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| Article I |
| HIS Majesty, in compassion to the distressed condition of the Widows, Orphans, and Mother; of such as may be slain in fight with the enemy at sea, has been graciously pleased to order, that certain sums of money shall be allowed and distributed to the said relations, as His Royal Bounty, according to the following regulations: |
His Majesty�s royal bounty to the widows orphans and mothers of such as may be slain in fight. |
| Article II |
| The allowance to the widow shall be a full year's pay, according to the post her husband served in at the time of his death. Widows of Pilots shall have the same allowance as the widows of Warrant Officers under the like circumstances. |
Widow�s allowance to be a full year�s pay. |
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| Article III |
| The allowance to each orphan shall be one third in proportion to the Allowance to the widow ; and posthumous children shall be esteemed as orphans. |
Each orphan�s allowance to be one third of the widow�s. |
| Article IV |
| No allowance shall be made to any orphan married at the time of the fathers death. |
No allowance to married orphans. |
| Article V |
| If the party slain shall have no widow, but leave a mother that is indigent, a widow, and above fifty years of age at the time that her son was slain, she shall be allowed bounty equal to a widow. |
When mothers shall be allowed bounty. |
| Article VI |
| The relations of Officers slain in Fire Ships shall receive the same bounty as those of Officers of the like rank, slain in Ships of the fourth rate. |
Relations of Officers in fire Ships to be entitled to the same bounty as of those in Ships of the fourth rate. |
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| Article VII |
| His Majesty's bounty shall be understood to extend as well to those who shall be slain in Tenders, or in Boats, or on shore, as to those slain on board the Ships, and also to such as shall be slain in fight with Pirates or Smugglers, or who shall happen to encounter with the Ships of friends by mistake ; and persons dying of their wounds after battle shall be esteemed as persons slain. |
How far His Majesty�s Bounty is to be understood to extend. |
| Article VIII |
| The Captain of His Majesty's Ships are strictly required to set down, at the end of the Muster-books, a distinct account of the Officers or men slain, and on what occasions; that upon application of the parties entitled to this bounty, the Navy Board may cause them to be paid, as the omission will be made an objection by the Navy Board to the Captain's receiving his pay ; and for the greater ease of the relations in obtaining the bounty, when any persons are slain, or die of wounds received in fight, not only the proper notation is to be made in the Ship's books, but the Surgeon, or in his absence the Surgeon's assistant of the Ship, is to fill up certificates thereof, as soon as possible, expressing therein the nature of the wounds; the said certificates are to be signed by three or more of the signing Officers of the Ship, whereof the Surgeon or his assistant is to be one, and transmitted to the Commissioners of the Navy by the first safe conveyance. |
Captains to set down in the muster books, an account of officers and men slain ; omission to be made an objection to the Captain receiving his pay.
Surgeon to fill up certificates expressing the wounds &c. to be signed by the signing Officers, and transmitted to the Commissioners of the Navy. |
