be Oblig'd to bring or send, as soon as possible may be,
Three or Four of the Principal of the Company (whereof the Master and
the Pilot to be always two) of every Ship so brought into Port, before
the Judge of the Admiralty of England, or his Surrogate, or before
the Judge of such others Admiralty Courts, within our Dominions, as
shall be Lawfully Authorized as aforesaid, or such as shall be
Lawfully Commissioned in that behalf, to be sworn and examined upon
such Interrogatories as shall tend to the Discovery of the Truth,[3]
touching the Interest or Property of such Ship or Ships, and of the
Goods and Merchandizes found therein: and the Taker shall be further
obliged at the Time he produceth the Company to be Examin'd, to bring
and deliver into the hands of the Judge of the Admiralty of England,
his Surrogate, or the Judge of such other Admiralty Courts within Our
Dominions, as shall be Lawfully Authorized, or others Commissioned as
aforesaid, all such Passes, Sea Briefs, Charter-Parties, Bills of
Lading, Cockets, Letters and other Documents and Writings as shall be
Delivered up, or found on board any such Ship; the said Taker or one
of his Chief Officers, who was present, and saw the said Papers and
Writings Delivered up, or otherwise found on board at the time of the
Capture, making Oath, That the said Papers and Writings are brought
and Delivered in as they were received or taken, without any Fraud,
Addition, Subtraction or Embezilment.

[Footnote 3: See doc. no. 183.]

V. That all such Ships, Goods and Merchandizes taken by Vertue of
Letters of Marque or Commissions for Private Men of War, shall be kept
and preserved, and no part of them shall be sold, spoiled, wasted, or
diminished, and that the Bulk thereof shall not be broken before
Judgment be given in the High Court of Admiralty of England, or some
other Court of Admiralty Lawfully Authorized in that behalf, that the
said Ships, Goods and Merchandizes are Lawful Prize; and that no
Person or Persons, taken or Surprized in any Ship or Vessell as
aforesaid, tho' known to be of the Enemy's Party, shall be in Cold
Blood killed, maimed, or by Torture and Cruelty Inhumanly Treated,
contrary to the Common Usage and just Permission of War: and whoever
shall offend in any of the premises shall be severely punished.

VI. That the said Commanders of such Merchant Ships and Vessells, who
shall obtain the said Letters of Marque, or Commissions, as aforesaid
for Private