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reward is sufficiently obvious.

For the application made of this principle it is not
necessary to go back higher than to the early part commencement of the
last century. The Act of Queen Ann furnishes constitutes the first
instance in which the power authority of Parliament was thus is found
applying itself to this subject employed. In edition this Act being a temporary one
is not printed. But by the next Act which was passed on the subject
and which the print in question was probably a transcript of it the deficiency is supplied.

The Statute found the property in question in the hands
of the Crown. But by this Act+ + 13 G. 2. c. 4 the Captors it is enacted
"shall have the sole interest and property in and of every
"ship &c. which they shall take". To the Crown indeed is reserved
the power of regulating from time to time viz. by proclamation, the
proportions in which the proceeds shall be divided, but this
is all that is reserved.

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Folio number	054	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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