154 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1703.

     Lib. H. D.  niture Apparell as also the Lading & particular Sort of Goods

                 & they are legally Condemn'd you are to expose the Same

                 to a publiq Sale at such times & in such manner as they shall

                 be likely to procure the most Advantagious price And the

                 produce you are to Ship & Send home to us on Good Ships

                 in such Comoditys as may probably Come to a good markett

                 in England or in pieces of Eight or Bills of Exchange as you

                 shall judge will turn best to Accot & Advantage & for what

                 ever you Ship take prize bills of Lading & Consign them to

                 us for her Matys use & on her Risq & send us three of them

                 by Distinct Conveyances & lett us have full & frequent

                 Advices of your proceedings in this Matter But in Cases of

         p. 186  Absolute necessity & where the prize Shipps or their Lading

                 shall appear upon oath of two or more or honest & under

                 standing persons to be perishable You may after due apprais

                 ment thereof made upon the oath of five honest persons well

                 skill'd in such like Matters dispose thereof according to the

                 tenour and power of a Commission from the high Cors of

                 Admiralty to that purpose wherein you are to Act in Con

                 currance with the Captor.

                   6thly You shall frequently send unto us a particular Accot

                 of your Charge and Disbursments in this Service which you

                 shall make up Distinctly to Comprehend the Severall sums

                 laid out upon every particular Ship or Goods from the time

                 of their Capture to the time of their being Discharg'd or

                 otherwise dispos'd of That so her Maty may not Suffer any

                 loss through the want of Information of the Charges which

                 shall happen upon every particular Ship & Cargo which (if

                 they be restored Deposited or Condemn'd) must be apply'd

                 properly to each particular Ship And you are to take a par

                 ticular Care to observe in the Accots you send Concerning

                 the prizes brought in yor ports the Method herewith sent you

                 as far as relates to you.

                   7thly And lastly you are to observe such further Direccons

                 from time to time as you shall recieve from our board Con

                 cerning prizes.              Edw: Brereton

                  Prize Office                Geo: Morley

                         9th June 1703.       Rich Breton

                   By John Dod Esq Comissioner for Recovering & receiv

                 ing the Rights & perquisites of Admiralty.

                   Whereas his Royall Highness prince George of Denmark

                 Lord High Admirall of England Ireland &c And of all her

                 Matys plantations &c And Generalissimo of all her Matys

                 fforces & hath been pleas'd to grant me a Comission bearing

                 date the twenty seaventh day of Iune last past to be his

                 Royal Highness's Comissionr to ask Demand recover and