red as
a measure of the soundest policy, highly conducive to the peace and
security of the old colonies, to the preservation of the _boundary
line_, and to the commercial interests of the Mother Country.

APPENDIX, No. I.

By the KING.

A PROCLAMATION.

GEORGE R.

Whereas we have taken into our royal consideration the extensive and
valuable acquisitions in America, secured to our crown 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 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, stiled 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 Labrador 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 45 degrees 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; and also
along the North coast of the Baye des Chaleurs, and the coast of the
Gulph of St. Lawrence to Cape Rosieres, and from thence crossing the
mouth of the river St. Lawrence by the West end of the island of
Anticosti, terminates at the aforesaid river St. John.

Secondly, The government of East Florida, bounded to the Westward by
the Gulph of Mexico and the Apalachicola river; to the Northward, by a
line drawn from that part of the said river where the Catahouchee and
Flint rivers meet, to the source of St. Mary's river, and by the course
of the said river to the Atlantic Ocean; and to the East and South by
the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulph of Florida, including all islands
within s