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1 0th. A general court martial was convened by warrant 'SSyi 
from the governor. When the members, with the deputy 
judge advocate, were afTembled, they gave it as their 
opinion, that notwithftanding the governor has full power 
and authority to grant and hold court martials among 
regular troops; yet, as a corps of marines, under the influence 
of a particular code of laws, and inflrudions from the 
Admiralty, and only amenable to that board, they could 
not proceed to trial ; the board of Admiralty not having 
delegated any part of their authority over the marine corps, 
particularly that of holding court martials, to the governor ; 
neither did any part of the ad of Parliament for forming 
a colony in New South Wales contain directions relative to 
that*fubjed. The marine inftrudlions, with refpedt to court 
martials, ftate, that no general court martial can be ordered 
but by the Lord High Admiral, or three commiflioners for 
executing the office ; nor any fentence be carried into 
execution until approved of by him or them, unlefs the 
marines, as in America, fhould be, by adl of Parliament, 
confidered as a part of the army ; which is not the cafe 
here. They are truly and literally governed and regulated 
by the fame rules and inftrudions as the marine divifions at 
Chatham, 
