ee against us in the above Cause, whereupon we by
our advocate or Counsel did pray Leave to appeal therefrom and to have
Time to perfect the same, We do accordingly hereby protest against the
said Decree or Sentence against us and appeal therefrom to the
Commissioners appointed or to be appointed under the Great Seal of
Great Britain for receiving, hearing and Determining of appeals in
Causes of Prizes; and we offer to do every Thing the Law requires that
we may have the full Benefit of the said appeal and do for that
purpose pray that the Apostells[2] may be delivered to us in due Time
this 7 July 1761.

[Footnote 2: The apostles were a set of documents in the case, made up
as a record for the use of the higher court.]

THOMAS MILLER.
SAMPSON SIMPSON.

WM. SMITH Junr, Advocate
for the Defendant.

THE _DAGEROED_.

_197. Bill of Health. November 9, 1757._[1]

[Footnote 1: From the files of the New York vice-admiralty court, in
custody of the United States district court, in the federal building.]

Omnibus hasce literas inspecturis significamus nos, Consules et
Rectores Civitatis Roterodamensis Comitatus Hollandiae, declaramusque
veritatis certi Petrum Lagerboom, Civem Amstellodamensem magistrum
hujusce navis nominatae _Dageroed_, certi oneris, vulgo lasten,
circiter Centum et quinquaginta capacis, merces suas, quibus onerata
navis est, ei in hoc oppido imposuisse, uti easdem vento secundo In
Indos occidentales deveheret, quemadmodum idem magister, nec non
praedictae navis exercitores nobis indicarunt, petentes a nobis
libellum dimissionis et literas assertorias, quibus exteri certi
reddantur, hanc Civitatem nec Peste, nec ullo alio morbo contagioso,
infestari. Enimvero cum officii nostri sit civium nostrorum commodis
non deesse, et veritati testimonium perhibere, praescertim iis id
expetentibus, omnes, ad quorum curam haec res pertinebit, certos
facimus, nec Peste, nec ullo alio morbo venenoso, Dei Opt: Max:
beneficio, hanc Civitatem infectum esse: proindeque rogatos volumus,
uti magistro huic una cum navi, sociis navalibus, et mercibus liberum
concedant commeatum et facultatem largiantur, mercaturam libere terra
marique exercendi, prohibeantque ne ulla ei in eo remora objiciatur;
quin potius uti adjumento sint, commodo ejus id flagitante; quo nos ad
reddenda eadem officia devincent arcte obstringentque: In quorum fidem
hasce literas sigillo nostro, quo publice ad causas utimur, muniri, et
manu ejus,