Act 31 Geo. II ch. 10 ;

3 Geo. III, ch. 16 ;

26 Geo. III. ch. 63 ;

32 Geo. III, ch. 33 ;

32 Geo. III, ch. 34 ;

32 Geo. III, ch. 67.

I. Every Volunteer who shall enter his name with any Officer appointed for entering Volunteers, shall be entitled to wages from the date of his entry, provided he shall appear on board his ship within fourteen days thereafter : If the ship shall be distant man than one hundred miles, he shall be allowed twenty days to join it, and thirty days if the distance exceeds two hundred miles; he shall likewise be entitled to the usual conduct money, and to two months advance wages at the first setting out of the ship, which shall be paid before it proceeds to sea ; and all Petty Officers, Seamen, and Marines, shall be entitled to the like advance of two months wages before the ship of which they are on board shall sail, in case they shall not have received the same before.

31 Geo. II, ch. 10.

II. Monies granted or to be granted by Parliament for the Service of the Navy, shall, in the first place, be applied for the regular payment of all tickets, and for the regular discharge of all wages due, or to grow due, in manner following; (that is to say), as often as any ship which shall have been in sea pay twelve calendar months, or more, shall be or arrive in any port of Great Britain, or on the coast thereof, the Captain or Commander shall immediately cause five complete Pay-books to be made out for all the time such ship shall have been in pay, except the last six months ; and shall forthwith transmit, by the first safe opportunity, such books, together with three Alphabets, and a Slop Book, to the Commissioners of the Navy at their Board; and as soon as such Ship shall be or arrive in any port of Great Britain, where there is a Commissioner of the Navy, the said Commissioner of the Navy shall immediately solict [sic] the necessary sums of money, and cause payment to be made of the wages due, deducting the advance money and all defalcations, and leaving always the wages due for the last six months, and for the time employed in preparing the books, unpaid, and no more ; and all the wages due upon any ship shall be paid as soon as may be, or within two months at farthest after the arrival of such ship in port to be laid up.

31 Geo. II, ch. 10.

32 Geo. III, ch, 34 ;

31 Geo. II, ch. 10 ;

III. If any Inferior Officer, Seaman, or Marine, who shall have been absent at the payment of his Ship upon leave, upon any detached service, from having been taken by the enemy, or cast away, shall make application for payment of his wage in person or through his Commander, to the Commissioners of the Navy at their Board, or to any Commissioner of the Navy at any port of Great Britain where any Commissioner of the

Navy may be and reside, such Commissioner or Commissioners shall cause the Ship's books, or extracts or list made from the same, to be sent to whichever of the above places the party may be, and the wages forthwith to be paid ; But if his ship shall not be paid, and he shall be left behind upon any detached service, when it proceeds to sea on foreign service, tickets, upon application from the captain of the ship on board of which he shall be ordered to serve, shall be made out from the Muster-books, but which shall not be payable until such ship shall come in course of payment, or until he shall be regularly discharged therefrom.-When the Pay-books are closed, tickets shall, upon application, be made out at the Navy Office to the Inferior Officers, Seamen, and Marines, who shall not have received their wages, and such ticket shall be paid in course once a month.

31 Geo. II, ch. 10 ;

32 Geo. III, ch. 33

31 Geo. II, ch. 10 ;

IV. Every Petty Officer, Seaman, or Marine, who shall be in any way discharged from any Ship, shall receive from his Captain or Commander, a certificate of his time and service, (blank copies of which certificates shall be issued to all Captains and Commanders, by the Commissioners of the Navy, when they shall demand the same) ; and no Inferior Officer, Seaman, or Marine, shall receive any wages, nor shall such wages be paid to his order, or to his power of attorney, or to his heirs or executors, unless such certificate be produced, or unless he shall be identified by a commissioned or warrant officer who belonged to the Ship at some part of the time of his service ; and if be shall have been taken by the enemy, or cast away, he shall not be paid his wages, unless he shall have appeared to have entered again on board of a King's Ship, in a reasonable time thereafter, or unless, in any of these cases, he shall shew a reasonable cause for not complying with such directions, that shall be admitted as such by the Commissioner comptrolling, and the Clerk of the Treasurer then paying ; and wages due to any person who shall be marked upon the Ship's Books to have run from the service, shall not be payable, unless such mark shall be taken off by order of the Commissioners of the Navy.

