MOAI CROWN AND KING WILLIAM III AND KING WILLIAM IV VICE ADMIRALTY COURT JURISDICTION! Introduction to the Vice Admiralty Court of New South Wales London. Further Letters Patent were issued on 5 May 1787, pursuant to the Act 11 and 12 Will.III, c.7 and other statutes relating to the suppression of piracy on the high seas, which appointed the Governor and other commissioners to exercise jurisdiction in case of “piracies, felonies or robberies” within the jurisdiction of the Admiral.10 Arthur Phillip, the Governor; Robert Ross, the Lieutenant Governor; Andrew Miller, the Commissary of Stores and Provisions; Augustus Alt, the Surveyor of Lands; together with John Hunter, William Bradley, Philip Gidley King, George William Maxwell, Henry Lidgbird Bell and the “Captains and Commanders of our ship who are or shall be within the Admiralty jurisdiction of the said territory called New South Wales”;11 were appointed Commissioners. The Court so constituted was given authority “for the examining, enquiring of, trying, hearing and determining and adjudging ... all piracies, felonies, and robberies and all assessories thereunto committed or which shall be committed in or upon the sea or within any haven, river, creek or place where the Admiral or Admirals have power authority or jurisdiction”.12 It should be noted that this court “was only invested with a limited and defined Criminal Jurisdiction, and ... could only lawfully be convened for these prescribed purposes when at least one of the above mentioned Commissioners or a Commander of a British warship was available”.13 records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/guides-and-finding-aids/vice-admiralty-court-of-new-south-wales-1787-1911/vice-admiralty-court-introduction
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