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ring our highest difpleasure. Provided always, and our fur ther will and pleasure is, that all leafes, grants, and con veyances to be made by or in the name of the faid corporation, of any lands within the faid province, or a memorial containing the fabftance and effect thereof, fhall be registered with the auditor of the plantations of us, our heirs or fucceffors, within the space of one year to be computed from the date thereof, otherwise the fame fhall be void. And our further will and pleafure is, that the rents, iffues, and all other profits, which fhall at any time hereafter come to the faid corporation, iffuing or arifing out or from the said province, or out of or from any part or parcel of the fame, fhall, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, be laid out and applied in fuch expences, and in fuch manner, as the faid common council of the faid corporation, or the major part of fuch of them as fhall be prefent at any meeting for that purpofe affembled, fhall think will moft improve and enlarge the faid colony, and beft anfwer the good purposes herein before mentioned, and for defraying all other charges about the fame. And our will and pleasure is, that the faid corporation, and their fucceffors, fhall, from time to time, give unto one of the principal secretaries of state, and to the commiffioners of trade and plantations, accounts of the progress of the faid colony. And our will and pleasure is, that no act done at any meeting of the faid common council of the faid corporation fhall be effectual and valid, unless eight members at least of the faid common council, including the member who shall ferve as chairman at the said meeting, be present, and the major part of them confenting thereunto. And our will and pleasure is, that the common council of the faid corporation, for the time being, or the major part of them who fhall be prefent, being affembled for that purpofe, fhall, from time to time, for, during, and until the full end and expiration of twenty-one years, to commence from the date of these our letters patent, have full power and authority to nominate, make, conftitute, commiffion, ordain, and appoint, by fuch name or names, ftyle or ftyles, as to them fhall feem meet and fitting, all and fingular fuch governors, judges, magiftrates, minifters, and officers, civil and military, both by fea and land, within the said district, as fhall by them be thought fit and needful to be made or used for the government of the faid colony (fave always and except fuch officers only as fhall by us, our heirs and fucceffors, be from time to time conftituted and appointed for the managing, collecting, and receiving fuch revenues as fhall, from time to time, arife within the faid province of

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Georgia, and become due to us, our heirs and fucceffors) provided always, and it is our will and pleasure, that every governor of the faid province of Georgia, to be appointed by the common council of the faid corporation, before he shall enter upon or execute the faid office of governor, fhall be approved by us, our heirs or fucceffors, and fhall take fuch oaths, and fhall qualify himself in fuch manner, in all refpects, as any governor or commander in chief of any of our colonies or plantations in America are by law required to do; and fhall give good and fufficient fecurity for obferving the feveral acts of parliament relating to trade and navigation, and to observe and obey all inftructions that shall be sent to him by us, our heirs and fucceffors, or any acting under our or their authority, pursuant to the faid acts, or any of them. And we do by these prefents, for us, our heirs or fucceffors, will, grant, and ordain, that the faid corporation, and their fucceffors, fhall have full power, for and during, and until the full end and term of one-and twenty years, to commence from the date of these our letters patents, by any commander, or other officer or officers, by them for that purpose, from time to time, appoint to train, inftruct, exercise, and govern a militia for the fpecial defence and fafety of our faid colony, to affemble in martial array, and put in warlike posture, the inhabitants of the said colony, and to lead and conduct them, and with them to encounter, expulfe, repel, refift, and pursue, by force of arms, as well by fea as by land, within or without the limits of our faid colony, and alfo to kill, flay, deftroy, and conquer, by all fitting ways enterprizes and means whatfoever, all and every fuch perfon and perfons as fhall at any time hereafter, in an hostile manner, attempt or enterprize the deftruction, invafion, detriment, or annoyance of our faid colony; and to use and exercife the law martial in time of actual war, invafion, or rebellion, in fuch cafes where, by the law, the fame may be ufed or exercised; and alfo, from time to time, to erect forts, and fortify any place or places within our faid colony, and the fame to furnish with all neceffary ammunition, provifion, and ftores of war, for offence and defence; and to commit, from time to time, the cuftody and government of the fame to fuch perfon or perfons as to them shall seem meet and the faid forts and fortifications to demolifh at their pleasure; and to take and furprife, by all ways and means whatfoever, all and every fuch perfon or perfons, with their fhips, arms, ammunition, and other goods, as fhall in an hoftile manner invade, or attempt the invading, conquering, or annoying of our faid colony. And our will and pleasure

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is, and we do hereby, for us, our heirs and fucceffors, declare and grant, that the governor or commander in chief of the province of South Carolina, for us, our heirs and fucceffors, for the time being, fhall at all times hereafter have the chief command of the militia of our faid province hereby erected and established; and that fuch militia fhall obferve and obey all orders and directions that shall from time to time be given or fent to them by the said governor or commander in chief; any thing in these prefents before contained to the contrary thereof, in any wife, notwithstanding. And of our efpecial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, we have given and granted, and by thefe prefents, for us, our heirs and fucceflors, do give and grant, unto the faid corporation, and their fucceffors, full power and authority to import and export their goods, at and from any port or ports that shall be appointed by us, our heirs or fucceffors, within the faid province of Georgia, for that purpose, without being obliged to touch at any other port in Carolina. And we do by these prefents, for us, our heirs and fucceffors, will and declare, that from and after the determination of the faid term of one-and-twenty years, fuch form of government and method of making laws, ftatutes, and ordinances, for the better governing and ordering the faid province of Georgia, and the inhabitants thereof, fhall be established and observed within the fame, as we, our hers or fucceffors, fhall hereafter ordain or appoint, and fhall be agreeable to law; and that from and after the determination of the faid term of one-andtwenty years, the governor of our faid province of Georgia, and all officers, civil and military, within the fame, shall, from time to time, be nominated, conftituted, and appointed by us, our heirs and fucceffors. And lastly, we do hereby for us, our heirs and fucceffors, grant unto the said corporation, and their fucceffors, that these our letters patents, or the inrolment or exemplification thereof, fhall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, fufficient, and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and fhall be taken, conftrued, and adjudged in all our courts, and elsewhere, in the moft favourable and beneficial fenfe, and for the beft advantage of the said corporation, and their fucceffors; any omiffion, imperfection, defect, matter, caufe or thing whatsoever, to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding. In witness whereof, we have caufed these our letters to be made patents. Witness ourself at Westminster, the ninth day of June, in the fifth year of our reign.

By Writ of Privy Seal.

FINIS.

Signed COCKS.

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