ofits, Perquisites, Privileges, Advantages and Emoluments incident
thereto, in as full and ample manner as any of your Predecessors
Judges of the said court have holden the same.

This Commission to continue during Pleasure.

Given under the great Seal of the said Province at CharlesTown in the
Council Chamber the twenty third Day of September and in the
twenty-sixth year of our Reign 1752.

Witness our Trusty and Well beloved James Glen, Esq: Governor in Chief
and Captain General in and over our said Province.[3]

[Footnote 3: James Glen, a Scot, was appointed governor of South
Carolina in 1738, commissioned in 1739, came out to the colony in
1743, and was governor till 1756.]

By his Excellency's Command.

WILLIAM PINCKNEY, Dept. Secry.[4]

[Footnote 4: Maj. William Pinckney (1703-1766), deputy secretary and
afterward commissary general of the province; grandfather of Governor
Charles Pinckney. In the volume in which this commission is found, it
is indexed as James Michie's commission from Governor Glen, the
document which follows (no. 181) as his commission from England.
Sometimes, especially in the earlier period, admiralty judges in the
colonies were commissioned by the respective governors acting under
warrants from the lords of the admiralty empowering them so to do
(_e.g._, doc. no. 69); more often they were commissioned directly by
those lords, under the great seal of the admiralty. Docs. nos. 180 and
181 illustrate the two forms.]

Recorded in the Secretary's Office in
Book II, folio 286.

_181. Commission of a Vice-Admiralty Judge. June 16, 1753._[1]

[Footnote 1: South Carolina Admiralty Records, vol. E-F, p. 55. See
doc. no. 180, note 4.]

George the Second by the grace of God of great Britain, France and
Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, To our beloved James Michie
Esquire, Greeting. We do by these Presents make, Ordaine, nominate and
appoint You the said James Michie Esquire to be our Commissary[2] in
our Province of South Carolina and Territories thereunto belonging in
the room of the former deceased, hereby granting unto you full Power
to take Cognizance of and proceed in all Causes Civil and Maritime and
in Complaints, Contracts, Offences or suspected Offences, Crimes,
Pleas, Debts, Exchanges, Policies of Assurance, Accounts,
Chartreparties, Bills of Lading of Ships and all Matters and Contracts
which [in] any Manner whatsoever relates to Freights due for Ships
hired and let out,