Change of fome Species in Foreign Voyages.

Cask of Flesh
to have the
Contents
marked on
the Head.

How the

Flesh Meat is

to hold out in Weight.

III.

In cafe it fhall be thought for the Service to alter any of the aforegoing Particulars of Provifions in Ships employed on Foreign Voyages, it is to be obferved, that a Pint of Wine, or half a Pint of Brandy, Rum, or Arrack, hold Proportion to a Gallon of Beer; four Pounds of Flower, or three Pounds of the same, with a Pound of Raifins ; half a Pound of Currants, or half a Pound of Beef-Suet pickled, are equal to a Four Pound Piece of Beef, or Two Pound Piece of Pork with Pease; half a Pound of Rice is equal to a Pint of Oatmeal; a Pint of Olive Oil is equal to a Pound of Butter, or to two Pounds of Suffolk Cheese; and two Thirds of a Pound of Cheshire Cheefe, is equal to one Pound of Suffolk.

;

IV.

The Beef, provided for His Majefty's Ships, is to be cut into Four Pound Pieces, and the Pork into Two Pound Pieces and no unusual Pieces are to be put up, fuch as Leg Bones, Shins of Oxen, Cheeks of Hogs, Ox Hearts, &c. and every Cask of Provifions is to have the Contents thereof marked on the Head. I

V.

And to judge whether the Flesh, served to His Majefty's Ships holds out in juft Weight, the following Rule is to be obferved, viz. Every Twenty Eight Pieces of Beef, cut for Four Pound Pieces, taken out

of

of the Cask as they rife, and the Salt shaken off, are to weigh One hundred Pounds Averdupoix; and every Fifty fix Pieces of Pork, cut for Two Pound Pieces, and taken out and fhaken in the like Manner, are to weigh One hundred and four Pounds; and therefore if, according to this Standard, upon the weighing a whole Cask of Beef or Pork, in the Presence of two or more of the Warrant Officers of the Ship, there fhall be found a Deficiency of Weight, the Captain may order the Purfer to iffue to the Seamen fo much more Beef or Pork, as fhall make up the Deficiency; and upon producing the Oath of one of the faid Officers, together with the Commander's Certificate that he did, by his Order, iffue to the Ship's Company the like Number of Pieces of Beef or Pork, in Lieu of the Shortnefs of Weight, he shall have Credit for the same upon his Accounts.

VI.

fued in defect

If it shall happen, that any of His Majefty's Ships Beef to be if shall be in Want of Pork, the Captain is to order three of Port. Pounds of Beef to be iffued to the Men, in Lieu of a Two Pound Piece of Pork.

VII.

Suet in Lieu

For the better Prefervation of the Health of the Sea- Flower and men, it is ordered, that one Day in every Week, there fhall be iffued out to them a Proportion of Flower and... Suet in Lieu of Beef; but this is not to extend beyond Four Months Victualling at one Time, nor fhall the

Purfer

Only three Months Butter and

Foreign Voy

Purfer receive any Allowance for Flower or Suet kept longer on board than that Time. And there fhall be. fupplied once a Year, from the Victualling-Office, a Proportion of Canvas for Pudding-Bags, after the Rate of one Ell to every fixteen Men.

VIII.

In the Victualling His Majesty's Ships for Foreign Voyages, there fhall be only fupplied three Months Cheefe for Butter and Cheefe, the Remainder of those Species being to be made up in Olive Oil; but for the Mediterranean, the Purfers are to be supplied with Credit, or Foreign Money (if Credit cannot be had) for procuring Oil abroad.

ages.

Allowance of

Water Cask.

Beer Cask to have the Con

IX.

There shall be allowed to every Ship, in Home Voyages, one Tun of Cask for Water Cask, Iron bound, with one Bundle of Wood Hoops, and one of Flags (if required) for every Hundred Men per Month, and fo proportionably; but in Foreign Voyages, there fhall be allowed fuch farther Quantity of Water Cask, as the Ship can conveniently ftow, or fhall be thought neceffary.

X.

In Ships employed in Home Service, half the Quantents marked tity of Beer taken on board fhall be contained in Ironon the Head. bound Cask; but in Foreign Voyages, Three Fourths of the Beer Cask fhall be Iron-bound. And no Cask fhall

be

be used for Beer, but what have been gauged by a fworn Gauger, who is to mark on the Head the Contents in Gallons, Winchefter Measure.

XI.

be new for

All Cask supplied to Ships bound on Foreign Voy- All Cask to ages, whether for Beer, or for Water, fhall be new, Foreign Voyto prevent any Occafion of buying Cask abroad.

XII.

ages.

in Chief.

Though all Warrants for Victualling do properly Provisions to be supplied by iffue from the Lord High Admiral, or Lords Com-Order of the miffioners of the Admiralty, yet if any of His Ma- Commander jesty's Ships fhall happen to come into Port in Want of Provifions, the Warrant of a Commander in Chief shall be fufficient to the Agent, or other Inftrument of the Victualling, to fupply the Quantity wanted; Or of a Capand in urgent Cafes, where Delay may be hurtful, gent the Warrant of the Captain of the Ship fhall be of equal Effect.

XIII.

tain in ur

ped.

Cafes.

When any Veffels come on board with Provifions, Victualling or other Stores, they are not to be fuffered to loyter dispatched, Veffels to be by the Ship's Side, but forthwith to be unladen and and not flopfent away; nor fhall the Captain of one Ship ftop a Veffel that is configned to another Ship, or take out any Part of her Lading.

be sent on

out Charge to

into the Slings

XIV.

Provifions to All Supplies of Provifions are to be put on board board with the Ships without any Charge to the Purfer for Lightthe Purjer, erage, Porterage, or otherwise, and with all the Dif and delivered patch poffible; and the Mafters of the Veffels, or of the Ship. Lighters, by whom the Provisions are fent, fhall fee the fame put into the Slings or Tackles of the Ship they are configned to, by careful Men belonging to the Ship; and fhall likewife deliver to the Captain a perfect Bill of Lading under the Hand of the Victualling Officer, that he may fee, if the whole is brought on board.

XV. '.

Provifions If any Provifions flip out of the Slings, or are otherdamaged thro' wife damaged, or loft, by Malice or Carelesness of the Carelefness to be paid for. Ship's Company, the Captain is to charge the Value against the Wages of the Offender, and give a Certificate to the Purfer, expreffing how the fame happened, with the Name of the Offender, and the Sum charged against him, that the Purfer may be allowed it on his Accounts.

ons to be re

XVI.

No Provifi- No Provifions, fent off for the Supply of His Majeffufed, till ty's Ships, fhall be refufed on Pretence of their being old and unfit for keeping; unless there fhall be reafonable Ground to object against any fuch Provifions, and in that case, the Captain or Commanding Officer

jurveyed.

fhall