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... We shall be obliged to you if you will ca.use Affidavits to be made and transmitted to us of the Time of the Capture & Recapture of Hudson's Ship that we may get the Salvage, the Quantum of which depends on the Time she was in possession of the Tender, ascertained and paid we are desired to let the Claim which we made of Salvage rest till the Event of another Effort was known we hope the Ship is now out of the Bay.