THE CHARTER OF 1732

George the Second by the Grace of God
To all To whom these Presents shall come
Greeting Whereas wee are Credibly Informed that
many of our Poor Subjects are through misfortunes
and want of Employment reduced to great
necessities insomuch as by their labour they are
not able to provide a maintenance for themselves
and Families and if they had means to defray
the Charge of Passage and other Expenses incident
to new Settlements they would be Glad to be
Settled in any of our Provinces in America whereby
Cultivating the lands at present wast and
desolate they might not only gain a Comfortable
Subsistence for themselves and families but also
Strengthen our Colonies and Encrease the trade
Navigation and wealth of these our Realms And
whereas our Provinces in North America have
been frequently Ravaged by Indian Enemies more
Especially that of South Carolina which in the
late war by the neighbouring Savages was
laid wast with Fire and Sword and great
numbers of the English Inhabitants miserably
Massacred And our Loving Subjects who now
Inhabit these by reason of the Smallness of
their numbers will in case of any new war be
Exposed to the like Calamities in as much as
their whole Southern Frontier continueth unsettled
and lieth open to the said Savages And whereas
wee think it highly becoming Our Crown and
Royal Dignity to protect all our Loving Subjects

be they never so distant from us to Extend our
Fatherly Compassion even to the meanest and
most unfortunate of our people and to relieve
the wants of our abovementioned poor Subjects And
that it will be highly Conducive for the
accomplishing those Ends that a Regular Colony
of the said poor people be Settled and Established
in the Southern Frontiers of Carolina and whereas
wee have been well Assured that if wee would
be Graciously pleased to Erect and Settle a
Corporation for the receiving managing and
Disposing of the Contributions of our Loving Subjects
divers persons would be Induced to Contribute
to the uses and purposes aforesaid Know yee
therefore that wee have for the Considerations
aforesaid and for the better and more Orderly
Carrying on the said good purposes of our
Especial Grace certain Knowledge and Meer Motion
Willed Ordained Constituted and Appointed And
by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors
Do Will Ordain Constitute Declare and Grant that
our Right Trusty and Wellbeloved John Lord Viscount
Percival of our Kingdom of Ireland Our trusty and
Wellbeloved Edward Digby George Carpenter James
Oglethorpe George Heathcote Thomas Tower Robert
More Robert Hucks Rogers Holland William Sloper
Francis Eyles John Laroche James Vernon William
Belitha Esquires Stephen Hales Master of Arts
John Burton Batchelor in Divinity Richard Bundy
Master of Arts Arthur Bedford Master of Arts Samuel
Smith Master of Arts Adam Anderson and Thomas
Coram Gentlemen and Such other persons as shall
be Elected in the manner hereinafter mentioned and
their Successors to be Elected in manner as
hereinafter is directed be and shall be one Body
Politick and Corporate in Deed and in name by
the Name of The Trustees for Establishing the
Colony of Georgia in America and them and their
Successors by the same name wee do by these
Presents for us our Heirs and Successors Really

and fully make Ordain Constitute and declare to
be one Body politick and Corporate in Deed and
in name for ever And that by the same name
they and their Successors shall and may have
perpetual Succession And that they and their
Successors by that name shall and may forever
hereafter be persons able and capable in the law
to purchase have take receive and Enjoy to them
and their Successors any Mannors Messuages lands
Tenements Rents Advowsons liberties priviledges
Jurisdictions Franchises and other hereditaments
whatsoever lying and being in any part of Great
Britain of whatsoever nature kind and quality they
be in Fee and in Perpetuity not Exceeding the
Yearly value of One thousand pounds beyond
Reprises also Estates for lives and for years and
all other manner of Goods Chattels and things
whatsoever of what name nature quality or
value soever they be for the better Settling
Supporting and maintaining the said Colony and
other uses aforesaid and to Give Grant Let and
Demise the said Mannors Messuages Lands
Tenements Hereditaments Goods Chattells and
things whatsoever aforesaid by lease or leases
for Term of years in possession at the time of
Granting thereof and not in Reversion not Exceeding
the Term of one and thirty years from the time
of Granting thereof on which in case no Fine
be taken shall be reserved the full value and
in case a Fine be taken shall be reserved at
least a Moyety of the full value that the same
shall reasonably and bonafide be worth at the
time of such demise And that they and their
Successors by the name aforesaid shall and may
for ever hereafter be persons able and capable in the
law to purchase have take receive and Enjoy to
them and their Successors any lands Territories
possessions Tenements jurisdictions Franchises and
other herditaments whatsoever lying and being in
America of what quantity quality or value Soever