32 Geo. III, ch. 34.

32 Geo. III, ch. 67.

32 Geo. III. ch. 34.

V. Every Inferior Officer or Seaman who shall be turned over when at a port of Great Britain where a Commissioner of the Navy may be, shall be paid for the Ship from which be shall be so removed, before that into which he shall go proceeds to Sea, unless it shall be otherwise directed by special order from the Admiralty, in cases of the greatest exigency only, in which case the wages shall be paid as soon a such ship shall come again into any port in Great Britain where there shall be a Commissioner of the Navy.

31 Geo. II, ch. 10.

VI. When any Inferior Officer, Seaman, or Marine, shall be removed from one Ship to another while abroad, or at any place where no Commissioner of the Navy shall be and reside, he shall receive a remove-ticket for the time that he shall have served in the Ship from which he shall be turned over, which shall not be saleable or transferable, but for which he may receive payment by applying in person at any one of the Pay-offices in London, Portsmouth, Plymouth, or Chatham, provided he shall appear to have regularly entered, and to have been three times mustered in the Ship into which he was turned over, or appear upon the Books to have been regularly discharged therefrom.

32 Geo. III, ch. 33.

VII. If be shall be discharged from his ship unserviceable at home or abroad, or be sent sick into any hospital or sick quarters at home or abroad, he shall receive from his Captain or Commander s ticket in like manner ; and if, after being received into my such hospital or sick quarters, he shall be discharged unserviceable therefrom, he shall also receive from the Agent of such hospital a certificate of his discharge ; and upon presenting such ticket and discharge from such hospital, at any of the pay offices above-mentioned, together with certificate of his having received no wages for his services in his passage home, if he shall have come home in a packet or merchantman, he shall receive payment thereof, and shall be sent by the Commissioner to the nearest hospital, where he shall be received and victualled from the time of presenting his tickets till he be paid ; and if he shall be or arrive in any other part of Great Britain or Ireland, he shall present his tickets and certificates to any Collector of the Customs, Collector of the Excise, Receiver General of the Land Tax, or Clerk of the Check, who maybe or reside at that place; and the said Collector, Receiver, or Clerk of the Check, being satisfied as to his identity, shall forward the said tickets and certificates to the Commissioners of the Navy in London, who will return a bill for the amount of the wages due thereon, and which bill shall be payable by such Collector or Receiver, in the manner more particularly described in the ninth clause of this abstract ; and if any such remove tickets should unavoidably be lost or destroyed, the party shall receive payment upon the duplicate of the same which shall have been sent to the Navy Board by the Commander of the Ship for which it was made out ; and if both parts shall be so lost or destroyed, the party, or his heirs, shall be entitled to receive whatever should be due to them upon other tickets to be made out from the muster books, or upon the ship�s books, if the ship shall then be paid for the time. If the Petty Officer, Seaman. or Marine, who shall have been sent sick, as aforesaid, to any hospital or sick quarters, shall be discharged therefrom, to return to his ship, he shall leave his ticket with the agent ; but if he shall be discharged to go on board any other ship, he shall carry his ticket with him, but which shall not be payable until the ship into which he shall go shall come in course of payment, or until he shall be discharged therefrom ; and when such Petty Officers, Seamen, and Marines, shall be at any time sent sick on shore, the agent of the hospital, or sick quarters, shall make out a list containing their names and numbers at which they stood in the ship's books, to which he shall procure the signature of the Officer who conducted them on shore, and as soon afterwards as possible that of the Captain or Commander of the ship from which they were sent.

32 Geo. III, ch. 33.

VIII. When any Inferior Officer, Seaman or Marine, shall die on board of any ship in the service of His Majesty, a dead ticket shall be transmitted by the first opportunity to the Commissioners of the Navy for the wages due to such Officer. Seaman, or Marine, as also annexed thereto a list or bill for the value of the cloaths and effects (if any) which he may have left ; and the said Commissioners shall assign the same for payment within one month from the time from which they shall receive it, and upon application cause it to be delivered for the benefit of the heirs or executors of the party.

