Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudsons Bay Company | Page 4

their Office, shall take a corporal Oath, before the
Governor or his Deputy, and any three or more of the said Committee
of the said Company, being their last Predecessors, that they, and every
of them, shall well and faithfully perform their said Office of
Committees in all Things concerning the same, and that immediately
after the said Oath so taken, they shall and may execute and use their
said Office of Committees of the said Company, for one whole Year
from thence next following. AND MOREOVER, Our "Will and
Pleasure is, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,
WE DO GRANT unto the said Governor and Company, and their
Successors, that when, and as often as it shall happen, the Governor or
Deputy Governor of the said Company for the Time being, at any Time
within one Year after that he shall be nominated, elected, and sworn to
the Office of the Governor of the said Company, as is aforesaid, to die
or to be removed from the said Office, which Governor or Deputy
Governor not demeaning himself well in his said Office, WE WILL to

be removeable at the Pleasure of the rest of the said Company, or the
greater Part of them which shall be present at their publick Assemblies,
commonly called, Their General Courts holden for the said Company,
that then, and so often it shall and may be lawful to and for the Residue
of the said Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them,
within a convenient Time, after the Death or Removing of any such
Governor, or Deputy Governor to assemble themselves in such
convenient Place as they shall think fit, for the Election of the
Governor or Deputy Governor of the said Company; and that the said
Company, or the greater Part of them, being then and there present,
shall and may, then and there, before their Departure from the said
Place, elect and nominate one other of the said Company, to be
Governor or Deputy Governor for the said Company, in the Place and
Stead of him that so died or was removed; which Person being so
elected and nominated to the Office of Governor or Deputy Governor
of the said Company, shall have and exercise the said Office, for and
during the Residue of the said Year, taking first a corporal Oath, as is
aforesaid, for the due Execution thereof; and this to be done from time
to time, so often as the Case shall so require. AND ALSO, Our Will
and Pleasure is, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and
Successors, WE DO grant unto the said Governor and Company, that
when, and as often as it shall happen any Person or Persons of the
Committee of the said Company for the Time being, at any Time
within one Year next after that they or any of them shall be nominated,
elected and sworn to the Office of Committee of the said Company as
is aforesaid, to die or to be removed from the said Office, which
Committees not demeaning themselves well in their said Office, We
will, to be removeable at the Pleasure of the said Governor and
Company, or the greater Part of them, whereof the Governor of the said
Company for the Time being, or his Deputy, to be one; that then, and
so often, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, and
the rest of the Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them,
whereof the Governor for the Time being, or his Deputy, to be one,
within convenient Time after the Death or removing of any of the said
Committee, to assemble themselves in such convenient Place as is or
shall be usual and accustomed for the Election of the Governor of the
said Company, or where else the Governor of the said Company for the

Time being, or his Deputy, shall appoint. And that the said Governor
and Company, or the greater part of them, whereof the Governor for the
Time being, or his Deputy, to be one, being then and there present,
shall, and may, then and there, before their Departure from the said
Place, elect and nominate one or more of the said Company, to be of
the Committee of the said Company in the Place and Stead of him or
them that so died, or were or was so removed, which Person or Persons
so nominated and elected to the Office of Committee of the said
Company, shall have and exercise the said Office, for and during the
Residue of the said Year, taking first a corporal Oath as is aforesaid, for
the due Execution thereof, and this to be done from time to time, so