HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.

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CHAPTER THE NINTH.

Report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the State of the Navy,containing a List thereof, and its Condition—Estimate of Rigging and Sailswanted—List of Patent Offices in the Marine Department—recent Additionsmade to them—Receipts and Payments in the Treasurer s Office for four Yearspreceding 1618 —Account of extraordinary Payments for Cordage, rebuildingsundry Ships, and miscellaneous Services—Causes of Waste in the differentStores—Prices of Anchors, Flags, Oil, Pitch, Tar, Rosin, Brimstone, Timber,Plank, Deals, Rafters, Oars, riven or cleft Boards, Wainscot ditto, Booms,Sparrs, Baulkes, and Long Boats,, with a comparative View of the Price paidby Merchants for the same Articles at the same Time—Waste in Cables, withthe Causes of it—other Causes of needless Expenditure in moving Ships fromPort to Port, and in the Creation of useless Offices—Propositions for improvingthe State, and lessening the Expence of the Naval Department-—the Number,and State of the Ships—the Expence attending the Management and Repair ofthe Royal Navy—ordinary Charge thereof—comparative View of old Wages,and proposed Encrease of Salaries—Proposal for the Reduction of extraor-dinary Charges both in Wages and Stores,- by the Introduction of a Set of newRegulations .

A CCORDING to his M/ Comission and your Honours Instructions:

Wee have surveyed and considered the Navy, and heere deliver ourAccompts both what wee finde the Condico~n and Governem' 5 thereof to be atthis present, and how wee conceive it may bee better established and governed

hereafter.

For the present you may pleaseto understand .wihat is

C i. The Number of the Shipps.

2. Their State,v 3. Their Charge.

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