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we do hereby authorise, empower, and require you, the said Richard . 

 Oswald, to treat, consult of, and conclude with any Commissioners or 

 persons vested with equal powers, by and on the part of the thirteen 

 United States of America, viz., New Hampshire. Massachusetts Bay, 

 Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 the three -lower counties on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North 

 Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, in North America, a 

 70 peace or a truce with the said United States, any law. Act or 

 Acts of Parliament, matter, or thing to the contrary in any 

 wise notwithstanding. 



And it is our further will and pleasure that every regulation, pro- 

 vision, matter, or thing which shall have been agreed upon between 

 you, the said Richard Oswald, and such Commissioners or persons 

 as aforesaid with whom you shall have judged meet and sufficient to 

 enter into such agreement, shall be fully and distinctly set forth in 

 writing, and authenticated by your hand and seal on one side, and 

 by the hands and seals of such Commissioners or persons on the other, 

 and such instrument so authenticated shall be by you transmitted to 

 us through one of our Principal Secretaries of State. 



And it is our further will and pleasure that you, the said Richard 

 Oswald, shall promise and engage for us, and in our royal name and 

 word, that every regulation, provision, matter, or thing which may 

 be agreed to and concluded by you, our said Commissioner, shall be 

 ratified and confirmed by us in the fullest manner and extent, and 

 that we will not suffer them to be violated or counteracted, either in 

 whole or in part by any person whatsoever. 



And We do hereby require and command all our officers, civil and. 

 military, and all other our loving subjects whatsoever, to be aiding 

 and assisting unto you, the said Richard Oswald in the execution of 

 this our Commission, and of the powers and authorities herein con- 

 tained, Provided always, and We do hereby declare and ordain that 

 the several offices, powers and authorities hereby granted shall cease, 

 determine, and become utterly null and void on the First day of 

 July, which shall be in the year of Our Lord, one thousand seven 

 hundred and eighty-three, although we shall not otherwise, in the 

 meantime have revoked and determined the same. 



And Whereas in and by our said Commission and letters patent 

 under our great seal of Great Britain, bearing date the 7th day of 

 August last, We nominated and appointed, constituted and assigned 

 him, the said Richard Oswald, to be our Commissioner to treat, 

 consult of, agree and conclude with any Commissioner or Commission- 

 ers named, or to be named, by certain Colonies or plantations in 

 America, therein specified a peace or a truce with the said Colonies 

 or plantations. 



Our will and pleasure is, that you insert a clause in the said Bill 

 revoking and determining our said Commission and letters patent, 

 and all and every power, article and thing therein contained. 



And for so doing, this shall be your warrant. Given at our court 

 at St. James's the 19th day of September 1782, in the twenty-second 

 year of our reign. 



By His Majesty's Command, 



THO. TOWNSHEND. 



To our ATTORNEY OR SOLICITOR GENERAL. 



The Commission bears date the 21st September, 1782. 



