194 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1705/6

          Lii,. H. D. Apparatus & accessiones navium qualiumcunq pro praeda

                  Captar & Seizitarum vel inposterum Capiend & Seizandar

                  & ad provinciam sive Territorium de Maryland & destrictus

                  ejusdem Adducta seu adducenda quae furto auferri aut Sub

                  duci Contigerint vigore Comissionis producendis

                    1 Imprimis Interrogetur quilbet Whether do you know any

                  ship taken as prize by any of her Majestys Shipps of Warr &

                  brought unto any port or place in the province of Maryland

                  or Districts thereof. To what part or place did such Shipp be

                  long Of what burden was she & to what port or place was

                  she bound what money plate Iewells Goods Wares or Merch

                  andizes were in her at the time she was taken & what parti

                  cular quantity of each sort of Goods Declare the truth herein

                  as you know believe or have heard Et Interrogetur Conjunc

                  tim Divisim & de quolibet.

                    2 Item Interrogetur quilibet Whether do you know or

                  have heard of any money plate Iewells Goods wares or mer

                  chandizes which were part of any such prize Shipp or of any

                  Part of the tackle Apparell or ifurniture Masts or Gunns or

                  any part of such Shipp that have been fraudulently taken

                  away purloind or imbezilld by any pson since the Capture

                  of any such prize Ship if yee Express & Declare the parti

                  culars thereof and the sevll kinds quantitys & Qualitys thereof

                  and the value thereof as near as you can Iudge & the Name

                  of the person or persons who so purloind or Imbezilld the

                  Same or by whose order or Direction the Same was done or

                  to whose hands or possession they Came and the name of the

                  person or persons in whose Custody or possession & the place

                  where the Same are or lately were & what is become of the

                  same, or if sold & disposed of what was the value thereof

                  Declare what you know believe or have heard to this purpose

                  Et fiat ut Supra.

               p.     294 3 Item Interrogetur de veris Causis Scientiae Suae In

                  structions for the Comissioners for Examination of Witnesses

                  by vertue of a Standing Comission granted by his Royall

                  Highness prince George of Denmark Lord high Admiral of

                  England &c touching all Shipps & Goods Seizd in any of the

                  ports or Harbours of pensilvania Maryland New Yorke &

                  Connecticut in America or any of their Districts and also con

                  cerning all shipps Vessells & Goods taken & Seiz'd by any

                  private Mann of Warr or by Shipps or boats without Comis

                  sion & brought into any of the ports or Harbours afd or their

                  Districts.

                    Upon Receipt of this Comission at pensilvania New York

                  Maryld or Connecticut the Commissionrs must all Meet at some

                  Convenient place & then a Notary publiq who is to take the

                  Examinations of the Witnesses must present the Comission