they be for the better Settling Supporting and
maintaining the said Colony And that by the name
aforesaid they shall and may be able to Sue and
be Sued Plead and be Impleaded Answer and be
Answered unto Defend and be Defended in all Courts
and places whatsoever and before whatsoever Judges
Justices or other Officers of us our Heirs and
Successors in all and Singular Actions Plaints Pleas
matters suits and demand of what Kind nature
quality Soever they Be and to Act and do all
other matters and things in as ample manner
and form as any other our Liege Subjects of
this our Real me of Great Britain And that they
and their Successors forever hereafter shall and
may have a Comon Seal to serve for the
Causes and business of them and their Successors
And that it shall and may be lawful for
them and their Successors to Change break alter
and make new the said Seal from time to time
and at their pleasure as they shall think best
And wee do further Grant for us our Heirs and
Successors that the said Corporation and the
Comon Council of the said Corporation hereinafter
by us appointed may from time to time and at
all times meet about their Affairs when and where
they please and transact and carry on the business
of the said Corporation And for the better
Execution of the purposes aforesaid wee do by
these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors
Give and Grant to the said Corporation and their
Successors that they and their Successors forever
may upon the third Thursday in the month of
March Yearly meet at some convenient place to
be appointed by the said Corporation or the Major
part of them who shall be present at any meeting
of the said Corporation to be had for the
appointment of the said place and that they or
two thirds of such of them that shall be present
shall at such Yearly meeting and at no other
meeting of the said Corporatdion between the hours

of Ten in the morning and four in the afternoon of
the Same Day Chuse and Elect such person or
persons to be members of the said Corporation
as they shall think beneficial to the good Designs
of the said Corporation And our further will and
pleasure is that if it shall happen that any of
the persons hereinafter by us appointed as the
Comon Council of the said Corporation or any
other persons to be Elected and admitted members
of the said Comon Council in the manner Hereinafter
directed shall die or shall by writing under his
and their hands respectively resign his or their
Office or Offices of Comon Council man or
Comon Council men the said Corporation or the
Major part of such of them as shall be
present shall and may at such meeting on the
said last Thursday in March Yearly in manner as
aforesaid next after such death or Resignation and
at no other meeting of the said Corporation Elect
and Chuse one or more person or persons being
members of the said Corporation into the Room or
place of such person or persons so dead or so
resigning as to them shall seem meet And Our Will
and pleasure is that all and every the person or
persons which shall from time to time hereafter
be Elected Comon Council men of the said
Corporation as aforesaid do and shall before he
or they Act as Comon Council men of the said
Corporation take an Oath for the Faithful and
due Execution of their Office which Oath the
President of the said Corporation for the time
being is hereby Authorized and required to Administer
to such person or persons so Elected as aforesaid
And Our will and pleasure is that the
First President of the said Corporation shall be
our Trusty and Wellbeloved the said John Lord
Viscount Percival and that the said President
shall within thirty days after the passing of
this Charter cause Summones to be Issued to
the several members of the said Corporation

herein particularly named to meet at such time
and place as he shall appoint to consult about
and transact the business of the said Corporation
And our will and pleasure is And wee do by
these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors
Grant Ordain and Direct that the Comon Council
of the said Corporation shall consist of
fifteen in number And wee do by these Presents
Nominate Consitute and appoint Our Right Trusty
and Wellbeloved John Lord Viscount Percival Our
Trusty and Wellbeloved Edward Digby George Carpenter
James Oglethorpe George Heathcote Thomas Tower
Robert More Robert Hucks Rogers Holland William
Sloper Francis Eyles John Laroche James Vernon
William Belitha Esquires and Stephen Hales Master
of Arts to be the Comon Council of the said
Corporation to continue in their Said Offices
during their good behavior and Whereas it is our
Royal Intention that the members of the said
Corporation should be Increased by Election as
soon as Conveniently may be to a greater number
than is hereby nominated Our further will and
pleasure is And wee do hereby for us our Heirs
and Successors Ordain and direct that from the
time of Such Increase of the members of the
said Corporation the number of the said Common
Council shall be Increased to Twenty four And
that at the same Assembly at which such
Additional members of the said Corporation shall
be Chosen there shall likewise be Elected in the
manner thereinbefore directed for the Election of
Comon Council men nine persons to be of the
said Comon Council and to make up the number
thereof twenty four And our further will and
pleasure is that our trusty and wellbeloved the
said Edward Digby Esquire shall be the First
Chairman of the Comon Council of the said
Corporation And that the said Lord Viscount Percival
shall be and continue President of the said
Corporation And the said Edward Digby shall be

