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We have taken into Our Royal consideration the extensive and valuable acquisition in America, secured to Our Crown by the late definitive Treaty of Peace, concluded at Paris, the tenth day of February last; and being desirous that all our loving subjects, as well as our Kingdoms, as of our Colonies in America, may avail themselves with all convenient speed of the great benefits and advantages which must accrue therefrom to their commerce, manufactures, and navigation; We have thought fit, with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation, hereby to publish and declare to all our loving subjects, that We have, with the advice of our said Privy Council, granted our Letters Patent under our Great Seal of Great Britain, to erect within the Countries and Islands, ceded and confirmed to Us by the said Treaty, four distinct and separate Governments, styled and called by the names of, and , and limited and bounded as follows, viz.:

Firstly. The Government of Quebec, bounded on the Labrador Coast, by the River Saint John, and from thence by a line drawn from the head of that River, through the lake Saint John to the South end of lake Nipissim; from whence the said line crossing the river Saint Lawrence, and the lake Champlain in forty-five degrees of North latitude, passes along the high lands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said river Saint Lawrence from those which fall into the sea, and also along the North coast of the Bay des Chaleurs, and the coast of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, to Cape Rosiers, and from thence crossing the