e Sum of Twelve
pounds Thirteen shillings In full for his Services In Sd. Petition
mentioned.

J. DWIGHT, Spkr.

In Council June 29 1749 Read and Concurr'd.

SAM HOLBROOK, D'ty Sec'ry.
Consented to.
W. SHIRLEY.[5]

[Footnote 5: The order is printed in _Acts and Resolves_, XIV. 285.]

_180. Commission of a Vice-Admiralty Judge. September 23, 1752._[1]

[Footnote 1: From the volume in the clerk's office of the United
States district court at Charleston, S.C. called "Admiralty Records of
South Carolina, Book E-F", p. 1. A commission issued to a
vice-admiralty judge, Lucas Santen, New York, 1683, has already been
inserted in this volume, as doc. no. 51, but that, besides being
issued under a proprietary, and so not wholly typical, was not a
commission to Santen _as_ admiralty judge but a special commission for
the trial of piracy. Another typical specimen, to Richard Morris, New
York, Oct. 16, 1762, may be seen in E.C. Benedict, _The American
Admiralty_, third ed., pp. 79-84; fourth ed., pp. 76-80. Benedict
states that he has also seen the commissions of Roger Mompesson, Apr.
1, 1703, of Francis Harrison, Feb. 13, 1721, and of Lewis Morris, Jan.
16, 1738, who served as judge in New York till 1762. All three were
destroyed in the fire at the Albany Capitol.]

South Carolina.

George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and
Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth

To James Michie, Esquire.[2]

[Footnote 2: James Michie, a South Carolina lawyer, was admiralty
judge from 1752 to 1758, speaker of the assembly 1752-1754, and
chief-justice for a brief period in 1759. He died July 16, 1760. _S.C.
Hist. Mag._, X. 160. His predecessor James Graeme (also chief justice)
had died in late August, 1752.]

We, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in the Loyalty, Integrity
and Ability of you the said James Michie, and your skill and knowledge
in our Laws Civil and Maritime of our Kingdom of Great Britain as well
as of our province of South Carolina in America, have constituted and
appoint you to be Judge of our Court of Vice Admiralty in our province
of South Carolina in America aforesaid, with full Power and Authority
to sit, hear and Determine all Causes whatsoever competent to the
Jurisdiction of the said Court, To have and to hold, use, exercise and
enjoy the said Office of the Judge of the Vice Admiralty in our
province of South Carolina in America aforesaid, with all the Fees,
pr