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foreign Ships, wearing false Colours, in any of His Majesty’sPorts or Roads, and persisting in it, after Admonishment* areliable to Arrest.
The Duty , 8tc. of a Captain or Commander.
To visit the Ship he is appointed to command.
To fend Accounts weekly, or oftner, if necessary, to theAdmiralty and Navy-Offices, of the Progress made in fittingher out, and her Circumstances.
Not to ly out of the Ship without Leave, from the Admi-ralty, or his Commander in Chief.
To apply in Writing to the Commissioner of the Navy,when he cannot apply in Person.
To know the Qualities of his Ship.
To take Inventories of his Officers Stores.
To be present when the Stores come on Board, and hisClerk to take Account of all Stores and Provisions that comeon Board.
To be a Cheque on his Officers, and audit their Accounts.
To enter none but able Men, and not to exceed his Com-plement.
To keep a Muster-Book-
To be present at Musters, and assist the Clerk of the Cheque.
To demand a Muster-Book from the Clerk of the Cheque.
To Muster the Ship’s Company, once a Week, in Ports,and to do the fame at Sea, without Using any Fraud in hisMusters.
To fend Muster-Books, every two Months, to the Navy-Office.
To keep a Sick-Book.
To set down the Run Men, at the End of the Muster-Books.
To acquaint the Secretary of the Admiralty of such as runaway at Home.
In the Tickets he issues, he is not to discharge any Man,but for one of the following Reasons, viz- Death, Prefermentin some other of His Majesty’s Ships; Unfitnefs for Service ;Or by Order from the Admiralty, or his Commander inChief; To express the Cause on the Ticket; And to fend aList of them, every Month, to the Admiralty-Office.
To take Care of the Ship’s Stores, and suffer none to bemisapplied or wasted.
To make no Alteration in any Part of his Ship.
To keep (Sentinels constantly posted at the Scuttles leadinginto the Store-rooms.
Not to spare any Stores or Provisions, to any other of HisMajesty’s Ships, without evident Necessity, and Direction ofhis Commanding Officer.
To set up his Rigging at seasonable Times, and to be verycareful to favour his Masts.
Before any Rigging or Stores be cast, he is to order a regu-lar Survey thereof to be taken.
He is to take particular Care, that as well his Stores, asStore-Rooms, be frequently aired.
Not to misuse his Sails by making Awnings of them.
To fee his Ship kept clean, and the Air let into the Hold, asfrequently as may be.
To suffer all his Officers to have their proper Cabbins, andnot to make any Variation therein.
To take all possible Care of the Cables.
Not to suffer Tobacco to be smoaked any where but in theFore-castle.
To see that Fire and Candle be put out, at setting theWatch, and no Candle burnt after, but in Lanthorns, andwith his Leave.
Not to suffer any Person whatever to suttle, or sell Liquorsto the Ship’s Company.
Before the Ship proceeds to Sea, to examine and rate theShip's Company, impartially and without Favour ; As likewiseto make a Regulation for Quartering the Officers and Men,and distributing them to the Great Guns, Small Arms, Rigging,(Sc. And to discipline the Ship’s Company frequently, in theExercise of the Great Guns, and small Arms.
To inform the Secretary of the Admiralty of the Officersabsent, when the Ship is under Sailing Orders, with the Causeof their Absence.
To take Care of his Boats and Colours, and not to use thelatter unnecessarily.
To carry no Woman, nor foreign Officer, to Sea.
To convoy Merchant-Ships bound his Way.
To keep a Journal, according to a Form prescribed, and tofend a Copy of it, every fix Months, to the Secretary of theAdmiralty ; And, at the Expiration of the Voyage, to the Ad-miralty and Navy Offices.
To inform the Secretary of the Admiralty of his Proceed-ings, and the Condition of his Ship : And to correspond withthe proper Offices, in whatsoever respectively concerns them.
Not to go into any other Port, than such as his Orders directhim, unless by inevitable Necessity, and then to make no un-necessary Stay there.
In Anchoring, to be very careful in the Choice of a good andsafe Berth.
To permit Custom-house Officers to come on Board and vi-sit his Ship.
To demand English Seamen out of Foreign Ships.
To careen his Ship, in Foreign Parts, when there is an ab-solute Necessity ; But to do it with the best Husbandry.
Not to paint his Ship, or be at any unncessary Charge.
Not to hire Artificers, unnecessarily, for Refitting the Ship ;But, for the Encouragement of their own Men to make them theextraordinary Allowances prescribed, conforming themselves,however, to the Number limited-
When obliged to take up Mony abroad, to do it at the bestExchange.
To advise the proper Officers of what Bills he draw?, andfend home Accounts of his Disbursements.
To put all Stores bought abroad into the Hands of the pro-per Officers.
Upon the Death of any Officer, to leal up his Books and Pa-pers, as well Publick as Private, in the Presence, at least, oftwo signing Officers.
Upon the Death, Suspension, or Removal of any Officer,having Stores or Provisions in his Custody, he is to cause anexact Survey and Inventory to be, taken, of the Remains ofsuch Stores and Provisions.
When removed himself, he shall shew his Original Orders,which remain unexecuted, to his Successor, and leave him at-tested Copies of the fame ; As likewise leave a Compleat Mu-ster-Book, and send all his other Books and Accqpnts, to theOffices they respectively relate to.
When removed by Commission, from one Ship to another,he is allowed to carry with him the following Number of Men,including his Servants,; viz. From a First-Rate, eighty; A Se-cond-Rate, fixty-five; A Third-Rate, fifty; A Fourth-Rate,forty; A Fifth-Rate, twenty; And a Sixth-Rate, ten.
In Case of Shipwreck, or other Disaster, by which his Shipmay perish; He, with his Officers and Men, are to stay withthe,Remains, as long as may be, and endeavour to save all thatis .possible..
When the Ship returns to the Port, where she is to be laidup, the Captain is to give an exact Account of her Qualities,to the Commissioner of the Navy, at the Port, and send a Du-plicate of it to the Navy-Board ; And he is then likewise tomake up his Pay-books, and, with his Officers, to attend thePayment.
He is to deliver the Ship clear to the Officers of the Yardwhere she is to be laid up. <
He is answerable for the Conduct of every one in the Ship,and for all Errors of his Clerk; To receive no Wages with'out Proper Certificates ; And to be answerable for all Damagesoccasioned by his Neglect or Irregularity.
Rules of Discipline , &c. to be. observed.
Commanders are to shew good Examples to their Mefl,and to punish Vice.
To see Divine Service be regularly performed, every Dastwice.
Swearing, Cursing and Drunkenness, in Officers or Seamen,to be immediately punished, according to certain Rules, pre'scribed •
Captains are not to exceed twelve Lassies, in giving Punish'ment ; But if the Crime deserve a greater Punishment, th esare to inform against the Offender, and may, in the mea* 1Time, put him under Confinement.
They have not Power to discharge or punish a Commission'or Warrant-Officer, but may suspend or confine him, 'till In-formation be given to a Commander in Chief, or the Secretesof the Admiralty.
None under the Captain is allowed to inflict Punishment.
Articles of War are to be set up in some Publick Place of £ h eShip, and to be read to the Ship’s Company once a Month-
Instructions relating to tiuo Acts of Parliament , passed,Anno primo Geo. II. M
Volunteers are to begin Wages from their Entry, topaid two Months Wages Advance; And may be supplied ^Slops at first coming aboard. rr
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