Trusty and welbeloved We greet you well. Whereas We have taken into Our Royal consideration the Integrity and Ability of Our trusty and welbeloved Enoch Hall Esqre We have thought fit hereby to require and authorize you forthwith to cause Letters Patents to be passed under Our Seal of that Our Province of North Carolina in America for constituting and appointing the said Enoch Hall our Chief Justice of and in Our said Province in the room of William Smith Esqre deceased to have, hold, execute and enjoy the said Office, during Our pleasure and his Residence within our said Province together with all and singular the Rights Profits, Privileges and Emoluments unto the said Place belonging or appertaining with full power and authority to hold supreme courts of Judicature at such Places and times as the same may and ought to be held within Our said Province And for so doing this shall be our Warrant. And so We bid you Farewell. Given at our Court at St. James's the twenty first Day of April 1744 in the seventeenth Year of our Reign.