At a Court of Vice Admiralty held at Newport In the Colony of Rhode Island, On Monday the 31st Day of August A. D. 1747.
Present the Honble Wm Strengthfield Esqr Dep: Judge, The Court being opened.
The Petition of John Dennis with the Citation etc being first read. His Honour the Deputy Judge gave his Decree Viz1 and the Court was adjourned without Day.
Whereas Captain John Dennis by his Petition setts forth in behalf of himself his Owners and Company that a part of the Cargo taken on board the Sloop Postelion condemned in this Court as Prize consisting of Sugars are detained by the Collector of his Majesty’s Customs on account of certain Imported that is consumed in the s3 Governments, I therefore order that the Captors give sufficient security to Pay the said Duty on all such Sugars so Imported that is consumed in the s3 Goverments, I therefore order that the said John Dennis Enact with Two good and Sufficient Sureties to Pay the said Duty of Five Shillings Sterling per Hundred on all the Sugars condemned as Prize in my Decree mentioned in the said Petition which shall be sold and consumed in this Colony or so much thereof as shall not be consumed to be exported within Nine Months, which being accomplished I do order and adjudge that the same be delivered to the Petitioner in order to be divided pursuant to my former Decree the Petitioner paying Cost. Newport August 31s1 1747.