GOVERNORS' COMMISSIONS. 487 to be supplied with such a quantity of provisions as may be sufficient Emancipists for the subsistence of himself and also of his family for twelve ^^lied for months, together with an assortment of tools, dbc, utensils, and twelve such a proportion of seed, grain, cattle, sheep, hogs, <kc., as may be ™**" proper and can be spared from the general stock of the settlement. And whereas many of our subjects employed upon military ser- in view of vice at the said settlement, and others who may resort thither mtnr^"**' upon their private occupations, may hereafter be desirous of pro- ceeding to the cultivation and improvement of the land, and as we are disposed to afford them every reasonable encouragement in such an undertaking, it is our will and pleasure that you do, with all convenient speed, transmit a report of the . actual state and report on quality of the soil at and near the said intended settlement, the **** ^*^- probable and most effectual means of improving and cultivating the same, and of the mode and upon what terms and conditions, according to the best of your judgment, the said lands should be granted, that proper instructions and authorities may be given to you for that purpose. And whereas it is our Royal intention that every sort of inter- course between the intended settlement at Botany Bay, or other aii inter- place which may be hereafter established on the coast of New ^o^'i*®„*'*"* South Wales and its dependencies, and the settlements of our East poits pro- India Company, as well as the coasts of China, and the islands °^*>*'«**- situated in that part of the world to which any intercourse has been established by any European nation, should be prevented by every possible means : It is our royal will and pleasure that you do not, on any account, allow craft of any sort to be built for the no saiiinp use of private individuals which might enable them to effect such ^® y^ intercourse, and that you do prevent any vessels which may at any time hereafter arrive at the said settlement from any of the ports before-mentioned from having communication with any ofNocommu- ' the inhabitants residing within your government, without first "^*^ip receiving especial permission from you for that purpose. to shore. G.R. GOVERNORS' COMMISSIONS. The charter granted to Sir Walter Ealeigh in 1584, by which he charter to- was authorised to take possession of such " remote, heathen, and Raieii^h. barbarous lands, countries, and territories " as he might discover, and to have, hold, occupy, and enjoy the same, is the earliest docu- ment of the kind in English history ;* and from it might be traced,
- Federal and State Constitations, Colonial Charters^ and other organic
laws of the United States. Washington, 1878. Part II, pp. 1379-81. 2 K Digitized by Google
