Regulations and instructions for the pursers of His Majesty's ships and vessels.

  • Great Britain. Admiralty
Date:
[1825]
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Credit: Regulations and instructions for the pursers of His Majesty's ships and vessels. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * - \i t No. SI.. Ill ru H OKM v fl Hivh. jnorij Jxnll bl: An Act to make further Provisions for the Payment of the Crews of His Majesty’s Ships and Vessels. [2c? May 1825.] WHEREAS by an Act made and passed in the Thirty-first Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen employed in the Royal Navy, and for establishing a regular Method for the punctual, frequent, and certain Payment of their Wages ; and for enabling them more easily and readily to remit the same for the support of their Wives and Families ; and for pre- venting Frauds and Abuses attending such Payments ; it is, amongst other Provisions for the due Payment of the Navy, enacted, that whensoever and as soon as any Ship or Vessel of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, having been Twelve whole months or more in Sea Pay, shall be or arrive in any Port of Great Britain where any Commissioner of the Navy shall be or reside, the Commissioners of the Navy at their Board shall solicit such Sums of Money as shall be.sufficient, and as soon as the same shall be issued, shall cause immediate Payment to be made of all the Wages due upon the Pay Books (therein-before directed to be transmitted to the said Commis- sioners) to all such Officers and Seamen, their Executors and Administra- tors, or to their respective Attorney or Attornies duly authorized as there- in-after directed, deducting thereout whatever Monies shall have been paid before by way of Advance, or that shall stand against them in the R 31 G. 10.