and continue Chairman of the Comon Council of the
said Corporation respectively until the meeting which
shall be had next and imediately after the first
meeting of the said Corporation or of the Comon
Council of the said Corporation respectively and
no longer at which said Second meeting and at
every other Subsequent and future meeting of the
said Corporation or of the Comon Council of the
said Corporation respectively in Order to preserve
an Indifferent Rotation of the several Offices of
President of the Corporation and of Chairman of
the Comon Council of the said Corporation wee do
direct and Ordain that all and every the person
and persons members of the said Common Council
for the — being and no others being present at
such meetings shall severally and respectively in their
Turns preside at the meetings which shall from time
to time be had and held of the said Corporation
or of the Common Council of the said Corporation
respectively And in case any doubt or question
shall at any time arise touching or concerning
the Turn or Right of any member of the said
Comon Council to preside at any meeting of the
said Corporation or of the Comon Council of
the said Corporation the same shall be
respectively determined by the Major part of the
said Corporation or of the Comon Council of
the said Corporation respectively who shall be
present at such meeting Provided always that no
member of the said Comon Council having served
in the Office of President of the said Corporation
or of Chairman of the Comon Council of the
said Corporation shall be capable of being or
of serving as President or Chairman at any
meeting of the said Corporation or of the Comon
Council of the said Corporation next and
imediately ensueing that in which he so Served
as President of the said Corporation or
Chairman of the Comon Council of the said
Corporation respectively unless it shall soe

happen that at any such meeting of the said
Corporation there shall not be any other member
of the said Comon Council present And our will
and pleasure is that all and every the meetings
of the said Corporation or of the Comon Council
of the said Corporation the President or Chairman
for the time being shall have a voice and
shall vote and Act as a Member of the said
Corporation or of the Common Council of the
said Corporation at such meeting And in Case of
an Equality of Votes the said President or
Chairman for the time being shall have a Casting
vote And our further will and pleasure is that
no President of the said Corporation or Chairman
of the Comon Council of the said Corporation
or member of the said Comon Council or
Corporation by us by these Presents appointed or
hereafter from time to time to be Elected or
appointed in manner as aforesaid shall have
take or receive directly or Indirectly any Salary
Fee perquisite benefit or profit whatsoever for or
by reason of his or their serving the said
Corporation or Comon Council of the said Corporation
as President Chairman or Comon Council man or
as being a member of the said Corporation And
our will and pleasure is that the said herein
before appointed President Chairman and Comon Council
men before he and they Act respectively as such
shall severally take an Oath for the Faithful
and Due Execution of their Trust to be Administered
to the President by the Chief Baron of our
Court of Exchequer for the time being and by
the President of the said Corporation to the
rest of the Comon Council who are hereby
Authorized Severally and respectively to Administer
the same And our will and pleasure is that
all and every person and persons who shall
have his or their own name or names or
in the name or names of any person or persons
In trust for him or them or for his or their benefit

any Office place or Imployment of profit under
the Corporation shall be incapable of being
Elected a Member of the said Corporation And
if any member of the said Corporation during
such time as he shall continue a member thereof
shall in his own name or in the name of any
person or persons In trust for him or for his
benefit have hold Exercise accept possess or Enjoy
any Office place or Employment of profit under
the said Corporation or under the Comon Council
of the said Corporation such Member shall from
the time of such having holding Exercising accepting
possessing and Enjoying such Office Place or
Employment of profit cease to be a Member of
the said Corporation And wee do for us our
Heirs and Successors Grant unto the said
Corporation and their Successors that they and
their successors or the Major part of such of
them as shall be present at any meeting of
the said Corporation Convened and Assembled for
that purpose by proper and Convenient notice
thereof shall have power from time to time and
at all times hereafter to Authorize and appoint
such persons as they shall think fit to take
Subscriptions and to gather and Collect such moneys
as shall be by any person or persons Contributed
for the purposes aforesaid and shall and may
Revoke and make void such Authorities and
appointments as often as they shall see cause
so to do And wee do hereby for us our Heirs
and Successors Ordain and direct that the said
Corporation shall every Year lay an Account in
writing before the Chancellor or Keeper or
Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal of
Great Britain of us our Heirs and Successors the
Chief Justice of the Court of Kings Bench the
Master of the Rolls the Chief Justice of the Court
of Comon Pleas and the Chief Baron of the
Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors for the
time being or any two of them of all moneys

