Note 12 — DUMARESQ VS. THE AMSTERDAM POST.

See doc. no. 141. A pass from the Admiralty, which, in accordance with the treaties between Great Britain and the Dey of Algiers, English vessels entering the Mediterranean had to carry in order to be exempt from search by the Algerine corsairs. Such a pass, of 1750, is printed in Marsden, Law and Custom of the Sea, II. 347-348. A full set of ships' papers seems to have consisted, at least in Dutch practice, of a bill of health (see doc. no. 197), a sea-letter or let-pass (docs. nos. 129, 130), a muster-roll (rôle d'équipage) or shipping-articles of the crew, and a clearance for the cargo.