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 — 37 — what has ever yet been given by the province, in order to pro- cure a voluntary inlistment of fifteen hundred men over and above the five thousand already raised ; and we have reason to hope that this bounty will be suificient, and have the effect your excellency desires." JrOTJ2....M. X. The following proclamation ivas issued soon after the ratification of the articles of peace : George r. Whereas, we have taken into our royal consideration the extensive and valuable acquisitions in America, secured to our ci'own by the late definitive treaty of peace, concluded at Paris the 10th day of February last, and being desirous that all our loving subjects, as well of our kingdoms as of our co- lonies in America, may avail themselves, with all convenient speed, of the great benefits and advantages which must ac- crue therefrom to their commerce, manufactures, and navi- gation ; we have thought fit, with the advice of our privy council, to issue this our royal proclamation, hereby to pub- lish and declare to all our loving subjects, that we have, with the advice of our said privy council, granted our letters pa- tent, 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 Quebec, East Florida, West Florida and Grenada, and limited and bounded as follows, viz. First. The government of Quebec, bounded on the La- brador coast by the river St. John, and from thence by a line drawn from the head of that river, through the lake St. John, to the south end of the lake Nipissim ; from whence the said line crossing the river St. Lawrence, and the lake Champlain, in forty-five degress of north latitude, passes along the high- lands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the sea ;