ficers as have
served in North America during the late war, and are actually residing
there, and shall personally apply for the same, the following
quantities of land, subject, at the expiration of ten years, to the
same quit-rents as other lands are subject to in the province within
which they are granted, as also subject to the same conditions of
cultivation and improvement, viz.

To every person having the rank of a field officer, 5000 acres.

To every captain, 3000 acres.

To every subaltern or staff officer, 2000 acres.

To every non-commission officer, 200 acres.

To every private man, 50 acres.

We do likewise authorise and require the governors and commanders in
chief of all our said colonies upon the continent of North America to
grant the like quantities of land, and upon the same conditions, to
such reduced officers of our navy of like rank, as served on board our
ships of war in North America at the times of the reduction of
Louisbourg and Quebec in the late war, and who shall personally apply
to our respective governors for such grants.

And whereas it is _just_ and _reasonable_, and _essential to our
interest_, and the security of our colonies, that the several nations
or tribes of Indians, with whom we are connected, and who live under
our protection, should not be molested or disturbed in the possession
of such parts of our dominions _as, not having been ceded to, or
purchased by us, are reserved to them, or any of them, as their hunting
grounds_; we do therefore, with the advice of our privy council,
declare it to be our royal will and pleasure, that no governor, or
commander in chief, in any of our colonies of Quebec, East Florida, or
West Florida, do presume, upon any pretence whatever, to grant warrants
of survey, or pass any patents for lands beyond the bounds of their
respective governments, as described in their commissions; _as also_
that no governor or commander in chief of our other colonies or
plantations in America, do presume for the present, and until our
further pleasure be known, to grant warrant of survey, or pass patents
for any lands _beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which
fall into the Atlantic ocean from the west or north-west_; or upon any
lands whatever, _which not having been ceded to, or purchased by us, as
aforesaid, are reserved to the said Indians, or any of them_.

And we do further declare it to be our royal will and pleasure, _for
the present_, as