31 Geo. II, ch. 10, extended by

32 Geo. III, ch. 33.

IX. As often as any ship which shall not be in a port of Great Britain, or on the coast thereof, shall have twelve calendar months wages due, the Captain or Commander shall cause the names of all the Inferior Officers, Seamen, and Marines to be called over, and each to answer his name, and shall do the same at the end of every six months when twelve calendar months wages or more shall be due : and if any such Officer, Seaman, or Marine, shall then declare or deliver in writing the name and place of abode of his Wife, Father, Mother, Grandfather, Grandmother, Brother, or Sister, and desire that the whole or my part of his wages then due, except the wages due for the last six months, should be paid to any such relation by any Receiver-general of the Land Tax, of the Customs, Collector of the Excise, or Clerk of the Check in Great Britain, or by any Revenue Officer in Ireland, the Captain or Commander is strictly required to cause four lists to be made out of the persons so desiring to make such remittances, and shall transmit such lists by the first safe opportunity, without delay, to the Commissioners of the Navy at their Board; who, on Receipt thereof, shall immediately make out two bills, if payment is required to be made in Great Britain, or two certificates if to be made in Ireland, for the payment of the wages so allotted by each person, one of which bills or certificates shall be sent to the persons respectively, specified in such lists, and the other to such Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Check, or Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland ; and if the person to whom any such bill is sent shall, within six months from the date thereof, produce and deliver the same to such Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Check, together with a certificate that such person is the Wife. Father. Mother, Grandfather, Grandmother, Brother, or Sister, as the case may be, of such Officer, Seaman, or Marine respectively, under the Hand of the Minister and Church-wardens, or in Scotland of the minister and two elders of the parish where such person was married or resides, such Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Check, upon being satisfied of the truth of such certificate by examining the party upon oath or otherwise, is immediately, without fee or reward, to pay the cum mentioned in such bill, taking s receipt ; and such bill or such certificate, together with the duplicate thereof : being produced at the Navy Office, shall be immediately assigned for payment by the Commissioners of the Navy, and repaid by the Treasurer of the Navy to such Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Cheek, or to the Commissioners the Revenue in Ireland, or their order respectively ; but if payment of the said bill be not demanded of such Receiver, Collector, or Clark of the Check, and the duplicate of the said bill, together with a proper certificate, be not produced and delivered to them respectively within six moths from the date thereof, the bill or certificate is to be returned and cancelled, and the sum contained therein is to become payable to such Inferior Officer, Seaman, or Marine when the ship shall be paid.

31 Geo. II, ch. 10, extended by

32 Geo. III, ch. 33, and by 32 Geo. III, ch. 67.

X. In like manner when wages shall be due to Inferior Officers, Seamen, or Marines, who shall have been discharged unserviceable, or to the heirs or executors of Inferior Officers, Seamen, or Marines, or to those who shall administer as their principal creditors, and who, in either case shall not be in London, or at any of the out-ports where Seamen's wages are paid creditors paid; or when wages shall be paid at the Pay Office, or at any of the out-ports, and any Inferior Officer, Seaman, or Marine, shall be desirous to remit the whole or part of his wages to himself, his Wife, Children, or Parents, or to any other person, and to have s bill or certificate for the same drawn upon any such Receiver-General, Collector, or Clerk of the Check, or Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland, then, and in each of these cases, two bills or two certificates are to be made out, one of which is to be delivered to such Officer, Seaman, or Marine, or sent or delivered to such heir, executor, or creditor ; and the other to be sent to such Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Check, or to the Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland, who shall pay or use to be paid immediately the sum therein mentioned, without any fee on reward, and who shall be repaid by the Treasurer of the Navy, and shall return the bill, if unpaid after six months, in the manner directed by the former clause.

