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do hereby declare that no rent shall be required or demanded for or in 

 respect of this our grant and license, or any privileges given thereby for 

 the first four years of the said term of twenty-one years ; and we do hereby 

 reserve to ourselves, our heirs and successors, for the remainder of the 

 said term of twenty-one years, the yearly rent or sum of five shillings, to be 

 paid by the said Governor and Company, or their successors, on the 1st 

 day of June, in every year, into our exchequer, on the account of us, our 

 heirs and successors : And we do hereby declare that the said Governor 

 and Company, and their successors, shall, during the period of this our 

 grant and license, keep accurate registers of all persons in their employ 

 in any parts of North America, and shall, once in each year, return to 

 our secretary of state accurate duplicates of such registers ; and shall also 

 enter into and give security to us, our heirs and successors, in the penal 

 sum of five thousand pounds, for insuring, as far as in them may lie, or as 

 they can by their authority over the servants and persons in their employ, 

 the due execution of all criminal and civil processes by the officers and 

 persons legally empowered to execute such processes within all the terri- 

 tories included in this our grant, and for the producing or delivering into 

 custody, for the purposes of trial, all persons in their employ or acting 

 under their authority, within the said territories, who shall be charged with 

 any criminal offence : And we do also hereby require that the said Gov- 

 ernor and Company, and their successors, shall, as soon as the same can 

 conveniently be done, make and submit for our consideration and approval, 

 such rules and regulations for the management and carrying on the said 

 fur trade with the Indians, and the conduct of the persons employed by 

 them therein, as may appear to us to be effectual for diminishing or pre- 

 venting the sale or distribution of spirituous liquors to the Indians, and 

 for promoting their moral and religious improvement : But we do hereby 

 declare that nothing in this our grant contained shall be deemed or con- 

 strued to authorize the said Governor and Company, or their successors, 

 or any persons in their employ, to claim or exercise any trade with the 

 Indians on the north-west coast of America, to the westward of the 

 Stony Mountains, to the prejudice or exclusion of any of the subjects of 

 any foreign states, who, under or by force of any convention for the time 

 being, between us and such foreign states respectively, may be entitled to, 

 and shall be engaged in, the said trade : Provided, nevertheless, and we 

 do hereby declare our pleasure to be, that nothing herein contained shall 

 extend or be construed to prevent the establishment by us, our heirs, or 

 successors, within the territories aforesaid, or any of them, of any colony 

 or colonies, province or provinces, or for annexing any part of the afore- 

 said territories to any existing colony or colonies to us in right of our 

 imperial crown belonging, or for constituting any such form of civil 

 government, as to us may seem meet, within any such colony or col- 

 onies, or provinces : 



" And we do hereby reserve to us, our heirs and successors, full power 

 and authority to revoke these presents, or any part thereof, in so far as 

 the same may embrace or extend to any of the territories aforesaid, which 

 may hereafter be comprised within any colony or colonies, province or 

 provinces, as aforesaid : 



" It being, nevertheless, hereby declared that no British subjects, other 

 than and except the said Governor and Company, and their successors, 

 and the persons authorized to carry on exclusive trade by them, shall 



