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 17 2 C. 10, / Anno tricefimo primo G e o r g 1 1 II. A. D. 1757. certified on the BjckottheB.il, the Money to be paiJ ; and ths Biilar^d Dupli- cate to be re- t limed to the Navy Bcani, and Tepaid by the Trealiirer. If the Dupii- care and Certi- f.tate be not tenier'd, &:. Avjthin 6 Mcnths, tVie Bill is to be re- t«rned ro the I'reafurer of the the fame on the Back thereof} which Bill fo paid, upon being produced and delivered, together with ,thc Duplicate thereof, at the Navy Olfice, ihall be immediately aliigned for Payment by three or more Com- milTioners of the Navy i and (hall be immediately repaid by the Treafurer of the Navy, to fuch Receiver General of the Land Tax, Colledor of the Cuftoms, CoUedtor of the Excife, Cleric of the Cheque, or to the Order of any fuch Receiver General, Collector of the Cuftoms, Colle6lor of the Excife, or Clerk of the Cheque refpectively : But in cafe the Duplicate of fuch Bill fhall not be produced and delivered, and the Payment thereof be demanded, within fix Calendar Months from the Date thereof, or if a proper Cer- tificate of the Perfon claiming to be the Wife, Father or Mother of fuch Officer or Seaman, be not like- wife produced, then the faid Receiver General, Collector of the Cuftoms, Collector of the Excife or Clerk of the Cheque, fhal! return fuch Bill to the Treafurer of the Navy, at the Pay Office of the Navy, who fhall caufe fuch Bill to be immediately cancelled ; and from and after the cancelling thereof, the Sum con- tained in fuch Bill fhall accrue and become payable to fuch inferior Officer or Seaman for whofe Wages or Pay it was made out, or to his Executors or Adminiftrators, or to the refpe6tive Attorney or Attornies of fuch Officer or Seaman, his Executors or Adminiftrators, demanding the fame, and duly authorized as is herein after directed, without any Fee, Reward or Deduction whatfoever, when the Wages or Pay due up- on fuch Ship or Vefl'el fh:.li be paid, in the Manner prefcribed by this ACi. Navy and cancelled ; and the Money to be paid to the Seaman, &c. when the Ship is paid. XIV. And, for the better enabling inferior Officers and Seamen, upon Payment being made to them of . their Wages or Pay in the Manner hereby before diredled, to remit any Part thereof to their Wives, Chil- dren or Parents, or to fuch other Perfon as they fhall judge proper ; Be it further enabled by the Authority- Bills to be made aforefaid. That from and after the faid firft Day of Novcmbe?-, when and fo often as any Wages or Pay due o'.i:,&c. in like to fuch inferior Officer or Seaman fliall be paid at the Pay Office of the Navy, or at any of the Out Manner, if a Ports, in the Manner before prefcribed, if fuch Officer or Seaman fliall defire to receive a Bill for the Searr-an, at the -yyj^Qig^ qj. for any Part of his faid Wages or Pay, to be drawn upon the Receiver General of the Land Tax in'"his°P-'v*^fl)aU ^^or any County, Riding or City in Great Britain, or upon any Collector of the Cuftoms for any Port, or aefire to remit Collcctor of the Excifc for any Colledlion Great Britain, or upon the Clerk of the Cheque at any of any Part thereof his Majefty's Dock Yards ; then, and in fuch Cafe, two Bills, being Duplicates, and joined together with to his Wife, obliquc Lines, Flourifhes or Devices, as aforefaid, fhall be immediately made out, numbered and dated. Children, or Pa- ^^ ^^^^ Clerk of the Treafurer of the Navy, appointed to pay fuch Wages, and be figned, if made out at """" ^'^" the Pay Office of the Navy, by the Commiffioners of the Navy comptrolling the Payment when fuch Bills ihall be fo made out ; or if made out at any of the Out Ports, by the Commiffioner of the Navy comp- trolling fuch Payment there ; and fuch Bills fliall be attefted at the Foot thereof, by the firft Clerk of the Treafurer of the Navy at fuch Pay Office or Out Port ; and the faid Bills Ihall be made payable to fuch Perfon or Perfons only, and by fuch Receiver General, Collector of the Cuftoms, Collector of the Ex- cife or Clerk of the Cheque, as fhall then be named by fuch inferior Officer or Seaman, and inferted in fuch Bills i which fliall be written or printed according to the following Form : rentS; Sec. Form of the Bills. ^ her S producing and delivering the Duplicate I their J A. N°. L Day of SIR, pAYtoi5.C. of on hereof, the Sum of being on account of the Wages of D. E. Mariner, on Board of his Majefty's Ship the if the fame be demanded within fix Calendar Months from the Date hereof; otherwife you are to return this Bill to the Treafurer of the Navy at the Pay Office of th« Navy.' ^The Receiver General of the Land Tax for the County of Attefted 1 •1 F. G. Commif- fioner of the Navy. H. y. Clerk to the Treafurer of the Navy. The CollcSior I of the Cu- To fhms at the Port of The Colkaor of the Ex- cife at The Clerk of the Cheque "t By Virtue of the Aft of the Thirty-firft of George the Second. BUU to be cut ^j^j j-q ^qq^ ^g the faid Bill fhall be made out, affigned and attefted, the faid Commiffioner of the Nary fliall !nd'onrto'be ^"^"^*^ ^^em to be cut afunder, indcntwife through the oblique Lin«5, Flourifhes or Devices, and fliall caufe delivered to the Seaman, and the other to be remitted to the Ferfon on whom it is diaivn, one