31 Geo. II, ch. 10, extended to Marines by

32 Geo. III, ch. 33, and to heirs and creditors by 32 Geo. III, ch. 34, and to Ireland by 32 Geo. III, ch. 67.

XI. If any Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Check shall not have in his hands money to answer any bill or certificates tendered by the party in whose favour the same is made out, and shall refuse or delay the immediate payment thereof, he is to indorse on such bill or such certificate the cause of his refusal or delay, and appoint for payment some day within one month after such tender ; and if upon complaint to the Commissioners respectively appointed to manage the Land Tax, Customs, or Excise, or to the Commissioners of the Navy, or the Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland, respectively, it shall appear that any such Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Check hath unnecessarily and wilfully refused or delayed payment, or that he, or any person employed by or under him, hath taken any fee, reward, gratuity, discount or deduction on account of payment of any such. bill or such certificate, such Commissioners may fine such offender in any sum not exceeding fifty pounds.

31 Geo. II, ch. 10, extended to Marines by

32 Geo. III, ch. 33, and to heirs and creditors by 32 Geo. III, ch. 34.

XII. Every Officer or Seaman who shall be turned over from one ship to another, shall not serve or be rated in a worse quality or lower degree than he served in or was rated for in the former ship.

31 Geo. II, ch. 10.

XIII. Every supernumerary man serving ten days in any ship shall be borne for and entitled to his wages upon the books of such ship, and to all other benefits, as if be was part of the complement of such ship ; but men lent from one ship to another shall continue to be borne for and entitled to their wages upon the books of the Ship from which they were lent, until they shall be regularly discharged from thence, and in no other.

Ditto.

XIV. Any Inferior Officer, Seaman, or Marine, who shall be desirous to execute a will or a power of attorney, and shall at that time belong to any ship, must execute the same on board of such ship, unless he should be at sick quarters.

26 Geo. III, ch. 63, extended to Marines by 32 Geo. III, ch. 34.

lf made on board, it must be attested by the Commanding Officer, and one other Signing Officer belonging to the ship, and must specify the number at which the maker stands rated upon the ship�s books ; if at sick quarters, it must be attested by the agent, and must specify his number.

Ditto.

If he shall have been discharged the service, and shall be within the bills of mortality of the cities of London and Westminster, his will or power must be attested before the Inspector or his Assistant at the Navy Pay Office in London.

Ditto.

If he shall be at Portsmouth, Plymouth, or Chatham, or within seven miles of either of these places, his power must be attested by a Clerk of the Treasurer of the Navy at such place.

32 Geo. III, ch. 34.

If he shall be in any other place in Great Britain or Ireland, his will or power of attorney must be attested by the minister and two churchwardens, or two elders of the parish where he shall be at the time of executing the same

26 Geo. III, ch. 63.

All wills and powers of attorney made by inferior Officers, Seamen, or Marines, must contain the full description of the residence, profession or business of the person who shall be therein appointed attorney or executor, and also the name of the ship to which such Officers, Seamen, or Marines last belonged; and if made on board, or at sick quarters the number at which their names stood on their respective Ship's Books ; every letter of attorney must be declared in the body thereof to be revocable.

26 Geo. III, ch. 63.

A certificate of discharge must be produced to whoever shall attest any will or power of attorney made on shore by inferior Officers, Seamen, or Marines, and forwarded to the Inspector with such will or power, or a reason must be given for the same not being produced, which shall be noted on the back of the will or power, and must be admitted as satisfactory at the Pay Office before a check can be issued.

32 Geo. III, ch. 34.

All powers of attorney and wills made by Inferior Officers, Seamen, and Marines, must be delivered to those who attest them, who are directed to forward them immediately to the Treasurer, or to the Paymaster of the Navy at the Pay Office in London, to be there kept as vouchers ; and as soon as they are ascertained to be authentic, by investigation to be made at such office (for which purpose the Inspector shall have free access to all Pay and Muster Books of Ships, and to all Hospital Returns), checks in lieu of the same will be issued to the parties named as attornies or executors, that shall be to them the same as the original powers of attorney and wills. All wills and powers of attorney, made by Inferior Officers or Seamen, prior to the first day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, or by Marina prior to the first day of August one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two. must be sent to the Navy Pay Office in London, where they must be examined and approved of, and stamped by the Inspector before any payment of wages or other allowances, can be made upon them.