or Effects by them received or Expended for the
carrying on the good purposes aforsaid And wee
do hereby for us our Heirs and Successors Give and
Grant unto the said Corporation and their Successors
full power and Authority to Constitute Ordain and
make such and so many By-laws Constitutions
Orders and Ordinances as to them or the greater
part of them at their General meeting for that
purpose shall seem meet necessary and convenient
for the Well Ordering and Governing of the said
Corporation And the said By-laws Constitutions
Orders and Ordinatices or any of them to alter
and annull as they or the Major part of them then
present shall see requisite And in and by such
By-laws Rules Orders and Ordinances to sett
Impose and Inflict reasonable pains and penalties
upon any Offender or Offenders who shall transgress
break or violate the said By-laws Constitutions
Orders and Ordinances so made as aforesaid and
to mitigate the same as they or the Major part
of them then present shall find Cause which
said pains and penalties shall and may be
levyed sued for taken and retained and recovered
by the said Corporation and their Successors or by
their Officers and Servants from time to time to
be appointed for that purpose by Action of Debt
or by any other Lawful Ways and means to the
use and behoof of the said Corporation and
their Successors all and singular Which By-laws
Constitutions Orders and Ordinances so as
aforesaid to be made wee will shall be duly
Observed and kept under the pains and penalties
therein to be contained so always as the said
By laws Constitutions Orders and Ordinances
pains and penalties from time to time to be made
and Imposed to be reasonable and not contrary or
repugnant to the laws or Statutes of this our
Realm And that such By-laws Constitutions and
Ordinances pains and penalties from time to time to
be made and Imposed and any repeal or alteration

thereof or of any of them be likewise agreed to
be Established and Confirmed by the General meeting
of the said Corporation to be held and kept next
after the same shall be respectively made And
whereas the said Corporation intend to settle a
Colony and to make an habitation and plantation
in that part of our Province of South Carolina
in America hereinafter described Know yee therefore
that wee greatly desiring the happy Success of
the said Corporation for their further Encouragement
in accomplishing so Excellent a work have of our
Especial Grace certain Knowledge and Meer Motion
Given and Granted And by these Presents for us
our Heirs and Successors do Give and Grant to the
said Corporation and their Successors under the
Reservations limitations and Declarations hereafter
Expressed seven undivided parts the whole into
Eight equal parts to be divided of all those
lands Countries and Territories Situate lying and
being in that part of South Carolina in America
which lies from the most Northern Stream of a
River there comonly called the Savannah all along
the Sea Coast to the Southward unto the most
Southern Stream of a certain other great water
or River called the Alatamaha and Westward
from the heads of the said Rivers respectively in
Direct Lines to the South Seas and all that
space Circuit and Precinct of land lying within
the said boundaries with the Islands in the Sea
lying opposite to the Eastern Coast of the said
lands within twenty leagues of the same which
are not already inhabited or settled by any
Authority derived from the Crown of Great Britain
together with all the Soils Grounds Havens
Ports Gulfs and Bays Mines as well Royal
Mines of Gold and Silver as other Minerals
Precious Stones Quarries Woods Rivers waters
Fishings as well Royal Fishings of whale and
Sturgeon as other Fishings Pearls Comodities
Jurisdictions Royalties Franchises Priviledges and

