Note 2 — LA PAIX.
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A court of vice-admiralty was first erected in Virginia in 1698, and Hill was the first judge appointed. He was commissioned (Mar. 8, 1698) by Governor Andros, by virtue of the latter's commission (June 26, 1697) from the High Court of Admiralty in England; so say the Virginia council, in Va. Mag. Hist., XXII. 245, but the record of this latter commission in London dates it Apr. 29. Am. Hist. Assoc., Annual Report, 1911, I. 518.