recite a part of that proclamation.

But if the _whole_ of this proclamation is considered, it will be found
to contain the nine following heads; viz.[1]

[1] Vide the Proclamation in the Appendix, No. 1.

1st, To declare to his Majesty's subjects, that he had erected four
distinct and separate governments in America; viz. Quebec, East
Florida, West Florida, and Grenada.

2d, To ascertain the respective boundaries of these four new
governments.

3d, To testify the royal sense and approbation of the conduct and
bravery, both of the officers and soldiers of the King's army, and of
the reduced officers of the navy, who had served in North America, and
to reward them, by grants of lands in Quebec, and in East and West
Florida, without fee or reward.

4th, To hinder the governors of Quebec, East Florida and West Florida,
from granting warrants of survey, or passing patents for lands,
_beyond_ the bounds of their respective governments.

5th, To forbid the governors of any other colonies or plantations in
America, from granting warrants or passing patents for 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 the King_, are reserved to
the said Indians, or any of them."

6th, To reserve, "_for the present_," under the King's sovereignty,
protection, and dominion, _for the use of the said Indians_, all the
lands _not_ included within the limits of the said three new
governments, or within the limits of the Hudson's Bay company; as also,
all the lands lying to the westward of the sources of the rivers, which
fall into the sea from the west and north-west, and forbidding the
King's subjects, from making any purchases of settlements whatever, or
taking possession of the lands _so reserved_, without his Majesty's
leave and licence first obtained.

7th, To require all persons, who had made settlements on lands, _not_
purchased by the King from the Indians, to remove from such
settlements.

8th, To regulate the future purchases of lands from the Indians, within
such parts as his Majesty, by that proclamation, permitted settlements
to be made.

9th, To declare, that the trade with the Indians should be free and
open to all his Majesty's subjects, and to prescribe the manner how it
shall be carried on.

And lastly, To require all military officers, and the superin