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Offences would and ought to have been had and exercised... if such offence had been committed and such person had been charged with having committed the same upon any waters situate within the limits of any such colony, and within the limits of the local jurisdiction of the Courts of Criminal Justice in such Colony.

That is to say, but if a piracy committed in the high seas by Courts of Criminal Justice in any Colony?

"With the same jurisdiction as if it had been committed in the waters of that Colony.

By the Act of 1866 declaring that piracies committed in Colonial Waters shall be tried by a particular court and in a particular manner.

It would seem prima facie that under these circumstances the Act 12 & 13 Vict. makes piracies on the high seas triable by the process which is applied by the Ordinance to piracies committed in Colonial Waters, and that consequently a trial under the Ordinance would in fact be a trial under the Imperial Act of 12 & 13 Vict.

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Offences would and ought to have been had and exercised... if such offence had been committed and such person had been charged with having committed the same upon any waters situate within the limits of any such colony, and within the limits of the local jurisdiction of the Courts of Criminal Justice in such Colony. That is to say, but if a piracy committed in the high seas by Courts of Criminal Justice in any Colony? "With the same jurisdiction as if it had been committed in the waters of that Colony. By the Act of 1866 declaring that piracies committed in Colonial Waters shall be tried by a particular court and in a particular manner. It would seem prima facie that under these circumstances the Act 12 & 13 Vict. makes piracies on the high seas triable by the process which is applied by the Ordinance to piracies committed in Colonial Waters, and that consequently a trial under the Ordinance would in fact be a trial under the Imperial Act of 12 & 13 Vict. ... to request Page 50 has been re-formatted into proper paragraphs and minor corrections have been made to ensure coherence and readability while maintaining the original content and adhering to the given rules.
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