Prehemmences within the said Territories and
the Precincts thereof and thereunto in any Sort
belonging or appertaining and which wee by our
letters Patents may or can grant and in as
Simple manner and Sort as wee or any our
Royal Progenitors have hitherto Granted to any
Company Body politick or corporate or to any
Adventurer or Adventurers Undertaker or Undertakers
of any Discoveries Plantation or Traffick of in or
unto any Foreign parts whatsoever and in as
large and ample manner as if the same were
herein particularly mentioned and Expressed To
have hold possess and Enjoy the said Seven
undivided parts the whole into Eight equal parts
to be divided as aforesaid of all and Singular
the said lands Countries and Territories with all
and singular other the Premisses hereinbefore by
these Presents Granted or mentioned or intended to
be Granted to them the said Corporation and
their Successors for ever for the better support of
the said Colony to be holden of us our heirs and
Successors as of our honour of Hampton Court
in our County of Middlesex in Free and Comon
Soccage and not in Capite Yeilding and paying
therefore to us our heirs and Successors yearly
for ever the sume of Four shillings for every
Hundred acres of the said lands which the said
Corporation shall Grant Demise Plant or settle the
said payment not to Comence or be made until
ten Years after such Grant Demise Planting or
Settling and to be Answered and paid to us our
Heirs and Successors in such manner and in such
Species of money or Notes as shall be Current
in payment by Proclamation from time to time in
our said Province of South Carolina All which
lands Countries Territories and Premisses hereby
Granted or mentioned or intended to be Granted
wee do by these Presents make Erect and Create
one Independent and seperate Province by the
name of Georgia by which name wee will the

same henceforth to be called And that all and
every person and persons who shall at any time
hereafter Inhabit or reside within our said Province
shall be and are hereby declared to be Free and
shall not be Subject to or bound to obey
any laws Orders Statutes or Constitutions which
have been heretofore made Ordered or Enacted or
which hereafter shall be made Ordered or Enacted
by for or as the laws Orders Statutes or Constitutions
of our said Province of South Carolina save and
Except only the Command in Chief of the Militia
of our said Province of Georgia to our Governor
for the time being of South Carolina in the
manner hereinafter declared but shall be Subject to
and bound to obey such laws Orders Statutes and
Constitutions as shall from time to time be made
Ordered and Enacted for the better Government of
the said Province of Georgia in the manner
hereinafter directed And wee do hereby for us our
Heirs and Successors Ordain Will and Establish
that for and during the Term of one and twenty
years to Comence from the date of these our
letters Patent the said Corporation Assembled for
that purpose shall and may form and prepare
laws Statutes and Ordinances fit and necessary
for and concerning the Government of the said
Colony and not repugnant to the laws and
Statutes of England and the same shall and
may present under their Comon Seal to us our Heirs
and Successors in our or their Privy Council for our
or their Approbation or Disallowance And the said
laws Statutes and Ordinances being approved by
us our Heirs and Successors in our or their Privy
Council shall from thenceforth be in full force
and virtue within our said Province of Georgia
And for as much as the Good and prosperous
Success of the said Colony cannot but cheifley
depend next under the blessing of God and the
support of our Royal Authority upon the provident
and good direction of the whole Enterprise And that

it will be too great a burthen upon all the
Members of the said Corporation to be Convened
so often as may be requisite to hold meetings for
the settling supporting Ordering and maintaining
Such Colony Therefore wee do will Ordain and
Establish that the said Comon Council for the
time being of the said Corporation being Assembled
for that purpose or the Major part of them shall
from time to time and at all times hereafter
have full power and Authority to dispose of
Expend and apply all the monies and Effects
belonging to the said Corporation in such manner
and ways and in such Expences as they shall
think best to Conduce to the carrying on and
Effecting the good purposes herein mentioned and
intended and also shall have full power in the
name and on the Account of the said Corporation
and with and under their Comon Seale to Enter
into any Covenants and Contracts for carrying on
and Effecting the purposes aforesaid And our further
will and pleasure is that the said Comon Council
for the time being or the Major part of such
of the said Comon Council which shall be present
and Assembled for that purpose from time to time
and at all times hereafter shall and may
Nominate Contribute and appoint a Treasurer or
Treasurers Secretary or Secretarys and such other
Officers Ministers and Servants of the said
Corporation as to them or the Major part of
such of them as shall be present shall seem
proper or requisite for the good management of
their Affaires and at their will and pleasure to
displace remove and put out such Treasurer or
Treasurers Secretary or Secretarys and all such
other Officers Ministers or Servants as often as
they shall think fit so to do and others in the
Room Office place or Stead of him or them so
Displeased removed or put out to nominate Constitute
and appoint and shall and may Determine and
appoint such reasonable Salaries perquisites or other

