y, or the Customers or
Officers Appointed to receive the same for His Majesty, the
Usual Customs due to His Majesty of and for all Ships and
Goods so as aforesaid taken and Adjudged for Prize: And
moreover if the said ---- shall not take any Ship or Vessel,
or any Goods or Merchandizes belonging to the Enemy, or
otherwise liable to Confiscation, thro' Consent or
Clandestinely, or by Collusion, by Vertue, Colour or
pretence of his said Commission; that then this Bail shall
be Void and of None Effect and unless they shall so do, they
do all hereby Severally Consent that Execution shall Issue
forth against them, their Heirs, Executors and
Administrators, Goods and Chattels, wheresoever the same
shall be found, to the value of the said Sum of ---- Pounds,
before mentioned. And, in Testimony of the Truth thereof
they have hereunto Subscribed their names.

By His Majesty's Command.

HARRINGTON.[6]

A True Copy
Exam'd per JOHN PAYNE D. Reg'r.[7]

[Footnote 6: William Stanhope, lord Harrington, afterward earl of
Harrington, was one of the two secretaries of state from 1730 to 1742,
and from 1744 to 1746.]

[Footnote 7: Deputy register of the vice-admiralty court in Boston.]

_127. (Draft of) Warrant to Governors to issue Letters of Marque.
April 26, 1740._[1]

[Footnote 1: Public Record Office, Admiralty 1:3674.]

By the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of
Great Britain and Ireland, etc.

Whereas by an Act passed this present Session of Parliament
(intituled, an Act for the more Effectual securing and encouraging the
Trade of his Majesty's British subjects to America, and for the
Encouragement of Seamen to enter into his Majesty's service)[2] it is,
amongst other Things, therein enacted "That any Person or Persons in
any part of America or elsewhere, by us impowered and appointed,
shall, from and after the fourth Day of January, one thousand seven
hundred and thirty nine, at the Request of any British Owner or Owners
of any Ship or Vessel, giving such Bail and Security as have been
usually taken upon granting Commissions, or Letters of Marque (except
only for the payment of the Tenths of the Value of Prizes which shall
be taken, to the Lord High Admiral, or Commissioners for executing the
Office of Lord High Admiral for the time being) cause to be issued
forth in the usual manner, one or more Commiss