Transport Money or maritime Usery (otherwise
Bottomary) or which do any Ways concern Suits, Trespasses, Injuries,
Extortions, demands and affairs Civil and maritime whatsoever, between
Merchants, or between Owners and Proprietors of Ships and all other
Vessells whatsoever imployed or used or between any other Persons
howsoever had, made, began or contracted, or [any] Matter, Cause or
Thing, Business or Injury whatsoever done or to be done as well in,
upon or by the Sea or public Streams, or fresh Water, Ponds, Rivers,
Creeks and Places Over flowed whatsoever within the Ebbing and flowing
of the Sea or high Water Mark as upon any of the Shores or Banks
adjoining to them or either of them, together with all and singular
their Incidents, emergencies, Dependencies, annexed and Connexed
causes whatsoever, and such Causes, Complaints, Contracts and other
the Premises abovesaid or any of them howsoever the same may happen to
arise, be contracted, had or done, To hear and determine (according to
the civil and maritime Laws and Customs of Our High Court of Admiralty
of England) in our said Province of South Carolina and Territories
thereunto belonging whatsoever, and also with Power to Sit and Hold
Courts in any Cities, Towns and Places in our Province of South
Carolina aforesaid, for the hearing and determining of all such causes
and Businesses together with all and singular their Incidents,
Emergencies, Dependencies, annexed and connexed Causes whatsoever, and
to proceed judicially and according to Law in administring Justice
therein, And moreover to compell the Witnesses in case they withdraw
themselves for Intrest, Fear, Favour or ill Will or any other Cause
whatsoever, to give Evidence to the Truth in all and every the Causes
above mentioned according to the Exegencies of the Law, And further to
take all manner of Recognizances, Cautions, Obligations and
Stipulations as well to our use, as at the Instance of any parties for
Agreements or Debts and other Causes and Businesses whatsoever, and to
put the same in execution and to cause and command them to be
executed. Also duly to search and inquire of and concerning all Goods
of Traitors, Pirates, Manslayers, Felons, Fugitives and Felons of
themselves[3] and concerning the Bodies of Persons drowned, killed or
by any other means coming to their Death in the Sea or in any Port,
Rivers, Public Streams or Creeks and Places overflowed. And also
concerning Mayhem happening in the afo