of the Ship's Complement, thereby to prevent, as much as poffible, the purchafing Slops Abroad, or the Seamen fuffering for Want of them; And when any Slop Cloaths, or Bedding, are fent on board fuch Ship, one Parcel fhall be of fuch as have been viewed, and marked with the Navy-Office Seal; by which Pattern the Captain, with the Affiftance of the Mafter, Boatswain, and Purfer, is to compare the rest, so foon as they come on board, and to return back whatever Goods do not agree in Kind or Goodness with If not exami- the Sample. But if the Ship fails before the Examiprove inferior nation can be taken, he is not to iffue any inferior Goods to the Men, but to return them to the Contractor or his Agent when he comes into Port, unless made in the there fhall be an extraordinary Want of them; in which cafe, the faid Officers are to Rate them according to their best-Skill and Judgment, as well in Right to the Slopfeller, as to the Men, and to make Abatements in the Price, proportionable to what they are inferior to the Patterns.

ned, and any

in Goodness,

to be retur-
ned, or A-
batement

Price.

Seamen may

II.

If any Seaman shall be brought on board to ferve have Slops as His Majesty in Time of a Press, and he fhall be defar as a Month's Wa- ftitute of Neceffaries, the Captain may order him immediately to be supplied with Cloaths or Bedding, not exceeding one Month's Pay in Value.

ges, in Time
of Press.

III. None

III.

None are to receive a fecond Supply, until they May have Slops once in fhall have served full Two Months, and then not to two Months, above the Value of Ten Shillings, whether it be in as far as Ten Shillings VaSlops or Bedding, and fo in Proportion every Two lue. Months Ten Shillings more, if they fhall want Neceffaries, to the End of the Voyage.

:

IV.

Deck,

All Slop Cloaths, Dead Mens Cloaths, and Bedding, are to be iffued out to the Men publickly upon in the Presence of the Officers and Company. And as on the one Hand, the Captain is not to suffer any one to be supplied with them, who is not really in Want, fo is he to oblige those who are ragged, or in Want of Apparel or Bedding, to receive fuch Neceffaries as they want, not exceeding the aforegoing Regula

tion.

Slots to be ifjued out publickly.

V.

keep a Slop

The Captain is to take care to note upon his Mufter Captain to and Pay Books the Value of the Cloaths or Bedding Book. every Man fhall have been fupplied with; and likewife to keep a separate Slop Book, according to the Form in Page (170, 171, 172.) and before the Payment of the Ship, or on his Removal, he is to fend the faid Book to the Comptroller of the Navy, figned under his own Hand, and alfo by the Mafter, Boatfwain, and Purfer, or any Two of them.

Value of Slops
to be noted on
Seamens
Tickets.

VI.

Upon the Discharge of any Man by Ticket, the Captain is to take care, that there be noted on the Ticket, in Words, the Value of the Cloaths he has been fupplied with.

VII.

Captain to In cafe the Neceffities of the Men fhall require the procure Slops in Foreign buying of Cloaths in Foreign Parts, the Captain is to Parts, if ne- fee that they be as near the Kinds used in the Navy as cesary. poffible, and that moderate Rates be fet upon them. He is to fend, by the first Opportunity, an Invoyce of the faid Goods, with the Prices, to the Navy-Board, and to charge them distinctly in his Books, as he does the other Slops, under the Head of the Perfon fupplying them.

Contractors to allow Twelve

Pound for

VIII.

Contractors for Slops are to allow to the Purfer Twelve Pence in the Pound, for his Pains in keeping Pence in the and iffuing out their Cloaths, and managing their Accounts. But if any Difference arifes between them, the Contractors are at Liberty to intruft their Goods to the Charge of the Mafter, or any other Officer of the Ship.

keeping the Slops.

Person who

keeps the Slops

to be account

able to the Contractors.

IX.

The Purfer, or other Officer intrufted, fhall enter into Bond to the Contractors for the faithful Discharge of his Trust, and at the End of the Voyage, and be

fore

fore the Payment of the Ship, to render them a just Account of the Goods committed to his Charge; and he is not to receive the Payment of his Wages, without Certificates from them, of their having no Claims upon him.

X.:

to be deman

Bedding being furnished by His Majefty, the Cap- No more Beds tain muft demand no more Beds than he forefees will ded than are probably be iffued, and take care that thofe, which necessary. are fent on board, be anfwerable in Goodness and Dimensions to the Contract. If any remain unfold at the End of the Voyage, the Purfer is to deliver them into the Charge of the Store-keeper of the Yard, where the Ship is laid up.

XI.

When any one dies aboard, his Cloaths and other Effects in the Ship may be fold by Auction, and the Produce thereof charged against the Names of the Buyers on the Mufter and Pay Books, and a distinct Account kept of the fame in the Slop Book, expreffing the Perfon's Name that died; the Particulars of the Effects; the Rates they were fold at ; and the Buyers Names, with their Numbers on the Books; to the End that the Paymaster may deduct and detain the Money, for the Ufe of the Executors or Administrators of the Deceased. The Purfer is to be allowed Twelve Pence in the Pound for his Pains, who is to give the Executors or Administrators of the Deceased a particular

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Dead Mens be

Cloaths may

fold.

Seamen to be

cular Account of the Cloaths fold, and to whom, &c. in order to its being examined and certified from the Pay Books, for Payment.

XII.

No Seamen fhall be permitted to bid for Dead Ofrejtrained in ficers Cloaths that are above their Wear, or be fufferpurchafing Dead Offed to bid for any Effects beyond their real Value, accers Cloaths. cording to the Judgment of the Mafter and Purser, who shall be prefent; nor to purchase more than the Wages due to them can answer, agreeable to the Allowance of Slop Cloaths.

On Death,

&c. of a Purfer, Slops to

and delivered

ceffor.

XIII.

Upon the Death or Removal of a Purfer, a Survey is to be taken, by the fame Officers who furvey the be furveyed, Provifions and Stores, of the Slops, Dead Mens to the Suc- Cloaths, and Bedding that remained in his Hands, which are to be delivered over to the fucceeding Purfer by Inventory, in which are to be distinguished fuch as are damaged and unserviceable, and a Copy entered in the Slop Book, figned by the Officers employed in the Survey

Of