Command, or behave themselves fo ill, that he judges them unfit for their Duty, he may fufpend or confine them; and when he comes in the Way of a Commander in Chief, apply to him for holding a Court Martial; otherwise he is to acquaint the Secretary of the Admiralty therewith. VI. The Officer who commands on board by Accident None under the Captain of the Captain's Absence, (unless he be absent for a to punish. Time by Leave) fhall not order any Correction, but Confinement; from which however he is not to releafe the Offender before the Captain's Return on board, and then give him an Account of the Reasons for his fo doing. VII. War to be The Captain is to cause the Articles of War to be Articles of hung up in fome publick Places of the Ship, and read read once a to the Ship's Company once a Month. Month. Inftructions Voluntiers to begin Wages from their Entry, and paid Two ges Advance. mo Inftructions relating to the Execution W Article I. HEN any of his Majefty's Ships shall be in Want of Men, and any Seaman, or able bodied Landman, shall enter voluntarily with a ComMonths Wa- miffion Officer of the Fleet appointed to raise Men, and fhall repair on board within fourteen Days, if the Place where he enters be not above One hundred Miles diftant from the Ship; or within the Space of Twenty Days, if the Ship be at a greater Distance than One hundred Miles; or within the Space of Thirty Days, if the Distance be more than Two hundred Miles, the Captain fhall enter his Name on the Ship's Books for Wages from the Day of his Entry, and for Victuals from the Time of his Appearance; and fo foon as the Ship is fully manned, he shall send three Lifts of the Names of all fuch Voluntiers to the Navy Board, in the Forms hereunto annexed, Page (162, 163, 164.) in order to their being paid Conduct Money, (to be computed from the Place of Entry) and an Advance of Two Months Wages, before the Ship proceeds to Sea. II. board. In cafe any of the faid Seamen or Landmen fhall, May be fupat their Request, be fupplied with Slop-Cloaths or Slops at first plied with Bedding at their coming on board, the Captain is coming on carefully to set off the Value of the same against their Names in the Lifts he sends to the Navy-Board for Payment of the Two Months Advance of Wages, in order to their deducting the fame. III. moved volun Advance When a Captain is removed from one Ship to ano- Seamen rether, and takes along with him his Servants, or any tarily, or enothers out of the Ship; (who fhall not be turned over tring in Exchange for by Order from the Admiralty, but shall voluntarily go) others, not it is here declared, that all fuch Perfons, and alfo entitled to Seamen entring in Exchange for others discharged at Money. their own Requeft, have no Title to the Advance of Two Months Wages, and the Captain is ftrictly charged not to infert any fuch in the Lifts he fhall make out for that Purpose. IV. cers and Sea When the Ship fhall have been in Commiffion Six Two Months whole Months, if she be then in any Port of Great Wages in Six to be paid to Britain, or on the Coafts thereof, and not under inferior OffiOrders to be paid off, the Captain fhall make out men. three Pay Lifts, according to the Form hereunto annexed, Page (166, 167.) containing the Names of all the inferior Officers and Seamen, belonging to the To be paid to their Attor Ship under his Command, fpecifying in fuch Lifts the Days on which every particular Man was entered on the Ship's Books, and fend the faid Lifts, figned by himself and the Signing Officers, to the Navy-Board, in order to their paying them Two Months Wages. V. But if, at the End of the faid Six Months, the Ship neys in their fhall be on the Coast of Ireland, or in Foreign Parts, Abfense. the Captain shall then mufter his Company, and fet down in Lifts as aforefaid, the Names of fuch inferior Officers and Seamen only, who fhall desire to have Two Months Wages paid in London to their Attorneys, and send the fame home, by the first safe Opportunity, to the Navy-Board. while the Ship is in VI. The fame to When the Ship shall have been twelve Months in be done every Six Months, Sea-Pay, the Captain is to make out other Pay-Lifts as aforefaid, of the Names of the inferior Officers and Commiffion. Seamen belonging to the Ship under his Command, and tranfmit the fame to the Navy-Board, and fo from time to time to obferve to do the fame at the End of every enfuing Six Months, until the Ship fhall be finally paid off. Who are meant by In VII. As to the Term, Inferior Officers, the Captain is to ferior Offi- take Notice, that the fame does not include any Commiffion Officer, nor any Warrant Officer, except the cers. Second Mafter, Surgeon's Mates, Cook, Armourer, Gunsmith, Schoolmaster, Master at Arms, Corporal, and Sail-maker. VIII. Months, Months Wa ges to be paid Ship's Com But notwithstanding what is before directed, for the At the End making out Pay-Lifts, at the End of every fix Months, of Eighteen for the Inferior Officers and Seamen only, in order to Twelve their being paid Two Months Wages, yet if it shall fo happen, that at the End of Eighteen Months, the to the whole Ship fhall be in any Port of Great Britain, or on the pany. Coasts of the fame, the Captain shall then make out Pay-Books for Twelve Months, containing the Names of all the Officers and Seamen of the Ship, and tranfmit the fame to the Navy-Board, it being directed by the Act, that the whole Company shall then receive Twelve Months Pay, including what may have been advanced. IX. be repeated e The Captain is to make out the like Pay-Books The fame to Time that the Ship fhall have been Eighteen very Eighteen every Months in Sea-Pay, beyond the Time she has been Months. cleared to, in order to the Officers and Company being paid Twelve Months Wages again, as before. X. rate turned The Captain is to take care, when any Inferior Of- Not to underficers or Voluntier Seamen are turned over into the over Men. Ship under his Command from any other Ship, not to G 2 rate |