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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsengr0517 and id is 1 raw text is: BURRELL 229. THE ST. CROIX 549
captain had paid him the amount of 140 casks of molasses which he had bought of
him there ; also a certificate from the governor that said molasses had been bought
by the captain of inhabitants of Monte Christi. A claim was given for ship and cargo
as the property of a British subject in North America. The Judge of the Vice-
Admiralty at Jamaica condemned ship and cargo as prize.
13th July 1762.-On appeal, the Lords affirmed the sentence of the Judge below,
and decreed the cause to be remitted.
THE ST. CROIX.
The St. Croix, laden with sugar, was taken on her voyage from Monte Christi
by an English privateer, and carried into New Providence. Claim was given by the
master for ship and cargo as property of subjects of the King of Denmark resident
at St. Croix. The witnesses examined said that the ship sailed from [229] St.
Croix, cleared out for Monte Christi ; that Bodkin, one of the owners of ship and
cargo, arrived at Monte Christi a few days after ; that they brought about 180 negroes
from St. Croix ; about 10 were sold at Monte Christi, the rest were sent to Cape
Francois with part of the outward cargo, consisting of beer, wine, and dry goods.
That Bodkin went with the slaves and cargo to Cape Francois and there employed
a Frenchman to dispose of them, to whom he paid 7 per cent. on the sale whilst
the ship lay at Monte Christi. She took in her present cargo at Monte Christi, con-
sisting of 490 hogsheads of sugar, which came out of barques which brought them
from Cape Francois, which the witnesses believed the return for the cargo sent thither.
There was on board a certificate from the Governor of Monte Christi, that the cargo
was bought from inhabitants of that city.
13th April 1761.-The Judge of the Vice-Admiralty at New Providence con-
demned ship and cargo to the captor.
5th March 1763.-On appeal, the Lords affirmed the sentence, and decreed the
cause to be remitted.
The Van Bernstof, 9th July 1763 ; to the same purpose.
The Kingston, 9th July 1763 ; to the same purpose.
The Ranger, 9th July 1763 ; to the same purpose.
The Sea Nymph, 9th July 1763; to the same purpose.
The Adventure, 15th July 1765 ; to the same purpose.
[231] EXTRACTS from the RECORDS of the HIGH COURT
of ADMIRALTY and COURT of the JUDGES DELEGATES.
The records of the High Court of Admiralty and of the Court of the Judges
Delegates, from which the following extracts are for the most part taken, consist of:
-(1.) Assignation Books of the Admiralty Court. This series, extending from the
year 1677 to 1767, contains the registrar's notes of all proceedings in the Admiralty
Court.-(2.) The Act Books of the Admiralty Court. This series of large folios, bound
in vellum, extends, with breaks, from 1524 to 1744. It contains formal entries of the
acts (decrees, &c.) of the Court.--(3.) Assignation Books of the Court of the Judges
Delegates, the Court of Appeal from the Admiralty previously to the institution of
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1834. The series extends from 1538
to 1834.-(4) Delegates' Act Books. This series extends from 1538 to 1684, with
breaks.-(5) Delegates' Process Books. This series extends from 1619 to 1834.
The processes are complete statements of all proceedings (pleadings, evidence, decrees,
sentences, &c.) in the Court below. They are in a good state of preservation and have
recently been bound in volumes. This series is a valuable record of the proceedings
of the Admiralty and Ecclesiastical Courts, and contains the only record of the formal
sentences of the Admiralty Court which the present writer has hitherto been able
to discover.-(6) Delegates' Sentences. These sentences are engrossed upon parch-
ment. They begin in 1585, but the series is incomplete. Many of the sentences are
in a bad state of preservation, and the entire series in a state of great confusion.--(7)
Miscellaneous papers, oyer et terminer records, and other documents not indexed,
and in a state of confusion.
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