Bye-laws, rules, orders and directions, for the better government of His Majesty's Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, made and confirmed ... Dec. 1775 and ... Feb. 1776.

  • Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich
Date:
1776
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Bye-laws, rules, orders and directions, for the better government of His Majesty's Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, made and confirmed ... Dec. 1775 and ... Feb. 1776. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fon belonging to the Hofpital, unlefs the party en¬ titled thereto (hall have previoufly applied in writing to the Board of Directors, fetting forth the particu¬ lars of the things wanted to be done ; and, in cafe the faid Board fhall judge their requeft reafonable, he is to prepare and deliver to the Surveyor an efti- mate of the expence thereof, under the different heads, according to the annexed fcheme (N^ 5.) and, when fuch works and repairs fhall be ordered to be done and the eftimate fhall have been entered and returned to him by the Clerk of the Cheque, he is to caufe the fame to be entered alfo in a book to be kept for that purpofe, and to fhew the fame to the Artificers and Tradefmen; letting them know that they will not be allowed any thing beyond the amount thereof; and to take care accordingly that nothing more be brought to account; and to produce the orders for performing the faid works or repairs, together with the original eftimates and the book in which the fame are entered, as vouchers, when any accounts of works are to be examined by the Board of Directors. ' : Neither ‘is he to eau‘fe any other works or repairs to •be proceeded upon, but by order of the General Court or Board of Directors • and- when, be fhall think