26 Geo. III, ch. 63. extended to Marines by 32 Geo. III, ch. 34.

XV. Inferior Officers, Seamen, or Marines, may grant orders instead of powers of attorney, in cases where the wages due and payable to them for their services do not exceed seven pounds, but which orders must be witnessed by the Commander, or by a signing Officer or Lieutenant on board of the Ship where such service was performed, and the same, accompanied by a certificate from such Officer, must be submitted for inspection at the Pay Office in London, where (if found just) it will be stamped for payment.

Ditto.

XVI. All Lieutenants are directed to sign their names upon some page of every Muster-book, in order that their signatures my be known to the Inspector at the Navy Pay Office ; all Captains or Commanders are directed to specify on every such Muster-book which of the men have granted wills or powers since the preceding return.

And all Officers in the Navy, and other Officers under Government, are directed to grant the certificates, attest the vouchers, and act in other respects as shall be necessary on their part to fulfil the intent and meaning of the respective instructions and requisitions set forth and made in this abstract.

32 Geo. III, ch. 34.

26 Geo. III, ch. 63.

32 Geo. III, ch. 34.

32 Geo. III, ch. 67.

XVII. All wills, letters of attorney, and orders, other than made agreeable to the aforesaid directions, made by Inferior Officers, Seamen, or Marines, and all bargains, bill. of sale, and assignments concerning the wages or allowances of money due, growing or to grow due to any Inferior Officer, Seaman or Marine, shall be null and void. Assignments made by Commissioned and Warrant Officers shall be good and valid, provided they shall be made general, and for a certain specified sum ; and the Treasurer of the Navy, or Persons paying for him, shall pay all wages or other allowances due to such Officers upon such assignments, until the sum specified in the same shall be duly satisfied ; and in cases where more than one assignment shall be produced, the Treasurer, or persons paying for him, shall pay upon them and satisfy them according to the priority of their dates, but he or they so paying shall take no notice whatever of any assignment made by any Officer, unless the same shall be exhibited and be accompanied with the necessary certificates and papers, at the time when payment shall be demanded to be made thereon: and the said Treasurer, or persons paying for him, shall not take notice of any power of attorney, or any check of any power, unless such power or checks shall be presented at the time of payment ; and if two or more powers or checks shall be presented at the same time, Payment shall be made to that which bears the latest date.

26 Geo. III, ch. 63.

31 Geo. III, ch. 10.

32 Geo. III, ch. 33.

XVIII. British Governors, Ministers, and Consuls, residing at foreign parts, or, where no such are present, any two British Merchants are required to provide for seafaring men and boys, subjects of Great Britain, who by shipwreck, capture, or other unavoidable accident, shall be in foreign parts, or who shall be discharged there as unserviceable from the Royal Navy, and subsist them at nine-pence per diem each, and send them home as soon as conveniently may be, in any Ship belonging to the Royal Navy, or in any Merchant Ship .

32 Geo. III, ch. 33.

XIX. Masters of Ships shall be allowed nine-pence per diem for all such men and boys as shall exceed their complement.

32 Geo. III, ch. 33.

XX. Inferior Officers, Seamen, or Marines, shall not be taken out of the service for any debt, unless such debt shall have been contracted before they entered the Navy, and shall exceed twenty pounds.

Ditto

XXI. But Creditors may file a common appearance so as to entitle them to proceed to judgement and outlawry, and to have an execution thereon, except against the bodies of each Seamen.

Ditto

XXII. Receivers of Seamen's wages taking more than sixpence in the pound shall, for every offence, forfeit fifty pounds ; and if any such Offender shall be a Clerk, Officer, or Servant in an Office belonging to the Navy, he shall lose his place, and be incapable of holding any place of profit in such office.

31 Geo. II, ch. 10.

XXIII. Clerks, Officers and Servants in Offices belonging to the Navy, taking fees (not allowed by the Acts of which this is an Abstract) for doing any thing directed by the said Acts, shall be subject to the same forfeitures.