Rewards for the labour or Service of such Officers
Servants and persons as to the said Comon
Council shall seem meet and all such Officers
shall before they Sit in their respective Offices
take an Oath to be to them Administered by the
Chairman for the time being of the said Comon
Comon Council of the said Corporation who is
hereby Authorized to Administer the same for the
faithful and Due Execution of their respective Offices
and places And our will and pleasure is that
all and every person and persons who shall from
time to time be Chosen or appointed Treasurer or
Treasurers Secretary or Secretarys of the said
Corporation in manner hereinbefore directed shall
during such time as they shall serve in the said
Offices respectively be incapaable of being a member
of the said Corporation And wee do further of our
Especial Grace certain Knowledge and Meer Motion
for us our Heirs and Successors Grant by these
Presents to the said Corporation and their Successors
that it shall be lawful for them and their
Officers or Agents at all times hereafter to
transport and Convey out of our Realm of Great
Britain or any other our Dominions into the said
Province of Georgia to be there settled all such
and so many of our Loving Subjects or any
Foreigners that are willing to become our Subjects
and live under our Allegiance in the said Colony
as shall willingly go to Inhabit and reside
there with sufficient shipping Armour weapons
Ordnance Munition Powder Shot Victuals and such
Merchandize or wares as are Esteemed by the
Wild people in those parts Cloathing Implements
Furniture Cattle Horses Mares and all other things
necessary for the said Colony and for their use
and Defence and trade with the people there and
in passing and returning to and from the same
Also wee Do for us our Heirs and Successors
declare by these Presents that all and every the
persons which shall happen to be born within the

said Province and every of their Children and
Posterity shall have and Enjoy all Liberties
Franchises and Immunities of Free Denizens and
natural born Subjects within any of our Dominions
to all intents and purposes as if they had been
abiding and born within this our Kingdom of
Great Britain or any other of our Dominions And for
the greater Ease and Encouragement of our Loving
Subjects and such others as shall come to
Inhabit in our said Colony wee do by these
Presents for us our Heirs and Successors Grant
Establish and Ordain that for ever hereafter
there shall be a liberty of conscience allowed in
the Worship of God to all persons Inhabiting
or which shall Inhabit or be Resident within
our said Province And that all such persons
Except Papists shall have a Free Exercise of
their Religion so they be contented with the quiet
and peaceable Enjoyment of the Same not
giving Offence or Scandal to the Government And
our further will and pleasure is And wee do
hereby for us our Heirs and Successors declare
and Grant that it shall and may be lawful
for the said Comon Council or the Major part
of them Assembled for that purpose in the name
of the Corporation and under their Comon Seal
to Distribute Convey Assigne and Settover such
particular portions of the lands Tenements and
hereditaments by these Presents Granted to the said
Corporation unto such of our loving Subjects
Natural born or Denizens or others that shall be
willing to become Subjects and live under our
Allegiance in the said Colony upon such Terms
and for Such Estates and upon such Rents
Reservations and Conditions as the same may
lawfully be Granted and as to the said Comon
Council or the Major part of them so present shall
seem fit and proper Provided always that no
Grant shall be made of any part of the said
lands unto any person being a member of the

said Corporation or to any other person In Trust
for or for the benefit of any Member of the
said Corporation And that no person having any
Estate or Interest in law or Equity in any part
of the said lands shall be capable of being a
member of the said Corporation During the
continuance of such Estate or Interest Provided also
that no greater quantity of the said land be
Granted either entirely or in parcels to or to the
use of or In trust for any one person than Five
Hundred Acres And that all Grants made contrary
to the true intent and meaning hereof shall be
absolutely null and void And we do hereby
Grant and Ordain that such person and persons
for the time being as shall be thereunto
appointed by the said Corporation shall and may
at all times and from time to time hereafter
have full power and Authority to Administer and
give the Oaths appointed by an Act of
Parliament made in the First year of the
Reign of our late Royal Father to be taken
instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy
and also the Oath of Abjuration to all and every
person and persons which shall at any time be
Inhabiting or residing within our said Colony
And in like Cases to Administer the solemn
Affirmation to any of the persons comonly called
Quakers in such manner as by the laws of
our Realm of Great Britain the same may be
Administered And wee do of our further Grace
certain Knowledge and Meer Motion Grant
Establish and Ordain for us our Heirs and Successors
that the said Corporation and their Successors
shall have full power and Authority for and
during the Term of one and twenty years to
Comence from the Date of these our letters Patents
to Erect and Constitute jurisdictions and Courts of
Record or other Courts to be held in the name of us
our Heirs and Successors for the hearing and
determining of all manner of Crimes Offences Pleas

