Royal proclamation of 1763

The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was promulgated as a result of the transfer from France to Great Britain of new territories in North America following the Treaty of Paris (1763). The Proclamation established a program of imperial reorganization designed to strengthen the home authority by tightening the lines of central control over commerce, taxation, and politics. In giving prominence to the question of the territories’ indigenous people, it aroused opposition within both the Thirteen Colonies and the Province of Quebec and was gradually abandoned, to be replaced by the Quebec Act in 1774.