84 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1 769.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

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 & Islands ceded and confirmed to
Us by the said Treaty, four distinct and Separate Govern-
ments, stiled and called by the names of Quebec, East Florida,
West Florida, and Grenada and Limitted and bounded as
follows; viz^t
First, the Government of Quebec, bounded on the Labrador
Coast by the River S^t John, and from thence by a Line drawn
from the head of that River through the Lake S^t John to the
South End of the Lake Nigh Pissin; from whence the said
line Crossing the River S^t 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 S^t Lawrence, from those which fall into the Sea ;
and also along the North Coast of the Baye des Chaleurs, and
the Coast of the Gulph of S^t Lawrence to Cape Rosieres, and
from thence Crossing the mouth of the River S^t Lawrence
by the West End of the Island of Anticosti, terminates at the
aforesaid River of S^{t
John.
Secondly, The Government of East Florida, bounded to
the Westward by the Gulph of Mexico, and the Apalachicola
River; to the Northwards by a line drawn from that part of
the said River where the Chatahouchee and Flint Rivers meet,
to the Source of St Mary's River, and by the Course of the
said River to the Atlantick Ocean; and to the Eastward and
Southward, by the Atlantick Ocean, and the Gulph of Florida,
including all Islands within Six Leagues of the Sea Coast.
Thirdly, the Government of West Florida, bounded to the
Southward by the Gulph of Mexico, including all Islands
within Six Leagues of the Coast from the River Apalachicola
to Lake Ponchartrain; to the Westward by the said Lake the
Lake Mauripas, and the River Missisippi, to the Northward,
by a line drawn due East from that part of the River Mis-}

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sisippi; which lies in Thirty one Degrees North Latitude, to
the River Apalachicolo or Chatahouchee; and to the Eastward
by the said River.
Fourthly, The Government of Grenada, comprehending the
Island of that Name together with the Grenadiers, and the
Island of Dominico S^{t
Vincents, and Tobago, And to the End
that the open and free Fishery of Our Subjects may be ex-
tended to and carried on upon the Coast of Labrador and the
adjacent Islands, We have thought fit, with the Advice of Our
said Privy Council, to put all that Coast, from the River St}