processes Plaints Actions matters Causes and things
whatsoever arising or happening within the Province
of Georgia or between persons Inhabiting or residing
there whether the same be Criminal or Civil And
whether the said Crimes be Capital or not Capital
And whether the said Pleas be Real personal or
mixed and for Awarding and making out Executions
thereupon to which Courts and Judicatures wee do
hereby for us our Heirs and Successors Give and
Grant full power and Authority from time to
time to Administer Oaths for the Discovery of
truth in any matter in Controversy or Depending
before them or the Solemn Affirmation to any of
the persons comonly called Quakers in such manner
as by the laws of our Realme of Great Britain
the same may be Administered And our further will
and pleasure is that the said Corporation and
their Successors do from time to time and at all
times hereafter Register or cause to be Registered
all such leases Grants Plantings Conveyances
Settlements and Improvements whatsoever as shall
at any time hereafter be made by or in the
name of the said Corporation of any lands
Tenements or hereditaments within the said
Province and shall yearly send or transmit or
cause to be sent and transmitted Authentick Account
of such leases Grants Conveyances Settlements and
Improvements respectively unto the Auditor of the
Plantations for the time being or his Deputy and
also to our Surveyor for the time being of our
Said Province of South Carolina to whom we
do hereby Grant full power and Authority from
time to time as often as need shall require to
inspect and Survey such of the said lands and
Premisses as shall be demised Granted and
settled as aforesaid which said Survey and
Inspection wee do hereby Declare to be intended
to Ascertain the Quit Rents which shall from time
to time become due to us our Heirs and
Successors according to the Reservation hereinbefore

mentioned and for no other purpose whatsoever
hereby for us our Heirs and Successors Strictly
Enjoying and Commanding that neither our or
their Surveyor or any person whatsoever under the
pretext and Colour of making the said Survey
or. Inspection shall take Demand or receive any
Gratuity Fee or Reward of or from any person or
persons Inhabiting in the said Colony or from the said
Corporation or Comon Council thereof on the pain
of Forfeiture of their Office or Offices and
Incurring our highest Displeasure Provided always
And our further will and pleasure is that all
leases Grants and Conveyances to be made by
or in the name of the said Corporation of any
lands within the said Province or a Memorial
containing the Substance and Effect thereof shall
be Registered with the Auditor of the Plantations
of us our Heirs and Successors within the space
of one Year to be Computed from the Date
thereof otherwise the same shall be void And
our further will and pleasure is that the Rents
Issues and all other profits which shall at any
time hereafter come to the said Corporation
Issuing or Arising out of or from the said
Province or out of or from any part or parcel
of the same shall from time to time and at all
times hereafter be laid out and applied in such
Expenses and in such manner as the said Comon
Council of the said Corporation or the Major part
of such of them as shall be present at any
meeting for that purpose Assembled shall think
will most Improve and Enlarge the said Colony
and best Answer the good purposes hereinbefore
mentioned and for Defraying all other charges about
the same And our will and pleasure is that the
said Corporation and their Successors shall from time
to time give unto one of the Principal Secretaries
of State and to the Commissioners of Trade and
Plantations Accountes of the Progress of the said
Colony And our will and Pleasure is that no Act

done at any meeting of the said Comon Council
of the said Corporation shall be Effectual and
valid unless Eight members at least of the said
Comon Council including the member who shall serve
as Chairman at the said meeting be present and
the Major part of them consenting thereunto And
our will and pleasure is that the Comon Council
of the said Corporation for the time being or
the Major part of them who shall be present
being Assembled for that purpose shall from time
to time for during and until the full End and
Expiration of twenty one years to Comence from
the Date of these our letters Patent have full
power and Authority to nominate make Constitute
Commission Ordain and appoint by such name or
names Stile or Stiles as to them shall seem
meet and fitting All and Singular such Governors
Judges Magistrates Ministers and Officers Civil and
Military both by Sea and land within the said
District as shall by them be thought fit and
needful to be made or used for the Government
of the said Colony (save always and Except
such Officers only as shall by us our Heirs and
Successors be from time to time Constituted and
appointed for the managing Collecting and receiving
such Revenues as shall from time to time Arise
within the said Province of Georgia and become
due to us our Heirs and Successors) Provided always
And it is our will and pleasure that every
Governor of the said Province of Georgia to be
appointed by the Comon Council of the said
Corporation before he shall enter upon or Execute
the said Office of Governor shall be allowed
and approved by us our Heirs or Successors and
shall take such Oaths and shall qualify
himself in such manner in all respects as any
Governor or Commander in Chief of any of our
Colonys or Plantations in America are by law
required to do and shall give good and sufficient
Security for observing the several Acts of Parliament

