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 178 C, 10. Anno tricefimo primo Georgii II.'- A. D. 1757, nic!c Place of ('dwc to be conftantly kept up and renewed, (o that they may be at all Times acceAible to the inferior Ofil* the Ship; ccrs and Seamen on Board of fuch Ship or Veffel ; and every fuch Captain or Commander ihal! caufe fuch and to be rend to Abftraft CO be audibly and diftin£lly read over once in every Month, in the Prefence of the Officers and the Ship'- Com- geamen of fuch Ship or Vefiel, immediately after the Articles of War are read j and the Reading both of ArIdes'on« the Articles of War, and of this Abftradt, and the Days when read, fliall be attclled by the Captain or a MonTh ; " Commander, and the ufual figning Officers, of fuch Ship or Veffel, at the Foot of the Mufter Books for fuch rfwhch, 'proper Ship or VciTel, before they are tranfmitted to the Comm.iffioners of the Navy : And the faid Commiffioncrs Attcibtion is to g^e hereby charged and diredUd Itriilly to inquire whether the Directions hereby given for hanging up and orfeitures and Punifhments he is liable to for any Neglec^^ or Difobedience, and likewife the Encourage- lents and Benefits to which he is intitled by a due and faithful Performance of his Duty ; and that, upon .^corrpiKQ fufl-erii-jg any Oppreflion or Injury in fuch Service, he may be the better enabled to lay his Complaint before the Er.dfliat the Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, or the CommifTioners for executing the Office of Lord High Ad- be rpade at the affixing the faid Abflra6l and Articles of War, and for the Readin* of the fame, as aforefaid, have been j^'^^^^j Bwks ^"^y oS'°''ved by the Captain or Commander of fuch Ship or Veflel, and not to grant to fuch Captain or ConiT^iffioners Commander his general Certificate, until they are fully fatisfied thereof; to the End and Intent that every of the Navy to Seaman employed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain may, at oiie and the fame Time, hear and^know the inqu'.rf whether pi —.- thefe D'ref^ions .^, 1 J me are corrphfd vith ; to the End fliat Seamen may mxz oi Great Britain, who are hereby refpe6tively charged and direcSled, upon any fuch Complaint being both know their j^jj^ ftriftly to enquire into the Circum.ftances of the fame, and to grant immediate Redrefs therein, if fuch Rrht' aid how Complaint fhall be juftly founded ; and to take fpecial and conftant Care that this A61, and all .the Provi- to lekRedrefs^ fions and Regulations therein, be fully complied with, and pundually carried into Execution. for Injuries, Form of the XXXIV. And be it further enadted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Ab{lra£l herein before diredcd, ALftraft. f}jall be in the following Words j that is to fay. ABSTRACT of an A(£l of Parliament made in the thirty-firfl Year of the Reign of King George I. |T VERY Volunteer entering his Name with a Commiffion Officer, appointed for entering Vol un- j teers on Board any Ship in the Royal Navy, fhall receive a Certificate thereof gratis, and be in- titled to Wages from the Date of fuch Certificate, including the Day of the Date thereof, in cafe he ap- pears on Board within fourteen Days, if the Place where he enters is not above one hundred Miles from the Ship J within twenty Days, if above one hundred Miles j or within thirty Days, if above two hundred Miles ; and (hall be allowed the ufual Conduct Money, and alfo two Months Wages Advance, at the firfl fitting out of the Ship, and before the Ship proceeds to Sea. 2. Every fupernumerary Man ferving ten Days in any Ship, {hall be borne for and intitled to his Wa- fes upon the Books of fuch Ship, and to all other Benefits, as if he was Part of the Complement of fuch hip ; but Men lent from one Ship into another, fhall continue to be borne for and intitled to their Wages upon the Books of the Ship from which they were lent, until they fhall be regularly difcharged from thence, and in no other. 3. Every inferior Officer or Seaman, who fliall be turned over from one Ship to another fin cafe the Ship into which he is turned over, is then or fhall come into a Port of Great Britain where there is a Commif- fiont-r of the Navy) fhall be paid, by proper Pay Jyifls, all the Wages due to him in the Ship from which he was fo turned over, before the Ship into which he fliall be turned over proceeds to Sea, unlefs it fhall be otherwife dircdted by Special Order from the Admiralty, in Cafes of the greatcfi: Exigency only ; and if the Ship, in purfuance of fuch Order, proceeds to Sea before fuch Payment can poffibly be made, the Wa- ges fhall be paid as foon as fuch Ship fhall come again into any Port of Great Britain where there is a Com- miflioner of the Navy. 4. Every Officer or Seaman who fhall be turned over from one Ship to another, fhall not ferve or be rated in a wcrfe Qiiality, or lower Degree, than he fcrved in or was rated for in the former Ship ; and fhall have an Advance of two Months Wages before the Ship into which he is turned over proceeds to Sea, in cafe he fliall not have received !uch Advance before. 5. Such Sums of Money fhall in the firft Place be appropriated, and fhall, from time to time, be ifTued and applied out of the Supplies granted, or to be granted, for any Naval Services, as fhall be fuf^icient for the regular Payment of all Tickets made out purfuant to the Acf, and for the regular Difcharge of all Wa- ges due, or to grow due, in Manner following ; that is to fay. As often as any Ship which fhall have been in Sea Pay twelve Months, or more, fhall be or arrive in any Port of Great Britain, or on the Coafl thereof, the Captain or Commander fliall immediately caufe five comjplete Pay Books to be made out, for all the Time fuch iiiiip fhall have been in Pay, except the lafl fix Months ; and fhall forthwith tranfmit, by the firfl fafc Opportunity, fuch Books, together with three Alphabets, and a Slop Book, to the Commiuioners of the Navy, at their Board : And as foon as fuch Ship fliall be or arrive in any Port of Great Britain where there is a Commiffioner of the Navy, the faid Commiffioncrs of the Navy fliall folicit the nccefTary Sums of Money, and fliall caufe immcdirtc Payment to be made of the Wages due, deducting the Advance Money, and all Defalcations ; leaving always fix A-Ionths Wages unpaid, and no more: And all the Wages due upon any Ship fliall be paid as foon as may be, or within two Months at farthefV, after the Arrival of fuch Ship in Port to be laid up. 6. 'Lhe Month fhall confifl of twenty-eight Days. 7. Upon Application to the CommifTioners of the Navy, at their Board, by any inferior Officer or Sea- nan who fhall then be in the Service, and was abfcnt at the Payment of the Ship to which he did belong, or