The Appraisers of duly authorized to take possession of this property, inform bourt, me that you declined to deliver it to them that these on the ground. persons died on that board a Spanish ship.- I beg to inform your having brought the matter to the notice of the Government of I am directed This Colony, to apprize you of the fact you can administer that no person within this the property bolony, of any deseased person except under the Authority of the Supreme Court, and that it is 458 my duty as Official Administrator to table of the possession private papers, monies, goods, chattels, and other moveable property whatsower I be found within the of any deceased person which bolony and to provide for the s safe custody there of until Probate of the Will of such Estates and Effects shall have granted, by deceased person, on Letters of Administration his of been bourb the Supreme With this e explanation of the law of the bot bolony I