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To keep an Inventory of Arms and Utensils lent out ofthfe Ships.
To get the Ship cleared, when Ihe is to be refitted or laidU P-
To take Care that the Stores be safely returned.
To pass his Accounts at the End of the Voyage,lo represent Complaints against any Officers, before the”ay of the Ship.
Gunners are to pass an Examination.
The Armourer and Gunsmith are to be appointed by theOrdnance-Board.
Are to assist in the Survey and Receit of small Arms, to ob-serve the Gunner’s Orders, and to keep the small Arms clean.The Gunner is to receive the Armourer’s Tools.
The Armourer and Gunsmith are to attend the Repair ofsera 11 Arms ash oar, in Foreign Countries.
Small Arms L are to be returned into Store clean, and ingood Order.
The Duty , &c. of a Carpenter.
To take Care of the Ship’s Hull, Masts, Yards, Bulk-heads and Cabbins ; And of the Stores committed to hisCharge.
To visit all Parts of the Ship daily.
To have Things ready to repair Damages in Battle.
To give an Account of the Ship’s Condition when she comesInto Port.
To pass his Accounts, at the End of the Voyage.
To represent Complaints against any Officers, before thef ay of the Ship.
The Duty, &c. of a Purser.
To victual the Ship every three Days in Petty-Warrant.Not to spend Sea-Provifions in Petty-Warrant.
To victual none without a Note in Writing.
To get the Provisions, {fjV. on Board in Time.
To receive none but good Provisions on Board.
What Provisions the Ship cannot hold to be certified, thatRemainder may be supplied another Way.
To produce Certificates of the Provisions received on Board.
. Not to discount his Credit, nor indent anew, ’till he is en-vied thereto.
^To provide the Ship with Necessaries, as Coals, Wood,Turnery-Ware, Candles, (Ac.
To see the Provisions well stowed, and the oldest spent first.To see bad Provisions be surveyed by the proper Officers, andCondemned Provisions returned, or stung over Board.
•Provisions condemned after the Time they were to last, notto be allowed, without sufficient Reason.
Condemned Butter is not to be flung over-board.
Leakage of Beer is to be surveyed-.We is to have no Allowance for Leakage of Wine, Oyl, orfilled Liquors.
Duplicates of Surveys are to be sent to the Victualling-Office.p To replace one Species issued for another, out of the nextSupply.
Short Provisions in Cask are to be surveyed.
He is not to misapply the Provisions or Stores,j. He may purchase Provisions in Foreign Parts, under certain■^ctlrictions and Regulations.
j Stofe-house-Room and Commission-Mony are not to be al-°^d him ; Nor Sloops or Boats but upon Necessity,n seseuy may be taken up by the Purser abroad, under certaincttrictions and Regulations.
jlA 1 the End of the Voyage, to pass his Accounts, in the?uner prescribed by the Admiralty.
He is to be allowed for Water purchased abroad.it 6 * S t0 re P air defective Cask abroad; And to be careful
^He B to be allowed for Provisions or Stores lost in Action,other unavoidable Accident.j, e is to keep an exact Muster-Book.t\vo v ls ^owed to sell Tobacco to the Seamen, not exceedingNor° Uads per Month to a Man.
t0 Supernumeraries, without Order.
1q v , eri he victuals Other Ships Men, by Orders, he is to fol-pj e < A rta in Ruses in doing it.
To 1 , not to spare any Provisions or Stores, without Order.Cl ot l kee P a Sick-Book, Slop-Book, Book of Dead Mensr esp»~v an d a Tobacco-Book, which he is to deliver into thelVe Offices, before the Pay of the Ship.
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The Victualing Office is to send Vessels to bring away theProvisions from the Ship, when she is to be laid up;
Provisions are to be surveyed, before they are returned in-to Store.
He is to pass his Account; within fix Months after theShip is paid off.
To represent any Complaints against the Officers, beforethe Pay of the Ship.
Not to sign any Papers, without being thoroughly infdrmedof the Truth of them.
The Duty , 8cc. of a Surgeon.
He is to provide himself with Instruments, and a Chest ofMedicines, and to have the fame viewed and approved ; As itmust be, in like Manner, when recruited.
To keep sick Tickets;
To examine the Necessaries sent on Board for the Use ofsick Men, and to issue them out for their Relief.
Carefully to attend the Men under his Cure, and, in diffi-cult Cases, to advise with the Physician of the Squadron,wherethere is any.
To inform the Captain, every Day, of the State of the sickMen.
When sick Men are sent to the Hospitals, he is to send anAccount with them of their Distempers; and all other properCircumstances.
To take all due and immediate Care of the wounded Men,in an Engagement.
To keep a Day-Book of his Practice, and to deliver Jour-nals of it, at the End of the Voyage, that it may be exa-mined into.
The Duty, &c. of the Master at Arms, and the Corporal.
The Master at Arms is to be warranted by the Ad-miralty.
Is to exercise the Men daily at the small Arms.
To observe the Orders of the Lieutenant at Arms.
To see Fire and Candles put out, in proper Season.
To visit all Boats that come to or go from the Ship.
To inform the Commanding Officer of Misdemeanors.
Corporals are subordinate to the Master at Arms; arid toperform his Duty where none is allowed.
The Duty, &c. of the Schoolmaster.
He must pass an Examination, before the Masters, War-dens and Assistants of Trinity-House.
To instruct the Volunteers, and other Youth of the Ship,in Reading, Writing, Arithmetick, and the Study of Naviga-tion.
To inform against such as are idle.
To produce Certificates of his good Behaviour.
The Duty, 8rc. of the Cook.
To have the Care of the Meat in the Steeping-Tub.
To boil the Provisions, and issue them out to the Men.
To preserve the Steep-Tub fromi being lost in stormyWeather.
Of Hospital Ships;
The Gun-Deck is to be fitted up for the Reception of thesick Men, with proper Conveniencies.
The Hospital Ship is to have, supernumerary to her Com-plement, a Physician, an able and experienced Surgeon, fourMates, and fix Men-Assistants, a Servant to the Surgeon, aBaker, and four Walher-Men.
The Captain is to subsist the Men, under Cure, with thebest and newest Provisions in the Ship, and fresh Meat asoften as may be.
Captains are to send Boats for their recovered Men.
The Duty, &c. of a Physician.
He is to reside in the Hospital Ship, where there isany, or such other as the Commander in Chief shall ap-point.
To visit the Sick in the Ships of the Squadron.
To inspect the Chests of the Surgeons of the Squadron.
To observe the Admiral’s Orders, and demand no Feesfrom his Patients.
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