Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay CompanyHudson's Bay Company
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Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company
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that they being so assembled, it shall and may be lawful to and for
the said Governor or his Deputy, and the Company for the Time being,
or the greater Part of them, which then shall happen to be present,
whereof the Governor of the said Company, or his Deputy for the Time
being to be one, to elect and nominate Seven of the said Company,
which shall be a Committee of the said Company, for one whole Year
from then next ensuing, which Persons being so elected and nominated
to be a Committee of the said Company as aforesaid, before they be
admitted to the Execution of 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,
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