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| Article I |
| WHEN any Ship or Vessel belonging to an enemy is captured, or any ship or vessel belonging to a neutral power is detained on suspicion of her having the property of an enemy on board, her hatches are to be securely fastened and sealed, and her lading, furniture, and in general every thing on board, are to be carefully secured from embezzlement; and the officer having charge of such vessel is carefully to prevent any thing from being taken out of her, until she have been tried, and sentence passed on her in the Court of Admiralty. |
Directions respecting Vessels captured or detained. |
| Article II |
| The Captain is to cause the principal Officers of any Vessel he may detain, and such others of the crew as he shall think fit, to be examined as evidences; and he is to send to the Court of Admiralty all passports, customhouse clearances, log-books, and all other Ship's papers which shall be found on board, without suffering any of them to be on any pretence secreted or withheld. |
To cause the principal Officers of a detained Vessel to be examined as evidence.
To send all papers to the Court of Admiralty. |
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| Article III |
| 1f any Ship or Vessel shall be taken, acting as a Ship of War or Privateer, without having a Commission authorizing her so to do, her crew are to be considered as pirates, and are to be carefully confined until an opportunity shall offer of delivering them up, to be tried by the High Court of Admiralty. |
Crew of a vessel acting as a privateer without a commission to be considered as pirates. |
| Article IV |
| If any of His Majesty's subjects be found serving on board an Enemy's Ship of War or Privateer, they are to be closely confined until an opportunity shall offer for their being tried as traitors. The Captain is by the first opportunity to send an account of them to the Secretary of the Admiralty ; and he is to direct some of the Officers and men of the Ship, to take particular notice of every circumstance relating to them, that they may be able to give evidence against them. |
All subjects of His Majesty found serving on board an Enemy�s Ship of war to be closely confined and tried as traitors. |
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| Article V |
| When prisoners of war are put on shore, the Captain of the Ship from which they are sent is to deliver to the Commanding Officer present, to be by him transmitted to the Commissioners of Transports, a list containing their names; the name of the Vessel in which they were taken; the day they were first victualled on-board, and the day they are landed, according to the form (No. 42) He is also to deliver a similar list to the Agent for Prisoners, at the place where they are put on shore. |
How to proceed with regard to prisoners of war |
| Article VI |
| When prisoners of war are put on shore on any Foreign Station, the Commander in Chief is very frequently to order some officers of the Squadron to muster them, as well those on parole as those in prison ; and he is to check the list of Prisoners landed, in the Agent's accounts, by those delivered to him by the Captains of the Ships from which they were landed ; and he is to ascertain their agreeing with each other, before he authorizes the Agent to draw any bills on the Commissioners of Transports, to whom he is to transmit attested copies of the lists delivered to him by the Captains and of the returns of the officers by whom the prisoners shall have been mustered. |
When prisoners of war are put on Shore on any foreign station, how the Commander in Chief is to proceed. |
| Article VII |
| The Commander in chief on any Foreign station is to order the Surgeon of the Flag Ship, to visit very frequently the prisoners reported to be sick, to see that they are properly attended to, that no one is sent to the hospital who is not a proper subject for it, and that those who are sent are neither kept there after, nor discharged before they have been properly cured. |
Commander in chief to order the Surgeon of the flag Ship to visit the prisoners reported to be sick. |
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| Article VIII |
| Prisoners are to be victualled at two thirds of the quantity of provisions allowed to the Ship's company ; but when it may be necessary to require their assistance to work in navigating the Ship, at the pumps, or any other service, they are to be victualled at full allowance ; a certificate thereof, signed by the Captain, Master, and first Lieutenant, is to be given to the Purser, which he is to produce with his other accounts, when delivered into the Victualling Office. |
Prisoners to be victualled at two thirds of the allowance of the Ship�s company, except when employed. |
