Upon reading this day at the Board a Representation from the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, together with the Draught of a Commission prepared by the said Lords Commissioners for Arthur Dobbs Esqre to be Captain General & Governor in Chief of His Majestys Province of North Carolina, And it appearing that the said Draught of Commission is drawn in the usual Form—His Majesty was pleased with the advice of His Privy Council to approve thereof, and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the right honorable the Earl of Holdernese one of his Majesty's principal Secretarys of State, do cause a warrant to be prepared for His Majesty's royal Signature in order to pass a Commission under the Great Seal of Great Britain agreable to the said Draught which is hereto annexed.