32 Geo. III, ch. 67.

XXIV. Captains or Commanders of Ships are to transmit, from time to time, to the Commissioners of the Navy at their Board, complete pay-book., lists, and tickets, and also, once in every two months, complete muster-books, under the penalty of forefeiting all their Wages to the chest at Chatham, and of being liable to such further punishment as a Court Martial shall inflict, except in cases of necessity, to be made appear to the satisfaction of the Lord High Admiral, or Commissioners of the Admiralty.

31 Geo. II, ch. 10.

XXV. The payment of tickets, certificates, or pay lists, shall not be delayed, though the muster or pay books be not regularly sent to, and received by, the Commissioners of the Navy ; but if any error shall be made in any ticket, certificate, or pay list, the loss shall be made good out of the wages of the Captain or Commander by whom such ticket, certificate, or pay list, was made out.

31 Geo. III, ch. 10.

32 Geo. III, ch. 76.

XXVI. Captains and Commanders who shall sail from any foreign station, before an opportunity offers of transmitting home their muster-books, lists, and tickets, shall leave them with the Naval Officer, or some respectable Merchant or other person, to be forwarded by the first opportunity.

32 Geo. III, ch. 34.

XXVII. Captains removed from any Ship in his Majesty's Service shall leave with his successor complete muster-books, signed by himself and the proper officers, to the date of his removal, and shall receive a receipt for the same ; and the Commissioners of the Navy shall not sign his general certificate unless such receipt be produced, or unless it be made appear that the directions herein given were complied with, as for as the nature of the service would admit.

Ditto.

XXVIII. Wages, &c. earned by an apprentice shall be paid to his master as usual, if such master shall produce the indentures at the pay table when the wages are demanded, unless such apprentice shall have been above eighteen years of age when he was indented, in which case be may receive payment of the same himself, or unless he shall be rated as a servant to an Officer, in which case his wages shall be paid to such Officer according to the usual practice of the Navy, unless such Officer shall have been informed of such apprenticeship by the indentures having been exhibited to him.

31 Geo. II, ch. 10, altered by 32 Geo. III, ch. 33.

XXIX. All months to which this Abstract of the Naval Acts relates, shall be counted and reckoned calendar months, excepting in computing the wages due to Officers, Seamen, and Marines, when each month shall consist of twenty-eight days only.

32 Geo. III, ch. 34.

XXX. Captains or Commanders issuing any tickets, other than such as are directed by the different Acts, of which this is an abstract, shall be subject to a penalty of fifty pounds for every ticket, and shall forfeit all their wages to the Chest at Chatham.

31 Geo. III, ch. 10.

XXXI. Those who claim the wages of any Inferior Officers, Seaman, or Marine, as executors, as soon as they shall be informed of the testator's death, must forward the authorities under which they so claim by the General Post, addressed to the Treasurer or to the .Paymaster of the Navy, London.- Those who claim as nearest of kin must also write, when they shall be informed of the death of their relation, by the General Post, to the Treasurer or to the Paymaster, stating their pretensions to the wages which may remain due ; and those who shall be entitled to claim as creditors must apply in like manner, and at the same time state in writing the nature and amount of their demand ; a proof must also be produced in each of these cases of the Inferior Officer, Seaman, or Marine's death ; if he shall have died after having left the service, the business will then be properly investigated, at the Navy Pay Office ; and if the claim be found just, the necessary expenses of administrating at Doctors Commons (which are limited as per clause thirty-second of this Abstract) will be defrayed, and the balance will be directed to be paid to the executor or administrator, if present, and, if absent, by a remittance Bill to be made out in the manner herein-before prescribed in the tenth clause of this Abstract, and which shall be payable wherever he may reside, without any fee, reward, or deduction whatever.

26 Geo. III, ch. 63,

32 Geo. III, ch. 34,

Pensions due to out-pensioners of Greenwich Hospital shall be paid by bill in like manner, in any part of Great Britain or Ireland, upon application being made by the party in writing to the Governors of the said hospital.

