PART II. The Captain or Commander. W ARTICLE I HEN a Captain, or Commander, re- To vifit the ceives a Commiffion to command one Ship he is appointed to of His Majefty's Ships, he is immedi- command. ately to repair on board, and visit her throughout, in Company with his Officers, and fuch of the Officers of the Yard, as the Commiffioner of the Navy, or, in his Abfence, the chief Officers of the Yard fhall appoint, and inform himself of her Condition, and in what Manner fhe is to be fitted out for the Sea. 11. counts of the Progress in fitting her To fend Ac- He is to give his conftant Attendance on board, and infpect into the Works doing to the Ship, and to quicken the Dispatch thereof; he is to fend to the Admiralty and Navy-Offices Weekly Accounts, or oftner, if neceffary, of the Progrefs made in fitting her out, and her Circumstances, as to Men, Stores, and Provifions; and whether there be any Delay, Neglect, or other Impediment, and the Caufe thereof, that the neceffary Orders may be given therein. Not to lye out of the Ship without Leave. HI. He is not to lye out of the Ship, from the Day of his coming on board to the Day of his Discharge, un-lefs by Leave from the Admiralty, or from his Commander in Chief. To apply in Writing to IV. All Applications concerning the Ship to the Comthe Commif- miffioner of the Navy refiding at the Port, are to foner of the be made in Writing under his Hand, when he cannot apply in Perfon. Navy To know the the Ship. V. He is to apply to the Navy-Board for an Account of Qualities of the Qualities of the Ship, which will be depofited with them by thofe who have commanded her in for-. mer Voyages; but if fhe be a new Ship, he is to advife with the Master Shipwright who built her. bis Officers He is to demand from the Clerk of the Survey, a To take InSurvey-Book, with an Inventory of the Stores commit-ventories of ted to the Charge of the Boatfwain and Carpenter, Stores. and a Supplemental one for a Foreign Voyage; and. a like Book from the Office of Ordnance, of the Gunner's Stores. He is likewife to require from his Boatfwain, Gunner, Carpenter, and Purfer, Counterparts of their respective Indents, which they are to deliver to him forthwith after figning. VII. Stores come his Clerk to and Provifi-s He is to be prefent himself at the coming on board To be present of the Ordnance Stores, and to fee the Cannon, Fire when the locks, Swords, and other Weapons carefully furvey'd on board, and and examined before him, and to inform the Officers take Account of the Ordnance of fuch as fhall appear to be De- of all Stores fective, and not fitting for Service, in order to their ous that come being exchanged. But in Cafe he shall be then aben board. fent from the Ship, he is to give ftrict Orders to the Lieutenant to comply therewith. He is likewife to take care, that his Clerk be prefent, and take an Account in Writing of all Stores and Provifions that come on board, and when which Account he is 37 afterwards to compare with the Indents, to fatisfy him, felf if the whole has been received in Kind, for allow ed in Credit; which laft is not however to be admitted, but where the Neceffity is evident. And if he obferves any Fraud or Neglect, he is to reprefent the fame ་ To be a Accounts. fame to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and alfo to the Office it immediately concerns. VIII. He is to keep Counter-Books of the Expence of the Officers, and Ship's Stores, to the End that he may always be audit their able to know the State and Condition of the fame. He is to audit the Accounts of the Officers entrusted with Stores once a Week, and to fign fuch Allowances as he makes thereupon, taking care not to pass any Articles that are unduly charged. And, at the End of the Voyage, he is to deliver the feveral Books, which he has kept of the Expence of Stores, into the proper Offices, figned by himself, the Master, and by each Officer to his refpective Counterpart, To enter none but able Men, IX. He is to inform himself from the Clerk of the and not to ex- Cheque, of the Complement of Men allowed to the ceed bis Com-Ship, and to use his utmoft Application to get her plement. To keep a MufterBook. Mann'd, and to be very careful to enter none but Men of able Bodies, and fit for Service. He is conftantly to keep the established Number of Men compleat, and never to proceed from the Place where the Ship fits out, with more Men than the Complement, unless by order from the Admiralty, or from a Commander in Chief. X. He is to apply to the Clerk of the Acts, at the Navy-Office, for a fufficient Number of Blank Mufter Books, Books, which will be delivered to him Ruled, and to keep an exact Mufter-Book, fetting down therein the Names of all Perfons entered to ferve in the Ship, with every Circumftance relating to them, as is specified in the feveral Columns. When two Men, or more, are of the fame Name, they are to be diftinguished by 1ft, 2d, and fo on. The Number under which a Man is entered in the Original Mufter-Book, is to ftand the fame in all following Mufter-Books. If any Man is discharged, and happens afterwards to be reenter'd, the Number of the first Entry is to be noted against the Number of the Re-entry, and vice verfâ, the Number of the Re-entry against the Number of the first Entry. When the Ship arrives at the Port where she is to be laid up, he is to fend the Original General Mufter-Book to the Comptroller of the Navy, figned by himself. XI. at Mufters, He is to be present at all Musters of the Ship's To be prefent Company by the Clerk of the Cheque or Mufter- and affift the Mafter, and to make the fame Annotations, as they Clerk of the Cheque. do against the Men's Names, on his own Books. He is to be affifting to them in the Execution of their Office, and fee that the Purfer do furnish them with perfect Mufter-Books: And if there fhall be a Want of Blank Books during the Voyage, he is to demand. a Supply from the Clerk of the Cheque or Mufter Master, at the first Port he shall happen to put into. · And he is to deliver, at the End of the Voyage, into. the Office of the Clerk of the Acts, a regular Ac count |