Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudsons Bay Company | Page 7

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and every the said Offenders, for their said Contempt, to suffer such
other Punishment as to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, for so high a
Contempt, shall seem meet and convenient, and not to be in anywise
delivered until they, and every of them, shall become bound unto the
said Governor for the time being in the Sum of One Thousand Pounds
at the least, at no time then after to trade or traffick into any of the said
Places, Seas, Streights, Bays, Ports, Havens or Territories, aforesaid,
contrary to our express Commandment in that Behalf set down and
published. AND FURTHER, of Our more especial Grace, WE HAVE
condescended and granted, and by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs and
Successors, DO grant unto the said Governor and Company, and their
Successors, that We, Our Heirs and Successors, will not grant Liberty,
Licence, or Power, to any Person or Persons whatsoever, contrary to
the Tenor of these Our Letters Patent, to trade, traffick or inhabit, unto
or upon any the Territories, Limits or Places, afore specified, contrary
to the true Meaning of these Presents, without the Consent of the said
Governor and Company, or the most part of them. AND, OF Our more
abundant Grace and Favour to the said Governor and Company, WE
DO hereby declare Our Will and Pleasure to be, That if it shall so
happen, that any of the Persons free, or to be free of the said Company
of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay, who shall, before
the going forth of any Ship or Ships appointed for a VOYAGE, or
otherwise, promise or agree by Writing under his or their Hands, to
adventure any Sum or Sums of Money, towards the furnishing any
Provision, or Maintenance of any Voyage or Voyages, set forth, or to
be set forth, or intended or meant to be set forth, by the said Governor
and Company, or the more Part of them present at any publick
Assembly, commonly called Their General Court, shall not within the
Space of twenty Days next after Warning given to him or them, by the
said Governor or Company, or their known Officer or Minister, bring
in and deliver to the Treasurer or Treasurers appointed for the
Company, such Sums of Money as shall have been expressed and set
down in Writing, by the said Person or Persons, subscribed with the
Name of said Adventurer or Adventurers, that then, and at all Times
after, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor and

Company, or the more Part of them present, whereof the said Governor
or his Deputy to be one, at any of their General Courts or General
Assemblies, to remove and disfranchise him or them, and every such
Person and Persons at their Wills and Pleasures, and he or they so
removed and disfranchised, not to be permitted to trade into the
Countries, Territories, and Limits aforesaid, or any Part thereof, nor to
have any Adventure or Stock going or remaining with or amongst the
said Company, without the special Licence of the said Governor and
Company, or the more Part of them present at any General Court, first
had and obtained in that Behalf, any Thing before in these Presents to
the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. AND OUR WILL
AND PLEASURE is, and hereby we do also ordain, That it shall and
may be lawful, to and for the said Governor and Company, or the
greater Part of them, whereof the Governor for the Time being, or his
Deputy to be one, to admit into, and to be of the said Company, all such
Servants or Factors, of or for the said Company, and all such others, as
to them, or the most Part of them present, at any Court held for the said
Company, the Governor or his Deputy being one, shall be thought fit
and agreeable with the Orders and Ordinances made and to be made for
the Government of the said Company. AND FURTHER, 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 to their
Successors, that it shall and may be lawful in all Elections, and
Bye-laws to be made by the General Court of the Adventurers of the
said Company, that every Person shall have a number of Votes
according to his Stock, that is to say, for every hundred Pounds by him
subscribed or brought into the present Stock, one 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