CLASS IX. No. 1. Stat. 32 and he shall be left behind upon any detached service, PART II. when it proceeds to sea on foreign service, tickets, upon application from the Captain of the ship on board of which he shall be ordered to serve, shall be made out from the muster books, but which shall not be payable until such ship G. 3. c. 67. shall come in course of payment, or until he shall be regularly discharged therefrom. When the pay books are 31 Geo. 2. closed, tickets shall, upon application, be made out at the c. 10. Navy Office to the inferior Officers, Seamen, and Marines, who shall not have received their wages, and such tickets shall be paid in course once a month. 32 Geo. 3. 4. Every Petty Officer, Seaman, or Marine, who shall 32 Geo. 3. be in any way discharged from any ship, shall receive from C. 34. his Captain or Commander a certificate of his time and ser- c. 67. vice; (blank copies of which certificates shall be issued to all Captains and Commanders, by the Commissioners of the Navy, when they shall demand the same;) and no inferior Officer, Seaman, or Marine, shall receive any wages, nor shall such wages be paid to his order, or to his power of attorney, or to his heirs or executors, unless such certificate be produced, or unless he shall be identified by a commissioned or warrant Officer, who belonged to the ship at some part of the time of his service; and if he shall have been taken by the enemy, or cast away, he shall not be paid his wages, unless he shall have appeared to have entered again on board of a King's ship, in a reasonable time thereafter, or unless, in any of these cases, he shall shew a reasonable cause for not complying with such directions, that shall be admitted as such by the Commissioner comptrolling, and the Clerk of the Treasurer then paying; and wages due to 32 Geo. 3. any person who shall be marked upon the ship's books to c. 34. have run from the service, shall not be payable, unless such mark shall be taken off by order of the Commissioners of the Navy. 5. Every inferior Officer or Seaman, who shall be turned 31 Geo. 2. over when at a port of Great Britain where a Commissioner c. 10. of the Navy may be, shall be paid for the ship from which he shall be so removed, before that into which he shall go proceeds to sea, unless it shall be otherwise directed by special order from the Admiralty, in cases of the greatest exigency only, in which case the wages shall be paid as soon as such ship shall come again into any port in Great Britain where there shall be a Commissioner of the Navy. 6. When any inferior Officer, Seaman, or Marine, shall 32 Geo. 3. be removed from one ship to another while abroad, or at c. 33. any place where no Commissioner of the Navy shall be No. 1. PART II. and reside, he shall receive a remove ticket for the time CLASS that he shall have served in the ship from which he shall IX. be turned over, which shall not be saleable or transferable, Stat. 32 but for which he may receive payment by applying in G. 3. c. 67. person at any one of the Pay Offices in London, Portsmouth, Plymouth, or Chatham, provided he shall appear to have regularly entered, and to have been three times mustered in the ship into which he was turned over, or appear upon the books to have been regularly discharged therefrom. 32 Geo. 3. c. 33. 7. If he shall be discharged from his ship unserviceable at home or abroad, or be sent sick into any hospital or sick quarters at home or abroad, he shall receive from his Captain or Commander a ticket in like manner; and if, after being received into any such hospital or sick quarters, he shall be discharged unserviceable therefrom, he shall also receive from the Agent of such hospital a certificate of his discharge; and upon presenting such ticket and discharge from such hospital, at any of the Pay Offices above mentioned, together with a certificate of his having received no wages for his services in his passage home, if he shall have come home in a packet or merchantman, he shall receive payment thereof, and shall be sent by the Commissioner to the nearest hospital, where he shall be received and victualled from the time of presenting his tickets till he be paid; and if he shall be or arrive in any other part of Great Britain or Ireland, he shall present his tickets and certificates to any Collector of the Customs, Collector of the Excise, Receiver General of the Land Tax, or Clerk of the Check, who may be or reside at that place; and the said Collector, Receiver, or Clerk of the Check, being satisfied as to his identity, shall forward the said tickets and certificates to the Commissioners of the Navy in London, who will return a bill for the amount of the wages due thereon, and which bill shall be payable by such Collector or Receiver, in the manner more particularly described in the ninth clause of this Abstract; and if any such remove tickets should be unavoidably lost or destroyed, the party shall receive payment upon the duplicate of the same which shall have been sent to the Navy Board by the Commander of the ship for which it was made out; and if both parts should be so lost or destroyed, the party, or his heirs, shall be entitled to receive whatever shall be due to them upon other tickets to be made out from the muster books, or upon the ship's books, if the ship shall then be paid for the time. If the Petty Officer, Seaman, or Marine, who shall have been sent sick, as aforesaid, to any hospital or sick quarters, shall be IX. No. 1. discharged therefrom, to return to his ship, he shall leave PART II. his ticket with the Agent; but if he shall be discharged to CLASS go on board any other ship, he shall carry his ticket with him, but which shall not be payable until the ship into Stat. 32 which he shall go shall come in course of payment, or until G. 3. c. 67. he shall be discharged therefrom; and when such Petty Officers, Seamen, and Marines, shall be at any time sent sick on shore, the Agent of the hospital, or sick quarters, shall make out a list containing their names and numbers at which they stood in the ship's books, to which he shall procure the signature of the Officer who conducted them on shore, and as soon afterwards as possible that of the Captain or Commander of the ship from which they were sent. 8. When any inferior Officer, Seaman, or Marine, shall 31 Geo. 2. die on board of any ship in the service of his Majesty, c. 10. exa dead ticket shall be transmitted by the first opportunity 32 Geo. 3. tended by to the Commissioners of the Navy, for the wages due to c. 33. such Officer, Seaman, or Marine, as also annexed thereto a list or bill for the value of the clothes and effects (if any) which he may have left; and the said Commissioners shall assign the same for payment within one month from the time from which they shall receive it, and upon application cause it to be delivered for the benefit of the heirs or executors of the party. 