To keep the number complete ; not to proceed to sea with more than her complement.

If unfit to apply for a survey.

To send them back if to Contagious disease had made its appearance.

The number to be borne.

To be borne for Wages but not for Victuals.

No deduction to be made from their Wages.

To keep an account of the receipt and expenditure of paper, &c.

When two Men or more have the same names, they are to be distinguished by 1st, 2nd, 3rd, &c. The number under which a man is entered on the original Muster Book, is to be continued in all following Muster Books ; and if a Man be discharged, and be afterwards entered again, the number of the first entry is to be noted against the number of the second, and the number of the second entry against the number of the first.

On a separate List are to be entered the names of the Marines forming a part of the Ship's Company, with all the particulars relating to them, and on other separate lists, the volunteers or boys of the first class ; Boys of the second class ; Supernumeraries for wages ; Supernumeraries for victuals only, specifying whether at whole allowance, or at what other allowance, and by whose order they are borne. If either of the class of Boys is deficient, the Captain or Commander is not on any account to bear any additional number of Men on the Ships Books.

At the end of the Muster Book is to be inserted a list of all those who are slain in battle, and a list of Men who are marked, Run, within the time for which it is made out, in which he is to mention the time of their running ; whether they ran from the Ship, or from a Boat, or from sick quarters, or whether they had leave to be absent from the Ship, and for how long; he is also to mention whether they be deserving of pardon or relief, and his reason for whatever opinion he may give.

The Lieutenants of the Ship are to write their names on one of the pages of every Muster Book, that their signatures may be compared with any certificates said to be given by them.

To note such as have allotted half of their pay.

How men of the same name are to be distinguished.

Number to be continued in following Muster Books.

Marines to be entered on a separate List.

Other separate Lists to be kept.

List of Men Slain or Run to be inserted at the end of the Muster Book.

Lieutenants to write their name on a page of the Muster Book.

To be present himself at all Musters.

To note the time of any Man’s Death, Discharge or Desertion.

To cause a mark to be set against any Man’s Name who shall absent himself from his duty without leave, if absent three successive musters, to be marked as a runaway.

Three Pounds to be charged against his Wages.

Not to employ any of the Ship’s Company out of the Ship in private Service, &c.

How to act in cases of Desertion, or in discovering Deserters from other Ships.

He is to deliver to the Navy Board an account of the Tickets he has made out, with the numeral letter of each, the person for whom it was made out, &c. agreeably to the form (No. 16) and he is to return to the Navy Board the Tickets that remain, or his Successors receipt for them.

To deliver to Navy Board an account of Tickets made out, and to return those that remain.

Captain to deliver tickets or certificates to the parties themselves.

When sent for wounds received in action, what is to be inserted.

Exceptions.

Not to employ other Artificers than those of his own Ship or others belonging to His Majesty.

To be allowed the undermentioned daily pay.

How to be divided among the artificers.

How he is to dispose of these lists.

To enter the names of the Men hired on a separate list in the Muster Book.

To muster them every day, check those who are absent &c.

Three lists to be made out as in the preceding article.

These lists to be signed by all signing Officers.

To be certified by the Governor, or the Consul, or by two or three respectable Merchants.

To be disposed of as in the preceding article.

Three Accounts for all other Articles hired.

To be certified by the Governor, or the Consul, or by two or three respectable Merchants.

Such Accounts to be signed by all signing Officers.

To be disposed of as in the preceding article.

How he is to proceed in cases where it may be necessary to careen a Ship in the Port of a foreign Power.

To give certificates of the assistance he receives and receipts for Stores.

Copies to be sent to the Navy Board.

Stores not expended to be delivered to the proper Officer.

What such Vouchers are to contain.

Governor, Consul or Merchants to certify to the reasonableness of the charges ; and to exchange at the proper rate.

Signing Officers and Officers in charge of Stores to certify, that the Stores have been received, &c., &c.

Great caution to be observed in signing these certificates.

For all money which may be required to pay the expences incurred by the careening and repairing of a Ship, and the supplying her with the necessary Stores for Sea, the Captain (when there is no Naval Officer or other person appointed for such purpose) is to draw Bills on the Commissioners of the Navy according to the Form (No. 21) expressing in the body of them the particular service to which the money drawn for has been appropriated, and writing the sum in words at length. He is to draw these bills, and all others which he may at any time have occasion to draw on account of the Ship, on the most favourable terms for the public, bringing to account the full benefit of any exchange in its favour ; the rate of which or of the premium or discount thereon is to be noted on the bill. He is not to receive, directly or indirectly, any fee, reward, gratuity, or advantage of any kind whatever, in consequence of such bill being drawn. Under each bill he is to obtain from the Governor or His Majesty's Consul, or if there be no Consul, from two or three British merchants of the greatest consequence and repute, or if there be no British merchants, from two or three of the first and most respectable merchants of the country, a certificate that the bill is drawn at a rate of exchange as advantageous to the public as possible at the time of its being drawn ; and if any statement of the rate of exchange be published by authority, he is to send that published nearest to the time of his drawing the bills with each of the accounts or vouchers which, according to the preceding article, he is directed to send to the Commissioners of the Navy. He is not to draw bills for any other Ship but the one he commands, nor is any other Officer in his Ship to draw bills for Stores, Slops, or Provisions or to purchase the same. He is not to include, in bills drawn on the Navy Board, any charge for Stores which relate to the Victualling, to the sick and Wounded, or ordnance Boards, but to draw upon each respectively for what relates to its department. He is to give to every office as early notice as possible of the bill he draws upon it, with his reasons for drawing the same ; and he is to send with the bills, or as soon after as may be, accounts with vouchers as required by the preceding articles as, until such vouchers be received, the amount of the bills drawn will be charged as an imprest against his pay.

* This Article is not to authorise the Captain to purchase Provisions, or any Victualling Stores, but he is to direct the Purser to purchase all those Stores when necessary, agreeably to the 32nd Article of that Officer's Instructions.

Captain to draw Bills for all money required for careening and repairing his Ship, &c., on the Commissioners of the Navy.

Form to be observed.

To draw them on the most favourable terms for the public.

Premium or discount to be noted on the bill.

He is not to receive any fee, reward, or gratuity for such bills being drawn.

To obtain a Certificate from the Consul or Merchants that such bills are drawn at a rate of exchange as advantageous as possible to the public.

He is not to draw Bills for any Ship but the one he commands.

To draw on each department respectively.

To give early notice to each Board of the Bills he draws upon it.

To send with the Bills accounts and Vouchers.

To be careful that all the proper charges are made against the wages of the Ship’s company.

These Books &c. to be sent to the Commissioner of the Dock Yard or Commissioners of the Navy as early as possible.