Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada 1759-19: (Documents... 1759-1818) form v. 3 of the Report on Canadian archives for 1905

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S. E. Dawson, 1907
 

Contents

Commission appointing James Murray Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Province
126
Instructions to Governor Murray Dec 7 1763
132
Ordinance of Sept 17 1764 establishing Civil Courts
149
Statement by French Jurors in reference to the foregoing Presentments Oct 26 1764 French Text
156
Ordinance of Nov 6 1764
166
Ordinance of July 1 1766 to Alter and Amend Ordinance of Sept 17 1764
172
Considerations on the Expediency of Procuring an Act of Parliament for the Settlement of
179
Irving to the Lords of Trade Aug 20 1766
187
Remonstrance of Members of Council to Lieut Gov Carleton Oct 13 1766
193
Resolution of Privy Council as to Information Required Concerning the Province of Quebec
199
Instructions to Governor Carleton 1768
210
Earl of Hillsborough to Governor Carleton Oct 12 1768
227
Attorney General Maseres Criticism of Governor Carletons Report on the Laws of the Province
258
Report of Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations Relative to the State of the Province
263
Report of Committee of the Council on Administration of Law by Justices of the Peace Sept
276
Petition for a General Assembly
291
Abstract of such Regulations in Solicitor Generals Report as may be established by Act of Par
302
Plan of a Code of Laws for the Province of Quebec Reported by the Advocate General James
310
Lieut Gov Cramahé to Earl of Dartmouth June 22 1773
338
Petition to Lient Gov Cramahé for an Assembly Nov 29 1773
345
Memorial from Montreal to Earl of Dartmouth Jan 15 1774
351
Lord Mansfields Judgment in Campbell vs Hall 1774
366
Maserus to the Lord Chancellor April 30 1774
373
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Page 478 - It is agreed, that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind, on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used, at any time heretofore, to fish...
Page 478 - Equator, to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche ; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint River ; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's River ; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's River to the Atlantic Ocean.
Page 308 - And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page 199 - further Security of His Majesty's Person and Govern"ment and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of "the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for ex"tinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales "and his open and secret Abettors...
Page 477 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 478 - It is agreed that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective States to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights and properties which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...
Page 73 - Toledo, de Valencia, de Galicia, de Mallorca, de Sevilla, de Cerdeña, de Córdoba, de Córcega, de Murcia, de Jaén, de los Algarbes, de Algecira, de Gibraltar, de las Islas de Canaria, de las Indias Orientales y Occidentales, Islas y Tierra Firme del mar océano, Archiduque de Austria, Duque de Borgoña, de Bravante y Milán, Conde de Abspurg, de Flandes, Tirol y Barcelona, Señor de Vizcaya y de Molina etc.
Page 112 - Governments, or within the Limits of the Territory granted to the Hudson's Bay Company, as also all the Lands and Territories lying to the Westward of the Sources of the Rivers which fall into the Sea from the West and North West as aforesaid...
Page 127 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 353 - ... so soon as the state and circumstances of the said colonies will admit thereof, they shall, with the advice and consent of the members of our council, summon and call general assemblies...

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