relating to trade and navigation and to observe
and obey all Instructions that shall be sent to
him by us our Heirs or Successors or any Acting
under our or their Authority pursuant to the said
Acts or any of them And wee do by these Presents
for us our Heirs and Successors Will Grant and
Ordain that the said Corporation And their
Successors shall have full power for and during
and until the full End and Term of one and
Twenty years to Comence from the Date of these
our letters Patent by any Comander or other
Officer or Officers by them for that purpose from
time to time appointed to Train Instruct Exercise
and Govern a Militia for the Special Defence and
Safety of our said Colony to Assemble in Martial
Array and put in warlike posture the Inhabitants of
the said Colony and to lead and Conduct them and
with them to Encounter Expulse repel resist and
pursue by force of Arms as well by Sea as by
land within or without the limits of our said
Colony and also to kill Slay destroy and Conquer
by all fitting ways Enterprizes and means
whatsoever all and every such person and persons as
shall at any time hereafter in an hostile manner
Attempt or Enterprize the destruction Invasion Detriment
or Annoyance of our said Colony and to use and
Exercise the law Martial in time of Actual war
Invasion or Rebellion in such Cases whereby law
the same may be used or Exercised and also
from time to time to Erect Forts and Fortify any
place or places within our said Colony and the
same to Furnish with all necessary Ammunition
Provision and Stores of war for Offence and
Defence and to comit from time to time the
Custody and Government of the same to such
person or persons as to them shall seem meet
and the said Forts and Fortifications to
demolish at their pleasure and to take and
Surprize by all ways and means whatsoever
all and every such person or persons with their

Ships Arms Ammunition and other goods as shall
an hostile manner invade or attempt the invading
Conquering or Annoying of our said Colony And our
will and pleasure is And wee do hereby for us
our Heirs and Successors Declare and Grant That
the Governor or Comander in Chief of the Province
of South Carolina of us our Heirs and Successors
for the time being shall at all times hereafter
have the Chief Comand of the Militia of our said
Province hereby Erected and Established and that such
Militia shall observe and Obey all Orders and
Directions that shall from time to time be given
or sent to them by the said Governor or Comander
in Chief any thing in these Presents before contained
to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding
And of our Especial Grace certain Knowledge and
Meer Motion wee have Given and Granted And by
these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors do
Give and Grant unto the said Corporation and
their Successors full power and Authority to Import
and Export their Goods at and from any port or
Ports that shall be appointed by us our Heirs or
Successors within the said Province of Georgia
for that purpose without being Obliged to touch
at any other Port in Carolina And wee do by these
Presents for us our Heirs and Successors will and
declare that from and after the Determination of
the said Term of one and twenty years such
Form of Government and Method of making laws
Statutes and Ordinances for the better Governing and
Ordering the said Province of Georgia and the
Inhabitants thereof shall be Established and
observed within the same as wee our Heirs or
Successors shall hereafter Ordain and appoint and
shall be Agreeable to law And that from and
after the Determination of the said Term of One
and twenty years the Governor of our said
Province of Georgia and all Officers Civil and
Military within the same shall from time to time
be nominated Constituted and appointed by us our

Heirs and Successors And lastly wee do hereby for
us our Heirs and Successors Grant unto the said
Corporation and their Successors that these our letters
Patents or the Inrollment or Exemplification thereof
shall be in and by all things good firm valid
Sufficient and Effectual in the law according to the
time intent and meaning thereof and shall be
taken Construed and adjudged in all our Courts and
elsewhere in the most favourable and beneficial
sense and for the best advantage of the said
Corporation and their Successors any Omission
Imperfection Defect matter cause of thing whatsoever
to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding in
witness as witness our self at Westminster the
ninth       day of June
         By Writt of Privy Seal