with power also to proceed in the same according to the statutes, laws, ordinances and customs aforesaid, anciently used as well of meer office, mixt or promoted as at the instance of any party as the case shall require and seem convenient. And likewise with cognizance and decision of wreck of the sea, great or small, and of the death, drowning and view of dead bodies of all persons howsoever killed, or drowned or murdered, or which shall happen to be killed, drowned, or murdered, or by any other means come to their death in the sea, or public streams, ports, fresh waters or creeks, whatsoever, within the flowing of the sea and high water mark thoughout our aforesaid Province of Georgia and territories thereunto belonging and maritime parts of the same and thereto adjacent, or elsewhere within our maritime jurisdiction aforesaid, together with the cognizance of mayhem in the aforesaid places within our maritime jurisdiction aforesaid and flowing of the sea and water there happening, with power also of punishing all delinquents in that kind according to the exigencies of the law and customs aforesaid, and to do, exercise, expedite and execute all and singular other things which in and about the premises only shall be necessary or thought meet according to the rights, statutes, laws, ordinances and customs aforesaid, with the power of deputing and surrogating in your place for the premises one or more deputy or deputies, as often as you shall think fit, and also with power from time to time of naming, appointing, ordaining, assigning, making and constituting whatsoever other necessary fit and convenient officers and ministers unto you, for the said office and execution thereof, in our said province of Georgia and territories thereunto belonging and maritime parts of the same and thereto adjacent whatsoever (saving always the right of our high court of Admiralty of England and also .of the judge and register of the said court from whom or either of them it is not our intention in anything to derogate by these presents and saving to every one who shall be wronged or grieved by any definitive sentence or interlocutory decree which shall be given in

the Vice Admiralty court of our Province of Georgia aforesaid, and territories thereunto belonging, the right of appealing to our aforesaid high court of Admiralty of England) provided nevertheless, and under this express condition, that if you, the aforesaid John Reynolds, Esq., our Captain General and Governor in Chief aforesaid shall not yearly (to-wit) at the end of every year, between the Feasts of St. Michael the Archangel and All Saints duly certify or cause to be effectually certified (if you shall be thereunto required) to us and our Lieutenant Official Principal and Commissary General and Special and Judge and President of the high court of our Admiralty of England aforesaid all that which from time to time by virtue of these presents you shall do, execute, collect, or receive in the premises, or any of them, together with your full and faithful account thereupon, to be made in an authentic form and sealed with the seal of our office remaining in your custody, that from thence and after default therein these our Letters Patent of the office of Vice Admiral aforesaid as above granted shall be Null and Void and of no force or effect. Further, we do, in our name, command all and singular our Governors, Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs, Captains, Marshals, Bailiffs, Keepers of all our goods and Prisons, Constables, and all other our officers and faithful and Liege Subjects whatsoever, and every of them, as well within liberties and franchises as without. That in and about the execution of the premises and every of them they be aiding, favoring, assisting, submissive and yield obedience in all things as is fitting to you, the said John Reynolds, Esq., our Captain General, Governor in Chief of our Province of Georgia aforesaid, and to your deputy whomsoever and to all other officers (by you appointed or to be appointed) of our said Vice Admiralty in our province of Georgia aforesaid and territories thereunto belonging and maritime parts of the same and thereto adjoining, under pain of the law and the peril which will fall thereon. Given at London in the High Court of our Admiralty of England afore

said under the great seal thereof on the thirteenth day of August in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand and Seven Hundred and Fifty-four, and of our reign the twenty-eighth. SAM HILL, Register.

(L. S.)

STATE OF GEORGIA,

OFFICE SECRETARY OF THE STATE.

Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 1, 1875.

I hereby certify that the foregoing eleven pages contain a true and correct copy of the original commission from the records of this office.

Given under my hand and official seal.

(Signed)

N. C. BARNETT,

Secretary of State.