To inform the Publick * II. He is likewife to correfpond with the several PubOffices of all lick Offices, about fuch Matters as relate to them Matters re- and to fend an Account to them, as well as to the lating to Admiralty, of all Directions given by him, which concern the faid Offices. them. Not to order the bearing out Cause. III. He is never to give Orders to any Captain to bear Supernume- Supernumeraries, unless there be juft Caufe for it, raries with which is to be expressed in the Body of the Order; and he is to inform the Secretary of the Admiralty when he gives fuch Orders, and of his Reasons for fo doing. To exercife his Squadron When he is at Sea, he is frequently to exercise the frequently. Ships under his Command, and draw them into Lines of Battle, when the Weather is fair, and the fame can be done, without Interruption to the Voyage. To vifit the Ships under his Command. To direct the cers abroad, V. He is to vifit the Ships of his Squadron or Divifion, and view the Men on Board, and fee them muftered, as often as he fhall think neceffary. VI. When he is in Foreign Parts, where Naval or other according to Officers, are established, he is to conform himself, as the Rules of much the Navy. much as poffible, to the Standing Rules of the Navy, in fuch Directions as he fhall have Occafion to give them; and never to put them upon any extraordinary Expences, unless the Service shall abfolutely require the fame. VII. Stores or He is never to intereft himself in the Purchase of Not to inteStores or Provifions in Foreign Parts, where there in purchasing. reft himself any are proper Officers appointed for that Service, except provisions there fhall be an abfolute Neceffity to make Ufe of abroad. his Credit or Authority to procure fuch Provifions or Stores as are wanted; but, in that Cafe, he fhall not be so concerned, as to have any private Interest in the fame. VIII. 1 At the End of the Voyage, he is to attend the Lord To deliver a Journal into High Admiral, or Lords Commiffioners of the Ad-the Admiralmiralty, to give an Account of the Expedition, and y-Office at fhall leave a Copy of his Journal with the Secretary of the Voyage. the Admiralty. the End of 1 Α A Of Courts Martial. Article I. LL Courts Martial are to be held, Offences Act of the tryed, Sentence pronounced, and Execution 13th Car. 2. to be obferved. 2 Powers to of fuch Sentence to be done, according to the Articles and Orders contained in an Act of Parliament made in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, Entitled, An Act for the Eftablishing Articles and Orders for the Regulating and better Government of His Majesty's Navy, Ships of War, and Forces by Sea: Which Act all Officers concerned are duly to perufe, for their Inftruction herein. 1 II. All Commiffions, or General Powers, for holding hold Courts Courts Martial, are to be understood to be in Force, no longer than during the Expedition. ‹ Martial in during the Courts Mar in Publick. III. Courts Martial fhall always be held in the Foretial to be held moon, and in the most publick Place of the Ship, where all, who will, may be prefent; and the Captains of all His Majefty's Ships in Company, which take Poft, have a Right to aflift thereat. Complaints IV. All Complaints at Sea, or in Foreign Parts, upon to be made in which the fummoning a Court Martial is to be grounWriting. ded, shall be made in Writing to the Commander in Chief, (unless where the faid Commander in Chief shall fee Caufe of himself to all the fame,) in which are to be fet forth the particular Facts, with the Place, Time, and in what Manner they were committed. And if any Captain," who is entitled by his Rank to SA fit fit in the Court, be perfonally concerned in the Matter to be tryed, he shall not be admitted to fit at the faid Tryal. 'V. cate to exa Oath. The Judge Advocate is to examine the Witneffes Judge Advoupon: Oath, take down their Depofitions in Writing, mine Witand fhew the fame to the Commander in Chief, who nees upon is to order him to fend timely, before the Tryal, an attefted Copy of the Charge or Accufation, to the Party accused, in order to his being the better prepared for his Defence. VI. nutes of the When the Court is fitting, the Judge Advocate is To take Mito take Minutes of their Proceedings, and to advife Proceedings them of the proper Forms, when there fhall be Occa-of the Court. fion; and to deliver his Opinion in any Doubts or Difficulties in their Methods, that may arife in the Courfe of the Tryal. VII. the Majority When the Court fhall have gone through the Exa- Matters to minations, and heard all Parties, the Perfon accufed be fettled by shall be removed, and the Standers by ordered to of Voices. withdraw ; after which, the Matters being fully confidered and debated by the Court, the Prefident is to ftate and put the feveral Questions agreed by them; in which the youngest Officer fhall vote firft, proceeding in Order up to the Prefident, who, having delivered his own Opinion, is to collect the Numbers, and ALY Fudge Ad vocate to draw up, and and fettle the Determination of the Court, according to the Majority of Voices, VIII. The Judge Advocate is to draw up in Writing the Sentence of the Court, which being approved and pronounce the figned by them, all Perfons fhall be admitted; and the Party accufed being present, the Judge Advocate, by Direction of the Prefident, is to pronounce the fame. Sentence. IX. Executions to When Sentence of Death is to be executed upon any be publick. Criminal, Notice is to be first given from the Ship by a Signal, and firing a Gun; upon which, the Captains of all the Ships prefent fhall fummon their Companies upon Deck, to be Spectators thereof, and fhall make known to them the Crime, for which the Punishment is inflicted. Judge Ad. X. The Judge Advocate is always to fend the Orivocate to fend ginal Sentence and Affidavits, as also the Minutes the Proceed ings of the which he has taken of the Proceedings of the Court, Court to the to the Secretary of the Admiralty. Admiralty. Of |