Captain to fend Lifts with bis

Men.

rate them on the Ship's Books in a worse Quality, or lower Degree or Station, than they ferved in the Ship they were removed from; and for his Guidance, he is to demand from the Commander of the Ship from which they are turned over, a Lift under his Hand of their Names and Qualities. He is to fend Lifts of the faid Men to the Navy-Board, in order to their receiving Two Months Wages Advance, before the Ship proceeds to Sea. But if there be more Inferior Officers than the Establishment of the Ship allows, he is immediately to acquaint the Secretary of the Admiralty therewith.

XI.

When a Captain is ordered to turn over any Inferior Officers or Voluntier Seamen from the Ship under his turned-over Command into any other of His Majefty's Ships, he is not only to deliver a Lift of their Names and Qualities to the Captain of the Ship they are removed into, but to fend alfo compleat Pay-Lifts to the NavyBoard, in order to their being paid the Wages due to them, as well as the Advance of Two Months Wages.

A whole

Ship's Com

over, not en

XII.

It is to be understood, that if any Ship is by Accipany turned dent disabled from going to Sea, and her whole Comtitled to the pany is removed into another Ship, the fame is not to Benefit of the be taken to be a turning over, within the Meaning Act of Par- of the Act,

liament.

XIII. For

XIII.

Voluntier
Seamen fball

for their Pre

For a farther Encouragement to Seamen who fhall ferve His Majesty voluntarily, if any fuch Seaman can be discharged, at any Time get better Preferment in any other of His ferment in aMajefty's Ships, than he has in the Ship he belongs to, nother Ship. the Captain he serves with is hereby required to difcharge him to the Captain defiring him, upon the faid Captain's giving him a good Man in his Room.

XIV.

Attorney va

Cheque, or

The Captain is frequently to make known to his No Letter of Ship's Company, that no Letters of Attorney made lid, unless atby them to empower Perfons to receive their Wages, tefted by the Captain, ‹ are valid, unless they be made revocable, and figned Clerk of the before, and attefted by, the Captain or Commander, Mayor of a and one other of the Signing Officers of the Ship to Town. which they belong; or by the Clerk of the Cheque of fome of the Dock-Yards, or by the Mayor, or chief Magistrate of fome Corporation.

XV.

Wages.

He is to difcourage the Seamen of his Ship from Captain to difcourage felling any Part of their Wages, by all Ways and Means Seamen from possible, and never to atteft to the Letter of Attorney felling their of any Seaman, until he is fully fatisfied that the fame is not granted in Confideration of Money given for the Purchase of his Wages.

XVI. When

Tickets of de

XVI.

When any Inferior Officer or Seaman dies, the Capto be fent to tain is forthwith to make out a Ticket for the Time of

cealed Seamen

Captain to

receive on

Foreign
Parts.

his Service, and fend the fame by the first fafe Conveyance to the Navy-Board, in order to the Wages being forthwith paid to the Executors or Adminiftrators of the Deceased.

XVII.

When any of His Majefty's Ships are in Foreign board Seamen Parts, and His Majefty's Governors, Minifters, or diftreffed in Confuls, or any Two or more British Merchants, fhall apply to the Captain to receive any Seafaring Men or Boys, Subjects of Great Britain, or Ireland, who fhall by Shipwreck, Capture, or other unavoidable Accident, be driven into thofe Parts, he is to receive them on board, and to bear fuch as come within his Complement for Wages and Victuals, and the reft for Victuals only: He is ftrictly charged, upon his meeting with any of His Majesty's Ships, to inform himself

from the Captain, if she is fhort of her Complement, and to put as many of his Supernumeraries on board her, as shall make up her Complement, and to continue to do the fame, until they are all disposed of; but if he shall not meet with any of His Majefty's Ships, he is then to discharge and fet afhore the faid Supernumeraries at any Port in Great Britain, that he fhall be bound to.

.

Rules

Rules for the Cure of Sick or Hurt
Seamen on board their own Ships.

C

Article I.

Onvenient Room shall be made between Decks 4 convenient

Place to be

in all His Majesty's Ships, for the Reception of fet apart for fick or hurt Seamen, whither they are to be removed fick Men. with their Hammacoes and Bedding, when the Surgeon fhall advise the fame to be neceffary.

II.

attend the

The Captain is to appoint fome of the Ship's Com- Perfons to pany to attend and serve the fick Men Night and Day Sick. by Turns, and to keep the Place clean.

III.

The Cooper may, by the Captain's Direction, make Conveniencies out of any old Staves and Hoops, Buckets with Co-for the fick vers, for the neceffary Occafions of the fick Men; Men. and if any of them have fractured Bones, or fuch Ailments as require their lying in Cradles, the Carpenter may make fuch a Number as fhall be neceffary.

IV.

All Ships of War furnished with Fishing-Tackle, Fresh Fish to be caught for being in fuch Places where Fish is to be had, the Cap- the fick Men.

tain is to employ fome of the Company in Fishing, and the Fish which fhall be caught, fhall be diftributed daily to fuch Perfons as are fick, or upon Recovery; and if there be any Surplus, the fame fhall be distributed by Turns amongst the Meffes of the Officers and Seamen, without Favour or Partiality, and gratis, without any Deduction of their Allowance of Provifions on that Account.

In what Cales fick Men are to be fent out of the Ship.

Sick Men to

be fent afbore

Rules to be obferved in fending Sick or Hurt Seamen out of his Majefty's Ships for Cure.

Article I.

ONE are to be fent into the Hospitals, either attending the Fleet, or afhore, but whofe Diftempers or Hurts are fuch, as may make it inconvenient to have them kept on board their own Ships.

When any Men are ordered into the Hospitals by Ticket, and afhore, their. Cloaths and Bedding are to be fent their Cleaths along with them, together with a Ticket directed to and Bedding along with the Agent, expreffing their Names, Entry, and Numthem. bers on the Ship's Books, with the Quality of their Disease or Hurt; which Ticket is to be figned by the

Captain,