ion or Commissions, to
any Person or Persons whom such Owner or Owners shall nominate to be
Commander; or in case of Death, successively Commanders of such Ship
or Vessel, for the attacking, surprizing, seizing and taking, by and
with such Ship or Vessel, or the Crew thereof, any Place or Fortress
upon the Land, or any Ship or Vessel, Goods, Ammunition, Arms, Stores
of War, or Merchandizes, belonging to or possessed by any of his
Majesty's Enemies, in any Sea, Creek, Haven, or River",

[Footnote 2: 13 Geo. II. ch. 4.]

These are therefore to impower you, Edward Trelawny, Esquire, Governor
of Jamaica,[3] and by these Presents we do impower and appoint you the
said Edward Trelawny, Esquire, to cause to be issued forth, pursuant
to the said Act, by Warrant under your Hand, and the Seal of the said
Island, directed to the Judge of the Admiralty of the said Island of
Jamaica, Commissions or Letters of Marque, at the Request of any
British Owner or Owners of any Ship or Vessel, to any Person or
Persons whom such Owner or Owners shall nominate to be Commander; or
in case of Death successively Commanders of such Ship or Vessel; and
to cause such Bail and Security to be taken as is directed by the said
Act, and moreover to cause that, in granting such Commissions or
Letters of Marque, all other Things be had and done conformable to,
and as the said Act requires. For which this shall be your Warrant.
Given under our Hands and the Seal of the Office of Admiralty this
---- Day of ---- 1740.

[Footnote 3: Governor of Jamaica from 1738 to 1752.]

To ----

_May it please your Lordships,_

This contains a Draught of an Instrument submitted to your Lordships,
as proper to be signed, and issued out to the Governors of his
Majesty's Colonies and Islands in America, prepared by me; pursuant to
your Lordships Order of the 15th of April 1740.

E. ISHAM.[4]

April 26th 1740.

[Footnote 4: Edmund Isham, advocate general of the Admiralty.]

DUMARESQ VS. THE _AMSTERDAM POST_.

_128. Record of the Admiralty Court, and Libel. July 23, August 30,
1740._[1]

[Footnote 1: Records of the admiralty court, Boston, Suffolk County
Court-house, vol. V.; see doc. no. 126, note 1. It is to be understood
that the libel, and the other documents which follow, nos. 129-143,
are to be found imbedded in the record of the case in the volume
named, not separate. The case is interesting as showing some of the
deceptions which might be, and of