Trusty and welbeloved We greet you well. Whereas We have taken into our Royal consideration the Loyalty Integrity and conduct of our Trusty and welbeloved Daniel Germain Esqre We have thought fit hereby to authorize and require you forthwith to cause Letters Patents to be past under Our Seal of that Our Province of North Carolina in America, for constituting and appointing him the said Daniel Germain Provost, Marshall, and commissary of and in Our said Province To have, hold, exercise and enjoy the said office unto him the said Daniel Germain by himself or his sufficient Deputy or Deputies during our pleasure, together with all and singular the Rights, Salaries Fees, Profits, Privileges and emoluments thereunto beloning or appertaining, and for so doing this shall be your Warrant. And so We bid you Farewell. Given at Our Court at St. James's the thirteenth Day of November 1730, in the Fourth year of our Reign.