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for any offence, or passing sentence affecting the life of any offender, or 

 adjudge or cause any offender to suffer capital punishment or transporta- 

 tion, or take cognizance of or try any civil action or suit, in which the 

 cause of such suit or action shall exceed in value the amount or sum of 

 two hundred pounds ; and in every case of any offence subjecting the per- 

 son committing the same to capital punishment or transportation, the 

 court or any judge of any such court, or any justice or justices of the 

 peace, before whom any such offender shall be brought, shall commit such 

 offender to safe custody, and cause such offender to be sent in such custody 

 for trial in the court of the province of Upper Canada. 



" XIII. And be it further enacted, Thatf all judgments given in any 

 civil suit shall be subject to appeal to his majesty in council, in like 

 manner as in other cases in his majesty's province of Upper Canada, and 

 also in any case in which the right or title to any land shall be in 

 question. 



" XIV. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained 

 shall be taken or construed to affect any right, privilege, authority, or 

 jurisdiction, which the Governor and Company of Adventurers trading to 

 Hudson's Bay are by law entitled to claim and exercise under their 

 charter ; but that all such rights, privileges, authorities, and jurisdictions, 

 shall remain in as full force, virtue, and effect, as if this act had never 

 been made ; any thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding." 



Shortly before the passage of this act, the Hudson's Bay Company was 

 united with the North-West Company, or rather the latter was merged in 

 the former; and on the 21st of December, 1821, the king made a 



(4.) 



" Grant of the exclusive Trade with the Indians of North America to 

 the Hudson's Bay Company," 



of which the following are the terms : — 



" And whereas the said Company of Adventurers of England, trading 

 into Hudson's Bay, and certain associations of persons trading under the 

 name of the North- West Company of Montreal, have respectively extended 

 the fur trade over many parts of North America, which had not been 

 before explored : And- whereas the competition in the said trade has 

 been found, for some years past, to be productive of great inconvenience 

 and loss, not only to the said company and associations, but to the said 

 trade in general, and also of great injury to the native Indians, and of 

 other persons our subjects : And whereas the said Governor and Company 

 of Adventurers of England, trading into Hudson's Bay, and William Mc- 

 Gillivray, of Montreal, in the province of Lower Canada, Esquire, Simon 

 McGillivray, of Suffolk Lane, in the city of London, merchant, and Edward 

 Ellice, of Spring Gardens, in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, have 

 represented to us, that they have entered into an agreement on the 26th 

 day of March last, for putting an end to the said competition, and carry- 



