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11th August 1808, by a Commission addressed to the Chief 

 Justice of Madras for the time being, or the person executing 

 the duties of such office, and dated at London in the High 

 Court of Admiralty of England the 21st day of January 1808. 

 The practice to be observed in this Court, and the fees to be 

 allowed and taken by the respective Judges, Officers and 

 practitioners therein, were regulated by Rules and Regula- 

 tions made on the 27th June 1832, under the authority of the 

 Statute 2 William IV, c. 51, and the additional Rules and 

 Regulations of the 6th July 1859. In proceedings instituted 

 on behalf of Her Majesty's ships, provision was made for the 

 payment of costs by the rules, orders, and regulations 

 established by Her Majesty's Order in Council of 22nd 

 October 1859, under the authority of 2 William IV, c. 51, 

 and the Navy Pay and Prize Act, ] 854 (17 Vic, c. 19). The 

 Statute 2 William IV, c. 51 , also declared (section 6) that the 

 Court should have jurisdiction in suits for seamen's wages, 

 pilotage, bottomry, damage to a ship by collision, contempt 

 of the regulations relating to His Majesty's Service at sea, 

 salvage, and droits of Admiralty, in all cases where a ship or 

 vessel, or the master thereof, should come within the local 

 limits of the Court, notwithstanding the cause of action 

 might have arisen out of the local limits. An appeal lay to 

 the High Court of Admiralty in England, or to the Lord 

 Commissioners in Prize Cases, but by 3 and 4 William IV, 

 c 41, s\ 2, it is enacted that from the 1st day of June 1833 

 all such appeals and applications in prize suits should be made 

 to His Majesty in Council, and not to the said High Court 

 of Admiralty in England, or to such Commissioners as afore- 

 said. The jurisdiction of the Vice -Admiralty Court was 

 transferred to the High Court by the 31st clause of the 

 Letters Patent, dated 26th June 1862, which is confirmed by 

 the 32nd clause of the amended Letters Patent dated 28th 

 December 1865. No change was at first made in the forms 



