 justice and take refuge in the said territory, and to send them under 

 a proper guard to the colony where the crime was committed of 

 which they stand accused, in order to take their trial for the same. 



Given at our Court at St. James's the 7th Day of October 1763, in 

 the Third Year of our Reign. 



God save the King. 



