Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-09-19

courts, and the ieveral and REFLECTIVE judges
and officers thereof IN any two OF the III
ands in the Wet Indies and at Halifax,
ihall have and may exercife over all prizes
carried into any of his majeity's colonies
IN the Welt Indies, including therein the
Bahama and Bermuda iilands, and over all
perions In any way concerned therein, and
IN all matters and things relating thereto,
all the powers and authorities, and fhall
and may put in force all the regulations,
provliions, penalties, torfcitures, matters
and things relating thereto, as if fuch
prize, had been actually brought into any
port of rhe iiland or colony where any fach
vice admiralty court ihai be held, and as
1t the perions concerned therein were actu-
ally refdent within fnch iiland or colo
ny.
VI. And be it further enacted, that it
ihail be lawful for the Judges and other
officers OF the faid court to iaue commit
ons, orders, DEGREES, attachments, anu o.
fher proceiies, TO be executed in any other
OF his inajety's colonies or territories in the
Wet-lndies or America, including therein
the Bahamas and Bermuda ilands, for the
examination of witneiIes for the appraiEe-
ment and lale OF captured property, or for
any other Purpofes of legal adjudication
and all inch commihions, orders, DEGREES,
attachments, and procenes fnall be valid
and efteetual, and lhall be In full force,
and be put in execution, in relation to all
matters and things cognizable by fuch
courts, in every part OF his najeGy's colo
MES, plantations or territories in the Welt
Indies and America, including therein the
taid iilarids of Bahama and Bermuda, not
withtanclng any law or laws Of any fuch
colonies and territories TO the contrary
thereof; and all marfhals and deputy mar
ihals, or other officers executing proceies
OF any fimilar nature, or in default OF any
iueh being refient in any iiland or colo.
ny, all officers executing any legal pro
ceis, by whatever name or names any
iuch officers iha!l be called, ihall and are
hereby required to execute the proccGes
iilulng from the faid courts, and ihall be
liable TO iuch zines, penalties, torfeitures,
appointments, for any contempt or any
neglect IN executing thereof, as any offi-
Ger or officers of fuch or the like defcripti-
on' are liable to for any neglect, and as II
iuch court was sfablilhed and he'll in tie
Hand, colony, or territory within which
the funtticns of any iach officers are TO be
exerciied a aicrefald.
VII. And whereas it is expedient that
the proceeds Of property captured and
converted by iale, fhould be fecured until
final adjudication be it enacted, thar in
all cafes where commifiion of appraiie-
men5 and iaIe is granted by the Judge of
the vice-admiraley court before final fen
tence, the proceeds of fuch lale Ehall not
remain in the hands of the captors or
their agents, but fhall be brought into the
regiitry of the court, and remain fubied
to the further orders of the court until A.
nal fentence.
VIII. And whereas injury is frequent
ly iufained in the fale of captured pro-
perty in remote parts of his Majeity's do
mnions, where there arc dnfuirable mar
kets for fuch fales be it therefore enact
ed, That in cafe OF any order for further
proof made by any court Of vice admi-
rally, and the claimants thereof declining
to take the property whereon fuch quefion
fhall ariie upon bail, it fhall be lawful for
the court before which fuch queition ihall
be depending, with the content of the cap
tors ard claimants, or their REFLECTIVE a.
gents, to direct fuch property to be tent 10
England, and there to be fold by con-
fgnees, to be named by fach parties as a.
torefald, and the proceeds Of the fale TO
be forthwith depoiited in the Bank of
England, in the name of fuch confignees,
fnbjef TO the final adjudication, the ex-
pences of freight, infurancc, and other
CHARGES ATTENDING the franT,,ortatio,, o,,l