20 ‘The French in Prince Edward Island 
     
    
   
   
    
     them for establishing and maintaining our authority, 
     
     and freedom of trade and business between our subjects 
     
     and them, and in other matters that he may consider 
     
     appropriate: To enjoy and grant to our subjects who 
     
     will live there, or will trade in the said country or with 
     
     the natives thereof, fayours, privileges, and honours 
     
     according to the qualities and merits of the persons 
     
     under our good pleasure. IT IS OUR WILL and inten- 
     
     tion that the said Sieur Denys shall reserve to himself, 
     
     appropriate, and enjoy fully and peacefully all the 
     
     lands previously conceded to him by the said Company 
     
     of New France, to him and his heirs, and to grant and 
     
     alienate such part of these as he may think best, as well 
     
     to our said subjects who shall inhabit them, as to the 
     
     said natives so far as he shall judge it to be well, ac- 
     
     cording to the qualities, merits, and services of the 
     
     respective persons; (that he shall) have careful search 
     
     made for mines of Gold, Silver, Copper, and other 
     
     metals and minerals, and have them brought and con- 
     
     verted to use, as is prescribed by our ordinances, re- 
     
     serving for us, from the profit which shall arise from 
     
     those of Gold and Silver only, ten per cent., and we 
     
     leave and assign to him that which would appertain to 
     
     us from any of the other metals and minerals, in order 
     
     to help him to meet the other expenses which his said 
     
     charge will bring him. IT IS OUR WILL that the said 
     
     Sieur Denys, exclusively and over all others, shall enjoy 
     
     the privilege, power and right to traffic and make the 
     
     fur trade with the said Indians throughout all the ex- 
     
     tent of the said country of mainland and coast of the 
     
     Great Bay of Saint-Laurens, Terre-neufve, Cap-Breton, 
     
     and other islands adjacent, to enjoy all the privileges 
     
     above declared, (himself) and those whom he will ap- 
     
     point, and to whom he will wish to give the charge; and