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take the Oath therein mentioned, shall be obliged, and is hereby re- 

 quired, to take and subscribe the following Oath before the Governor 

 or such other Person in such Court of Record as his Majesty shall 

 appoint, who are hereby authorized to administer the same : videlicet, 



I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful and bear 

 true allegiance to his Majesty King George, and him will defend to the utmost 

 of my Power, against all traitorous Conspiracies, and Attempts whatsoever, 

 which shall be made against his Person, Crown, and Dignity; and I will do my 

 utmost Endeavour to disclose and make known to his Majesty, his Heirs and 

 Successors, all Treasons, and traitorous Conspiracies, and Attempts, which I 

 shall know to be against him, or any of them; and all this I do swear without 

 any Equivocation, mental Evasion, or secret Reservation, and renouncing all 

 Pardons and Dispensations from any Power or Person whomsoever to the 

 contrary. So help me God. 



And every such Person, who shall neglect or refuse to take the said 

 Oath before mentioned, shall incur and be liable to the same Penal- 

 ties, Forfeitures, Disabilities, and Incapacities, as he would have in- 

 curred and been liable to for neglecting or refusing to take the Oath 

 required by the said Statute passed in the first Year of the Reign of 

 Queen Elizabeth. 



VIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That 

 all his Majesty's Canadian Subjects within the Province of Quebec, 

 the religious Orders and Commissioners only excepted, may also 

 hold and enjoy their Property and Possessions, together with all 

 Customs and Usages relative thereto, and all other their Civil Rights, 

 in as large, ample, and beneficial Manner, as if the said Proclama- 

 tion, Commissions, Ordinances, and other Acts and Instruments, 

 had not been made, and as may consist with their Allegiance to his 

 Majesty, and Subjection to the Crown and Parliament of Great 

 Britain; and that in all Matters of Controversy, relative to Property 

 and Civil Rights. Resort shall be had to the Laws of Canada, as the 

 Rule for the Decision of the same; and all Causes that shall here- 

 after be instituted in any of the Courts of Justice, to be appointed 

 within and for the said Province by his Majesty, his Heirs and Suc- 

 cessors, shall, with respect to Such Property and Rights, be deter- 

 mined agreeably to the said Laws and Customs of Canada, until they 

 shall be varied or altered by any Ordnances that shall, from Time to 

 Time, be passed in the said Province by the Governor, Lieutenant 

 Governor, or Commander in Chief, for the Time being, by and with 

 the Advice and Consent of the Legislative Council of the same, to be 

 appointed in Manner herein-after mentioned. 



IX. Provided always. That nothing in this Act contained shall 

 extend, or be construed to extend, to any Lands that have been 

 granted by His Majesty, or shall hereafter be granted by his Maj- 

 esty, his Heirs and Successors, to be holden in free and common Soc- 

 cago. 



X. Provided also, That it shall and may be lawful to and for every 

 Person that is Owner of any Lands, Goods, or Credits, in the said 

 I rovince, and that has a right to alienate the said Lands, Goods, or 

 Credits, in his or her Life-time, by Deed of Sale, Gift, or otherwise, 

 to devise or bequeath the same at his or her Death, by his or her last 

 Will and Testament; any Law, Usage, or Custom, heretofore or now 

 prevailing in the Province, to the contrary hereof in any-wise not- 

 withstanding; such Will being executed either according to the laws 



