Captain, Surgeon, and the other Signing Officers of the Ship.

III.

order them

If any of the said Men fhall be in Want of proper Captain may Neceffaries at their going away from the Ship, the Slops, if Captain may order the Purfer to supply them out of needful. the Slop-Cloaths.

IV.

ken in Land

The Captain is to take Care to fend the fick Men Care to be taashore under the Charge of a difcreet Officer, accom- ing, and tarpanied by the Surgeon, or one of his Mates, and that rying them to the Hospital. they be carefully fecured from the Weather, and to land them at the nearest Place to the Hofpital, and thofe Officers are to fee them fafely conveyed thither with proper Carriages, or otherwise, at the Expence of the Hospital.

V.

Officer to go

The Captain is to fend a Commiffion Officer to the 4 Commiffion Hofpital twice a Week (on the Muster Days) with a abore to the Boat, to receive fuch of his own Men from the Agent, Muters, and as may be recovered. And he shall likewife receive covered Men. fuch other recovered Men (whofe Ships are not in the Way) as the Agent fhall defire, unless any appear to be unfit for Service; in which Cafe, he is to give a Certificate thereof to the Agent, for his Juftification.

receive reco

other Ships,

VI.

Captain to He is likewife to receive fuch recovered Men, as an vered Men of Agent of the Sick and Wounded shall send to him, Jent to him by though the Ship be at a diftant Place from the Hofpithe Agent. tal, unless they be unferviceable; and in that Cafe, fhall give the faid Men Certificates of his Refufal, and the Reason.

To return the faid Men to their own

to other Ships.

VII.

If the Captain, who receives recovered Men belonging to another Ship, fhall meet with that Ship, Ships; but if he fhall return them to their own Ship, bearing them they are full, to keep them, only for Victuals; but if their proper Ship fhall at or Spare them that Time have her full Complement of Men, he is then to enter them as Part of his own Ship's Company, if he be in Want of Men, or otherwise difpofe of them to fuch of His Majefty's Ships as may not have compleated their Complements, where they are to be borne for Wages, from the Time they were received from Sick Quarters.

Agent's may Supply fick Men with

Ship is out of the Way.

VIII.

If the Agent shall certify to the Captain, that he has fupplied any fick Men with Cloaths, whilft they Slops, if their were in Quarters, of which they were abfolutely in Want, he is to charge the fame against their Names on the Ship's Books, in order to its being defalked out of their Wages; but the Agent is not to do it whilst the Ship is in Port, but to apply to the Captain to be supplied out of the Slop-Cloaths on board.

IX.

return to

If any Man, who is put ashore for Cure, does not 4 Query to return on board his Ship so soon as he is discharged the Names of be fet against from Sick Quarters, or is left in Sick Quarters when such as do not the Ship departs, a Query is to be put against his their Ships. Name, which fhall be a Stop to the Payment of his Wages, until he proves, that he was not able to get on board his own Ship, but entered immediately into fome other of His Majefty's Ships, or was difcharged from Sick Quarters, as unfit for Service.

The Captain is to correfpond with the Commif- Captain to correfpond fioners of the Sick and Wounded, to know whether with the Sick any of his Men in Quarters are Dead, Run, Dischat- and Wounded ged, or otherwise difpofed of, in order to his noting his fick Men. the fame upon his Books.

XI.

Office, about

Admirals and Commanders in Chief, as alfo the Commanders in Chief, and Commiffioner of the Navy, at the Ports where Hof- Commiffioner pitals are established, are to visit them frequently, and of the Navy, to vifit the to fee how the Men under Cure are treated, as well Hospitals at with respect to the Attendance of the Physician and the Parts. Surgeon, as alfo to their Food, Lodging, and other Circumstances. And the better to come at the Knowledge of any Abuses, they are to examine the Men, and hear their Complaints, and to redress themselves little Irregularities upon the Spot; but if they discover H 2

any

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Captain to

Parts.

any wilful Mismanagement, they are to represent it to the Admiralty.

XII.

In case there fhall be a Neceffity of putting fick or take care of the fick Men wounded Men afhore for Cure in Foreign Parts, where in Foreign there are none of His Majesty's Hospitals, nor any Correfpondence of the Sick and Wounded Office to take Charge of them, the Captain is to provide them with proper Food, Lodging, and other Neceffaries, (the Surgeon of the Ship, and his Affistants, attending on them in what relates to their Duty) and may draw Bills on the Commiffioners of the Sick and Wounded for what Expence he shall be at, paffing his Accounts thereof at the End of the Voyage. But as nothing will be allowed him thereon beyond the usual Eftablishment, he is, before he fails on a Foreign Voyage, to inform himself thereof from the Sick and Wounded Office, and receive from thence what Rules and Inftructions may be proper for his Knowledge and Guidance.

Of

Of the Provifions.

Article I.

HERE fhall be allowed to every Man ferving Allowance of

T1 in His Majesty's Ships a daily Proportion of Provisions.

Provifions, according as is expreffed in the following

the Service

It is left to the Discretion of the Commanders of May be shortSquadrons to fhorten the aforefaid Allowance of ned, when Provifions, according to the Exigence of the Ser-requires it. vice, taking care that the Men be punctually paid for the fame. The like Power is given to Captains of fingle Ships, in Cafes of abfolute Neceffity; but the Purfer is ftrictly charged not to fupply any Officer at whole Allowance, whilft the reft of the Company are at fhort, but all are to be equal in Point of Victualling.

III. In