3 Geo. III, ch. 16, and extended to Ireland by 32 Geo. III, ch. 67.

Those who shall be named as executors in wills, or who shall be entitled to administer as widow, next of kin, or creditor, to inferior Officers, Seamen, or Marines, may receive the wages which shall be due, without incurring the expense of taking out letters of administration, in cases where such wages and other allowances do not exceed ten-pounds, provided the justness of their respective claims shall be satisfactorily ascertained at the Pay Office; and the said wages, &c. shall be remitted in like manner, if required, to any part of Great Britain or Ireland..

32 Geo. III, ch. 34,

XXXII. Registers of Proctors in Doctors Commons, taking more than the sums allowed by the act to be charged in the different events therein specified, shall forfeit the sum of fifty pounds ; and any Register or Proctor, aiding or assisting in procuring probates or administrations, otherwise than in the manner prescribed by the act, shall for ever be rendered incapable of acting in any Ecclesiastical Court in Great Britain, and shall, for every offence, forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds.

32 Geo. III, ch. 34,

XXXIII. Whoever willingly and knowingly shall personate, or falsely assume the name or character of, or procure any other to personate, or falsely to assume the name or character of, any Officer, Seaman, or other person entitled to wages, pay, allowances, or prize money, for service done on board of any ship of the Royal Navy ; or the executor, administrator, wife, relation, or creditor of any such Officer, Seaman, or other person, in order to receive any wages, pay, allowances, or prize money ; or shall forge or counterfeit, or procure to .be forged or counterfeited, any letter of attorney, or other power of authority whatsoever, in order to receive any wages, pay, allowances, or prize money, or shall willingly and knowingly take a false oath, or procure a false oath to be taken, to obtain the probate of a will or letters of administration, in order to receive any wages, pay, allowances, or prize money, shall be guilty of felony, and suffer death ; and whoever knowingly shall forge or counterfeit any certificate of discharge, or certificate of servitude, in order to entitle them to recover their own wages, or assist in doing, shall be punished as in cases of perjury.

31 Geo. III, ch. 10.

32 Geo. III, ch. 33.

32 Geo. III, ch. 34.

32 Geo. III, ch. 67.

32 Geo. III, ch. 34.

XXXIV. The tickets, certificates, pay lists, bills, and duplicates herein mentioned, shall be sufficient Vouchers to the Treasurer of the Navy for the payments made thereon.

XXXV. Every part of the complement on board any of His Majesty's ships is included under the denomination. of Inferior or Petty Officers and Seamen, Non-commissioned Officers of Marines, and Marines, except those who shall be rated as follows: Admirals or Flag Officers and their Secretaries, Captains, Lieutenants, Masters, Second Masters, and Pilots, Physicians, Surgeons, Chaplains, Boatswains, Gunners, Carpenters, Pursers, Captains of Marines, Captains Lieutenants of Marines, Lieutenants of Marines, and Quarter Masters of Marines.

32 Geo. III, ch. 34.

XXXVI. Copies of this abstract shall be transmitted to the principal Offers and Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy, to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen, to the Commissioners of the Excise and Customs in England and Scotland, to the Receivers General of the Land Tax, to the Registers and Deputy Registers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, to the Clerks of the Check of His Majesty's Dock Yards, to the Governors and Agents of the Royal Hospitals, to the Commanding Officers of the several Divisions of Marines, and to the Minister of every parish in Great Britain, who are directed to hang up and affix the same in some conspicuous part of their several Offices or Parishes, and to promulgate the same as much as may be in their respective departments. A copy of this abstract, together with the articles of war, shall also be kept hung up in the most Public place of every ship of the Royal Navy, that it may be accessible to all inferior Officers and Seamen, Non.-commissioned Officers of Marines, and Marines ; and every Captain and Commander shall cause the same to be read over once in every month, after the articles of war are read, and the reading of the same shall be attested by the Captain or Commander and signing Officers at the foot of the muster books ; to the end that every Seaman in the Royal Navy may know the punishments he is liable to for any neglect or disobedience, and the encouragement he is entitled to by the performance of his duty, and that upon suffering any injury he may be enabled to lay his complaint before the Lord High Admiral or the Commissioners of the Admiralty, who are directed to inquire into the same, and to grant redress if such complaint be justly founded, and to take especial care that this and the other acts, of which this is an abstract, be punctually carried into execution.

32 Geo. III, ch. 67.