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1783. 2 Term. [Saturday] March 15.
Proper Evidence of the Value of the Ship, and that the Plaintiff was intitled to recover the Value, as it was here, unless it is shoewn that the Ship is increased in Value, by Money expended on the Ship, by the Defendants, or by some other Person that than the Plaintiff.

It was not attempted on the part of the Defendants to shew that Mr. Maclary had made a lawful Prize of this Ship.

The Defendants in their answer to the Letter of
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