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Enlisting for either Her Majesty's or the East India Company's

Service.

Question 8. is to be put by the Justice as follows:

8. Are you willing to be attested to serve in Her Majesty's Army, or in the Forces of the East India Company, according as Her Majesty shall think fit to order, until you shall be duly and legally discharged?

Enlisting for the East India Company's Service.

Question 8. is to be put by the Justice as follows:

8. Are you willing to be attested to serve the East India Company until you shall be legally discharged? [Or if the Recruit enlist for limited Service then insert, for the Period of Twelve Years, (if the Person enlisting is of the Age of Eighteen Years or upwards, but if under Eighteen Years, then the Difference between his Age and Eighteen to be added to such Twelve Years, as the Case may be, and such Period to be inserted instead of Twelve Years,) provided the said Company should so long require your Service?]

OATH to be taken by a RECRUIT enlisting for unlimited or limited Service.

do make Oath, That the above Questions have been separately put to me; that the Answers thereto have been read over to me; and that they are the same that I gave, and are true.

I do also make Oath, That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and that I will, as in Duty bound, honestly and faithfully defend Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in Person, Crown, and Dignity, against all Enemies, and will observe and obey all Orders of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and of the Generals and Officers set over me. So help me GOD. Witness my Hand

Signature of Recruit.
Witness present.

If enlisting for either Her Majesty's or the East India Company's Service, the following Addition is to be made to the foregoing Oath :

And that if Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, shall please to appoint me to serve in the Forces of the East India Company, then I swear, that I will also be true to the said

Company,

Company, and will duly observe and obey all their Orders, and the Orders of their Generals and Officers who shall be lawfully

set over me.

If enlisting for the East India Company's Service, the following is to be added to the Oath:

And that I also will be true to the said Company, and will duly observe and obey all their Orders, and the Orders of their Generals and Officers who shall be lawfully set over me.

That the above is the Description of the Recruit and in my Presence all the foregoing Questions were put to the said ; that the Answers written opposite to them are those which he gave to me; and that the First and Second Articles of the Second Section of the Articles of War were read over to him; that he took the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity; that he received the Sum of on being attested this Day; and that I have given him a Duplicate of this Certificate, signed with my Name.

Signature of Justice.

FORM of OATH to be taken by a MASTER whose Apprentice has

was bound to serve as an Apprentice to me in the said Trade,

by Indenture dated the

for the Term of

did on or about the

Day of

Years; and that the said

Day of

abscond

and quit my Service without my Consent; and that to the best of my Knowledge and Belief the said

is aged

Years. Witness my Hand at
One thousand eight hundred

FORM OF JUSTICE'S CERTIFICATE, to be given to the Master of an

of

Day of

Apprentice.

One of Her Majesty's Justices of certify, That

the

came before me at
One thousand eight hundred and

and made Oath that he was by Trade a

and

that was bound to serve as an Apprentice to him in the said Trade, by Indenture dated the Day of for the Term of that the said Apprentice did on or about the

of

Years; and
Day

abscond and quit the Service of the said without his Consent, and that to the best of his Knowledge and Belief the said Apprentice is aged about

Years.

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FORM of DECLARATION of ATTESTATION of a COMMISSARY'S

ACCOUNTS.

do solemnly and sincerely declare, That I have not applied any Money or Stores, or Supplies, under my Care or Distribution, to my own Use, or to the private Use of any other Person, by way of Loan to such Person or otherwise, or in any Manner applied them, or knowingly permitted them to be applied, to any other than public Purposes, according to the Duty of my Office; and I make this solemn Declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Provisions of an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, Chapter 62, for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths, and for substituting Declarations in lieu thereof.

Declared before me by the within

named Day of

this

Justice of the Peace of

or Commander in Chief or Second in Command, et cætera, the Army serving in

et cætera [as the Case may be].

No.

It is important for the Public Service, and for the Interest of the Deserter, that this Part of the Return should be accurately filled up, and the Details should be inserted by the Magistrate in his own Handwriting, or, under his Direction, by his Clerk.

I do hereby certify, that the Prisoner has been duly examined before me as to the Circumstance herein stated, and has declared in my Presence that he

a Deserter from the above-mentioned Corps.

* Insert "is

Signature and Address
of Magistrate.
Signature of Prisoner.

Signature of Informant.

or "is not," as the Case may be.

I certify that I have inspected the Prisoner, and consider him* for Military Service.

Signature of Military Medical Officer, or of Private Medical Practitioner.

* Insert "fit" or "unfit," as the Case may be; and if unfit, state the Cause of Unfitness. #

CAP. IV.

Marine Forces on shore.

in punt epylids An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal [3d April 1843.] ly 847V2 26 WHEREAS it is judged necessary for the Safety of the

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United Kingdom, and the Defence of the Possessions of this Realm, that a Body of Royal Marine Forces should be employed in Her Majesty's Fleet and Naval Service, under the Direction of the Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid: And whereas the said Forces may frequently be quartered or be on shore, or sent to do Duty or be on board Transport Ships, or Merchant Ships or Vessels, or Ships or Vessels of Her Majesty, or other Ships or Vessels, or they may be under other Circumstances in which they will not be subject to the Laws relating to the Government of Her Majesty's Forces by Sea: And whereas no Man can be forejudged of Life or Limb, or subjected in Time of Peace to any Kind of Punishment within this Realm by Martial Law, or in any other Manner than by the Judgment of his Peers, and according to the known and established Laws of this Realm; yet ' nevertheless it being requisite for the retaining of such Forces. in their Duty that an exact Discipline be observed, and that Marines who shall mutiny or stir up Sedition, or shall desert Her Majesty's Service, or be guilty of any other Crime in breach of good Order and Discipline, be brought to a more 'exemplary and speedy Punishment than the usual Forms of the Law will allow: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Crimes punish- Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That able by Death. from and after the Twenty-fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-three if any Person who is or shall be commissioned or in Pay as an Officer of Royal Marines, or who is or shall be listed or in Pay as a Non-commissioned Officer, Drummer, or Private Man in Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces, shall at any Time during the Continuance of this Act, while on shore in any Place within the said Kingdom, or in any other of Her Majesty's Dominions, or in any Foreign Parts out of such Dominions, or on board any Transport Ship, or Merchant Ship or Vessel, or any Ship or Vessel of Her Majesty, or on board any Convict Hulk or Ship, or any other Ship or Vessel, or in any other Place, or while being in any Circumstances in which he shall not be subject to the Laws relating to the Government of Her Majesty's Forces by Sea, begin, excite, cause or join in any Mutiny or Sedition in Her Majesty's Marine or other Forces, or shall not use his utmost Endeavours to suppress any such Mutiny or Sedition, or coming to the Knowledge of any Mutiny or intended Mutiny shall not without Delay give Information thereof to his Commanding Officer; or

shall