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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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On October 14, 1777, Congress resolved that any British vessel or cargo (except from Bermuda or Bahama islands) brought into U.S. ports by betraying masters or mariners would be adjudged lawful prize and divided among captors like continental war vessel captures. Extract from minutes by Charles Thomson, Secretary.
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CONGRESS,
OCTOBER 14,
1777.
WHEREAS the British nation have received into their ports, and condemned in their courts of Admiralty, as lawful prize, several vessels and their cargoes belonging to these States, which the masters and mariners, in breach of the trust and confidence reposed in them, have betrayed and delivered to the officers of the British crown:
Resolved therefore, that every vessel or cargo the property of any British subject, not an inhabitant of Bermuda or any of the Bahama islands, brought into any of the ports or harbours of any of these United States, by the master or mariners, shall be adjudged lawful prize, and divided among the captors, in the same proportion as if taken by any continental vessel of war.
Extract from the minutes.
CHARLES
THOMSON, Sec'ry.
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United States
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October 14, 1777
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vessels and cargoes adjudged lawful prize and divided among captors.
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Congress resolves that British vessels or cargoes, property of British subjects not from Bermuda or Bahama islands, brought into U.S. ports by masters or mariners who betrayed their trust, shall be lawful prize, divided as if taken by continental vessel of war.