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Of peculiar conditions of The Colony, and, therein, the power of dispensing if required with trial by Jury.

The Act 12 & 13 Vict. Cap: 96 though grievous on the date, may be considered for the present purpose as engrafted on the Act of 28 & 29 Vict.

Derived in its application to the present occasion, I may be considered as enacting that practices committed on the high seas shall be triable in any British Colony by the same Courts and in the same manner which would have been applicable to them if they had been committed in Colonial Waters.

It provides ["that" if any person charged within any Colony shall be charged with the Commission of any Piracy so committed upon the sea, all Juries, Judges, courts, public officers, etc. shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction for trying such offences as by the Law of such Colony would

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Of peculiar conditions of The Colony, and, therein, the power of dispensing if required with trial by Jury. The Act 12 & 13 Vict. Cap: 96 though grievous on the date, may be considered for the present purpose as engrafted on the Act of 28 & 29 Vict. Derived in its application to the present occasion, I may be considered as enacting that practices committed on the high seas shall be triable in any British Colony by the same Courts and in the same manner which would have been applicable to them if they had been committed in Colonial Waters. It provides ["that" if any person charged within any Colony shall be charged with the Commission of any Piracy so committed upon the sea, all Juries, Judges, courts, public officers, etc. shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction for trying such offences as by the Law of such Colony would
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