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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 313 (part 3)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] And though the fiscal had, at the suggestion of the Director, instituted his action at first against the aforesaid Melyn, he was cast at that time, but yet, in order to attain his object, he subsequently sued the skipper and by collusion and want of defence, obtained the required and previously fabricated confiscation on the same forced and contradictory evidence which he had produced against Melyn, although by the said pretended judgment, the skipper was declared