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birthIn all these parts it is an inviolable rule, that the vessel which comes first has the privilege of chusing her bay, and the best part in it for fishing; and likewise has the title of admiral of it: and as such not only all the timber works which happen to remain there belong to the master, but he also assigns to every vessel her particular birth, though herein he has always a regard to the date of their coming into the bay...PRINTED ITEMW. J. KIRWIN NOV 1978 JH NOV 1978Used IUsed IWithdrawnBert