[Charleston] Wedn~sday the 3d Day of April.
Colonel Pinckney according to Order presented a Bill to impower the Court of Admiralty to have Jurisdiction in all Cases of Capture of Sh,ips or Vessels of the Inhabitants of Great Britain Ireland and the British West Indies and to establish the Trial by Jury in such Cases And the same was received and read a First Time Resolved That the Bill be read a Second Time
1. Salley, ed., South Carolina General Assembly, 31, 33-34:
