Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudsons Bay Company | Page 9

in that Behalf first had and obtained, or that
shall contemn or disobey their Orders, and send them to England; and
that all and every Person or Persons, being Our Subjects, any ways
employed by the said Governor and Company, within any of the Parts,
Places, and Limits aforesaid, shall be liable unto and suffer such
Punishment for any Offences by them committed in the Parts aforesaid,
as the President and Council for the said Governor and Company there
shall think fit, and the Merit of the Offence shall require, as aforesaid;
and in case any Person or Persons being convicted and sentenced by the
President and Council of the said Governor and Company, in the
Countries, Lands, or Limits aforesaid, their Factors or Agents there, for

any Offence by them done, shall appeal from the same; that then and in
such Case, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said President and
Council, Factors, or Agents, to seize upon him or them, and to carry
him or them home Prisoners into England, to the said Governor and
Company, there to receive such condign Punishment as his Cause shall
require, and the Law of this Nation allow of: and for the better
Discovery of Abuses and Injuries to be done unto the said Governor
and Company, or their Successors, by any Servant by them to be
employed in the said Voyages and Plantations, it shall and may be
lawful to and for the said Governor and Company, and their respective
President, Chief Agent or Governor in the Parts aforesaid, to examine
upon Oath all Factors, Masters, Pursers, Supercargoes, Commanders of
Castles, Forts, Fortifications, Plantations or Colonies, or other Persons,
touching or concerning any Matter or Thing, in which by Law or Usage
an Oath may be administered, so as the said Oath, and the Matter
therein contained, be not repugnant, but agreeable to the laws of this
Realm. AND, WE DO hereby streightly charge and command all and
singular, our Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs,
Constables, Bailiffs, and all and singular other our Officers, Ministers,
Liege Men and Subjects whatsoever, to be aiding, favouring, helping
and assisting, to the said Governor and Company, and to their
Successors, and to their Deputies, Officers, Factors, Servants, Assigns
and Ministers, and every of them, in executing and enjoying the
Premisses, as well on Land as on Sea, from time to time, when any of
you shall thereunto be required; ANY STATUTE, Act, Ordinance,
Proviso, Proclamation, or Restraint heretofore had, made, set forth,
ordained, or provided, or any other Matter, Cause or Thing whatsoever
to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding, IN WITNESS WHEREOF,
we have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent; WITNESS
OURSELF at Westminster, the Second Day of May, in the Two and
Twentieth Year of Our Reign.
By Writ of Privy Seal, PIGOTT.

SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER, 9th September, 1884.
Victoria, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, to all to
whom these presents shall come, greeting.

_Whereas by a Royal charter granted on the 2nd day of May in the
two-and-twentieth year of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles
the Second (in this our charter called "the original charter"), a company
was incorporated by the name of "The Governor and Company of
Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" with a common
seal, for the purpose of trading within the territories mentioned in said
original charter:
And whereas by the said original charter, after declaring that one of the
Company should be elected in manner thereafter mentioned, to be
called the Governor of the Company, and that the said Governor and
Company should or might elect seven of their members in such form as
thereafter mentioned, to be called the Committee of the Company,
which Committee of seven or any three of them, together with the
Governor or the Deputy-Governor for the time being, should have the
general management of the affairs of the Company, it was declared that
the Governor and Company and their successors should from
thenceforth for ever be ruled, ordered, and governed according to such
manner and form as was thereafter expressed, and not otherwise:
And whereas by the said original charter, after appointing Prince
Rupert to be the first Governor of the Company, and seven persons to
be the seven first Committees of the Company, it was provided that it
should and might be lawful to or for the said Governor and Company
for the time being or the greater part of them at any public assembly,
commonly called the Court General, to be holden for the said Company,
the Governor of the said Company being always one from time to time,
to elect, nominate, and