Vote, and that any of those that have subscribed less than one hundred
Pounds, may join their respective Sums to make up one hundred Pounds,
and have one Vote jointly for the same, and not otherwise. AND FURTHER,
Of Our especial Grace, certain Knowledge, and mere Motion, WE DO for Us,
Our Heirs and Successors, grant to and with the said Governor and Company
of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay, that all Lands,
Islands, Territories, Plantations, Forts, Fortifications, Factories, or
Colonies, where the said Company's Factories and Trade are or shall be,
within any the Ports or Places afore limited, shall be immediately and
from henceforth, under the Power and Command of the said Governor and
Company, their Successors and Assigns; saving the Faith and Allegiance
due to be performed to Us, Our Heirs and Successors aforesaid; and
that the said Governor and Company shall have Liberty, full Power and
Authority, to appoint and establish Governors, and all other Officers
to govern them, and that the Governor and his Council of the several and
respective Places where the said Company shall have Plantations, Forts,
Factories, Colonies, or Places of Trade within any the Countries, Lands
or Territories hereby granted, may have Power to judge all Persons
belonging to the said Governor and Company, or that shall live under
them, in all Causes, whether Civil or Criminal, according to the Laws
of this Kingdom, and to execute Justice accordingly. And, in Case any
Crime or Misdemeanor shall be committed in any of the said Company's
Plantations, Forts, Factories, or Places of Trade within the Limits
aforesaid, where Judicature cannot be executed for want of a Governor
and Council there, then in such Case it shall and may be lawful for
the chief Factor of that Place and his Council, to transmit the
Party, together with the Offence, to such other Plantation, Factory,
or Fort, where there shall be a Governor and Council, where Justice may
be executed, or into this Kingdom of England, as shall be thought
most convenient, there to receive such Punishment as the Nature of