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" IV. And whereas, by a convention entered into between his majesty 

 and the United States of America, it was stipulated and agreed that any 

 country on the north-west coast of America to the westward of the Stony 

 3Iountains, should be free and open to the citizens and subjects of the 

 two powers, for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of 

 that convention ; Be it therefore enacted, That nothing in this act con- 

 tained shall be deemed or construed to authorize any body corporate, 

 company, or person, to whom his majesty may have, under the provisions 

 of this act, made a grant or given a license of exclusive trade with the 

 Indians in such parts of North America as aforesaid, to claim or exercise 

 any such exclusive trade within the limits specified in the said article, to 

 the prejudice or exclusion of any citizens of the said United States of 

 America, who may be engaged in the said trade : Provided always, that 

 no British subject shall trade with the Indians within such limits without 

 such grant or license as is by this act required. 



" V. And be it declared and enacted, That the said act, passed in the 

 forty-third year of the reign of his late majesty, intituled An Act for ex- 

 tending the jurisdiction of the courts of justice in the provinces of Lower 

 and Upper Canada, to the trial and punishment of persons guilty of crimes 

 and offences within certain parts of North America adjoining to the said 

 provinces, and all the clauses and provisoes therein contained, shall be 

 deemed and construed, and it is and are hereby respectively declared, to 

 extend to and over, and to be in full force in and through, all the territo- 

 ries heretofore granted to the Company of Adventurers of England trading 

 to Hudson's Bay ; any thing in any act or acts of Parliament, or this act, 

 or in any grant or charter to the company, to the contrary notwithstanding. 



" VI. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passing of 

 this act, the courts of judicature now existing, or which may be hereafter 

 established in the province of Upper Canada, shall have the same civil 

 jurisdiction, power, and authority, as well in the cognizance of suits as in 

 the issuing process, mesne and final, and in all other respects whatsoever, 

 within the said Indian territories, and other parts of America not within 

 the limits of either of the provinces of Lower or Upper Canada, or of any 

 civil government of the United States, as the said courts have or are 

 invested with within the limits of the said provinces of Loioer or Upper 

 Canada respectively ; and that all clnd every contract, agreement, debt, 

 liability, and demand whatsoever, made, entered into, incurred, or arising 

 within the said Indian territories and other parts of America, and all and 

 every wrong and injury to the person, or to property, real or personal, com- 

 mitted or done within the same, shall be, and be deemed to be, of the same 

 nature, and be cognizable by the same courts, magistrates, or justices of the 

 peace, and be tried in the same manner, and subject to the same conse- 

 quences, in all respects, as if the same had been made, entered into, incurred, 

 arisen, committed, or done, within the said province of Upper Canada ; any 

 thing in any act or acts of Parliament, or grant, or charter, to the contrary 

 notwithstanding: Provided always, that all such suits and actions relating 

 to lands, or to any claims in respect of land, not being within the province 

 of Upper Canada, shall be decided according to the laws of that part of 

 the United Kingdom called England, and shall not be subject to or affected 

 by any local acts, statutes, or laws, of the legislature of Upper Canada. 



" VII. And be it further enacted, That all process, writs, orders, judg- 

 ments, decrees, and acts whatsoever, to be issued, made, delivered, given, 

 and done, by or under the authority of the said courts, or either of them, 



