Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97.  115

    Mr Attorney In pursuance of an Ordr of Councill to me directed Lib. H. D.

    Genlls Re

    port about to make inspection into the late Governors Comis

    Governor sion of Vice-Admirall and Report the Authorities

     relating to the Jurisdiction of their Mats high Court

    Ad     of Admiralty within this Province I humbly Repre. p. 37

      mira sent to yor Exncy and this Honoble Board that the late

    Governor Copley and in case of his Mortality the then present

    Governmt had power to hold plea of all Maritime Causes as

    well Civill as Criminall brought or prosecuted within this

    province as also the Tryall of prize ships is comprehended

    within the Generall Words and the powers Granted by the

    said Comission to inforce obedience to the Decree or the

    Definitive sentence of the said Court allowing the party

    grieved his Appeale to their Mats high Court of Admiralty of

    England, all wch I humbly leave to the grave consideration of

    your Exncy & this honoble Board and am yor Exncies

                         most obedient humble Servt

                                    George Plater

      His Excellency was pleased to aske him whether or noe a

    Judge, Register and Marshall were excepted in the said

    Comission whoe does say & acknowledge that a Judge,

    Register & Marshall are therein excepted; then produced his

    Exncy Coll Nicholsons Comission of Vice-Admirall, wherein

    (vpon pervsali) there appeared no such Exception but con- Whitehall

   trariwise  a speciall power to Comissionate such Officers; there

           fore it being found that the late Proceedings in the

           Court of Admiralty had & taken vpon the Tryall of

    prize ship the Prize ship brought in by Capt Hurle were

    Ordered to Erroneous for want of sufficient power to Erect

   be Tryed anew &ca    such a Court, it is the Opinion of the Board that

           the said ship must Necessarily be Tryed by proper

   Officers   to be Comissionated by his Exncy according to the

           directions of his Exncies said Coiiiission, And there

           vpon Ordered by advice in Councill that CoMissions

    stituted h pursuant thereto be prepared to constitute Coll

    Judge of the Admiralty e Henry Jowles, Judge, Henry Denton Register and

    Henry Den- Thomas Collyer Marshall of the said Court of Ad

    ton Registr & Tho: miralty, who are to Meet at Coxe Towne the third

    Collyer day of August next in Order to the Tryall of the sd

    sd Court ship.

                   July the 31th 1694.

      The Business concerning the Tryall of the Prize ship being

    taken into consideration & fully Debated, it is the Opinion of

    this Board that if the same be condemned, the Goods thereof