And is also to cause them to be supplied, from time to time afterwards, with such further bedding, slop-clothes, dead men’s clothes, or tobacco, as the Commanding Marine Officers shall represent them to be in want of, not exceeding the value of four shillings a month : the same to be set off against their names on the muster-books and slop-book, as practised with regard to seamen.

If the Ship shall be at home,. and at or near either of the ports of Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, or Woolwich, at the time new clothing shall be due, (or as soon afterwards as the Ship shall arrive at or near either of those ports) the Captain is to make application for the same in writing to the Storekeeper at such port, transmitting therewith a separate list for the Marines of each division, according to the Form (No. 45), attested by himself and the Commanding Marine Officer, of the non-commission officers, drummers, private men and boys on board, to whom new clothing shall be due. Upon which application, and on the Captain's sending a boat on shore with a Marine Officer to receive the said clothing, the Storekeeper is to issue the same to such Marine Officer, who is to give a receipt for it at the foot of the aforesaid lists, when the said clothing is to be forthwith delivered to the marines, who are to give their officer a receipt for the same, agreeably to the Form, (No. 46) which the Captain of the Ship is to attest, and immediately transmit to the Navy Board.

If a Ship shall be in foreign parts, and any clothing shall be lodged with a Naval Officer or other persons, the like method is to be pursued in applying for and issuing what shall be due to marines on board such Ship with the addition of making duplicates of the specified lists and receipt, which are to be sent by different conveyances to the Navy Board.

Marines returning from foreign parts, and entitled to clothing, are to be supplied, in like manner, with a suit of clothing each : and if more than one clothing shall be due to them, they are, upon their being landed, to be allowed for every additional clothing that shall be so due ; to wit.

With regard to marines put sick on shore in Ireland, the northern parts of Great Britain, the Orkneys, or other distant parts, if their proper Ship is not in the way when they recover, they are to be received on board any other Ship that may come in the way, (whether short of her proper number of marines or not) and to be borne for wages and victuals, the Captain of such Ship and the Commanding Marine Officer on board taking care that their bedding, clothes, and necessaries, he brought on board with them : but if no Ship shall be in the way to receive such recovered marines, they are to be provided with a passage by sea, or be sent by land, and paid conduct-money after the rate of a penny a mile, or to be sent partly one way and partly the other, either to their proper head-quarters, or to the nearest marine head-quarters, as shall appear to the Agent for Sick and Hurt to be the most convenient and expeditious method, and the said Agent is to take particular care that such marines take alone with them, if they go by sea, their bedding, necessaries and clothes ; but if they travel by land, or go partly by sea and partly by land, then he is to send their bedding, necessaries and clothes by such conveyance as shall be most convenient, to the head quarters to which he shall send such marines : and the Agent is to note on their tickets of discharge what bedding, necessaries and clothes they take with them, and what they leave behind, and to deliver such tickets to the men themselves ; and he is also ; by the first post after their departure, to send duplicates of the said tickets to the Commissioners for Sick and Hurt, mentioning thereon when the men departed, and whither and in what manner they were to proceed ; which duplicates the said Commissioners are to cause to be transmitted to the Commanding Marine Officer at the headquarters, to which the marines should proceed ; and when the Agent dispatches away the things left behind by such marines, he is to inform the said Commissioners thereof ; and in what manner he sends them ; of which the Commanding Officer at the head-quarters they maybe consigned to is to be made acquainted by those Commissioners.