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

 North America, that peace, intercourse, trade, and commerce, should 

 be restored between them: Wherefore, and for a full manifestation 

 of the earnest wish and desire of His Majesty and his Parliament to 

 put an end to the calamities of war," be it enacted by the King's 

 Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the 

 Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia- 

 ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, That it shall and 

 may be lawful for His Majesty to treat, consult of. agree, and con- 

 clude, with any commissioner or commissioners, named or to be 

 named by the said colonies or plantations, or any of them respectively. 

 or with any body or bodies corporate or politic, or any assembly or 

 assemblies, or description of men, or any person or persons whatso- 

 ever, a peace or a truce with the said colonies or plantations, or any 

 of them, or any part or parts thereof; any law, Act or Acts of Parlia- 

 ment, matter, or thing, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. 



II. "And, in order to obviate any impediment, obstacle, or delay, 

 to the carrying the intentions of his Majesty and his Parliament into 

 effect, which might at-ise from any Act or Acts of Parliament affect- 

 ing or relating to the said colonies or plantations," be it further 

 enacted by the authority aforesaid, That, for the concluding and 

 establishing of a peace or truce with the said colonies or plantations, 

 or any of them, His Majesty shall have full power and authority, by 

 virtue of this Act, by his letters patent, under the Great Seal of 

 Great Britain, to repeal, annul, and make void, or to suspend, for any 

 time or times, the operation and effect of any Act or Acts of Parlia- 

 ment which relate to the said colonies or plantations, or any of them, 

 so far as the same do relate to them, or any of them, or any part or 

 parts thereof, or any clause, provision, or matter therein contained, 

 so far as such clauses, provisions, or matters relate to the said colonies, 

 or plantations, or any of them, or any part or parts thereof. 



III. And be it further enacted, that this Act, as to the exercise of 

 the powers and authorities hereby given to His Majesty, shall con- 

 tinue to be in full force until the first day of July, one thousand 

 seven hundred and eighty-three. 



No. 22. 1785, July 25: Order providing for regulation of fishery 



at Bay of Chaleur. 



GEORGE R. 



Additional instruction to our trusty and well-beloved Frederick 

 Haldimand Esqr. our Captain General and Governor in Chief of 

 our province of Quebec in America, or to the Commander in Chief 

 of the said province for the time being. Given at our Court at St. 

 James's the twenty fifth day of July 1785, In the twenty fifth 

 year of our reign. 



Whereas it will be for the general benefit of our subjects carrying 



on the fishery in the Bay of Chaleur, in our province of Quebec, 



that such part of the beach and shore of the said Bay. as is 



555 ungranted. should be reserved to us. our heirs and successors; 



it is therefore our will and pleasure that you do not in future 



direct any survey to be made, or grant passed for any part of the 



