896 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



fit to declare the provisions which had been made in respect to cer- 

 tain countries, territories, and islands in America, ceded to His 

 Majesty by the definite treaty of peace, concluded at /W/.v on the 

 tenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three : 

 And whereas, by the arrangements made by the said Royal procla- 

 mation, a very large extent of country, within which there were sev- 

 eral colonies and settlements of the subjects of France, who claimed 

 to remain therein under the faith of the said treaty, was left, with- 

 out any provision being made for the administration of civil Govern- 

 ment therein; and certain parts of the territory of Canada, where 

 sedentary fisheries had been established and carried on by the sub- 

 jects of France, inhabitants of the said province of Canada, under 

 grants and concessions from the Government thereof, were annexed 

 to the Government of Newfoundland, and thereby subjected to regu- 

 lations inconsistent with the nature of such fisheries :" May it there- 

 fore please your Most Excellent Majesty that it may be enacted ; and 

 be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with 

 the advice and consent 01 the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and 

 Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the author- 

 ity of the same, That all the territories, islands, and countries in 

 worth America, belonging to the Crown of Great Britain, bounded 

 on the south by a line from the Bay of Chaleurs, along the high lands 

 which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the River Saint 

 Lawrence from those which fall into the sea, to a point in forty-five 

 degrees of northern latitude, on the eastern bank of the River Con- 

 necticut, keeping the same latitude directly west, through the Lake 

 Champlain, until, in the same latitude, it meets the River Saint Law- 

 rence; from thence up the eastern bank of the said river to the Luke 

 Ontario; thence through the Lake Ontario, and the river commonly 

 called Niagara; and thence along by the eastern and south-eastern 

 bank of Lake Erie, following the said bank, until the same shall be 

 intersected by the northern boundary, granted by the charter of the 

 province of Pennsylvania, in case the same shall be so intersected; 

 and from thence along the said northern and western boundaries of 

 the said province, until the said western boundary strike the Ohio: 

 But in case the said bank of the said lake shall not be found to be 

 so intersected, then following the said bank until it shall arrive at 

 that point of the said bank which shall be nearest to the north- 

 western angle of the said province of Pennsylvania, and thence by a 

 right line, to the said north-western angle of the said province ; and 

 thence along the western boundary or the said province, until it 

 strike the River Ohio; and along the bank of the said river, westward 

 to the banks of the Mississippi, and northward to the southern bound- 

 ary of the territory granted to the merchants adventurers of Eng- 

 land, trading to Hudson's Bay; and also all such territories, islands. 

 and countries, which have, since the tenth of February, one thousand 

 seven hundred and sixty-three, been made part of the Government of 

 Newfoundland, be, and they are hereby, during His Majesty's pleas- 

 ure, annexed to, and made part and parcel of, the province pi Quebec, 

 as created and established by the said Royal proclamation of the 

 seventh of October, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three. 



II. Provided always, That nothing herein contained, relative to 

 the boundary of the province of Quebec, shall in anywise affect the 

 boundaries of any other colony. 



