Regulations & Instructions - 1808


 
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Regulations & Instructions - 1808

Relating to His majesty's service at sea.

Appendix No. 23

A List of Papers required to pass a Captain's Accounts

  • Two Log-books.
  • Remarks on Coasts, Roads, &c. or a certificate none were made; signed by Captain and Master.
  • Muster-books to be sent to the Commissioners of the Navy, at the expiration of every two months.
  • Slop-book, issues totalled, invoice account of DD men's: clothes.
  • Tickets, dead and remove, to be transmitted with the Muster-books.
  • Sick-book.
  • Copy of Commission.
  • Receipt for a complete-book left with Successor.
  • Gunner - Expenses, supplies and returns ; orders and report of surveys.
  • Boatswain - Expenses, supplies and returns ; orders and report of surveys.
  • Carpenter's - Expenses, supplies and returns ; orders and report of surveys.
  • Certificate of no backstays shifted or top-masts lost.
  • Do. no Survey-book supplied.
  • Account of receipt and expenses, muster-paper, and tickets.
  • Vouchers for stores purchased.
  • Sailing qualities of the vessel, if paid of.
  • General account of provisions received and returned, as per form delivered from the Victualling Office.
  • Quarterly accounts to be sent to Commissioners of Victualling.
  • Certificate of the quantity of wine and spirits issued, if on home station.
  • Ditto of complement and title page.
  • Ditto from Purser to Captain.
  • Orders and report of surveys on provisions.
  • Vouchers for savings by ship's company, and of provisions purchased.
  • An account of, or certificate of not, any cask shaken.
  • Letters to the Commissioners of Navy, Victualling, and Sick and Hurt, to grant certificates of no imprest outstanding.