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ers of the Law and Jurisdiction of Our Admiralty aforesaid, and Violaters, Usurpers, Delinquents, and Contumacious Absenters, Masters of Ships, Mariners, Rowers, Fishermen, Shipwrights, and other Work- men and Artificers whatsoever, exercising any kind of Maritime Affairs, according to the Rights, Stat- utes, Laws, Ordinances, and Customs anciently observed; and to deliver and absolutely discharge, and cause and command to be discharged, whatsoever Persons imprisoned in such Cases who are to be deliver- ed; and to preserve, and cause to be preserved the public Streams, Ports, Rivers, Fresh Waters, and Creeks whatsoever within our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid, in what Place soever they be in Our said Island of Hongkong, and Territories thereunto belonging, and Maritime parts of the same, and thereto adjacent whatsoever, as well for the preservation of Our Navy Royal, and of the Fleets and Vessels of Our said United Kingdom and Dominions aforesaid, as of whatsoever Fishes increasing in the Rivers and Places aforesaid; and also to keep, and cause to be executed, and kept in our said Island of Hongkong, and Territories thereunto belonging, and Maritime parts thereof, and thereto ad- jacent whatsoever, the Rights, Statutes, Laws, Ordinances, and Customs anciently observed, and to do, exercise, expedite, and execute all and singular other things in the premises, and every of them, as they by Right and according to the Laws and Statutes, Ordinances and Customs aforesaid should be done; And Moreover to reform Nets too close, and other unlawful Engines or Instruments whatso- ever for the catching of Fishes wheresoever, by Sea, or public Streams, Ports Rivers, Fresh Waters, or Creeks whatsoever throughout Our Island of Hongkong aforesaid, and Territories dependant there- on, and Maritime parts of the same and thereto adjacent, used or exercised by Water within Our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid wheresoever; and to punish and correct the Exercisers and Occupiers thereof according to the Statutes, Laws, Ordinances, and Customs aforesaid; and to pronounce, pro- mulge, and interpose all manner of Sentences, and Decrees, and to put the same in execution with Cognizance, and Jurisdiction of whatsoever other Causes Civil and Maritime, which relate to the Sea, or which any manner of ways respect or concern the Sea, or Passage over the same, or Naval, or Maritime Voyages, or Our said Maritime Jurisdiction, or the Places or Limits of Our said Admiralty, and Cognizance aforementioned, and all other things done or to be done, with power also to proceed in the same, according to the Statutes, Laws, Ordinances, and Customs aforesaid anciently used, as well of mere Office, mixed 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 or drowned or murdered 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, throughout Our aforesaid Island of Hongkong, 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 afore- said, with 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 under you for the said Office and execution thereof in Our said Island of Hongkong, 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 Registrar of the said Court, from whom, or either of them, it is not our intention in any thing to de- rogate by these presents; and saving to every one who shall be wronged or aggrieved by any defini- tive Sentence, or Interlocutory Decree, which shall be given in the Vice-Admiralty Court of Our Island of Hongkong aforesaid, and Territories thereunto belonging, the Right of Appealing to Us in Council:) Provided Nevertheless, and under this express Condition, that if you the aforesaid JOHN BOWRING, Governor and Commander-in-Chief aforesaid, and in event of your absence the Officer ad- ministering the Government of Our said Island for the time being, shall not yearly, to wit, at the end of every year between the Feasts of Saint Michael the Archangel and all Saints, duly certify, and 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 Our 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 faith- ful Account thereupon, to be made in an Authentic form and sealed with the Seal of Our Office re- maining 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 Gaols and prisons, Constables, and all other Our Officers, and Faithful and Liege Subjects whatsoever, aud every of them, as well within Liber- ties and Franchises as without, that in aud about the execution of the Premises and every of them, they be aiding, favouring, and assisting, and yield obedience in all things as is fitting to you the said JOHN BOWRING, Our Governor, and Commander-in-Chief of Our Island of Hongkong, or in the event of your absence, the Officer Administering the Government of Our said Island for the time being, and to your Deputy whomsoever, and to all other Officers (by you appointed, or to be appointed) of Our said Vice-Admiralty in Our Island of Hongkong aforesaid, and Territories thereunto belonging, and Maritime Parts of the same, and thereto adjoining, under pain of the Law and the Peril which fall thereon.-Given at London in the High Court of Our Admiralty of England aforesaid, under the