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THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT. 537 And, lastly, our will and pleasure is, and Wee do hereby declare, 1787 that this our charter shall be and remain in force only until Wee jo remain shall be pleased to revoke and determine the same. in fore© In witness whereof Wee have caused these our Letters to be revoked, made Patent. Witness ourself, at Westminster, the second day of April in the twenty-seventh year of our reign. By Writ of Privy Seal. Yobkk. LETTERS PATENT CONSTITUTING THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT. George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith To our trusty and well- beloved Arthur Phillip Esquire our Captain-General and Govemor- in-Chief of the territory called New South Wales extending from the Northern Cape or extremity of the coast called Cape York in com- the latitude of ten degrees thirty-seven minutes south and thirty- {jj^f a°vtoe fifth degree of east longitude reckoning from the meridian of Admiralty Greenwich including all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean ^"^ within the latitude aforesaid of 10' 37' south and 43' 39' south and our Captain-General and Govemor-in-Chief of the said territory called New South Wales for the time being, Robert Ross Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor of the said territory called New South Wales and the Lieutenant-Governor of the said territory for the time being, Andrew Millar Esquire, Commissary of Stores and Provisions in the said territory called New South Wales, and the Commissary of Stores in the said territory for the time being, Augustus Alt Esquire, Surveyor of Lands in the said territory called New South Wales, and the Surveyor of Lands in the said territory for the time being, John Hunter Esquire, second Captain of our ship Sirius, William Bradley Esquire, first Lieutenant, Philip Gidley King Esquire, second Lieutenant, and George William Maxwell, third Lieutenant of the said ship Sirius, Henry Lidgbird Ball Esquire, Lieutenant and Commander of the Supply, armed tender, and all other Captains and Commanders of our ships who are or shall be within the Ad- miralty jurisdiction of the said territory called New South Wales, Greeting : Whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the eleventh and twelfth year of the reign of our late Royal Predecessor King Act or William the Third intituled an Act for the more effectual suppres- J^SteS"*"*^ sing of Piracy (reciting as therein recited) it is amongst other Hand 12 things enacted that all piracies, felonies or robberies committed ^?|* "^* Digitized by Google