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45° GEORGII III. Cap. 72.
Judged in all Courts of Admiralty having legal Cognizance thereof, as good Prize to His Majesty.
XXI. Provided nevertheless, and be it hereby enacted, That if a Ship be retaken before she has been carried into an Enemy’s Port, it shall be lawful for her, if the Recaptors consent thereto, to prosecute her Voyage; and it shall not be necessary for the Recaptors to proceed to Adjudication till Six Months, or till the Return of the Ship to the Port from which she sailed; and it shall be lawful for the Master, the Owners, or their Agents, with the Consent of the Recaptors, to unlade and dispose of their Cargoes before Adjudication; and in case the Vessel shall not return directly to the Port from whence she sailed, or the Recaptors shall have had no Opportunity of proceeding regularly to the Adjudication within Six Months, on account of the Absence of the said Vessel, the Court of Admiralty shall, at the Instance of the Recaptors, decree the Restitution to the former Owners, paying Salvage, upon such Evidence as to the said Court shall, under the Circumstances of the Case, appear reasonable. The Expense of such Proceeding not to exceed the Sum of Fourteen Pounds.
XXII. And whereas good and necessary Laws are in force within several of His Majesty’s Colonies and Plantations in America, for preventing the carrying off from the said Colonies or Plantations any Servant or Slave without the Consent of the Owner, or the carrying off from thence any other Person or Persons whosoever; until such Person shall have taken out his Ticket for that Purpose within such respective Colony or Plantation, in which Funds under such Penalties...
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"45 geo. iii sess. 1805 / an act for the encouragement of seamen, and for the better and more effectually manning his majesty's navy during the present war" |
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