oever in any
manner due and anciently belonging to the said Office, According to
the Custom of our High Court of Admiralty of England, Committing unto
you our Power and Authority Concerning all and Singular the Premises
in the several places above Expressed (Saving in all the Prerogative
of our said High Court of Admiralty of England aforesaid) together
with power of Deputing and Surrogating in your place for and
Concerning the premisses one or more Deputy or Deputies as often as
you shall think fit. Further we do in Our Name Command and firmly and
Strictly Charge all and Singular Our Governors, Commanders, Justices
of the Peace, Mayors, Sheriffs, Marshalls, keepers of all our Goals
and Prisons, Bailiffs, Constables and all other our officers and
Ministers and faithful and Leige Subjects in and throughout our
aforesaid Province of South Carolina And Territories thereuntobelonging
That in the Execution of this our Commission they be from time to time
Aiding, Assisting and yield due Obedience in all things as is fitting,
unto you and your Deputy Whomsoever, under pain of the Law and the
Peril which will fall thereon. Given at London in the High Court of
Our Admiralty of England aforesaid under the Great Seal thereof the
Sixteenth Day of June in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven and
fifty three and of our Reign the twenty sixth.

SAML. HILL, Register.[6]

[Footnote 2: Civil law judge.]

[Footnote 3: Suicides.]

[Footnote 4: Flotsam, goods found floating on the water from a wreck;
jetsam, goods thrown overboard from a ship which has perished; legan,
heavy goods thrown overboard with a line and buoy to mark where they
have sunk; derelicts, vessels abandoned on the seas.]

[Footnote 5: _I.e._, cases where there was no one corresponding to the
plaintiff in a suit at common law, but where the judge proceeded, as
an exercise of his own duty (mere office) or on being promoted
(incited) thereto by an informer.]

[Footnote 6: Register of the High Court of Admiralty.]

_182. Warrant to try Prizes. June 5, 1756._[1]

[Footnote 1: South Carolina Admiralty Records, vol. E-F, p. 115. This
warrant is there entered in the records of the admiralty court for
Nov. 22, 1756, the judge, James Michie (see the two preceding
documents), presiding. Great Britain had declared war against France
on May 18, 1756. A similar warrant is in Anthony Stokes's _View of the
Constitution of the British Colonies_ (London, 1783), p. 280.]

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