3. c. 67. 9. As often as any ship which shall not be in a port of 31 Geo. 2. Great Britain, or on the coast thereof, shall have twelve c. 10. extended by calendar months wages due, the Captain or Commander 32 Geo. 3. shall cause the names of all the inferior Officers, Seamen, c. 33. and and Marines, to be called over, and each to answer to his by 32 Geo. name, and shall do the same at the end of every six months when twelve calendar months wages or more shall be due; and if any such Officer, Seaman, or Marine, shall then declare or deliver in writing the name and place of abode of his wife, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, or sister, and desire that the whole or any part of his wages then due, except the wages due for the last six months, should be paid to any such relation by any Receiver General of the Land Tax, Collector of the Customs, Collector of the Excise, or Clerk of the Check, in Great Britain, or by any Revenue Officer in Ireland, the Captain or Commander is strictly required to cause four lists to be made out of the persons so desiring to make such remittances, and shall transmit such lists by the first safe opportunity, without delay, to the Commissioners of the Navy at their Board; who, on receipt thereof, shall immediately IX. Stat. 32 PART II. make out two bills, if payment is required to be made in CLASS Great Britain, or two certificates if to be made in Ireland, No. 1. for the payment of the wages so allotted by each person, one of which bills or certificates shall be sent to the persons G. 3. c. 67. respectively specified in such lists, and the other to such Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Check, or Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland; and if the person to whom any such bill is sent shall, within six months from the date thereof, produce and deliver the same to such Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Check, together with a certificate that such person is the wife, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, or sister, as the case may be, of such Officer, Seaman, or Marine, respectively, under the hand of the Minister and Church-wardens, or in Scotland of the Minister and two Elders of the parish where such person was married or resides, such Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Check, upon being satisfied of the truth of such certificate by examining the party upon oath, or otherwise, is immediately, without fee or reward, to pay the sum mentioned in such bill, taking a receipt; and such bill or such certificate, together with the duplicate thereof, being produced at the Navy Office, shall be immediately assigned for payment by the Commissioners of the Navy, and repaid by the Treasurer of the Navy to such Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Check, or to the Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland, or their order respectively; but if payment of the said bill be not demanded of such Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Check, and the duplicate of the said bill, together with a proper certificate, be not produced and delivered to them respectively within six months from the date thereof, the bill or certificate is to be returned and cancelled, and the sum contained therein is to become payable to such inferior Officer, Seaman, or Marine, when the ship shall be paid. 31 Geo. 2. tended to heirs and creditors 10. In like manner when wages shall be due to inferior c. 10. ex- Officers, Seamen, or Marines, who shall have been disMarines by charged unserviceable, or to the heirs or executors of inferior 32 Geo. 3. Officers, Seamen, or Marines, or to those who shall adc. 33. to minister as their principal creditors, and who in either case shall not be in London, or at any of the out-ports where Seamen's wages are paid, or when wages shall be paid at the Pay Office, or at any of the out-ports, and any inferior Officer, Seaman, or Marine, shall be desirous to remit the whole or part of his wages to himself, his wife, children, or parents, or to any other person, and to have a bill or certi by 32 Geo. 3. c 34. and to Ire land by 32 Geo. 3. c. 67. CLASS IX. No. 1. G. 3. c. 67. ficate for the same drawn upon any such Receiver General, PART II. Collector, or Clerk of the Check, or Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland, then, and in each of these cases, two bills or two certificates are to be made out, one of which is Stat. 32. to be delivered to such Officer, Seaman, or Marine, or sent or delivered to such heir, executor, or creditor, and the other to be sent to such Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Check, or to the Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland, who shall pay or cause to be paid immediately the sum therein mentioned, without any fee or reward, and who shall be repaid by the Treasurer of the Navy, and shall return the bill, if unpaid after six months, in the manner directed by the former clause. tended to to heirs and 11. If any Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Check, 31 Geo. 2. shall not have in his hands money to answer any bill or c. 10. excertificate tendered by the party in whose favour the same Marines by is made out, and shall refuse or delay the immediate pay- 32 Geo. 3. ment thereof, he is to indorse on such bill or such certificate c. 33. and the cause of his refusal or delay, and appoint for payment creditors some day within one month after such tender; and if upon by 32 Geo. complaint to the Commissioners respectively appointed to 3. c. 34. manage the Land Tax, Customs, or Excise, or to the Commissioners of the Navy, or the Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland respectively, it shall appear that any such Receiver, Collector, or Clerk of the Check, hath unnecessarily and wilfully refused or delayed payment, or that he, or any person employed by or under him, hath taken any fee, reward, gratuity, discount, or deduction, on account of payment of any such bill or such certificate, such Commissioners may fine such offender in any sum not exceeding fifty pounds. 12. Every Officer or Seaman who shall be turned over 31 Geo. 2. from one ship to another, shall not serve or be rated in c. 10. a worse quality or lower degree than he served in or was rated for in the former ship. 13. Every supernumerary man serving ten days in any Ditto. ship shall be borne for and entitled to his wages upon the books of such ship, and to all other benefits, as if he was part of the complement of such ship; but men lent from one ship to another shall continue to be borne for and entitled to their wages upon the books of the ship from which they were lent, until they shall be regularly discharged from thence, and in no other. c. 63. ex 14. Any inferior Officer, Seaman, or Marine, who shall 26 Geo. 3. be desirous to execute a will or a power of attorney, and tended to Marines by 32 Geo. 3. c. 34. |